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TOM BRADY'S TREATMENT OUT OF ORDER, NOW NFL OPPONENTS WILL PAY
When it comes to Tom Brady, history tells us that a motivated and ornery quarterback is the best kind of quarterback. And in the wake of a turbulent offseason that culminated with Thursday's decision from Judge Richard Berman, you can bet the Patriots quarterback has all the emotional ammunition he needs heading into the 2015 season.
It's easy to dismiss, but it's important to remember that this is a guy who built a Hall of Fame career on the idea that he was bound and determined to get back at the rest of the NFL for making him wait until the sixth round of the draft. This is a guy who led an offensive charge the likes of which the league hadn't seen before in 2007 in part because he and his teammates believed their coach had been wronged as a result of Spygate. An eternal vigilance for slights, attacks or disrespect -- either imagined or real -- are very much a part of what makes Brady Brady.
And now he's had the chance to sit back all offseason and listen to what people think of him. Cheater. Deflator. Liar. Ultimately, the Deflategate drama and the detractors who came along with the mess provide the 38-year-old Brady another chance to prove himself. If the quarterback and the franchise were looking for some sort of catalyst to help steer clear of any potential Super Bowl hangover, it's been handed to them on a plate, thanks to a bungling league office. Expect Brady to take out his frustrations on the league by going all Ezekiel 25:17 on opposing defenses.
In truth, while the names and faces are different, Brady and the 2015 Patriots offense have an opportunity to initiate the same sort of scorched-earth policy that helped define the 2007 team. Sure, he might not have the sort options around him, but there's still a once-in-a-generation tight end inRob Gronkowski, who is every bit the defensive nightmare that Randy Moss was eight years ago. There's the elite slot receiver in Julian Edelman who has proven to be the equal of Wes Welker when it comes to toughness, grit and chemistry with the quarterback. That group is augmented by the likes of Brandon LaFell, Danny Amendola and a running game that has a chance to deliver more thunder than the 2007 ground attack ever dreamed of. You want to bet against that offense? Do so at your own risk.
While Brady will be an equal-opportunity dispenser of justice over the course of the 2015 campaign, you can bet that he and Bill Belichick will save a little something extra for the Colts, as well as the Ravens. It depends on who you want to believe, but it's easy to trace this whole dopey affair back to the 2014 postseason and the series of e-mails that went back and forth between the two franchises. Frankly, the Ravens should be relieved that the Patriots aren't on their 2015 regular-season schedule -- the only chance Baltimore will have to meet New England will be in the playoffs.
As for the Colts, expect the Patriots to exact their pound of flesh in an Oct. 18 game in Indianapolis. Considering the state of the Colts defense and the chance to humiliate general manager Ryan Grigson and the rest of the franchise in front of a national audience, it'll mark Brady's chance for some revenge. (I say this only half-jokingly: New England's record for points in a game is 59-0, set against the Titans in 2009. Lucas Oil Stadium might want to check and see if the scoreboard has the capability to reach triple digits.)
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In the end, the real losers in Deflategate won't be Roger Goodell, Jeff Pash or Ted Wells. Instead, it'll be defensive backs from Orchard Park to North Jersey to Houston to Denver who now have to deal with a supremely motivated Brady out to prove to everyone outside of the six-state radius of New England that they have him all wrong.
TOM BRADY'S TREATMENT OUT OF ORDER, NOW NFL OPPONENTS WILL PAY
When it comes to Tom Brady, history tells us that a motivated and ornery quarterback is the best kind of quarterback. And in the wake of a turbulent offseason that culminated with Thursday's decision from Judge Richard Berman, you can bet the Patriots quarterback has all the emotional ammunition he needs heading into the 2015 season.
It's easy to dismiss, but it's important to remember that this is a guy who built a Hall of Fame career on the idea that he was bound and determined to get back at the rest of the NFL for making him wait until the sixth round of the draft. This is a guy who led an offensive charge the likes of which the league hadn't seen before in 2007 in part because he and his teammates believed their coach had been wronged as a result of Spygate. An eternal vigilance for slights, attacks or disrespect -- either imagined or real -- are very much a part of what makes Brady Brady.
And now he's had the chance to sit back all offseason and listen to what people think of him. Cheater. Deflator. Liar. Ultimately, the Deflategate drama and the detractors who came along with the mess provide the 38-year-old Brady another chance to prove himself. If the quarterback and the franchise were looking for some sort of catalyst to help steer clear of any potential Super Bowl hangover, it's been handed to them on a plate, thanks to a bungling league office. Expect Brady to take out his frustrations on the league by going all Ezekiel 25:17 on opposing defenses.
In truth, while the names and faces are different, Brady and the 2015 Patriots offense have an opportunity to initiate the same sort of scorched-earth policy that helped define the 2007 team. Sure, he might not have the sort options around him, but there's still a once-in-a-generation tight end inRob Gronkowski, who is every bit the defensive nightmare that Randy Moss was eight years ago. There's the elite slot receiver in Julian Edelman who has proven to be the equal of Wes Welker when it comes to toughness, grit and chemistry with the quarterback. That group is augmented by the likes of Brandon LaFell, Danny Amendola and a running game that has a chance to deliver more thunder than the 2007 ground attack ever dreamed of. You want to bet against that offense? Do so at your own risk.
While Brady will be an equal-opportunity dispenser of justice over the course of the 2015 campaign, you can bet that he and Bill Belichick will save a little something extra for the Colts, as well as the Ravens. It depends on who you want to believe, but it's easy to trace this whole dopey affair back to the 2014 postseason and the series of e-mails that went back and forth between the two franchises. Frankly, the Ravens should be relieved that the Patriots aren't on their 2015 regular-season schedule -- the only chance Baltimore will have to meet New England will be in the playoffs.
As for the Colts, expect the Patriots to exact their pound of flesh in an Oct. 18 game in Indianapolis. Considering the state of the Colts defense and the chance to humiliate general manager Ryan Grigson and the rest of the franchise in front of a national audience, it'll mark Brady's chance for some revenge. (I say this only half-jokingly: New England's record for points in a game is 59-0, set against the Titans in 2009. Lucas Oil Stadium might want to check and see if the scoreboard has the capability to reach triple digits.)
[......................]
In the end, the real losers in Deflategate won't be Roger Goodell, Jeff Pash or Ted Wells. Instead, it'll be defensive backs from Orchard Park to North Jersey to Houston to Denver who now have to deal with a supremely motivated Brady out to prove to everyone outside of the six-state radius of New England that they have him all wrong.
