According to Wilbur, Brady's Arrogance is the culprit..

My head is going to explode, sick of sports scribes in Boston trying to frame this from a different angle so they can somehow blame Brady for something, anything.. this is a classic.

Guess he never noticed that most very good, great quarterbacks have a lot of self confidence(arrogance) and Brady did not cause this overreaction..

I grew up with Gammons, Montville and McDonough and pity the generation who will have to put up with this generation of sportswriter..

John Harbaugh is a whining crybaby, a sore loser, and a bald-faced liar, and that somehow is Brady's fault??

http://www.boston.com/sports/footba...KLpCXVBWWBM/story.html?p1=well_Sports_main_hp

Others might tell you that honor falls on the New England Patriots, who preach teamwork and common goal, as their quarterback fights to have his good name re-instituted and his four-game suspension wiped out, ultimately putting his team in limbo in not knowing who its quarterback will be for Week One against the Pittsburgh Steelers, not to mention the three games that follow.

“No one player or group of players is bigger than the team or the organization.”

Turns out the most damaging hot air released in this whole charade may have come from Tom Brady himself.

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As always the local media is bashing the local team.

It's such a stupid article. Brady rarely reacts to criticism by responding with his own criticism. He's unusual among star athletes in that way and almost always stays above the fray. Wilbur has the nerve to insult him for one of the few times he returns fire? It's absurd and unfair. Why do so many Boston sports writers have to suck so bad and take so much joy in ripping the local teams and athletes?

Turns out the most damaging hot air released in this whole charade may have come from Tom Brady himself

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" Eric, is that half-digested Taco Bell I smell?"

Guess I can just throw this guy on the trash heap before i really know who he is. How terrible it must be to cover possibly the greatest football team of all time, who's coach does things the right way, who's quarterback sacrifices individual honors for the team. I'm surprised the shanks, ogres [borges] gluttons [twinkie boy] and the rest don't just get up and move somewhere where a self respecting writers can write about losing, selfishness and calamity all the time.

RayClay said:

I'm surprised the shanks, ogres [borges] gluttons [twinkie boy] and the rest don't just get up and move somewhere where a self respecting writers can write about losing, selfishness and calamity all the time.

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It's a dying business, these hacks and half-hacks should do the honorable thing and put themselves out of our misery.

It could be worse. Rich Gannon not only said basically the same thing about Brady, but he went farther by saying he wanted to "commend" (that is Gannon's word not mine) Roger Goodell for how he has handled the entire situation and not giving into Brady's media tactics and sticking to his guns. Yes, he actually said that.

Rob0729 said:

It could be worse. Rich Gannon not only said basically the same thing about Brady, but he went farther by saying he wanted to "commend" (that is Gannon's word not mine) Roger Goodell for how he has handled the entire situation and not giving into Brady's media tactics and sticking to his guns. Yes, he actually said that.

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Patriots were probably right to work him out only as a defensive back.

It does make me laugh. Doesn't he see how jealous he looks with his couple years of better than average career? Cue Mark Brunell, the could a been wannabe, to the strains of Roy Orbison. Crying, crying, crying, cryyyyyiiiiiiiing Oooohoooooooo! [high note]

"According to Wilbur...."

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DarrylS said:

I grew up with Gammons, Montville and McDonough and pity the generation who will have to put up with this generation of sportswriter..

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...and when Bob Ryan still had a couple of marbles in his head and Ron Borges wrote his own columns and didn't have an axe to grind with the world.

Boston Sunday Globe sports section was MUST reading.

My dad and I would pass sections back n forth.

I pretty much only read anything from Tom Curran and Mike Reiss. Besides the douchebaggery of Felger and Mazz because of their radio presence, I honestly couldn't tell you who was who anymore.

fair catch fryar said:

I pretty much only read anything from Tom Curran and Mike Reiss. Besides the douchebaggery of Felger and Mazz because of their radio presence, I honestly couldn't tell you who was who anymore.

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I like Chad Finn.

Wilbur isn't getting any media time so he needs to resort to this hackish crap.

Add him to the list.

robertweathers said:

I like Chad Finn.

Wilbur isn't getting any media time so he needs to resort to this hackish crap.

Add him to the list.

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Will do. Thanks.

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Will do. Thanks.

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Jeff Howe is a good up-n-commer. Level headed. Just needs more ****pit time.

I deleted the Boston .Com app from my phone last week. It's not because of this specifically. The entire site is useless drivel

Has this article been taken down?

Rob0729 said:

It could be worse. Rich Gannon not only said basically the same thing about Brady, but he went farther by saying he wanted to "commend" (that is Gannon's word not mine) Roger Goodell for how he has handled the entire situation and not giving into Brady's media tactics and sticking to his guns. Yes, he actually said that.

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Wow, that's some Iron Curtain Soviet Union/North Korea level of media delusion. What part of Goodell's handling of this was "commendable?" The part where he allowed his underlings to run a fouled up sting operation? The part where his office spread lies and disinformation to the media and the club they were investigating? Where Goodell lied about the investigation being independent? Or the part where he lied about Brady's testimony at the appeal? I guess, in a way, it's commendable that Goodell hasn't cracked considering all the lies and unethical behavior emanating from his office, but I don't think that's what Gannon meant.

Got it. Stephen assmunch Smith-Brady is too smug.

Wilbur-too arrogant. Got it. Sort of proof that jealousy is into play here.

Sometimes certain players seem to rise above the game. They are called superstars. Ever hear of Roger Staubauch? Joe Montana? Bart Starr?

He is a modern day legend and maybe this generation doesn't know how to handle it?

Some people still don't believe me about John Henry's Boston Globe agenda.

One of my theories is when these sportswriters get into the biz they are full of vim and vigor. They are excited to write about something they love...sports. Then as time goes on, they get a little older. The excitement starts to wear off. They get disenchanted and then start to get introspective. "Does what I doing have any importance?" Then they start to realize that they've hitched their careers to something that is of the utmost unimportance, covering millionaires playing games. Then they start to sour. Take a look at Dan Shaughnessy. Doesn't he reek of someone who is miserable at his job but still has to do it because he can do nothing else? Even the local shopkeeper in a third world makes more of an positive impact in the world than these guys for the most part.

They start to get bitter and what once was a young buck bouncing out the door with a peck on the cheek to his wife and a hitch in his step becomes a bag-under-the-eyes, feet dragging, miserable grump who has to sit for hours in a room with people of the same ilk just to ask Belichick a question which he knows won't be answered.

You can just smell the previous night's Jack Daniels in their writing.