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If we believe Curran's narrative, it's simply an issue of valuation. Same as with Ty Law, Lawyer Malloy, Richard Seymour, Vince Wilfork, Willie McGuinest, etc. They all got to play out the end of their carriers in different unis because BB prefers to not pay top of market rates to athletes whose skills are declining, he'd rather gamble on younger players on the way up.This article, the one by Holley, and the one by Curran all read the same narrative to me, and it’s really sad. Basically Brady being the son of a hard ass father who thinks his Dad doesn’t love him because the dad just doesn’t know how to express his emotions properly. This didn’t have to happen. Who knows how much longer Brady really has left as a good QB, but I find it highly unlikely that the Patriots will be better off without him next season. And despite what he’s feeling now, 12 months from now I’m not sure Brady will be feeling happy about it either, even if he does win the Super Bowl with the Bucs next season. He’d still want Belichick’s validation that he made the right decision.....
Yeah, both Tommy and Jerry are gone, and they ain't never coming back...
Many of us remember when we didn't have a good coach. We went through Parcells (a Hall of Famer) and Pete Carrol (a lock as a future Hall of Famer) as our coaches before we found Belichick, who is far better than either of them. Luckily our owner learned from his early mistakes and picked the right guy as HC of the NEP and gave him everything he needed to succeed and then largely stayed out of his way. Compare/contrast to, let's say, Jerry Jones, who put himself right in to the middle of everything and who hasn't won bupkis in twenty years. Kraft started down that path and then realized it wasn't working and made changes. That's a pretty hard thing for wealthy people to do, he deserves a lot of credit for figuring it out.Brady is really the only QB I ever knew.
This feels weird and different. Im not devasted, but too bad #12 wont be under center anymore.
BB is buying the groceries and cooking the meals, and it's been two decades of excellent dining. Now the ingredients may not be the same, but it's going to be fascinating to see what the meals are like.
It is kind of disappointing to hear shouts of BUT I JUST WANNA EAT. Well, we already ate the best part of the Brady meal, buying more as quality went down and price went up wasn't going to make a better meal, so now something new and different will be served.
It might be a bit of a shock getting used to the new cuisine, but we all knew it wasn't going to last forever. It seems a few posters have already decided the new meal isn't even worth tasting. Well, fine, hope you enjoy Arians Gumbo.
Before we had BB we had a Jete like existence of getting our hopes dashed with a long stream of also-ran coaches and GMs with erratic owners and a poor stadium. There is a lot to be said for having a HOF coach and GM and an owner who largely stays out of the way of the football side while he pays ageing Asian ladies to give him happy endings.
It sucks to see TB12 move on, but as we used to say, In Bill We Trust.
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