Tom Curran

[Ring 6]

Where do you get this? BB would have paid Brady what the Bucs did? More? Where do you see that? Every indication is that BB did not offer any contract or signaled it was likely going to be under 20 million.

Of course he would have. Brady left without asking.

 

[Wozzy]

Bill Simmons says Boston’s sports media is embarrassing the city​

"It sucks."​

Bill Simmons says Boston's sports media is embarrassing the city

Maybe work and weather weren’t the only reasons that Bill Simmons moved to Los Angeles. In a series of tweets Saturday, Simmons blasted Boston’s sports media for its most recent string of controversies and waxed nostalgic about an older generation of writers who inspired him to pursue a career...

www.boston.com

The headline about sums it up...

 

[crawhammer]

Other than being a bit too soft, Curran pretty much nailed. Belichick got sick of Brady receiving "too much" credit for the success of the team. HE wanted ALL the credit. He had total disregard for Brady's training methods, he futilely provided Brady with a supporting cast, and he shamelessly undermined Brady's value with absurd one-year at a time commitments. Belichick was talking up Brady's demise as far back as 2014. But like some of his other asinine decisions (M.B.), it blew up in his face. He greased the skids to Brady's 10th Super Bowl appearance with another bozo head coach, Bruce Arians future hall of famer and three-time Super Bowl champion.

 

[Miguel]

Okay, it’s really not much of a challenge actually.
You see that $60 million of cap space they have this off-season. With restructures and bonuses, they could have easily borrowed $30 million of it for the 2020 cap. You’d have another $13 m of space, it you had not let Brady’s contract expire so the amortization of Brady’s bonus money didn’t accelerate into the 20 cap as it did.

Please prove an example of how the Patriots could have borrowed 2021 cap space for the 2020 season.

FYI - No matter what there would have been $6.75M of Brady's signing bonus proration on the 2020 cap.

 

[203Pat]

Please prove an example of how the Patriots could have borrowed 2021 cap space for the 2020 season.

FYI - No matter what there would have been $6.75M of Brady's signing bonus proration on the 2020 cap.

And who's fault is that Andy?

 

[Miguel]

And who's fault is that Andy?

Both sides signed the deal.

 

[RobertWeathers]

And who's fault is that Andy?

Did you call Miguel, Andy?

 

[203Pat]

Did you call Miguel, Andy?

Lol I thought I was responding to Ring 6. Sorry @Miguel

 

[203Pat]

Both sides signed the deal.

In your opinion if Bill was writing off 2020 and looking toward 2021, as some claim, why would he structure the deal that way knowing he wouldn't bring Brady back in 2020? It seems like he shot himself in the foot.

 

[Lagaffe_07]

In your opinion if Bill was writing off 2020 and looking toward 2021, as some claim, why would he structure the deal that way knowing he wouldn't bring Brady back in 2020? It seems like he shot himself in the foot.

Or he thought that Brady would never leave and would have signed for peanuts

 

[RobertWeathers]

Lol I thought I was responding to Ring 6. Sorry @Miguel

LOL! I was gonna say that was the Mother of all Insults.....

Miguel might have reported you to Ian over that one.

 

[Steve102]

Ruth was 24 years old when traded to NY. Brady was 42 when he left New England....... Big difference.. Better a year or two too soon than too late...

I would argue to Curran the proper comparison is Willie Mays to the Mets. Ruth had not ascended to Ruthian heights yet, where as Mays' best days were behind him. I get that Mays doesn't garner clicks around here like Ruth does.

 

[yukon cornelius]

Wentz is looking to possibly restructure his deal to facilitate a trade out of Philly....his dead cap hit would be just under $34 million

so if he really wants out of Houston that bad, he can help make the deal happen.....there's not a lot of wiggle room, but there's some according to the article i just read on Wentz

a deal after june 1 allows the dead cap hit to be spread over two years, but that's a long time to wait to get your projected starter into the building

 

[203Pat]

LOL! I was gonna say that was the Mother of all Insults.....

Miguel might have reported you to Ian over that one.

Lol I would never have a bad word to say about Miguel. The work he does keeping up with the cap is insane.

 

[SVN]

Curran and Trenni cant seem to let go about how BB is screwing this up and there has been miscaluation since 2017

 

[BradytoMosstoGronk]

Curran

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Will McD was worse than Tom in my book.

Will was so far into the liar's corner, Bill P., that he threw a fit when Kraft didn't cut him in on the news of the trouble he was having with Bill P. Will McD acted like he was more important than the future of the franchise.

Kraft kind of shares the "Damn the torpedoes!" mentality with Belichick-and Billy Sullivan? Billy got half a dozen letters after trading Leon Gray. Big whoop. He got hundreds when the prospect of a logo change got out, and he left the door open.

Did Kraft know about them being close-in fact it was Willie who got Orthwein the interview with Parcells-and instead of accepting his help to grease the wheels for a reconciliation, doubled down and shut him out?

In the case of the logo and uniform, Kraft's assertion that he barely knew the guy he overpaid $millions to buy the team from looks like a lie, and what I heard about Kraft actually being involved in the flying elvis' selection sounds correct.

The organization party line is complicit with the Globe's reporting that awful day in 1993 that the team fans - including the 60,916 in Schaefer Stadium that day in '79 - constitute a 'small faction'.

 

[Wozzy]

In your opinion if Bill was writing off 2020 and looking toward 2021, as some claim, why would he structure the deal that way knowing he wouldn't bring Brady back in 2020? It seems like he shot himself in the foot.

You borrow to win (2014-2019) when you have a Super Bowl caliber roster and HOF QB in place, once the wheels come off from borrowing you start over in 2020 by resetting the cap.

I don't think he was writing off 2020, he was hoping for another 2001 miracle where he won with a cast of value vet free agents and existing talent... 2001 was a magical year, and before you say it beyond Tom's ascendence as a starter. Bill signed a bunch of old guys and castoffs no other team wanted, it worked out.

You don't continue to borrow when winning isn't in the cards, you reset.