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After besting the prematurely nicknamed "Greatest Show on Turf" St. Louis Rams, Brady came into 2002 as a defending champion and the Week 1 starter. Over the course of his 22-year career Madden 22 coins, he was the starter in 20 of them (we'll get to his doomed 2008 season later) He also made it to the postseason 19 times of those 20 healthy seasons.

The 2002 season was the only time he missed January football, being 9-7 and losing on a three-way divisional tiebreaker that season, instead sending the Jets to the postseason. The early-era Brady who was still seen as something of game manager, however his 28 touchdowns that season would stand as his career high up until Randy Moss showed up half a decade later. This would also Brady's final season in Madden where he'd get a rating lower than a 90.

Although he missed the playoffs the previous year, Brady would kick off his 2003 campaign by breaking into his way into the elite 90+ group in Madden at the beginning of the season for the first. That year's game was famously won by cover star and the elusive cheat the code Michael Vick, but if you were looking for a reliable pocket passer Brady was an elite option.

In the real world, Brady would return to the Super Bowl that season and triumph in a thrilling final quarter to beat the Carolina Panthers, whose Jake Delhomme was being viewed as the next Brady. This would prove to be unsuccessful. In 2003, and despite winning two Lombardi awards at that time buy madden coins, still no one knew the heights he'd set to set the bar for himself in the future.