Tom Brady not showing any signs of slowing down

The soon to be 42-year-old's passes are still firing out of his arm.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass.- It is no surprise that Tom Brady is the ultimate athlete and competitor. What may come as a surprise to some people is how he continues to play quarterback, a physically and mentally demanding position, at arguably the highest level of anyone else in the league. 

On NBC Sports Boston's football show "Quick Slants", NBC's Patriots insiders Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry reported that while watching practices during Patriots minicamp, they could not believe the zip that Brady was still putting on his passes. Curran then made a great point, as he noted when Peyton Manning was near the end of his career, all of his passes were lacking velocity and accuracy. If you may recall, back in 2014, an email from Brady to a close friend of his had surfaced. Brady stated how he believed Manning had maybe two years left, while he himself had a good seven or eight left. Well, Brady was right about the Manning part, as two years later in 2016, Peyton called it a career. 

Brady is such a unique player because he is doing something that almost everyone else who came before him cannot relate to. Most NFL QB's are limping around the golf course at age 42; however, Brady is still dropping dimes on fly routes and threading-the-needle on slant routes, not to mention winning Super Bowls. 

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If the second part of Brady's email from back in 2014 is true, where he predicts that he will play until roughly 2021-2022, how can you doubt him? His daily routines and consistent care of his body are unmatched. His preparation puts his fellow teammates in awe and most importantly, he continues to win football games, and a lot of them. 

For myself, and anyone else in their early 20's or perhaps even younger, no. 12 is all we have ever known. And he can continue to be all we have ever known for however long he wants because until the Tom Brady-led Patriots do not sit atop the AFC East standings every season, we have nothing to question, besides the subject of this article, which is: How in the world does a QB in his early 40's still throw the football with so much juice?