"MR." Tom Brady, please come back to us....please!

[crowell33]

you are wrong

If your one of those guys saying that he shouldn't be spending time with his wife and child, and traveling to the other coast to spend time with Bridgette and his other son, then it is you who are wrong my friend.

Players grow up and have families, and those families, rightfully so become the priorities of quality human beings like Tom Brady.

 

[Ring 6]

If your one of those guys saying that he shouldn't be spending time with his wife and child, and traveling to the other coast to spend time with Bridgette and his other son, then it is you who are wrong my friend.

Players grow up and have families, and those families, rightfully so become the priorities of quality human beings like Tom Brady.

No, I am saying that he had a life then and he has a life now, and its ridiculous to conclude that he spends less time on football because he has a wife and kids.....my friend.

 

[crowell33]

No, I am saying that he had a life then and he has a life now, and its ridiculous to conclude that he spends less time on football because he has a wife and kids.....my friend.

Sorry I misunderstood you. I have never heard anyone try to make the case that he spends as many hours per year on football now as he did during ( 2001, 2002, & 2004 ) now that he has two families.

I am certain that Tom Brady would certainly and proudly disagree with you.

 

[crowell33]

No, I am saying that he had a life then and he has a life now, and its ridiculous to conclude that he spends less time on football because he has a wife and kids.....my friend.

Tom Brady responds:

Tom Brady talks about the 2010 New England Patriots' season and his offseason focus - ESPN Boston

 

[supafly]

NY is a 40 minute flight from Boston. And it wasn't lack of prep that caused them to perform badly in that JETS game. It was prepping for the wrong defense and an inability to adjust to it on the fly. That's a failure on the part of the coaching staff coupled with inexperience and failure to execute in key situations. By the time we got to 2004-05 Charlie had a very experienced veteran offense that knew the entire playbook backwards that could adapt on the fly to fairly limitless options. They also had guys who prided themselves on executing including keeping Brady upright and catching the damn ball when it landed in your hands. Still we won by 3. 2007 they got flat out outmuscled on the LOS all day. Yet Brady managed to bring them back in what would have been a championship game winning drive had the D not spit the bit in the final two minutes. In 2009 Brady was coming back from a year of rehab, spending inordinate amounts of time pleading with his weapons to push through whatever ailed them and then he lost his most consistent weapon. And out of the gate the now transitioning young defense played like hot crap and dug the kind of hole you cannot prep and game plan for. I'm just sayin... None of that had anything to do with Brady's game prep. It had to do with issues like poor execution across the board, being physically overmatched, and in some cases being flat out out coached. Brady can study tape all night long but unless they all execute and unless the game plan is sound or adaptable, it don't matter. One day there will be reason for a thread titled Tom Brady please come back to us... But that won't be for a while yet until after you all begin to realize what he consistently brought to the table under a variety of more often than not less than optimum conditions...

I couldn't agree with you more, Mo. There are many good points here.

I don't think being fed grapes on the beach, or square dancing, or posing in boots, or going down water slides leads to losses. But, it does make one wonder if all this outside non-football stuff is helpful. On the one hand, he has to live his life. On the other, seeing him at a broadway play in NY, during the week of prep for the playoff game against the Jets in NE can't be overlooked. At least not by me. When he was winning Super Bowls, he was studying game tape until 2 AM with Charlie Weis. Now he's going to broadway shows in another state, far away from any game prep. Don't hate me for bringing it up. I'm just sayin........

In respect to your questioning--I can appreciate the viewpoint, and I don't see anything wrong with being curious about the 'differences' that you perceive. I do however, think that many of these so-called 'action pics' are taken when Brady is on vacation, when it is the off-season, etc. In other words, they are not being taken when there is football to be studied and played.

I do not even remotely believe that he is not the same film room rat that he has always been, and even if he weren't--he has gained valuable experience from all of these years, and likely picks up on things pretty damn easily anymore. Brady has grown 'BETTER,' in my opinion. He was quite servicable in the beginning, and most-importantly was smart, and did not make too many mistakes. He was a great leader for the SB teams, but not the only piece of the puzzle. There were many great players, many good bounces of the ball, some calls/some no-calls, some incredible luck involved too. All of the pieces fit together pretty well. Then we had a team in transition. Gone were the Rodney's, the Vrabel's, the McGinnest's, the Ted Johnson's, the Branch's, the Brown's, the Seymour's---the list goes on and on..

Since then, Brady has only matured, grown more competitive (which was helped by the defeats), and more vocal. He may have some differences on the outside, such as what chick he's with, what he's doing with said chick etc, but on the inside he is the exact same player. 2 of 3 MVP's in his last 3 seasons--all playoff led performances. The reason why this team lost in the playoffs does not have as much to do with Brady himself, as people would be led to believe. Look at his stats in the last 3 playoff losses, they could have easily been 2-1, and no one would have known any differently. It's the surrounding circumstances that have changed, the players themselves that have changed, and as we saw in the SB...sometimes we aren't going to get every call, every bounce of the ball.

I would certainly argue your opinion on the example that you set forth regarding the Broadway play during the weekend of the Jets/Indy WC game. Brady has mentioned before that it does absolutely no good one way or another 'rooting' for someone to win, because his work will not start until AFTER the game and the winner has been decided anyway. Not only that, but he actually was on the record with saying that he really only missed the first-half anyway. When you figure that the game itself wasn't decided until the final kick, I really don't care if he played tiddlywinks with a group of clowns during the game. The fact is, it was 8 full days before our scheduled home game. That's actually one of the benefits of the bye, is to get some rest, and take your mind away from football. That's what they worked so hard all year. I would bet anything that Brady himself worked just as hard during the NYJ week as he always has, regardless of what girl he's with, whether he rollerskates during the offseason, or windsurfs, or poses with goats, or whatever. When it's time for business, he is still the man we all want at the helm.

 

[Ring 6]

Tom Brady responds:

Tom Brady talks about the 2010 New England Patriots' season and his offseason focus - ESPN Boston

That doesnt say what you want to think it does.
Not living in NE in the offseason, and therefore working out on his own, is not an example of 'Tom Brady saying he spends less time on football than when he was winning SBs'.
Many, many players and QBs do not spend the offseason in town.
You are reaching to make a point that doesnt exist.

 

[Ring 6]

Sorry I misunderstood you. I have never heard anyone try to make the case that he spends as many hours per year on football now as he did during ( 2001, 2002, & 2004 ) now that he has two families.

I am certain that Tom Brady would certainly and proudly disagree with you.

Again, you are wrong.
Having a family does not prevent people from working.

 

[Joker]

here's another T.B. photo all you screwy little girls trapped in men's bodies can go ballistic about...

 

[Joker]

OMG!!! HAHAHA!!! HILARIOUS!!!! LOOK AT THIS!!! WOW,I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!HE"S WORSE THAN A LITTLE KID!!!TOO FUNNY!!!

 

[PatsFan24]

Seriously.....some of you need to get a hobby. Or at least pick up a good book instead of seek out this mindless crap.

 

[randomk1]

OMG!!! HAHAHA!!! HILARIOUS!!!! LOOK AT THIS!!! WOW,I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!HE"S WORSE THAN A LITTLE KID!!!TOO FUNNY!!!

lmao,that's golden. Poor Peyton.

 

[Bostonian1962]

Again, you are wrong.
Having a family does not prevent people from working.

AJ, take the blinders off.

 

[BradyFTW!]

You know, if I was hauling ass down a waterslide on vacation in Mexico, and knew that my supermodel wife who pulls in $30 million per year and looks that good in a bikini was waiting for me at the bottom, I'd probably scream with excitement too.

 

[BradyFTW!]

That doesnt say what you want to think it does.
Not living in NE in the offseason, and therefore working out on his own, is not an example of 'Tom Brady saying he spends less time on football than when he was winning SBs'.
Many, many players and QBs do not spend the offseason in town.
You are reaching to make a point that doesnt exist.

I think we can all agree that winning the MVP would suggest that you're prepping for the season pretty well.

 

[vyrago]

You know, if I was hauling ass down a waterslide on vacation in Mexico, and knew that my supermodel wife who pulls in $30 million per year and looks that good in a bikini was waiting for me at the bottom, I'd probably scream with excitement too.

So your shot of Brady on that slide had sound??
Try not to project.

 

[OldNEPatsFan]

Maybe Mr. Bunchden will win a playoff game this year, that would be novel.

 

[BradyFTW!]

So your shot of Brady on that slide had sound??
Try not to project.

... look at the picture, genius.

 

[Ring 6]

AJ, take the blinders off.

I would suggest that to you. Having a wife and kids changes your personal life. People do not give up their jobs, or fail at them because they have a better personal life.

 

[Bostonian1962]

I would suggest that to you. Having a wife and kids changes your personal life. People do not give up their jobs, or fail at them because they have a better personal life.

YOU have the blinders on. Why would I? I am a life long, hard core Patriots fan. You've never said anything negative about a Patriot player in your life. I am open minded. Thus, one of us has blinders on and it's not me.

It's futile to argue with you, because your approach is to state the obvious, and change that to be the argument. That's what you do, and you did it again.

Case in point, who said having a wife and kids makes people give up their jobs? That's assinine. Give up their job? Really AJ?

Do you watch sports? Have you ever noticed a pattern, that some of the all time greats seem to have this unbelievable work ethic. They work long and harder, and study film, and practice, and practice, and prepare? Brady was famous for it during the Super Bowl years.

Let me just say that he has EVERY right to put his family first. But for you to blindly and automatically say that any change in Brady's ways absolutely has nothing to do with the 3 straight one and dones.

So having a wife and kids doesn't make a person fail, or give up their jobs. I do know this. When I was single I worked out 2 to 3 hours a day. I'm a husband and dad now, and am lucky if I even get to the gym. I used to skate all the time, and can't remember the last time I did. I played in a county football league when I was single, but am doing too many family things, and can't any more. I played in a Sunday night basketball league for years, until getting married. I studied religiously for continuing education, and just don't have the time to do so anymore. It doesn't matter in my line of work, but can you at least consider that it might, just might matter to a professional quarterback.

So, I don't begrudge Brady, because I'm the same way. But for an athlete that was the first to Gillette, the last to leave, was a workout warrior, was intertwined with his teammates in preparation, and was legendary for his film sessions with Weis and others. To say, 'oh, he still works out, it doesn't affect him, he's still the same', is (no disrespect) ignorant, and yes, tells me that you have blinders on.

Is he one of the top 5 QBs in the NFL with what he's doing to prepare now? Yes. However, he's arguably had better targets to throw to since the 07 Super Bowl, and has lost 3 straight games. When we knew him as the Brady winning parking spaces for his offseason work ethic, he was 10 and 0 in the playoffs. In the last 9 games he is 4 and 5.

Many here would blast Manning for his great regular season, and poor playoffs. Now that Brady is doing the same, we are hearing an awful lot of excuse makers and apologists.

I love Brady, and am proud he's our QB. But, I am not willing, like so many, to put others down for even the mention of the possibility that his change in approach has anything to do with the less than desireable post season results. Again, that's ignorant.

 

[Gunnails]

I would suggest that to you. Having a wife and kids changes your personal life. People do not give up their jobs, or fail at them because they have a better personal life.

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