Sentinel-Enterprise trolls its own writer re: picking Brady

[QuantumMechanic]

Gotta love this!

There's no byline on the reprint. Anyone know who originally wrote it?

From 2001: Starting Brady? Belichick is dead wrong (SLIDESHOW)

 

[BobDigital]

Pats fans appreciate everything Bledsoe did and gave for the team. Also we forgot how tough he was. Like Brady he played through injuries and didn't complain. They don't make many QBs like that anymore.

Also we do forget back then this was a real debate and you can be forgiven in 2001 for thinking sticking with Bledsoe was the right call for a long while.

 

[PatsDeb]

Pure Gold in Bold, as the writer answers his own questions without even knowing it!:

"Most importantly, especially for Belichick -- and maybe not so obvious -- is that Brady has more of a knack for running Charlie Weis's offense, or to put it more aptly, Weis has more of a knack for designing a rudimentary scheme for a beginning quarterback.

The Weis-Brady combination is the major force that beat back Bledsoe, not the rookie quarterback, and that is just a scary message to send to the other 50 guys on the roster: Since our offensive coordinator is unable to design an offense that protects our best QB and feeds off his considerable talents, we're going to stick with our second-best guy as we try to make the playoffs.

Sounds crazy to me.

It was apparent when Brady took over how much more in synch the offense was -- not to mention how consistently, if not spectacularly, the Pats used their running game. Weis gave him more readable patterns and simpler options. He now keeps receivers in the flat and tight ends blocking longer.

With Bledsoe, Weis was always more concerned about tricking the opposing defense than giving his quarterback a chance to succeed based on his talent. Empty backfield, five-receiver sets with deep crossing patterns and no safety valves. Bledsoe is good, but no QB is that good.

Ha ha ha! No QB is that good, except Brady, of course, a few years later.

Read more: From 2001: Starting Brady? Belichick is dead wrong (SLIDESHOW)

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

This article is so comical. You really get the sense the writer is sobbing with a bottle of Jack Daniels, occasionally punching the wall, while writing this.

 

[Kontradiction]

Second paragraph of the article should have told people back then not to take this dunce seriously...

Brady, the rookie.

Yikes.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

"He is more mobile than Bledsoe"

ouch, says Drew

 

[Wheelman]

He is more mobile than Bledsoe.

LOL!

 

[Koma]

Isn't "Sentinel Enterprise" the name of the new Star Trek show?

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

It's always great to look back at old articles or YouTube videos and see how people felt about players. Danny Woodhead was nothing more than a temporary signing since we were playing the Jets that week. We'll get some info and he'll be gone Monday.

I came across a video a couple years back of some low level sports talk show from before the 2007 season. They were fired up about the Pats additions on offense. Randy Moss!! D. Stallworth!!!! .............................Wes Welker...................................

 

[Hammer of Thor]

This article is so comical. You really get the sense the writer is sobbing with a bottle of Jack Daniels, occasionally punching the wall, while writing this.

You know who else was sobbing?

He's played with a broken finger on his throwing hand. Broken finger! Throwing hand!! Mark Brunell sat out last week's Jacksonville game with a sore quadriceps muscle.

 

[Tuck]

This guy may have been voicing the majority opinion at the time but more than a few of us were not satisfied with Bledsoe's game by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[PatsDeb]

I remember being nervous about Brady, but figuring BB knew what he was doing when he stayed with the hot hand. I also felt sad for Bledsoe as I liked him as a player. I think a lot of things came out later about how he would sometimes not follow what the coaches told him to do. Bledsoe and Jamie Collins found out that is not the way to go on the BB-lead Pats.

 

[MitchKumstein]

This guy may have been voicing the majority opinion at the time but more than a few of us were not satisfied with Bledsoe's game by any stretch of the imagination.

True, Bledsoe was no Hall of Fame quarterback, but to be fair he was miles better than the Hugh Millens, Tommy Hodsons and Marc Wilsons that we had to endure in the years preceding his arrival

 

[fnordcircle]

True, Bledsoe was no Hall of Fame quarterback, but to be fair he was miles better than the Hugh Millens, Tommy Hodsons and Marc Wilsons that we had to endure in the years preceding his arrival

Great post, MitchKumstein.

 

[Patjew]

I think BB made the right choice to stick with Brady TBH.

 

[jimnance]

I think BB made the right choice to stick with Brady TBH.

You sure?

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

I typed in belichick has lost it and got about a dozen hits from this year. Guess the byline still works

 

[convertedpatsfan]

We all make guesses about things, and sometimes we're right and sometimes we're wrong. And when we're right, we think we know better than BB. This draft prospect or that traded player or this in-game decision...of course we know more than that ****ing idiot...

But does anyone here actually spend 70 hours a week watching/studying/analyzing football? Does anyone get to spend that amount of time with the players? Watch every practice, every rep, every snap? Then re-watch it again and again and again and again...

It's a good reminder that we have a fraction of the access of information that the coaches do. That doesn't mean they can't make mistakes. And it doesn't mean we can't be right from time to time either. But it has more to do with luck than any actual insights we may have gleamed between commercials on Sunday or parsing a player's quote to some mediot's question.

Even the biggest idiot can get lucky in Vegas on one roll of the dice. But that doesn't mean that's a consistent strategy for succeeding.

Though I would honestly believe most of us spend more time watching/thinking about football than the average mediot, which is why you really can't care much about any of their "opinions" which are really based on less than even we have to go on.

 

[Patstopia]

The biggest difference between Bledsoe and Brady was Brady's release time. Bledsoe was slow of foot and slow of decision. He was like quicksand compared to Brady. Bledsoe was more like Flacco, pat the ball, pat the ball, pat the ball, heave the ball.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Gotta love this!

There's no byline on the reprint. Anyone know who originally wrote it?

From 2001: Starting Brady? Belichick is dead wrong (SLIDESHOW)

Fondly remember epic QB debates at Zip's where as a Brady's Lady I took on the Bledsoe Krishnas.