OT: Official 2020 Tompa Bay Gronkaneers Thread

[dtbrks]

I’ll be rooting for Tampa big time over Kc

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

@KontradictioN

Any chance for Tampa against the Chiefs?

 

[RicoG]

Some of those Buc reporters at JoeBucsFan and The Pewter Report are truly pathetic and have a hard on Rodgers. Many of.them were picking GB to win.

Just imagine the 2018 AFCCG against KC, and Ian here at Patsfans and Bernd at Patspulpit picked the Chiefs to win cause Mahommes and Reid. That would be rediculous.

 

[RIpats88]

@KontradictioN

Any chance for Tampa against the Chiefs?

I think Tampa is going to win. Their defense is playing really well and they have the horses on offense to match KC

 

[Uptown]

 

[Kontradiction]

@KontradictioN

Any chance for Tampa against the Chiefs?

If AB and Winfield can go? Absolutely.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

 

[Boomer B]

Curran: Brady's win a loss of Ruthian proportions for Pats

Many Pats fans started their Sunday thinking about how to get Matthew Stafford. They also likely spent their afternoon watching Tom Brady head to a 10th Super Bowl. As Tom. E Curran writes, Brady’s latest triumph is a rough look in Foxboro.

www.nbcsports.com

And that was the guy who actually wanted to be with the Patriots. Could be still. Should be still. The one that did everything but wear a sandwich board asking the team to sign him through the end of his career. The guy who banged his head against the wall and worried himself sick about what he’d do if he couldn’t play here.

That’s the guy Bill Belichick didn’t want to go all-in with contractually and pay him near the going rate for a good quarterback. While we all looked at Brady for the last half-decade and said, “More, please?” Belichick was looking at him and saying, “Enough already.”
And where’d that get him and his team? After jerking Brady around in the summers of 2018 and 2019, Brady finally picked St. Patrick’s Day to tell the Patriots he was done here. Which was fine with Belichick. Enough “selling out” and getting in cap hell.

Bring on Jarrett Stidham, Cam Newton and the worst quarterback play in the league.

Bring on a scenario in which you may have to give up a pick and a player to get Matthew Stafford for just about the same money you would have been paying Tom Brady. If you’re lucky. If Matthew Stafford thinks New England’s the right place for him and the Patriots can sweeten the pot for Detroit enough.

And we all know that, when Tom Brady is 45 he’ll still be better than Matt Stafford, Glass Jimmy, Newton, Stidham and every single guy that gets drafted this year except maybe Trevor Lawrence. ​

When you think about it, the Patriots really had to work to get this far on the wrong side of history.

They had to misjudge the arc of Brady’s career even though he was standing right in front of them for two decades. They had to live in a world where any more than $22M against the cap for Brady was a non-starter, even though they spent half of 2017 noodling ways to lasso Garoppolo on the team while Brady was still here. They had to decide that any indications of Brady developing self-awareness were threats to the team that needed to be nipped in the bud or demonized. They had to marginalize his contributions, make him out to be a prima donna and rebuff his requests for input.


All so they could get him gone and start the reboot.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

 

[sb1]

LOL. Good sport at least.

 

[RIpats88]

Curran: Brady's win a loss of Ruthian proportions for Pats

Many Pats fans started their Sunday thinking about how to get Matthew Stafford. They also likely spent their afternoon watching Tom Brady head to a 10th Super Bowl. As Tom. E Curran writes, Brady’s latest triumph is a rough look in Foxboro.

www.nbcsports.com

And that was the guy who actually wanted to be with the Patriots. Could be still. Should be still. The one that did everything but wear a sandwich board asking the team to sign him through the end of his career. The guy who banged his head against the wall and worried himself sick about what he’d do if he couldn’t play here.

That’s the guy Bill Belichick didn’t want to go all-in with contractually and pay him near the going rate for a good quarterback. While we all looked at Brady for the last half-decade and said, “More, please?” Belichick was looking at him and saying, “Enough already.”
And where’d that get him and his team? After jerking Brady around in the summers of 2018 and 2019, Brady finally picked St. Patrick’s Day to tell the Patriots he was done here. Which was fine with Belichick. Enough “selling out” and getting in cap hell.

Bring on Jarrett Stidham, Cam Newton and the worst quarterback play in the league.

Bring on a scenario in which you may have to give up a pick and a player to get Matthew Stafford for just about the same money you would have been paying Tom Brady. If you’re lucky. If Matthew Stafford thinks New England’s the right place for him and the Patriots can sweeten the pot for Detroit enough.

And we all know that, when Tom Brady is 45 he’ll still be better than Matt Stafford, Glass Jimmy, Newton, Stidham and every single guy that gets drafted this year except maybe Trevor Lawrence. ​

When you think about it, the Patriots really had to work to get this far on the wrong side of history.

They had to misjudge the arc of Brady’s career even though he was standing right in front of them for two decades. They had to live in a world where any more than $22M against the cap for Brady was a non-starter, even though they spent half of 2017 noodling ways to lasso Garoppolo on the team while Brady was still here. They had to decide that any indications of Brady developing self-awareness were threats to the team that needed to be nipped in the bud or demonized. They had to marginalize his contributions, make him out to be a prima donna and rebuff his requests for input.


All so they could get him gone and start the reboot.

I'm happy for Brady and am rooting for him. But my God has Tom e Curran been insufferable. This reads like a column written by an overreacting fan than a journalist.

While I wish brady ended his career here he was not winning another superbowl with this roster. His year 43 season wouldve been wasted

 

[Redman443]

Epiccc

 

[Kontradiction]

I'm happy for Brady and am rooting for him. But my God has Tom e Curran been insufferable. This reads like a column written by an overreacting fan than a journalist.

While I wish brady ended his career here he was not winning another superbowl with this roster. His year 43 season wouldve been wasted

Whose fault is that, though? Oh yeah. The same guy who allowed Brady to walk.

 

[RIpats88]

Whose fault is that, though? Oh yeah. The same guy who allowed Brady to walk.

Does anyone think if Bill offered brady a 2 year contract this offseason brady stays? To throw to Nkeal harry and meyers?

 

[Uptown]

 

[Boomer B]

Does anyone think if Bill offered brady a 2 year contract this offseason brady stays? To throw to Nkeal harry and meyers?

Bill mismanaged the last couple of years of Brady in New England, it wasn’t just last year. He should have retired a Patriot.

 

[Kontradiction]

Does anyone think if Bill offered brady a 2 year contract this offseason brady stays? To throw to Nkeal harry and meyers?

Bill could have extended him until age 45 in 2017 and 2018. He didn’t. Brady signed a one year deal on the condition that he couldn’t be tagged. I’m sure he looked over the putrid WR and TE corps that Bill the GM assembled and it made his choice easy.

 

[Uptown]

saw

 

[sb1]

Bill rebuilds a contending team in 3 years and all will be well. No reason to expect any less.

Pats move on with a new GM and HC if he fails.

 

[Kontradiction]

Fisher being out is massive. The Bucs could already pressure them with 4-5 rushers and get home (or at least move Mahomes off his spot). Fisher being out makes that a lot easier.