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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Brady blaming another player for a failed play? That just is not like him at all....
Wait, I just remembered a conversation between a coach and Quarterback about an incomplete pass I heard this year.....
BB: "What about the one to Maroney?"
TFB: "It was right in his hands!!!" (doing his best Alvin the chipmunk impersonation)
BB: "It was over his head...."
TFB: "Oh that one...."
Whether he was just yelling at Tiquan, or he was actually blaming him for the whole play I will never truly know, but this whole situation did make me think of the BB Doc.
It is meaningless, because all that really matters is what this team does in the playoffs.
Are you optimistic?
It is meaningless, because all that really matters is what this team does in the playoffs...
My take. Brady was aware he didn't make the best throw or even realized that he should not have thrown it....but throw it he did. His young receiver had to be taught that he still has a responsibility regardless. Brady was clearly upset when he told him that he "had to go get it" but not unreasonably so. That didn't happen until BOB jumped all over Brady. Brady was trying to make a point and BOB's own frustration and ill-timed rant embarrassed Tom in front of a kid that needs to see Tom as a leader. BOB dressed him down in front of the team....But sh!t happens and I suspect this has been handled internally. Only jerks like Mazz want to turn this into the controversy of the deacade.
If you look at that video you don't see any of the other starters on offense, not one veteran stepping in and going after OB and telling him to calm down. That's because Welker, Branch and Co. were loving every minute of it
It's not the controversy of the decade and no one is treating it that way. What that scrum did was offer some insight and showed the whole world just how sick and tired Bill O'Brien was of Brady's endless yapping and fingerpointing at other guys on offense. If you look at that video you don't see any of the other starters on offense, not one veteran stepping in and going after OB and telling him to calm down. That's because Welker, Branch and Co. were loving every minute of it This blowup was long overdue and badly needed. Hopefully now the QB will focus on his own game before blaming everyone else for his failures
PS - just imagine the commentary on this board if that were Peyton Manning acting that way on the sidelines.
I dont blame Brady, or question his judgement..but just an observation..wasnt Gronk wide open in the bottom of the endzone?
Open is a relative term. Fans seldom consider things like throwing lanes. As I recall off the top of my head Gronk was standing at or just ahead of the goal line and had a receiver in position right behind him so a throw to him would have had to have been low and away and Gronk had struggled with his last potential reception of that variety after likely being mildly concussed (though as he has stated he will never admit those) on the uncalled helmet to helmet hit on a defenseless receiver. Bedard also stated that Light was struggling as the play unfolded to maintain his block. And there may have been other defenders in bewteen Brady and either target. Brady chose to throw over at least two problematic situations and put the ball where Tiquan was supposed to be in the back of the EZ. Problem was Tiquan had gradually drifted a little too far back and let the guy trailing him with a handful of jersey undercut him at the last second. After watching the replay multiple times the conclusion Bedard came to was had Underwood run a better route that was a TD. So calling it a bad throw or bad decision would be incorrect aside from opining that throwing to Tiquan at all is a bad decision - and that would be an unfortunate conclusion under the present circumstances... Branch was dinged and out at that point and Underwood was in as his primary backup apparently. The other candidate would be Ocho...
Mo
I was there with a perfect line.
He wasn't open.
Don't make the throw and get the two score lead.
Tom Brady Throws A Careless Interception & Then Argues With Offensive Coordinator! NFL Week 14(2011) - YouTube
It's not the controversy of the decade and no one is treating it that way. What that scrum did was offer some insight and showed the whole world just how sick and tired Bill O'Brien was of Brady's endless yapping and fingerpointing at other guys on offense. If you look at that video you don't see any of the other starters on offense, not one veteran stepping in and going after OB and telling him to calm down. That's because Welker, Branch and Co. were loving every minute of it This blowup was long overdue and badly needed. Hopefully now the QB will focus on his own game before blaming everyone else for his failures
PS - just imagine the commentary on this board if that were Peyton Manning acting that way on the sidelines.
Mo
I was there with a perfect line.
He wasn't open.
Don't make the throw and get the two score lead.
Tom Brady Throws A Careless Interception & Then Argues With Offensive Coordinator! NFL Week 14(2011) - YouTube
I was there.
Situational football.
Go up two scores.
Besides, I think the fustration was more a result of missing Welker the play before.
Mo
I was there with a perfect line.
He wasn't open.
Don't make the throw and get the two score lead.
Tom Brady Throws A Careless Interception & Then Argues With Offensive Coordinator! NFL Week 14(2011) - YouTube
just watched it 10 times, agreed gronk wasn't an option and Underwood ran a worse rout than I had initially thought. It was a risky throw as well, who decided the play call TB or BOB? thats the question, plays regarding ball safety to keep the field goal option alive seemed obvious. :deadhorse:
over 600,000 hits and climing, this will be Brady's Swan song
I was there.
Situational football.
Go up two scores.
Besides, I think the fustration was more a result of missing Welker the play before.
just watched it 10 times, agreed gronk wasn't an option and Underwood ran a worse rout than I had initially thought. It was a risky throw as well, who decided the play call TB or BOB? thats the question, plays regarding ball safety to keep the field goal option alive seemed obvious. :deadhorse:
over 600,000 hits and climing, this will be Brady's Swan song
Maybe...just maybe....
..the sideline episode came about not because of a bad pass or a bad route or a bad effort by a new WR...but because frustrations that Brady has with the teams #3 and #4 WR option crossed paths with frustrations O'Brien has with Brady's inability/unwillingness to incorporate receivers other than his Fab 4.
Brady's thought process: "See what happens when I try to trust these JAGs...it just isn't worth it"
BOB's thought process: "Great, now Brady has an excuse to further isolate the underperformers"
BOB became so agitatated because he needed Brady to know that the failure was on him. BOB needed to get the notion out of Brady's head right then and there that the failure was personel related. I think BOB was successful and he is also very lucky to have a QB return to message as Brady always does.
Regardless...clearly this episode manifested itself due to lingering issues.
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