Steve102
Any Man Who Must Say I Am The King Is No True King
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I am not suggesting Bill lower his standards, per se. I am saying the crime needs to fit the punishment. Welker's feet jokes didn't warrant a benching for however long it was. We will never know what Butler did, but it had to something egregious to warrant Bill throwing away a championship because of his standards.You guys can't account for how holding high standards helps a team win. No one will ever know what would have happened all these years if Bill had lower standards. If players see others not living up to their responsibilities, then what happens over the span of time?
Do they 4? Do they beat the Eagles but lose to the Panthers and Seahawks? Is Butler even someone who becomes a household name if Browner wasn't on top of his Ps and Qs in practice when he blew up the pick? These are things that will never be known.
Players are different. They have much lower standards. They don't have the same responsibilities that coaches do. And apparently they forgive a lot. I mean, Brady took in Antonio Brown to live with his family, and this was after Brown had his thugs physically threaten the children of a woman he defrauded.
His unbending ways won them 6 Lombardis. This is not up for debate. I am suggesting that, with the 20/20 benefit of hindsight, could they have won 7 or maybe 8? Not looking to go down the rabbit holes on either of these situations, because we already know there's no bottom to the hole. Could he have stepped away from 'himself' and saw how these decisions affected the other 53? Could he altered how he handled roster building, especially when it cam to Tom, at the end of Tom's time? Could he have bent himself and won more? Truthfully, I think the answer is an unequivocal NO. I don't think he was able to change because this. is. how. its. done. I don't think it's in his DNA to be able to change his methods. I don't think he can look in the mirror and make the self analysis needed to make that change at 68, 69, 70 and 71 years of age. As I have said previously, his methods worked, until they didn't. They stopped working when the players stopped carrying the message, or, specifically, when Brady stopped carrying it. Bill kept McCourty and Slate here to help with that, but for as great as they are, they aren't Thomas Brady.