Semi-OT: Jimmy G article which talks a bit about his relationship with Brady

[convertedpatsfan]

There's not a whole lot of it in this looooong article on Jimmy, but some bits that downplay some of the reported drama between them.

http://mag.bleacherreport.com/jimmy-garoppolo-interview-power-50-cover-2018/

Brady and his backup did, however, develop a competitive relationship. After practice, the two quarterbacks would often play the bucket game, which requires landing a football into a trash can in the back corner of the end zone. “There would be days where one of us would win and you wouldn’t talk to the other for a little while,” Jimmy says. “We’d be fine the next day, but it was one of the best things for me. We would push each other and we got two Super Bowls out of it.”

Jimmy spent most days at Gillette Stadium and did not keep any food in his home. During the offseason, Brady would call once a week to check in on his progress, ask him how he’d been working to get better.

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“The competitiveness between the two of us was very similar. If I’m playing my best friend in one-on-one basketball, if we are both into it, by the end, we are going to hate each other,” Jimmy says. “That’s how it is. All the good competitors have that. We got along, but there were always times where we wanted to kill each other. It was a healthy, competitive relationship.”

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Brady and Gisele Bündchen once organized a double date with Garoppolo and a model friend of theirs, but the relationship did not work out.

Lots of interesting bits relating to Jimmy's personality. Like how he didn't want to play QB because his good buddy was the QB at the time. Or how he signed up his college roommates as brothers for the draft so they could be with him, and how they split a big hotel room and he slept on the couch, leaving the bed and cots for his older "brothers." The article is kind of choppily-written but good researched bits.

 

[pats_premi]

A lot of hype! Teams will have tape to prepare for him this season. We’ll see if the 49er stole him from BB.

 

[Boogs]

Brady and Gisele Bündchen once organized a double date with Garoppolo and a model friend of theirs, but the relationship did not work out.

Jimmy likes those scary lookin girls. Gisele probably didn't know that when she set him up.