To play devil's advocate he has one of the leagues better offensive lines, and I don't see how draft position means much or is relevant in any way years later in terms of actual player quality when they end up above average or better. It might be a credit to the people that drafted them or got them at a reasonable price in free agency, but where NFL evaluators thought there skill level was almost ten years ago doesn't effect their skill now, and I doubt many people in the NFL see them as "scrubs" (I could also point out that going to overtime for the first time in history gives more time to rack up yards that nobody else could have gotten.)
Brady played well overall, especially late, but this wasn't some historically good performance by him. I wouldn't even classify it as great by his normal standards. He screwed up, took more sacks than he should have, was rushed often, and wasn't very accurate for many of his throws, and got away with a lot of near interceptions, and had a critical circus catch, he almost screwed up on, also go the teams way for once in a Superbowl.
It was a standard good game he usually puts out colored by emotion and people trying to create a narrative around it because of the situation.
While I don't want to take anything away from what the Pats did, it really was more a case of Atlanta losing it than of New England winning it. Even just lousy instead of totally horrendous game management and coaching would have made Atlanta win the game.
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