Blame the Kraft Family
 

Ultimately, they were responsible for letting Branch go, and in my opinion, this is ultimately why Brady is faltering.

Branch and Brady had an intangible element to their game, they were sync'd as players, and a friends. Like Harrison/Manning, and to a lesser degree Pennington/Coles, Big Ben/Ward, Brees/Colston, Vick/Crumpler...that "mojo" is irreplaceable. Having a go to guy on the field adds an element of mental comfort, which I feel adds to Brady's ability to make his reads.

Yeah, he "throws to the open guy", but when you don't know when the next guy is going to be open, you tend to panic, and make mistakes. Regardless of what people can say, BRANCH could SEPARATE from 99% of the CBs in the league. They essentially kicked out Brady's crutch, both on the football field and on a mental level.

I blame the Krafts.

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Right, Branch not being here is the reason Jets were flying into the backfield untouched and destroying Brady and nullifying the running game...

The only thing you can blame Kraft for is the crappy playing surface, ticket prices and lack of crowd noise.

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Yep , I think the team does miss Branch

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Brees/Colston?

Those guys have played a grand total of 9 games together. Which makes it sound like that trust factor can be built which destroys the whole Brady/Branch trust factor.

For a guy that doesnt have his go to guy Brady going into this week was #4 in TD passes only 3 behind Manning. Branch not being on the team wasn't a problem when Brady was picking apart Minn.

People will start to bring up letting Branch go again now in the media cause we lost 2 games in a row. But fact of the matter was after 7 games no one was saying much about how much we miss Branch (sans Denver game). Its an excuse people will use because its easy to point out. But the main problem right now is with the inconsistent play of the offensive line, poor performance on 3rd down on both offense and defense, poor special teams coverage giving opponents good field position, forgetting about the run for possessions at a time, dumb penalties, losing the turnover battle etc.

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Drrms like we have a bunch of hard headed idiots here....oldskool has ot right..bglame the Krafts..THAT is about the dumbest thing I have heard..in a LONG time..

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LOL

The decision not to pay Branch was Belioli's all along. Bill not only won't overpay, he won't stroke them. He wants self motivated players who don't need to be talked in to wanting the ring more than the $$$. The tough love plan of the past, not working in a season when there was more money than talent available in the FA market. And it doesn't play in the locker room either when the system and the scheme aren't carrying the day.

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OK, we've narrowed it down to the Krafts, Coaching and QB.

Kraft, Belichick, Brady . . . yeah, they must be the problem.

:confused: :p

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I blame it on Sam Adams.

You see, it's all about Pat Patriot, created by Phil Bisell in the Sullivan era, back in the Boston Patriot days, the once-city of Sam Adams, who just simply by coincidence shared a name with a former Patriot.

http://www.nndb.com/people/732/000048588/sam-adams.jpg

It's all your fault, Sam.

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Do you even watch the games? Especially today, if you think we lost the game today because of no Branch you are sadly mistaken, Brady threw so many bad passes this game you couldn't even count them all, he was throwing behind guys all the time, and yet he still gets no blame all season for any of the mistakes HE makes, I'm sick of hearing about how Branch was the reason we were good, he wasn't.. he helped sure, but if you watch the games its quite obvious there are other problems (the playcalling, Bradys throws) that are making us lose.

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You don't know that. I'm willing to bet that Kraft being cheap has as much if not more than Bill's economic plans. I think Bill would've loved to have Branch on the team, and I think he would've been willing to pay more to get him. The playing surface (which killed Brady today, the Jets took advantage of it by blitzing him and he couldn't use his patented mobility to slide in the pocket without slipping) was absolutely horrendous, as well, and I wish the damn stadium had more bathrooms (you know, like they promised back when they were building it).