How is Tom Brady better at 44 than he was at 24 or even 30?

The Boston Globe is almost obsessed with the debate between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Obviously, Brady is ahead, having won his seventh Super Bowl with his new team, Tampa Bay, last season while the Patriots missed the playoffs completely with Cam Newton at QB.

Now, the Globe is at it again and has facts to back it up. Brady has started the 2021 season with a 2-0 record and throwing for nine touchdowns in wins over Dallas and Atlanta.

The Pats, meanwhile, may have the second coming of Brady with Alabama rookie Mac Jones, who has completed nearly 70 percent of his passes and not thrown an interception in a 17-16 loss to Miami and a 25-6 pounding of the New York Jets. Jones could have been playing for the Mean Green, but the Jets passed on him to draft BYU’s Zach Wilson, who threw four picks against Belichick’s defense.

The Globe, which has picked on Boston pros for decades, has already declared the current Brady better than the 24-year-old version that won back-to-back Super Bowls and the 30-year-old celebrity star who came within the infamous Giants’ helmet catch of going 19-0.

The columnists are convinced that Belichick and owner Bob Kraft let Brady walk away and should have given him a five-year contract to stay with the Patriots. I think TB12 was ready to prove he could keep playing at a high level for another coach and another team that was willing to pay for more weapons.

All this will come to loggerheads on Sunday night, October 3, when the so-called Tom-pa Bay Buccaneers, who also have out-of-retirement Gronk among Brady’s chief targets, visit Foxboro to face the careful offense under Jones and their biggest test defensively.

NBC could be televising the highest-rated regular season NFL game ever. Belichick will certainly coach up a defensive scheme to challenge whatever weaknesses his ex-44-year-old superstar has.

If anyone knows where they are, it is the coach whom many love to hate for letting the wonder boy-turned middle-aged man get away.

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