Rapoport Goes Fishing re Brady

[mayoclinic]

I don't know if this is worth a thread, but we have a long week off. This tidbid showed up in Ian Rapoport's most recent column on NFL.com:

Late into the night on Thursday, after the Patriots had destroyed the Jets on national TV, Tom Brady took to the podium for his post-game news conference. It was a rather mundane interview, with even Brady asking for questions when none came at the beginning. But mixed in there somewhere were some eye-opening words from Brady.


It was something I've never heard before. He was asked about Bill Belichick's 200th win, and Brady began waxing poetic. "There's no coach I'd ever want to play for than him," Brady said. Oh. This is significant because the QB's contract runs through 2014, at which point Brady will turn 37.

He has said he wants to play until 40. Meanwhile, it's entirely possible that Belichick will want to find the next Brady at that time, and -- much like happens with every other veteran in the world -- the Pats could go with a younger, cheaper option who presents the most upside for the future. It's not crazy -- look what the Colts did.

My personal opinion has always been that Brady would then end up in a place like San Francisco, back home, and finish his career. Perhaps my guess is wrong. Thursday's statement wasn't definitive. But Brady simply saying he wouldn't want to play for another coach besides Belichick was the first time I've thought that maybe Brady will be done after his contract expires. And that's something.

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??? Brady says "there's no coach I ever want to play for than [BB]" on the occasion of BB's 200th win, and Rapoport turns it into a "Brady might retire after his contract expires after the 2014 season" fishing trip?

 

[Mike the Brit]

Brady was high as a kite after that game.

Listen to him in the locker room and look at him grinning and giggling like a sixteen-year-old who's just got a date.

All perfectly legal. It's just that he likes winning -- and against the Jets ten times as much. Do you think he loves Belichick for making it possible? I ask you ...

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Brady was high as a kite after that game.

Listen to him in the locker room and look at him grinning and giggling like a sixteen-year-old who's just got a date.

All perfectly legal. It's just that he likes winning -- and against the Jets ten times as much. Do you think he loves Belichick for making it possible? I ask you ...

You make too much sense. Your logical interpretation disqualifies you from a media gig.

 

[Steve102]

I have posted before, and I'll stick with my opinion: Brady knows his place in history. He, and Belichick, are key to avoid any distractions. Brady knows that any talk about how long he wants to play has to err on the other side of 39 in order to keep the wolves at bay, as he knows the "Tom Brady Farewell Tour" would be a distraction of biblical proportions. He's never going to tell us what he really thinks, because he knows the media will be all over him if he says anything other than "40 or better". The problem comes, as he gets closer to that 4-0 number, he can't hide from it. I have felt all along that he'll be all done when this contract expires. He'll show up sometime in the middle of March or July, when there is absolutely nothing going on, and announce his retirement. Then, he and Gisele will go buy some south Pacific country and be gone. He'll show up to run for office or act in the movies once the cries for him to return have died off.

The only question in my mind is whether or not he and Belichick go out together or not.

 

[PATSNUTme]

This is starting to look like the bye week.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Once you said Tom would act, you lost any remaining credibility

 

[Steve102]

Once you said Tom would act, you lost any remaining credibility

LOL no more far fetched than a political run.

EDIT: Defense Exhibit A;

 

[Joker]

you know what???...I, the Joe of Kerrs, would not want any other QB than Tom Brady leading MY Patriots...great minds think alike I guess...

 

[TyronePoole]

he's just reciprocating the exact language BB uses when asked about him; "there's no QB I'd want coach more." A way of being complimentary without allowing a quote to become controversial by being spun as a put down of other coaches/QBs. I don't know whether they have a summit or something on how to carefully say things but the consistency is impressive.

 

[Armchair Quarterback]

Belichick is the coach of the Patriots.

Brady says he wouldn't want to play for any other coach.

So Rappaport takes that to mean Brady ends up in San Fran.

What insight.

 

[scout]

Anyone else notice how Tom didn't know quite what to do with that turkey leg after the Jets game. Meanwhile, Vince was all over that turkey.

 

[ausbacker]

Talk about inventing something from nothing.

 

[Joker]

Talk about inventing something from nothing.

yeah...I thought I owned the copyright on that...

 

[shmessy]

Talk about inventing something from nothing.

The legendarily narcissistic I-an Rapapport???

He is improving - - he referenced himself only four times in those four paragraphs. The therapy must be working. Hopefully, he no longer texts while sitting at people's funerals.

What is hilarious is his claim that he has never heard Brady say such a thing as he wouldn't want to play for any other coach. He's said that SEVERAL times over the past few years - - even when I-an was a beat writer in Boston.

It's all manufactured garbage by a hack reporter.

 

[Raymond]

That was a useless pile of tea leaves.

 

[ausbacker]

yeah...I thought I owned the copyright on that...

You're first place when it comes to being Goodell bat**** crazy Joker.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Belichick is the coach of the Patriots.

Brady says he wouldn't want to play for any other coach.

So Rappaport takes that to mean Brady ends up in San Fran.

What insight.

You might want to re-read the article. . . .

 

[manxman2601]

Belichick is the coach of the Patriots.

Brady says he wouldn't want to play for any other coach.

So Rappaport takes that to mean Brady ends up in San Fran.

What insight.

That's not what was written in the article. His thoughts about San Fran were a priori Brady's press conference.

 

[stcjones]

I think they both will retire together...could be as early as 2014. If they win another SB by then...they are DEFINITELY both gonna retire by then. Neither has anything else to prove...

I have posted before, and I'll stick with my opinion: Brady knows his place in history. He, and Belichick, are key to avoid any distractions. Brady knows that any talk about how long he wants to play has to err on the other side of 39 in order to keep the wolves at bay, as he knows the "Tom Brady Farewell Tour" would be a distraction of biblical proportions. He's never going to tell us what he really thinks, because he knows the media will be all over him if he says anything other than "40 or better". The problem comes, as he gets closer to that 4-0 number, he can't hide from it. I have felt all along that he'll be all done when this contract expires. He'll show up sometime in the middle of March or July, when there is absolutely nothing going on, and announce his retirement. Then, he and Gisele will go buy some south Pacific country and be gone. He'll show up to run for office or act in the movies once the cries for him to return have died off.

The only question in my mind is whether or not he and Belichick go out together or not.

 

[RodThePat]

Brady's playing at an MVP level in 2012, is it really reasonable to believe his play will deteriorate so much by 2014 that Belichick won't be interested in renewing his contract? Brady has said countless times that he wants to play football for as long as he can. Bill may very well start looking into grooming a replacement for him in the coming years, and I wouldn't be surprised to see us draft a quarterback high in the next couple of drafts, but unless Tom gets injured, I don't see how he's not under contract in 2014/2015.