When he started, he was one of us. 6th rounder, no one respected, the whole chip on the shoulder thing. Somewhere along the line, he became bigger than life. Jet setting to Costa Rica, playing catch on yachts in Monaco during F1 weeks... chit like that. He's just... he's not one of us anymore.
I don't know how to say this without somehow sounding ungrateful...
Somewhere along the line (recently) Brady became unlikable to me.
I'm country and outdoorsy and some of his meterosexual stuff was cringeworthy to me. The man purse, the man bun, etc, but, to each his own.
Looking back I think of a wide open Chris Hogan being completely blown off and sitting on the bench alone, like he was being frozen out.
Whining about not being chosen for player of the week (if you can believe BSPN).
Finally admitting he only likes to throw to vets. Rookies run the wrong routes. It happens. There's no reason to blow them off for the rest of the game.
The AB pout/fiasco.
I wanted to believe it was BB's decision to keep Brady instead of Garoppolo, not an owner intervention. I'm not so sure now.
It has been a fantastic run and we have been playing with house chips for a long time, but like a bad relationship, or a crappy job I feel like it has run it's course and it was time for both parties to move on.
Somehow we should have known the combination of BB's ruthlessness and Brady's ego/competitiveness was going to end up with Brady wearing another uniform.
I personally am excited to see what BB can do in the post Brady era.
We've seen him make chicken salad from chicken manure before and I'm sure he can do it again.
A few down years may thin the herd a little as far as the number of sincere fans goes.