I'm saying that there was more going on than just generically upgrading at QB. People, and I'm not just talking about forum posters, but also about media, football execs, etc.. have sort of whitewashed that season a bit, and in a manner that diminishes the enormity of what Brady accomplished that season.
- New team, new coach, new system
- Losing culture
- Injuries to key players throughout the season
- Coach publicly pointing fingers at Brady over situations where such blame assignment was dubious at best (and, as we saw later, turned out to often have been erroneously assigned to Brady)
Brady did what no other QB in the game could have done, and the team eventually went on to score 30+ points in every playoff game, on its way to the SB victory.