ESPN hitpiece on Patriots (Rift with Brady/Belichick/Kraft) - Merged

[SVN]

Seriously ?
"At the same time, as his age has increased, Brady has become an advocate of positive thinking. Belichick's negativity and cynicism have gotten old, Brady has told other Patriots players and staff. He feels he has accomplished enough that he shouldn't have to endure so much grief. Patriots staffers have noticed that, this year more than ever, he seems to volley between unwavering confidence and driving insecurity. Brady has noted to staff a few times this year that, no matter how many game-changing throws he makes, Belichick hasn't awarded him Patriot of the Week all year."

I never believe brady can be like this.

 

[nowayback]

Not reading the story, for it to be true wouldn't there have to be info directly from Kraft, BB and Brady ? That no way happened . Guerrero may have let some info slip and JG(doubt it) . Anything else at best was someone's interpretation of moods after some meeting. Speculation...who the heck at Foxboro would talk to Seth and not Reiss, Curran etc.

 

[SVN]

This is just reaching
"Brady, though, seemed liberated. Kraft hugged Brady when he saw him that week, in full view of teammates. A few days later during practice, some players and staffers noticed that Brady seemed especially excited, hollering and cajoling. Brady was once again the team's present and future. His new backup, Brian Hoyer, was a longtime friend and not a threat. The owner was in Brady's corner. "He won," a Patriot staffer says."

 

[SVN]

The whole premise that brady the biggest competitor ever felt threatened by Jimmy G is laughable.

 

[SVN]

How to process ESPN piece on Pats 'dysfunction'

 

[varjao]

The article is so garbage that the comments section is disabled. Enough said.

We are on to bye week, 1st seed baby

 

[nowayback]

Well at least for the 1st time in weeks WEEI, Kirk and Callahan will talk about sports(Patriots) this morning .

 

[luuked]

Is that really in there? Someone claiming Brady asked to be called "Sir"?

 

[supafly]

Is that really in there? Someone claiming Brady asked to be called "Sir"?

Insert Bill Belichick “************” .gif.

I’m sure there could be some truth in there somewhere, but a lot of this stuff sounds way too over the top.

 

[pats4life12]

I found this article, it's an analysis basically a recap of the Seth Wickersham story. Thought I would share with those interested, I will link it below.

Analysis: ESPN'S Piece On Brady, Kraft, And Belichick Feud

 

[Tony2046]

When you're at the top they're going to try anything to knock you down. Wonder who's behind the curtain on this one.

Curtain? More like plexiglass.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

I'll just leave this part here:

"The Patriots repeatedly offered Garoppolo four-year contract extensions, in the $17 million to $18 million range annually that would go higher if and when he succeeded Brady. Garoppolo and Yee rejected the offers out of hand, for reasons that remain unclear, and the Patriots knew they couldn't make any promises to Garoppolo about the timing of a transition at quarterback without it getting back to Brady."


People are welcome to speculate on why I chose this portion as the one to quote.

I assume your point is Yee is also Brady's agent and simply offering starting money (18m) is in fact telling Brady that Jimmy is going to be the new QB sooner or later?
Otherwise I need you to spell it out for me

So the theory is BB was willing to pay 18m+ a year (I'm assuming with guarantees) to a QB with 1 full game experience? BB must think Jimmy was Brady-Montana-Name the other Top QBs all rolled into one -- the surest thing of all time. I can't ever recall BB offering even significant money to a player with almost no game experience much less massive money. Then this near as absolute a sure thing there is was traded away for only a #2? I assume BB knows a lot of football people and a lot of football people know and trust his judgment. Odd that the word wouldn't get out about JG as this sure thing and no team was willing to throw in more than a single second round pick (a second and a third or fourth)?

 

[luuked]

Insert Bill Belichick “************” .gif.

I’m sure there could be some truth in there somewhere, but a lot of this stuff sounds way too over the top.

All this tells me that there are staffers in the organization that don't like Brady for whatever reason and are just leaking some over exaggerated ********.

Like the bit where ESPN can magically pull potential contract numbers for a JG extension out of their ass even though Curran clearly points out that his sources has confirmed multiple times there never was an offer.

We know the draft room of the Pats is famously small so how many do you think would be privy to extension talk info?

This is the annual conjecture article filled with enough meaningless breadcrumbs that are true just so its defenders can point to them.

Just the fact how all those JG articles decide to ignore the salary cap implications of franchising JG, releasing or trading Brady and how it would affect the rest of the team make all of it a giant waste of time.

 

[luuked]

Belichick handled the trade as he always does, by not explaining it to the coaches and by burying them so deep in work that they didn’t have time to gossip. Most in the organization understood that it was an extreme case, with extreme personalities, but they felt that Belichick had earned the right to make football decisions

Or you know maybe he gave them work because there was a ****ing football game on the weekend and they needes to gameplan instead of sitting and reading twitter all day.

Jesus.. Wickersham might be one of the worst writers out there.

 

[Deus Irae]

Or you know maybe he gave them work because there was a ****ing football game on the weekend and they needes to gameplan instead of sitting and reading twitter all day.

Jesus.. Wickersham might be one of the worst writers out there.

Nobody had time to gossip, except all the people that supposedly had plenty of time to spread gossip to Seth Wickersham so that Seth could read tea leaves in such a brilliant manner that he could do things like detect a time when Brady's happiness was about a hug that happened days earlier.

And I've seen at least two sports people praising that article. That's how low journalism has sunk.

 

[luuked]

Nobody had time to gossip, except all the people that supposedly had plenty of time to spread gossip to Seth Wickersham so that Seth could read tea leaves in such a brilliant manner that he could do things like detect a time when Brady's happiness was about a hug that happened days earlier.

And I've seen at least two sports people praising that article. That's how low journalism has sunk.

INVESTIGATIVE!!!

 

[Brit patriot]

This is hit article with a lot conjecture and bollocks spouting.

However, if Brady wants to spend another few years here it wouldn't surprise me if he was asking where his new contract was, which by implication means JG couldn't be here.

Couple that with the fact that some employees don't like Brady (the Deflategate texts hardly paint a picture of the guys thinking TB was a guy they wanted over for dinner) and you probably have a lot of embellishment.

We will see if this is true in the next few weeks. The greatest coach of all time won't want to be punked out by his QB so would resign if he had been humiliated in this manner. If he stays it is proof, f proof is needed that the article is nonsense.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

For Kraft, Brady and Belichick, is this the beginning of the end?

 

[DarrylS]

ESPN publishes a hit piece on the Patriots just as , "The Tournament" starts and they want me to act surprised????

If you look at this reign of BB there have been other times of strife and discord, and they have managed to survive. No organization runs smoothly and not everyone gets along all of the time... that might be confusing to the Kumbaya folks at ESPN.

 

[NE_Zealot]

Successful people have egos????

Do yourself a favor and skip this garbage. Taking a dump is far more productive and the turds are more valuable than the network.