No sour grapes from retired Bledsoe

[italian pat patriot]

I agree...he really helped to make the Patriot team what they are today...with Parcells and Kraft, they saved the organization from collapse and a move. You have to give him that...

i agree totally with you too

he created hopes (surely to me; i started to think: the Pats could start to win games)

 

[LuthierJr]

You had me right up until the last clause.

I did not say he could read the field amazing, or exceptional...I said well. You don't get over 44,000 passing yards without being able to read the defense...

 

[onegameatatime]

Re Bledsoe and weak O-line:

Puh-leeze. When DB got knocked out, our buddy Borges predicted that Brady would have worse fate than Bledsoe because he would not ba able to stay unpright. He was wrong, of course. It was about pocket awareness and decision-making.

I go back to the Jets game in 2001 when TB kept getting rushed, the team changed its style at halftime, and we won in the second half as my biggest eye-opening game on TB.

 

[Truck]

Bledsoe for a few years was a great quarterback. Overall, he was a very good quarterback. He came in with high expectations, and the first few years it looked like he was going to meet them, but he just didn't (for bledsoe to have met his expectations, he had to turn out to be a top 5 qb of all time..thats how high our expectations were of him).

He made football exciting in this region during the 90s. Brady has made football incredible in the 2000s.

Sure, he might not have had the dedication/passion to turn his skills into one of the game's greats, and that was his choice. Most of us don't have that passion (in whatever we do). Thats not a fault of his, its just not a plus.

I dont think there's ever been a player, in any city, who took out full page ads (in both major papers) thanking the fans & the team, while the player was on their way out of town because he'd lost his job to the backup. Thats class.

 

[Fencer]

Its just a shame he didnt devote to developing his game, and love football just a little more... He could have been something special, but he was class here and always will be..

He was far less that perfectly classy when he pouted and distracted the season he was replaced.

Still, it's all forgivable. He DID keep it quiet enough not to cause big problems. And he DID play well enough when he was needed.

 

[Terry Glenn is a cowgirl]

Brady is the best Pat qb... ever.

Bledsoe isn't.

Still have a soft spot for Bledsoe though.

He did have some good years imo...

 

[pheenix11]

I will never forget those full page ads that Bledsoe took out when he left. He was a class act. Bledsoe was a stud here for a few years and he was exciting as hell to watch when he matched up with Marino in a shootout. Bledsoe is the one who really brought me into Patriots fandom. I always loved the Sox but the Patriots were a joke when I was growing up. But seeing this young kid slinging the ball around was exciting and he reminded me of Marino who I always liked.

It still breaks my heart to see Desmond Howard returning that kickoff in the Superbowl. I still think we could have won that game if Parcells had his full attention focused on us rather than on his next stop.

Seeing Bledsoe come in for an injured Brady in the AFC Championship game is a moment I will never forget. I remember him running and getting hit in almost the same exact way that knocked him out earlier in the season and he popped right up. There is a comment on the 3 games to Glory DVD I think where they say it was like he had just woken up from that first hit and everything in between was a dream.

Then he threw that touchdown pass to Patten in his typical frantic nature. Then I remember him crying at the end when they won. That was a helluva moment.

Thanks Drew, I wish ya the best.

 

[NovaScotiaPatsFan]

Drew was the QB of my first ever Superbowl team as a football fan, that's not something a guy forgets.

 

[Patriot_in_NY]

I appreciate Drew for "being there" and setting the table for Brady. It was hard to go through the lean years of the early 90's so I'll credit him with giving me hope after dismal times. I'll remember him fondly for that.

That said................ He ain't Brady.

 

[Sean Pa Patriot]

He was far less that perfectly classy when he pouted and distracted the season he was replaced.

Still, it's all forgivable. He DID keep it quiet enough not to cause big problems. And he DID play well enough when he was needed.

Well he did not play that well against Pitt, it just was lucky that Joey Porter or Kenddrick Bell I cant remember who, did not hold on to that ball Drew threw in the AFC title game...

He did keep quiet, but Im sure he was bitter, but he could have done a better job of working on his game like I said, in that Mo Lewis game, he was dreadful and was not much better the week before against Cincy...