Cool Link Bedard’s magnum opus

[Ross12]

Bedard: Dear Robert and Jonathan, here's a reality check on the state of the Patriots

To cut to the chase: you guys are on a long losing streak with the fanbase, and you are on the precipice of losing all the goodwill you built up for more than 20 years. The choices you make in the next month will determine whether this franchise ascends back to its rightful place as one of the...

www.bostonsportsjournal.com

Titled “Dear Robert and Jonathan, here’s a reality check”…

 

[Scotty]

The Krafts just choked on their breakfast cereal

 

[mgcolby]

 

[DarrylS]

Bedard is just another "nattering nabob of negativity" who makes $$$ off of bashing the Patriots..
For some reason that is well liked among many fans today..

 

[borg]

Titled “Dear Robert and Jonathan, here’s a reality check”…

 

[Keyser Söze]

Bedard is just another "nattering nabob of negativity" who makes $$$ off of bashing the Patriots..
For some reason that is well liked among many fans today..

Because there are so many reasons to be positive about this team….

 

[Love The Drake]

It’s like he took everything on this messageboard and summed it up.
One of his best articles.

 

[Ross12]

Bedard is just another "nattering nabob of negativity" who makes $$$ off of bashing the Patriots..
For some reason that is well liked among many fans today..

He has always skewed more negatively than most journalists covering the team, but that’s not hard to do when most of them seem as if they’re afraid to ever say anything negative. In general I find him mostly balanced, even if I don’t agree with everything he writes or says, which is perfectly fine.

 

[Family]

Bedard is just another "nattering nabob of negativity" who makes $$$ off of bashing the Patriots..
For some reason that is well liked among many fans today..

He has always skewed more negatively than most journalists covering the team, but that’s not hard to do when most of them seem as if they’re afraid to ever say anything negative. In general I find him mostly balanced, even if I don’t agree with everything he writes or says, which is perfectly fine.

Bedard was too negative with the BB regime, probably left over from his years at the Globe, where they just had a vendetta against him.

But he's been fair in giving Mayo and friends a decent chance.

Read his stuff from training camp.

Every chance he had to praise the "brain trust", Bedard did.

 

[TomPatriot]

Bedard is just another "nattering nabob of negativity" who makes $$$ off of bashing the Patriots..
For some reason that is well liked among many fans today..

In this open letter he’s pretty much right, though.

 

[turkeyneck]

It’s like he took everything on this messageboard and summed it up.
One of his best articles.

That's what I was thinking. "Hey, ChatGPT, summarize Patsfans for the past 6 months."

 

[Nikolai]

It definitely captures the zeitgeist of the fanbase, writ large.

Sure, there are definitely folks here that are not as pessimistic as the majority, but this is the most down I've seen the fanbase on the team since at least 1999 (people forget how down the fanbase was on Carroll by the point).

 

[upstater1]

If Bob Kraft fired Belichick as his son advised him to after 2017, he wouldn't have won the 2018 Super Bowl.

If Kraft fired Belichick and kept Brady in 2019, Brady wouldn't have won his 7th Super Bowl on the same rapidly aging Patriots team we saw in 2019. Brady's late career would have finished with a whimper.

Belichick (who was not yet 70) would have gone to another team and Bedard would be writing this same letter in reverse.

 

[Ring 6]

Bedard is just another "nattering nabob of negativity" who makes $$$ off of bashing the Patriots..
For some reason that is well liked among many fans today..

Do you think we should feel positively about this team?

 

[Ross12]

If Bob Kraft fired Belichick as his son advised him to after 2017, he wouldn't have won the 2018 Super Bowl.

If Kraft fired Belichick and kept Brady in 2019, Brady wouldn't have won his 7th Super Bowl on the same rapidly aging Patriots team we saw in 2019. Brady's late career would have finished with a whimper.

Belichick (who was not yet 70) would have gone to another team and Bedard would be writing this same letter in reverse.

You can’t compare Tom Brady the QB to Jerod Mayo the HC.

 

[Hades]

 

[Steve102]

Bedard: Dear Robert and Jonathan, here's a reality check on the state of the Patriots

To cut to the chase: you guys are on a long losing streak with the fanbase, and you are on the precipice of losing all the goodwill you built up for more than 20 years. The choices you make in the next month will determine whether this franchise ascends back to its rightful place as one of the...

www.bostonsportsjournal.com

Titled “Dear Robert and Jonathan, here’s a reality check”…

I actually read it, normally I eschew Bedard and his negativity. He was given a recommendation by someone here, and I tuned into him, back in the day. Bedard lost me right off when he was ranting and *****ing about something inane while Tom and Bill were both still here, and I have been reticent to come back, knowing he's cut from the same cloth as Shank. With that, I can pick a few nits, most notably that Krafts should have kept Tom and launched Bill, which @upstater1 covered. I think Bedard has is pretty much dialed here, and it feels like Kraft got put together with a little fanboyism by promoting Mayo so early.

 

[upstater1]

You can’t compare Tom Brady the QB to Jerod Mayo the HC.

Oh I wasn't.

I was talking about the first half rendition which to me undercuts everything else he has to say

 

[borg]

Do you think we should feel positively about this team?

DarrylS has only one schtick…..crapping on media… with an emphasis on talk radio

 

[Grogan14]

Thank You Bedard!!
Hopefully Jonothan or Robert will read.
Happy he is trying to share the fans opinions!!!
If Mayo stays the franchise is in danger of losing passion and interest from fans.

Never thought I would say it but I miss Bill the coach