PatsFaninAZ

I just wish the reporting would be done accurately here about the true economics.

In order to understand whether Brady is giving up anything or getting anything, you have to ask a pretty basic question: What would Brady get as a free agent in 2014 if he had not done this deal, and is it worth more than getting a guaranteed front-loaded $27 million now for three years?

If you look at the Peyton Manning contract, you have an answer. Manning signed it when he was under a year younger than Brady will be when he would have become a free agent. He got $80 million, 5 years, $58 million vested if he played one year, and all after three surgeries. So, how would Brady have done in 2014, Florio?

Let's ask the question a different way. Suppose two years ago you had given the Broncos an option -- pay Peyton Manning $27 million right now and he'll play for you for three years starting in a year, or wait the year and then pay him $80 million for 5 years with massive cap implications. Which do you think they would have taken, Florio?

The only way this works out good for Brady is (1) if he has a career ending injury in the next two years, or (2) he sucks so bad in the next two years that he would be unable to have found a 3 year/$27 million deal in 2014.

That is worth something -- no doubt about it. Is it worth $53 million? Nope.

ctpatsfan77

Since Brady and the Patriots are public figures, first they'd have to prove they were actually harmed by the article (unlikely) and then they'd have the additional burden of proving that Florio knew what he was printing was false, and published it anyways (even less likely).

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BrickPat

Any non pat fan reading this thread may think we're a bunch of homers but at the end of the day PFT/Florio should put up or shut up. He can speculate and theorize all day about shennigans but his opinion has the weight of a flea's yam bag unless or until he can back it up with facts.

PatsFanSince74

absolutely. i kept waiting for the damage control and instead they let the story run wild. we won't know why until someone writes a book, but the old argument that "fighting back would just have made things worse" after the penalties were handed out obviously doesn't hold here since things couldn't have gone much worse brand-wise than they did. somebody will probably write a B-school case someday on this as an example of how not to manage a crisis.

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PatsFanSince74

There's a lot of money involved and this is an unusual, and threatening, move by Brady. So, yes, those who have nothing else to do will speculate and spin conspiracy theories. Just ignore it as best you can is my advice. The legacy of spygate is that people will assume "cheating" around every decision the Pats make that seems open to it in their minds.

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signbabybrady

Nah I would just rather not read him the NFL network and NFL.com and many other sites have me just as informed without as much BS. Shoot even ESPN is better.

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BradyManny

Usually, I would agree with you. But this time he couldn't even pass on the information. He mangled it the first go around, and presented it with his opinion - and has been trying to justify that opinion since then with even more overwrought and asinine analysis.

betterthanthealternative

The majority of comments are pro-Pats and pro-Brady. some even call the author out for poor journalism.

patsinthesnow

Deus Irae

Florio's an asshat, but he's developed a good website. When it comes to the breaking NFL news, no site on the internet is both better and faster than PFT.

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