Tom Brady Retires (Update: Shouts out to Pats players, coaches on social media)

[Joker]

Dexedrine and dilaudid...with a dash of 'Nac

as my ex-wife said just before the divorce..."well yes judge, Joe IS a talented tonguester" She got the house and the kids, the pick-up truck and the condo in South Florida. I got a free herpes exam and a free year of lap dances at Trudy's T I T T Y Tent on the Tampa City Beach.

 

[skinnydog]

The problem with the Bradyites is that they just didn’t root for Brady to do well. They openly rooted for his new team, as evidenced by a 514 page thread. Those same people didn’t do much posting on the Patriots over the last two years. They put Brady ahead of the Patriots just because…he’s Tommy. Now that he’s retired, these folks have to choose between coming back to the main board and cheer for the Patriots again or leave voluntarily since their hero is gone.

You don’t get it, and never well. Brady retires with great stats, but he was always more about winning than stats. So rooting for Brady is really rooting for him to win. Not throw for 5000 yards and go .500, but watching how he finds a way to win, just like he did for 20 years with the Pats.

 

[SVN]

 

[Guts]

 

[Mack Herron]

This is where I am at. We are fans. As fans he in part gave us the greatest dynasty ever, 18 seasons of amazing play, 6 Super Bowls we will never forget, made our franchise one of the cornerstone legendary sports franchises, countless game winning drives and enjoyment.

I kinda think this whole thing is overblown anyways because he'll probably do stuff with New England in the future, but if he never does anything with the franchise ever again.... we already got more than enough from him. We wanted to watch a good team and he helped give us the thing every single NFL fan wishes they could see in their lifetime.

Think about that. Every fan right now besides some 45+ year old 49'ers fans and some 80-90 something year old Packers fans wishes they could see something like what we got in our lifetime. And Brady along with Bill Belichick are the centerpieces. Decades from now when people talk about the glory days of the Patriots it's going to be about the run we all witnessed. When the greatest dynasty's are reflected on, it will be this one at the top.

Sure but it was a curious omission. Couldn’t have been an oversight. And nothing from Bill yet?

 

[VectorPrime]

We know from multiple sources including I believe Tom’s dad that Belichick never reached out to Brady via text or call to congratulate him on winner the Super Bowl last year and that absolutely floored him. That slight doesn’t go away fast.

 

[SVN]

Curran thinks Brady isnt coming back to sign a 1 day contract especially when they didnt give him a contract to stay in NE.

 

[VectorPrime]

 

[VectorPrime]

Curran thinks Brady isnt coming back to sign a 1 day contract especially when they didnt give him a contract to stay in NE.

The thing is that the one day contract is barely a thing in football. It’s much bigger in the other pro sports.

 

[Disco Volante]

Mutual split neither side was wrong

Wasn't a "mutual split", Brady wanted the Pats to commit to him and they chose to let him go instead. That's why he's still angry. Good for him.

 

[lancerman]

Curran thinks Brady isnt coming back to sign a 1 day contract especially when they didnt give him a contract to stay in NE.

The one day contract is a real contract legally even if you won't be active long enough to get paid. So there is a complication with the Bucs still having his rights and the fact that there is dead money associated with it that would need to be resolved.

That's a bit of work for the Bucs to essentially trade him for next to nothing and then also have to risk the dead money for some ceremonial 1 day retirement thing. Like I'm sure if Brady pushed the issue they would. But he'd have to REALLY want it.

 

[lancerman]

Wasn't a "mutual split", Brady wanted the Pats to commit to him and they chose to let him go instead. That's why he's still angry. Good for him.

Yeah basically. It's not really complicated. The Pats wanted to go year to year with Brady because they wanted a back door exit in case Belichick felt he was done and Brady wasn't ready to go. It was all but who was going to set the terms on Brady's ending. The Patriots wanted to be able to pull a plug out of desire to remain competitive, Brady wanted to be able to finish with dignifty where he got to say "okay now I'm ready". The Pats didn't trust Brady would do right by the time if he declined and they'd be stuck with a bum contract for a year.

If you are Brady, you probably are like "wait I helped you win 6 Super Bowls and took the deflategate hit for everyone and you can't risk maybe being saddled with a bad contract for year so I can finish things here"? I hope Mac pans out and becomes an elite franchise QB who we are competetive with for years to come, because if he's not, a lot of people will look back and say "they couldn't give the greatest player ever a grace period for two years so he could retire where he started"? We didn't have a Steve Young, Aaron Rodgers, or Andrew Luck staring us in the face to want to rush Brady out.

 

[Bill Lee]

It's their job. ESPN pays Schefter because he is well connected in the NFL and gets the scoops before anyone else. And his information in this case was right. Schefter is usually right in his scoops.

Haven't followed the story closely: do we know who gave Schefter the scoop?

One podcast I listened to pinned it on Don Yee, Brady's agent, and suggested the details on when he could run with the scoop got botchedoo

 

[Bill Lee]

The thing is that the one day contract is barely a thing in football. It’s much bigger in the other pro sports.

And it shouldn't be a thing in any sport.

The relationship ended two years ago, for lots of different reasons.

Do we really need a bullsh!t ceremony where everyone pretends that it didn't?

Why?

If what we hear is right and Tom ain't up for that, I think it's wonderful.

 

[patsfan13]

Candidly to a lot of fans who are more concerned about Brady than the NE Patriots, it seem like there are bandwagon jumpers or frontrunners. some of us rooted for the Patriot's when they were the worst team on football worse than the Jets. So when Brady left the Patriots I was fine with that, the Pats were in bad cap shape, pertly as a result of trying to field a team that compete for 1 more SB. He asked for an opt out with no franchise tag, and he was accommodated, fair enough. When he became a FA, he shopped for a team that had the talent to make a SB run that needed a QB. In steps TB, Brady got his Buds Gronk and AB to sign up and off he went. Won a SB, great for him, didn't especially mean anything one way or another since I am a Patriots' fan.

Brady owes us nothing, but we don't owe him anything. His statement was thought out and gave NE the middle finger. Then after the blowup on twitter he issue a perfunctory I love you tweet, that was insulting after the fact, He should have just moved on. I am excited about the Patriots' future and Wish the Brady's well with their clothing business and their Florida lifestyle.

 

[Bill Lee]

I bet he was far more angry when it dawned on him that he couldn't go to the Orchids of Asia and get HJs any more.

 

[Bill Lee]

True, dat...

 

[SHOWTIME15]

We know from multiple sources including I believe Tom’s dad that Belichick never reached out to Brady via text or call to congratulate him on winner the Super Bowl last year and that absolutely floored him. That slight doesn’t go away fast.

Belichick had a long talk with him after the October game…ya think maybe the super bowl came up?

 

[SHOWTIME15]

You don’t get it, and never well. Brady retires with great stats, but he was always more about winning than stats. So rooting for Brady is really rooting for him to win. Not throw for 5000 yards and go .500, but watching how he finds a way to win, just like he did for 20 years with the Pats.

Wanna venture to guess how many pages of Bucs threads there were on this board over the past two years compared to NE?

 

[Guts]

True, dat...

Rob Parker can breathe in peace