Tom Brady passes the credit around for the Patriots offensive success

September 21, 2011|By Steve Silva, Boston.com Staff, Globe Staff

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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spoke about being named the AFC offensive player of the week for the second straight week.

Brady's been named player of the week 19 times in his career. This is the third time he's won the honor in consecutive weeks ('07, '10, '11).

"I didn't know that," Brady said when informed of the honor. "It's always very flattering to be chosen. There's so many great players in the league. And really, our offense, there's 11 guys out there. There's never one player. It's not the quarterback. It's not the receivers, it's everybody.

"Everyone's got to be on the same page, doing their job and I think we've done a decent job the first couple of weeks getting off to a good start. It's only going to get tougher from here and we're expected to go out there and make plays when there's an opportunity to go out there and make plays. That's what we have to do. That's what my job is, to put the ball in the hands of guys who can actually do something with it and those guys have been doing a great job all through training camp and it's so early in the year I think we have to keep building on the things we keep doing well and also understand the things we haven't done so well so we can improve upon those things because they're all going to come up. It's just going to get tougher and tougher as the season goes. It always does."

Brady spoke more about his offensive support from this year's group and how the Patriots work together to move the ball.

"It’s a collective effort," Brady said. "The better Wes Welker does, the better it is for Chad [Ochocinco], and Deion [Branch], and Rob [Gronkowski] and Aaron [Hernandez], and the better that Rob does, the better it is for all those other guys. And the better the running game, the better it is for the play-action pass, so everything feeds off one another.

"It's not one guy doing it. All these guys are able to find matchups and then when they get the opportunity, they're making the catches, they're running the right routes, they're in the right spots. We've had a lot of good years here. Ultimately it comes down to winning games and that's the best part about it, that we're 2-0."

Brady and the Patriots won't be taking the Bills lightly, especially this year.

"This week is going to be a huge challenge for us," Brady said. "We're going up against a team that's also 2-0, that's scored a ton of points, that's been pretty tough on opposing offenses. They're at their own home stadium and we've got our work cut out for us, we really do."

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