Sean Glennons new book : Tom Brady vs. the NFL: The Case for Football’s Greatest QB - New England Patriots Forums

thenepatsrule · 05-15-2012, 05:03 PM

From what i hear Revis and Suggs have ordered a dozen of these books personaly signed by Brady himself lol...... all kidding aside seems to be a nice read.

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“Tom Brady vs. the NFL” Available for Pre-Order | Sean Glennon

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My new book, Tom Brady vs. the NFL: The Case for Football’s Greatest Quarterback, is now available for pre-order on line. I’m sure you can get it from whatever your favorite internet book retailer may be, but I know it’s available from both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Some of the information in the description on those two sites is inaccurate. There are no sidebars about Brady’s hair, Brady’s wife or Brady’s fashion sense in the book. That was part of the original plan, but the book worked out to be a pretty serious football book. The tone isn’t all serious, mind you; I think this book is a lot of fun to read. It’s just that it turned out that it needed to be a book about a football player rather than a book about a celebrity athlete. The off-field stuff just didn’t fit.

Here’s some of what is in the book:

A season-by-season review of Brady’s career with the New England Patriots.
A look at Brady’s accomplishments as a college player with the Michigan Wolverines.
A complete rundown of Brady’s various records as a pro.
Chapters on 15 of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks/passers including Sammy Baugh, Otto Graham, Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr, Roger Staubach, Joe Montana, Dan Marino and Peyton Manning; each paired with a side-by-side career comparison with Brady.
Items on some of the top quarterbacks currently playing in the NFL — Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger, and Eli Manning — along with analysis of how each stacks up/may stack up with Brady.

The book also includes a foreword written by Pat Kirwan, who you know as senior analyst for NFL.com, co-host of SiriusXM NFL Radio’s Movin’ the Chains, and author of the amazing book Take Your Eye Off the Ball: How to Watch Football by Knowing Where to Look. Pat’s also an editorial consultant to The NFL Today on CBS, and a longtime coach and front office guy, who most recently served as director of player administration for the New York Jets. Pat’s one of a handful of guys whose opinions on football I regard as approaching gospel. He knows the game. And he knows quarterbacks. So I was really honored when he agreed to write the foreword for this book. He has some interesting things to say about Brady. His foreword’s worth a read all by itself.

The book is currently scheduled to hit stores October 1, though I know it’s currently ahead of schedule in production.

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Tom Brady vs. the NFL: The Case for Football's Greatest Quarterback | HDTVs

Steve1iron · 05-15-2012, 05:51 PM

Gotta love it. Is it October yet?

NSPF · 05-15-2012, 06:02 PM

Waaaaaaaaaaant. As if the football season wasn't enough to look forward to in the Fall...

PatsFanSince74 · 05-15-2012, 06:05 PM

Can't wait to read it.

Major stocking-stuffer material for the Christmas season!

thenepatsrule · 05-15-2012, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by PatsFanSince74

Can't wait to read it.

Major stocking-stuffer material for the Christmas season!

We should all pool in money and have a 100 copies of this book shipped to the JESTS............... for a few of them who can actually read......... the rest can just enjoy the pictures

***Joker*** · 05-15-2012, 07:55 PM

who cares about a book written about Brady and the Pats?....

hell no...what I want is MORE posts about contracts and why this contract won't affect that contract and what this contract word means as opposed to that one...and in depth discussion about amortization strategies...after all...I gotta run my post count up...way way way up, if I want to be anywhere near the stratospheric heights of in depth contract discussion...you see, almost all of you so called Pats fans just don't get it...REAL SERIOUS pats fans want to know about contracts, contract language, different slots of money allocation for different types of players and constant speculation about which players will get cut or not offered contracts and which players have contracts that are friendly and which players have to decide whether to sign future contracts or move on for different contracts from other teams who will definitely be offering contracts that are different in language and stipulations than the contracts that the Patriots offer, as a rule, of course taking into account special circumstances that MAY alter the current contract landscape and lead to different contractual terminology.

Oh, don't get me wrong...I'll be buying the book...and I'll be reading it...but for nothing other than superficial pleasure...like a piece of candy...the problem is finding the time to get into the book given the cascades of super important contract issues that all Pats fans should be totally immersed in 99% of the time....

***Ghost of Ben Dreith*** · 05-15-2012, 09:24 PM

Ordered and officially in "can't wait to read it" mode.

JDot · 05-15-2012, 10:48 PM

Thanks for the heads up..

***Frezo*** · 05-15-2012, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Joker

who cares about a book written about Brady and the Pats?....

hell no...what I want is MORE posts about contracts and why this contract won't affect that contract and what this contract word means as opposed to that one...and in depth discussion......<snip>[/img]

Never fear Joker. Even though death by Contract Talk is on the rise, we can still create our own destiny by choosing:
DEATH BY BURGERS AND PIZZA!
Ahhhh, much better.

***Joker*** · 05-15-2012, 11:39 PM

and me on a friggin' diet since last August...I walked five freakin' miles today and dropped 3/4's of a pound...I am so sick of wheat bread I wanna nuke Nebraska...no butter, no sugar, no chocolate, no pie, no dyamed life....but I did drop my BP from 140/100 to 105/65 as of Monday...I can see burger and pizza suicide as a viable alternative to this "slow life" diet....