Patriots Rumor ESPN hitpiece on Patriots (Rift with Brady/Belichick/Kraft) - Merged

[AtomicDawg]

Here is how the first BB press conference will go.

Mediot: So Bill Thoughts on the article?

Belichick- We released a statement

Mediot: Bill, how is the relationship with Kraft and Tom?

Belichick - We already released a statement

Mediot: Bill is this your final year here?

Belichick- We released a statement yesterday

 

[Deus Irae]

And of course Giardi responds to it by saying "Semantics"

Giardi seems to be falling back on that quite a bit. Unfortunately, for him, "semantics" often matters.

 

[Clonamery]

We've got a little CSNNE on CSNNE crime.

Lol....c'mon Tom, Giardi's heart....is in San Francisco.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Here is how the first BB press conference will go.

Mediot: So Bill Thoughts on the article?

Belichick- We released a statement

Mediot: Bill, how is the relationship with Kraft and Tom?

Belichick - We already released a statement

Mediot: Bill is this your final year here?

Belichick- We released a statement yesterday

Thats exactly how it will go.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Sounds like Colin is getting a bit sensitive here. He normally defends Patriots, but “gotta have that hawt taek be proven correct.”

EDIT: that joke doesn’t even make sense come to think about it. Jeezus Colin.

hes a ****head

 

[farn]

This NFL season has been boring, if not for the Patriots. This is going to get those ratings up. This is fantastic for the League.

 

[DropKickFlutie]

Mike Reiss just put out an article. He's also been distancing from his ESPN colleague whose article has no specific sources:

Pats' Kraft, Brady, Belichick say they're 'united'

 

[AtomicDawg]

Sounds like Colin is getting a bit sensitive here. He normally defends Patriots, but “gotta have that hawt taek be proven correct.”

EDIT: that joke doesn’t even make sense come to think about it. Jeezus Colin.

Actually that was Rodgers. But nobody cares as always because they have PDS.

 

[jimnance]

All part of their strategy. They know Reiss is the only one at BSPN that any self-respecting Pats fan trusts anymore. Keep him out of it so they don't lose any more Pats fan clicks than they already have. Use ****ersham and Van-I-got-nada to get clicks from the other 31.

Not completely true. There's also Bruschi and Louis Riddick.
Riddick is the best non-Patriot media guy in the country.( although he did play briefly for BB in Cleveland).
He is one of the only national media guys who tells the truth about the BB/TB12 era: that what the Patriots have done since 2001 is mind-boggling and due to hard work,sacrifice and intelligence, not to bogus cheating scandals.
He's a very sharp football mind and sees through BS. Former player and front office guy.
Yeah, but I agree those guys are the exceptions at the ESPN cesspool.

 

[Jackson 2]

Yeah and I'm sure BB invited Goodell to Nantucket to hang out on the boat.

Just read on another site that BB took Goodell out on his boat and tried to hang him! Stay tuned for more! Arrggg!!!

 

[AtomicDawg]

This NFL season has been boring, if not for the Patriots. This is going to get those ratings up. This is fantastic for the League.

I know right? 8 teams are playing in Wild card weekend. But all anyone cares about is the Patriots. Patriot Derangement Syndrome. Most important team in the history of sports.

 

[Jackson 2]

Not completely true. There's also Bruschi and Louis Riddick.
Riddick is the best non-Patriot media guy in the country.( although he did play briefly for BB in Cleveland).
He is one of the only national media guys who tells the truth about the BB/TB12 era: that what the Patriots have done since 2001 is mind-boggling and due to hard work,sacrifice and intelligence, not to bogus cheating scandals.
He's a very sharp football mind and sees through BS. Former player and front office guy.
Yeah, but I agree those guys are the exceptions at the ESPN cesspool.

Bingo.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Yeah and I'm sure BB invited Goodell to Nantucket to hang out on the boat.

Oh yea....they are MyFace friends and everything

 

[signbabybrady]

Mike sux he never has anything to add to these stories to confirm or deny them.

 

[TomPatriot]

How about stjamesgate?

I've been to the Dublin brewery actually. I'll never forget the fantastic smell on the approach. I remember walking in but I don't remember walking out.

 

[SEA_Pat]

In my circle, guys all now in early to mid 40s, we HATED kraft for not letting Tuna pick the groceries...all season ticket holders too...and to add salt to the wound, the Pats and Bobby Grier got absolutely garbage for the multitude of picks they got for tuna

And look how right you were! Kraft led us to a complete disaster and should have been forced to sell the team. You boys in the bleachers knew better than the Boardroom what was what! Oh, what could have been!

 

[RobertWeathers]

Hm, am I trying to read something into it or does Reiss really come over as trying to distance himself from the content of that sham article?

If you put Reiss on a plane to Tokyo I think that is less distance he is putting himself from this story.

It is clear he wants no part of it.

 

[BradyFTW!]

"Those interviewed describe a palpable sense in the building that this might be the last year together for this group." Palpable sense in the building = we're just throwing **** at the wall with zero conviction.

Which brings me to my actual point here: are we really supposed to believe that Seth Wickersham of all people has dozens of sources in the Patriots organization, while the local guys have basically nothing? It just fails the plausibility test IMO, I don't buy it. If there was a story here, I think the Tom Currans and Mike Reisses would know it. Probably not all the details, but they'd know there's some fire here. That they're stating otherwise so emphatically indicates pretty strongly to me that this is just another ridiculous ESPN smear job. They might have a couple low level staffers willing to anonymously sensationalize ****, but that doesn't make an actual story.

 

[Joey007]

Actually that was Rodgers. But nobody cares as always because they have PDS.

Literally was the top comment in response.

 

[upstater1]

This maybe belongs in the Garoppolo thread, but it is stunning to see that he has been canonized after 5 games. While I don't imagine the Patriots will find a QB as good as JimmyG to succeed Tom, people are out of their minds if they believe that he will enter the QB pantheon (i.e. Marino, Montana, Staubach, Manning, Rodgers, Brees, Brady). First, I've always been very concerned by JGs small stature and his ability to take hits. But now that I hear Guerrero locked him out of TB12, I'm even more concerned by his lack of flexibility!