JoeSixPat

I admire your honesty.

I'm sure there are plenty who thought the same thing and won't admit it.

After all, just a few years before that point in time Bledsoe got us one game closer to the Super Bowl than we did this year, thereby "proving" that no upgrade to the position was necessary, just the same way Caldwell and Gaffney "proved" that no additional WRs were necessary this year.

My position at the time was, I'm all for loyalty - but when a QB wins the SB for you the way Brady did - you have to reward that with loyalty as well

So there were two QBs we needed to be loyal to - and that made for a simple choice for me - Brady.

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Pats Fanatic

Yes Michael Bishop.
Actually I was a Bledsoe fan until the 1999 season when in the second half of the season(he was the MVP type the first half) he lost it and never to this day recovered from that slide.
I became a Brady believer during the San Diego game that year when he brought us back from 10 points down in the 4th quarter to win. If they did not get that victory no Super Bowl that year.

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brdmaverick

I wanted Drew and was upset when he left......

A.) I thought Brady was a system QB in 2001. After all, watch the 2001 highlights again and most of the plays were made after the catch.

B.) Bledsoe was the only quarterback of the Pats that I had ever known. I first became a fan of the Pats and football in general during Drew's second season. It was tough to let go of the man that I worshipped.

C.) Drew is a very likeable guy.

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PATRIOT64

How could you not go with Brady after he tore the crap out of the highly regarded Indy team in the 2001 season in his first full start,and on the road too!,He helped beat them by what 44-17? - after that it was going to be Bradys team as long as he was a team member IMO.

PatsFanInVa

See, a lot of you guys were signed up w/Brady pretty fast. I thought:

1) Drew. Son of a coach. Close to ego-less player. Not "all about me." Ahem, "laser rocket arm." Stats had been good for about a decade. Brady? We knew one year, the knock was that he was a system QB, and he never dazzled.

2) Didn't realize (because we'd never really been there,) that a QB leads. When Madden said "What Tom Brady just did gives me goosebumps," I was like "yeah me too. But you can't count on guys doing that every time."

3) Two words: Tony Eason. I'd seen a guy get us to heights before, and at the time, it seemed like we had a young QB, played well, this time won the big one, and then next season... next Eason.

Just thought I'd expand on what a dumbass I was. That's when I first started drinking the kool-aid, and looking into what BB et al. were up to.

PFnV

Kdo5

When we started winning I wanted to keep Brady. If it was working then why change it?

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BelichickFan

Brady - it was fairly clear immediately he was the better QB.

hwc

I had been e-mailing a buddy for about a month saying that the team was going nowhere as long as Bledsoe was the QB. No knock on Bledsoe. It was just obvious that he had taken too much pounding and that the entire team was content to sit back and put the whole thing on his shoulders. He felt the pressure and it was a viscious, losing cycle.

The only thing I got wrong is that I thought Bledsoe would bounce back with a change of scenery and a new team. I didn't think he was finished, finished.

ChoWZa

People would argue with me around the time the patriots were entering the playoffs about how Drew should be starting and I just made my case that.. It was Tom's season.. he needs to finish it.

Imagine now if they had stuck with Drew the magnitude of that mistake.

Sean Pa Patriot

Back in the spring of 2001, I heard all this stupid Mike Bishop talk, and I said, no one should replace Bledsoe, then he signed his contract, I remember the press confrence, Belichick was very uncomfortable then talking about Drew ( and by the way that was the last big press confrence announcing a signing a free agent or one of thier own.. There has only been confrence calls or press statements). But was happy we had Bledsoe in the fold, and was hoping we get him some weapons, we did not draft a wr that draft, we did draft 2 te .. Arther love and Jabar Holliway... Then the Terry Glenn senerio came, and then we sign Charles Johnson, Torrence Small and Bert Emanuel.. I figure , this is a wild card team with Drew, and I was the biggest Drew Bledsoe backer this side of Pa.. Then I witness Brady vs the Panthers in the pre season, and thought this guy might be the future , but that is a long way down the line.. Make a long story short, I finally realised against the Saints that I believe the Pats will survive with out Drew Bledsoe, and that holds true to this day..

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