OT: I am getting tired of Albert Breer and his anti Patriots Rhetoric

[satz]

This is the guy who picked manning over brady a few times due to the way they play the game and how brady will be injury prone....enough said

 

[Lampshade]

He is exceptionally smarmy. Definite element of lashing out in his Patriots remarks.

 

[tuckeverlasting]

i avoid espn and smarmy a-holes like felger and breer like the plague. the problem comes when the idiot fans of other teams parrot the media's bias driven agenda because they want to believe. then i have to listen to it.

 

[102 Pat]

How ironic, as I'm reading through this thread, Total Access comes on and there is a story on who can be able to knock off the Pats in the playoffs. Hmmm, wonder who the reporter is?

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Ok, I have put up with his weekly "so and so team is a far tougher match up for the Pats than people think" and "the Pats are due for a stumbling loss and I think this week is it", but now he is getting ridiculous.

In his current bashing session of Devin McCourty, he stated he talked with Jets personnel and he got the sense "The reason they chose Kyle Wilson over Devin McCourty" is because they run a man defense and they didn't think McCourty could run it. Apparently it had nothing to do with the fact that the Jets drafted Wilson with the 29th pick and the Pats selected McCourty with the 27th pick. If the Jets felt that McCourty could play man defense, the Jets still would have drafted McCourty even if he was undraftable at the point they draft.

Rumors were that the Jets were interested in McCourty. Granted rumors are just that. But Breer likes to recreate history to trash the Pats. The Jets might have still taken Wilson if they did have the choice, but he made it sound like the Pats got stuck with the player the Jets didn't select.

I don't get it. Ever since he has gone national, he has been one of the biggest Patriots basher. If his arguments were based in reality, I guess I wouldn't mind. But the guy goes out of his way to say the Pats aren't really good even if he has to make stuff up.

BTW, he is currently going through the playoff teams stating why the Pats won't be able to beat anyone.

Here is a vested thought,if it bothers you so much,why are you watching or reading his columns??

It's like not liking spinach,but every time you go to a restaurant,you order it as a side dish and you leave it on the plate and don't eat it.

Makes no sense

Same in here to those who think a poster sucks but reads his thread anyway

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

How ironic, as I'm reading through this thread, Total Access comes on and there is a story on who can be able to knock off the Pats in the playoffs. Hmmm, wonder who the reporter is?

heck, if the colts somehow made the playoffs, there would be a reporter(s) saying they could knock off the Patriots.....

 

[UK_Pat37]

1.) Why is this 'OT'?

2.) Picking up the Pats', or any other NFL team's, offense isn't hard. The way some fans have exalted the complexity of the Patriots offense is ridiculous.

Can't agree with point 2. It's hard to change offensive systems and learn a new playbook...there are offenses int he NFL that will just have one route..and little more than maybe an option for a QB signal to an opposite route...and there will be offenses where the QB and WR must make the decision on their own, and be thinking on the same page.

Some players just aren't smart enough...but that's not a knock...there are players that will excel ins simpler offenses as they have the skill sets, but not as good a brain as some.

The simple fact is it is widely known the Patriots use multiple option routes for every one of the receivers....and if you aren't thinking the same as Brady, you won't excel. It's the sole reason the Pats have had drafting issues at the position and why Ocho, who has come from a simplistic offense, is struggling. It's not a case of poor evaluation in all examples.

 

[JJDChE]

Can't agree with point 2. It's hard to change offensive systems and learn a new playbook...there are offenses int he NFL that will just have one route..and little more than maybe an option for a QB signal to an opposite route...and there will be offenses where the QB and WR must make the decision on their own, and be thinking on the same page.

That doesn't strike me as difficult at all. Granted there are some seriously brain dead NFL players out there, so I'm not surprised that some can't pick it up.

 

[TheComeback]

Breer couldn't even keep the Patriots hate from bubbling to the surface when he was a journalist here. He always put a negative spin on everything, much to the delight of the chicken littles. Always disliked the guy.

 

[Ron Sellers]

Picking up the Pats', or any other NFL team's, offense isn't hard. The way some fans have exalted the complexity of the Patriots offense is ridiculous.

I am going to respectfully disagree.

With most other teams a receiver is asked to run one specific route on any given play. That changes only when the quarterback calls an audible; or if the opponent blitzes and the receiver hopefully catches that and breaks off his original route.

Receivers for the Pats on the other hand are expected to scan a defense in the same way a quarterback does, read it, and then run one of about three routes based on that read - with all of that being exactly the same as what the quarterback is seeing and reacting to.

In my opinion, yes, that is indeed more complex than what most other teams do and expect from their receivers.

 

[Ron Sellers]

As for Albert Breer it should be noted that he was Mike Reiss before there was a Mike Reiss, and for that I am still to this day grateful for all those reports during that time he was with the Herald.

Something happened either in Dallas, with the Sporting News, or during his return to Boston that affected his writing. When he came back here he was assigned to be the NFL reporter, not the Pats beat writer with the Globe; perhaps they asked him to offer an opposing view counter to that of covering the Pats on a daily basis, I don't know. Or maybe he was looking ahead to getting another opportunity to go national (the Sporting News went into decline just about the time he joined them) and wanted to show that he was something more than a provincial homer.

As suggested previously he could very well have been soured by negative fan reaction too, especially after being very popular here during his original days here with the Boston Herald, as well as with Metro West.

At this point, just like anyone else you don't care for - don't listen to him and don't read him if his viewpoints bother you.

 

[dhamz]

Albert Breer still covers the NFL?

I seriously thought all he did was tweet about Ohio St. football in a way that is just downright creepy.

 

[Joker]

anybody ever seen Breer and Fred Savage in the same place at the same time???

 

[NinjaZX6R]

Albert Breer still covers the NFL?

I seriously thought all he did was tweet about Ohio St. football in a way that is just downright creepy.

That's his Alma mater.

 

[Ron Sellers]

Trivial factoid of zero significance:

Albert Breer and Greg Bedard both went to Lincoln-Sudbury High School.


Bedard is from the class of '92; Breer is from the class of '98.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

When Breer first returned from Dallas, he evolved into a mildly irritating pain in the b@!!$. Now, he'a gold-plated, full-blown a-hole. BSMW had an interesting description of a twitter discussion this past 9/7 which included Bruce Allen, Breer, Greg Bedard and Chris Gasper. It centered upon how the Patriots allegedly "control" the media. Breer's tweets sound like they were from a person with severe paranoidal delusion. He's developed this antipathy toward the Patriots, in general, and BB, in particular, which compares favorably with Borges's. He also insisted before the season started that the Colts, even without PM, would still win "a lot of games." He's become a first class-dink.

What Breer suffers from is media toadyism. He's only as smart as his insiders lead him to believe he is. When he went to Dallas he fell in love with all things Parcells, including Jeff Ireland and Tony Sparano. When they went to Miami with Tuna he predicted great things for that franchise... When it tanked and Tuna abandoned it and then Sporano got canned, not a word... Then he got the courtroom/lockout gig and that gave him even more access to the kind of insecure and egotistical knuckleheads that run the majority of franchises in this league who love to whisper in a mediots ear to curry favor and cast aspersions on their competitors. He's apparently on Rex and Tanny's jocks these days...or anyone who tells him you know...insider stuff about competitors who are beating them. I mean, those guys must be wicked smaht... And his peers treat Bert like a mini-celebrity they are lucky to rub shoulders with because of all his access and whatnot... And that Belichick dude who won't tell a bright rising NFLN star or the local hack anything worth repeating must be the anti-christ.

 

[Rob0729]

As for Albert Breer it should be noted that he was Mike Reiss before there was a Mike Reiss, and for that I am still to this day grateful for all those reports during that time he was with the Herald.

Something happened either in Dallas, with the Sporting News, or during his return to Boston that affected his writing. When he came back here he was assigned to be the NFL reporter, not the Pats beat writer with the Globe; perhaps they asked him to offer an opposing view counter to that of covering the Pats on a daily basis, I don't know. Or maybe he was looking ahead to getting another opportunity to go national (the Sporting News went into decline just about the time he joined them) and wanted to show that he was something more than a provincial homer.

As suggested previously he could very well have been soured by negative fan reaction too, especially after being very popular here during his original days here with the Boston Herald, as well as with Metro West.

At this point, just like anyone else you don't care for - don't listen to him and don't read him if his viewpoints bother you.

Actually Reiss and Breer came into the scene around the same time. I admit I was a big fan of his in 2006 when he gave detailed coverage of training camp and preseason games. He was more like the Greg Bedard before Bedard in that respect.

Unfortunately, Breer is not the same guy he was back in 2006. I don't mind people being critical or contrarian as long as they back up their points with facts and some intelligence (hence why I never hated Felger), but Breer has thrown that all out the window for some reason.

 

[cmasspatsfan]

I am going to respectfully disagree.

With most other teams a receiver is asked to run one specific route on any given play. That changes only when the quarterback calls an audible; or if the opponent blitzes and the receiver hopefully catches that and breaks off his original route.

Receivers for the Pats on the other hand are expected to scan a defense in the same way a quarterback does, read it, and then run one of about three routes based on that read - with all of that being exactly the same as what the quarterback is seeing and reacting to.

In my opinion, yes, that is indeed more complex than what most other teams do and expect from their receivers.

Also throw in the fact that defenses are disguising coverages to make the job even harder.
Gaffney himself just said a couple weeks ago that the Pats system is the most complicated system hes played in.

 

[tobias funke]

Re: the complexity of the Patriots' offense.

Yes, it has pre-snap reads, like every offense in the NFL. It also has post-snap reads, which is absolutely not like every offense in the NFL.

Then there is the no-huddle, which is used much more often by the Pats than anyone else.

On top of that, each skill player is expected to be able to line up all over the formation, and know the correct routes for each pre- and post-snap read from that spot.

I'm not saying you have to be a genius to be able to play in it, but it obviously takes a certain kind of football understanding and precision that not everyone has.

 

[Uncle Rico]

anybody ever seen Breer and Fred Savage in the same place at the same time???

I always thought Breer looked like Jeremy Black, the boy in Boys From Brazil.