Brett Favre doesn't seem worried about Tom Brady, Patriots' struggling offense

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Sunday night's loss to the Houston Texans marked yet another less-than-stellar performance from the New England Patriots offense.

Tom Brady showed his frustrations with the offense's struggles early in the second quarter, when he was seen on the NBC broadcast having an animated conversation with his receivers on the sideline. Despite the game's unfortunate result, Brady maintains an optimistic outlook for the rest of the season.

Also an optimist is NFL legend Brett Favre, who unlike plenty of other pundits isn't buying into the "Patriots are toast" talk. Here's what he had to say about the offense and Brady's frustration during his show on SiriusXM NFL Radio.

[Brady] has been so good and so consistent for so long, and I don’t think he is any different today and last night and last week, than he was last year or the year before. I think it’s more the pieces around him.

I would not count them out. I think what we saw on the sidelines, he almost threw his helmet it seemed, he’s yelling and screaming, but those guys respect him. There’s no doubt. I respect him. I think the guy is a tremendous player and leader. He will find a way to bring it out of those guys. I think that they’re playing as hard as they can for him but they got to understand what he’s asking for. Not so much what the play is, but what he’s asking for. What he’s thinking about in that 2-3 second span by the time he gets the ball and releases it. You draw up plays, you coach ‘em, but then sometimes you react and your instincts take over and that’s what he’s trying to pull out of them.

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Favre also believes the Patriots could flip a switch at just the right time as they look to make yet another deep playoff run.

I think you can get so much better. And I’m referring to the Patriots first, but any team can get so much better. It’s like something clicks, and it’s like the light switch is turned on. And right now it’s kind of on and off, on and off, on and off. But it can turn on just that quickly and when you have Tom [Brady] at quarterback and there’s success and Edelman’s still healthy and the other guys just kind of catch on just a little bit, they can be dangerous.

Brady and the Patriots have another tough test on Sunday when they'll take on the Patrick Mahomes-led Kansas City Chiefs (8-4). That anticipated matchup is set to kick off at 4:25 p.m. ET at Gillette Stadium.

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