ESPN Year of the QB Initiative - The Brady 6 documentary airing April 12th

[MoLewisrocks]

The trailer alone gave me goosebumps...

The Brady 6, Sport Science: QB Combine Special, Three for the Show and SportsCenter Special: Gruden’s QB Camp – The Draftees to air in April.

ESPN’s Year of the Quarterback (YQB) initiative continues in April with four new programs that draw back the curtain on one of the most critical, coveted and talked-about positions in all of sports. The four programs, NFL Films’ The Brady 6 documentary, Sport Science: QB Combine Special, the three-part Three for the Show and SportsCenter Special: Gruden’s QB Camp – The Draftees, are all part of ESPN’s YQB year-long initiative that explores the story of quarterbacks on and off the field.

The Brady 6
It’s hard to believe that Tom Brady, a three-time Super Bowl champion, was ever considered an underdog. Yet in the 2000 NFL Draft, six other quarterbacks came off the board before Brady’s name was called at number 199 in the sixth round. ESPN’s Year of the Quarterback and NFL Films tell the story of how a future MVP came to be so wrongly misjudged during his quest to make it to the NFL—and what ever happened to the six quarterbacks taken ahead of him. The hour-long documentary The Brady 6 airs Tuesday, April 12, at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. Trailer

ESPN?s ?Year of the Quarterback?: Four New Shows in April | ESPN MediaZone

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

We're allowed to post actual Patriots football stuff here? Who knew?
Scheduled the DVR.

 

[TBradyOwnsYou]

DVR is being set now! Thanks!

 

[Dufflebagz]

I got a huge GRONK from watching that trailer.

 

[vyrago]

I got a huge GRONK from watching that trailer.

Thrilling--not your gronk, the trailer.

 

[Calciumee]

I hope I can find a way of watching it

Looks brilliant

 

[BradyBranch39]

OH YEAH. Need to go somewhere with ESPN on Tuesday.

 

[FCB02062]

Wonder if they'll be a segment on Brady's greatest playoff moments since 2004....?

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Wonder if they'll be a segment on Brady's greatest playoff moments since 2004....?

Dunno

But you JETS fans can watch too!

 

[FCB02062]

Dunno

But you JETS fans can watch too!

Probably not, but I'll be watching my richard todd/ken o'brien/chad pennignton excellence in quarterbacking highlight reels instead...hahahaha!

 

[Warren1985]

This Docu looks like its gonna be good. Cant wait

 

[BradyBranch39]

Probably not, but I'll be watching my richard todd/ken o'brien/chad pennignton excellence in quarterbacking highlight reels instead...hahahaha!

Where's the sanchize footage?

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Wonder if they'll be a segment on Brady's greatest playoff moments since 2004....?

I hear the ESPN suits killed that idea the same day they decided to wait a few years on producing "The Rise of the Sanchize."

 

[PatsFanSince74]

The trailer alone gave me goosebumps...



ESPN?s ?Year of the Quarterback?: Four New Shows in April | ESPN MediaZone

For those who can't wait for the show, the "Brady 6" are, in order of Draft Day Selection, Chad Pennington, Giovanni Carmazzi (not kidding), Chris Redman, Tee Martin, Mark Bulger and Wynn Spergon.

Bulger and Pennington had respectable, but unspectacular, NFL careers (Chad might still play again), but even including the two of them in the mix, the six together had fewer Regular Season wins as starters (88 vs. 97), fewer Playoff wins as starters (3 vs. 14), fewer Playoff Games as starters (9 vs. 18), and, of course, ridiculously fewer Division, Conference and League Championships as starters (together they had two Division Championships as starters and zip for the Conference) than Brady (8 Division, 4 Conference and 3 SB's).

Should be an interesting show. I'll be interested in the tone toward guys like Carmazzi, Martin and Spergon.

 

[jmt57]

For those who can't wait for the show, the "Brady 6" are, in order of Draft Day Selection, Chad Pennington, Giovanni Carmazzi (not kidding), Chris Redman, Tee Martin, Mark Bulger and Wynn Spergon.

Should be an interesting show. I'll be interested in the tone toward guys like Carmazzi, Martin and Spergon.

I'm reading this and spewing beverage ... or is that spergoning beverage on my keyboard. Trying to figure out whether or not that's an inside joke that you're waiting to see if anybody picks up on it.

2001 was the year that not one but two Viking quarterbacks came in with one or two big games in relief of Daunte Culpepper: Wynn and Todd Bouman. Fantasy football owners scrambled to pick up both, and then dropped them a week or two later when they returned to earth after opponents had just a single game film to prepare for them.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Reiss got some sweet stuff while at the preview at Bristol and in following up with some of the Brady 6 and Brady's Michigan teamates.

Carmazzi (whom the 49'ers drafted in a move that according to a former teamate just killed Tommy because of his lifelong devotion to the team and his idol Montana) wouldn't be interviewed for the piece, too busy on his goat farm apparently. Tommy locked horns with him in their rookie season in a pre season game, and Carmazzi basically wasn't heard from thereafter. Wynn on the other hand not only was willing to comment, he basically said that intangibles are what make the difference and while most of them were not prepared for what being an NFL QB entails beyond arm strength and foot speed Brady embraced all of it. He said a lot of people ask him if things would have been different if he'd gone to NE and Brady landed in Cleveland. His answer is no, Brady would have done whatever it took to make that work too...

But this comment from Brady's college teamate underscoring that is another goosebump raiser...

In writing a piece previewing "The Brady 6" documentary to be aired on ESPN (Tuesday, April 12, 8 p.m. ET), Brady's former Michigan teammate Aaron Shea helped things come to life.

A few of Shea's recollections didn't make it into the piece.

One was from the offseason before the 2001 season. Both had just concluded their rookie seasons -- Brady with the Patriots, Shea with the Browns.

"We were at a wedding and he said 'I'm going to beat out Drew Bledsoe.' We were playing catch and I said, 'Come on Coach, it's Drew Bledsoe, a Pro Bowl quarterback," Shea recalled, the reference to "Coach" going back to their days playing SEGA's "Bill Walsh College Football" at Michigan.

"He just started throwing the ball harder and you could see that look in his eyes. I didn't have any gloves on. It was like 'take it easy.' That year, when Drew got hurt, I knew Tom wasn't going to let him get that job back."

New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

Were football not the ultimate team sport where you have to count on 30 or more other guys as Bill so aptly puts it just doing their job...if it all came down to just sheer force of will on the part of the QB...there might be half a dozen or more lombardi's residing in Foxboro...

 

[Patspsycho]

The reviews are starting to come in, and supposedly it is very very good. This is one of those things you hope ends up on DVD.

 

[Calciumee]

Does anyone have a DVR that they can export to the computer on?

I obviously won't be able to watch it, and don't know if I will find it online anywhere

 

[Uncle Rico]

Nice preview, courtesy of Reiss:

Video: Brady reflects on draft day - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

 

[Dufflebagz]

Nice preview, courtesy of Reiss:

Video: Brady reflects on draft day - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

Wow....he cried.