Brady on WEEI now

[2000army]

Talking about Bye week .... took his honeymoon this week. watched jets-fins

 

[JSn]

As if you didn't love Brady before...

Listening to Tom on WEEI, I really enjoyed what he had to say when asked how long he plans to play. There might also be a not-so-hidden dig in there...

As for how long Brady plans to play, he said: "I feel like the best I've ever felt." He added: "Assuming my arm feels great, there aren't a lot of other things that are going to keep me from wanting to play. ... I'll just keep playing 'til I'm collecting social security."

Brady was asked if other interests might draw him away from the game. He said that he has his priorities straight and appreciates his good fortune, unlike some other players.

"As athletes, we are incredible spoiled," Brady said, citing players wasting their money on frivolous things. "Then we hear athletes go, 'I'm just trying to feed my family.' That really bothers me. ... I don't lose track of that. I feel I'm very blessed to play football."

Listen to the whole thing (which suffers from bouts of tedium) here:
Dennis and Callahan

 

[N.Eman]

Re: Brady on WEEI now.

haha awesome, I bet he wont forget this year's bye, Jets fall to the Wildcats, NE stays on top, and the Wifey on the side.

Great stuff!! now back to work!!

 

[JSn]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

Oops, maybe I should have added to an earlier thread. Sorry, didn't see it.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

I didn't see any digs there, hidden or not. I have seen him mention as long as a team wants to pay or sign him, but that's less a dig on his present contract status than a savvy guy who knows he can't project as a management doormat - he has to maintain some level of empathetic connection with his teamates who struggle more than he does with that feeding the family crap.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

Great quotes.

"Assuming my arm feels great, there aren't a lot of other things that are going to keep me from wanting to play. ... I'll just keep playing 'til I'm collecting social security."

I'm just hoping that Junior Seau doesn't tell TFB the tax consequences to the SS checks when you're still workin'.

Tom feels he's blessed to play football. Well, as a half century Patriots fan I know I'm blessed to have TFB play for my team, especially given the surrounding quality owner, HC, staff and players. May he continue in the best of health.

 

[Phokus]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

Was the 'trying to feed my family' part a dig at ty law?

 

[JSn]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

Was the 'trying to feed my family' part a dig at ty law?

Yeah, that's the quote I meant, Mo.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

What Tom says in public, he likely says in greater detail, and much more colorfully
in the locker room. Sending a clear message obout the Patriot culture exemplified by the players in the BB era. A culture that's possibly been strained a bit as several vets depart for big money deals and other vets who epitimized that culture in both behaviour and vocal leadership retired. Time to inculcate the younguns.

 

[northernpatriot]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

Yeah, that's the quote I meant, Mo.

....or Ray Lewis? Wasnt that his remark in the post game?

 

[RobertWeathers]

Re: Brady on WEEI now.

Somehow the image of TB lounging on the couch eating potato chips and flicking back and forth b/t/w games with Gi chatting on Facebook just isn't computing....

 

[eagle eye]

Re: Brady on WEEI now.

Yeah I'd imagine he still puts the eye paint on at the very least.

 

[Kontradiction]

Re: Brady on WEEI now.

Did he surf? I don't think I can handle it if he surfed again! The last thing we need is for Brady to get into a surfing accident!!

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Re: Brady on WEEI now.

Somehow the image of TB lounging on the couch eating potato chips and flicking back and forth b/t/w games with Gi chatting on Facebook just isn't computing....

Yeah. Their inane 'chats' so TOTALLY clogged up my Facebook page.

 

[lamafist]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

I love Brady as much as the next die-hard Pats fan, and think he'll prove to have way too much character to go all Favre-y on the team down the road, but to be honest, these remarks kind of don't sit well with me.

It's pretty easy to write off the "feed my family" mentality when you grew up part of an affluent family in an upper-middle-class suburb and your wife is the richest supermodel in history.

A lot of NFLers have entire extended families and childhood friends living in dangerous levels of poverty, and will never make as much in their career as Brady gets in a year. The level of "need" of their families, friends and communities is completely unlike that of Brady's.

To me, the desire to make as much money as you can to pass on to your children, nieces, nephews, and their respective children is as noble a reason to play the game as you could have. That's why I have no problem with a "paycheck" player.

 

[DaBruinz]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

I love Brady as much as the next die-hard Pats fan, and think he'll prove to have way too much character to go all Favre-y on the team down the road, but to be honest, these remarks kind of don't sit well with me.

It's pretty easy to write off the "feed my family" mentality when you grew up part of an affluent family in an upper-middle-class suburb and your wife is the richest supermodel in history.

A lot of NFLers have entire extended families and childhood friends living in dangerous levels of poverty, and will never make as much in their career as Brady gets in a year. The level of "need" of their families, friends and communities is completely unlike that of Brady's.

To me, the desire to make as much money as you can to pass on to your children, nieces, nephews, and their respective children is as noble a reason to play the game as you could have. That's why I have no problem with a "paycheck" player.

You think that is a NOBLE reason to play the game? What is so noble about it?

Sorry, but there is NOTHING noble about multi-millionaires making asinine claims like "I've got to feed my family" when they are MULTI-MILLIONAIRES. There is a huge difference between helping out your extended family and using them as the excuse as to why you DESERVE to be over-paid.

Noble is making the money and helping them out without being a jackass about it, ala Ty Law. Who wasn't doing it to help out any extended family, mind you. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that Tom's comments were directed at the Michael Oher's of the world, but at the Ty Law's and Deion Branch's of the world.

The whole "extended family and friends living dangerously close to poverty" is over-blown by the media and people like yourself. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that its the exception and not the rule, as you try to portray it.

 

[northernpatriot]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

I obviously cant talk for Brady, but I read it as a knock on the "I need to feed my family" player, who then hops in his pimped out navigator and drives back to his 10000 sq ft home. I might be wrong, but thats how I read it.

 

[shmessy]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

Oops, maybe I should have added to an earlier thread. Sorry, didn't see it.

No prob, babe, it's been handled!

 

[TruthSeeker]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

I love Brady as much as the next die-hard Pats fan, and think he'll prove to have way too much character to go all Favre-y on the team down the road, but to be honest, these remarks kind of don't sit well with me.

It's pretty easy to write off the "feed my family" mentality when you grew up part of an affluent family in an upper-middle-class suburb and your wife is the richest supermodel in history.

A lot of NFLers have entire extended families and childhood friends living in dangerous levels of poverty, and will never make as much in their career as Brady gets in a year. The level of "need" of their families, friends and communities is completely unlike that of Brady's.

To me, the desire to make as much money as you can to pass on to your children, nieces, nephews, and their respective children is as noble a reason to play the game as you could have. That's why I have no problem with a "paycheck" player.

I think you're totally off-base.

Children are responsible for making their own way into the world when they become adults, so don't tell me that every parent needs to make millions for their kids to enjoy. Unless your goal is to teach irresponsibility and laziness, but I don't think that's quite what the players are claiming to be doing.

The "I've got to feed my family" which means the player (already making megabucks) needs money for food is a ridiculous statement, no ifs, ands or buts. Even when you extend it out to mean more than food, it's still ridiculous and deserves all the ridicule (and more) that it gets.

 

[lamafist]

Re: As if you didn't love Brady before...

You think that is a NOBLE reason to play the game? What is so noble about it?

Sorry, but there is NOTHING noble about multi-millionaires making asinine claims like "I've got to feed my family" when they are MULTI-MILLIONAIRES. There is a huge difference between helping out your extended family and using them as the excuse as to why you DESERVE to be over-paid.

Noble is making the money and helping them out without being a jackass about it, ala Ty Law. Who wasn't doing it to help out any extended family, mind you. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that Tom's comments were directed at the Michael Oher's of the world, but at the Ty Law's and Deion Branch's of the world.

The whole "extended family and friends living dangerously close to poverty" is over-blown by the media and people like yourself. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that its the exception and not the rule, as you try to portray it.

Maybe I'm weird, but I see an intrinsically American nobility in the idea of a man busting his ass at the only thing he's ever been good at, something he can do better than 99.9% of the world, so that he can earn enough money so that his children and grandchildren will be able to have the choices he never did.

I think the whole "for the love of the game" notion that's been driven into our heads by decades of sports media is nice and all, but at the end of the day, it's sort of a silly construct when compared to the real-life humanity of the desire to realize the American Dream of rags to riches.

And make no mistake: the poverty that many of the NFL's players come from is very, very real. If anything, it's "underblown" by the media. Sure, we might here about Je'Rod Cherry raffling his superbowl ring in some slow Saturday's sports section, and we might here some nice stories on the occasional OTL episode, but we're not bombarded by it every day like we are with the excesses of the Pacman Joneses, the Mike Vicks, and yes, the Ty Laws of the NFL. It's they who are the noisy flashy exceptions, and not the rule.

Why don't you take a moment and look into the work that Bill Belichick has done with Jim Brown's organization. Now there's a man (BB) who knows the kind of world so many of his players come from, and how many more of them never make it out of.