Tom Brady Can Suck My Dick

as for shaq, i haven't read the book yet! i totally wanna buy it tho.

1) the Pats *have* been widely disrespected at various points during their run. Exhibit A: widely considered to be the underdogs as the two-time champs playing at home in last year's playoffs against Indy, despite having dominated them for years.

2) the part about people giving up on them earlier in the season is certainly true. It's one thing to look at a 4-4 team with loads of injuries and say that they're done for even if they make the playoffs. But there was a lot of talk of the "even if they get healthy, this team can't win the SB" variety, which is unbelievably dumb considering they already HAVE won the SB with that team. Three times.

OTOH, he still drives his 1992 Corolla. They don't even make Corollas anymore!

I hope Jacksonville beats the shit out of them.

I think Kevin Faulk is the freaking secret weapon for the Pats success. That guy has had so many big plays turning 2 yard screens into big yardage it isn't funny. Faulk is the prototype of what a team wants with a 3rd down back.

Brady has been the perfect QB to go with that defense, as he has only thrown 3 interceptions in all of those playoff games. I'll give you that is impressive. Brady has been good by just not fucking up and having the luxury of never having to really air it out because they are behind.

It is more than Brady. They had a kicker who hit all of the big shots. The Pats got lucky on one of the oddest calls in the history of the game against the Raiders. They got a couple of TDs from their D, a couple of returns broke free (how they beat the Steelers once). Criminy, they won all three SB's by a field goal! It isn't like the Niners or Cowboys beating the Bills or Broncos by 40.

Also, sports media obsessed with winners non-shocker of the millenium. See: Derek Jeter's press vs Derek Jeter's talent.

The New England offense is terribly overrated and people suck their dick constantly, specifically Tom Brady's, is I believe the premise of the actual argument here.

I don't think the NE offense is overrated -- last year they were 3rd in points scored in the NFL.

One could argue that Peyton Manning has received just as much media fawning over the past few years as Brady.

Don't YOU still give a shit about jeter, ally? Or have you gone turncoat national league on us now that you're down in the stix?

But plenty of it has been "can't get it done in the big games", a la Marino and Elway, whereas Brady is seemingly always "the next Joe Montana."

THANK GOD FOR YOU DENVER. I WILL KEEP YOU IN MY PRAYERS FOREVER AND EVER.

man, I am sad!

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Getting behind and having to lob deep passes into coverage to make something happen is not as easy as it seems, no?

Welcome to the world that most QBs live within golden boy. It is a whole lot easier game when your D clamps down the other team and gives you choice field position.

Just wait two years Tom when that Pat's D is really fucking old and you are like oldman Farve throwing every third ball forty yards deep to some guy from South Dakota State praying to try and make something happen.

Look kiddo, I had to lead TD drives to win Superbowls, not leave it up to my kicker.

Get it, you are not me.

yours truly,

Joe Montana

The bottom line is that the Pats have played well over this stretch, but have also gotten almost every break. Tonight every break went against them. Six turnovers is a hell of a lot, and it was weird to see Brady through a pick, Faulk put the ball on the ground, Brown put the ball on the ground, Vinny missing a chipper, etc. It was the bizarro Patriots.

Brady tonight looked like Peyton has looked in all of the Colts' losses to the Pats... skittish, pissed off, frustrated, continuously hassled, and yet still putting up a decent game.

For me, Brady is Derek Jeter. He has been given the reputation of the ultimate winner. He's a valuable guy, and certainly one of the five best quarterbacks in the NFL, but Derek Jeter and Tom Brady both become scrappy role players when they don't have talent around them, or the talent doesn't perform, and both of them are as capable of making big mistakes and gaffes as anyone.

So I was 2/3 correct = mostly correct?

Actually, I think it's 1/2 Brady-style "he's great" fawning, 2/5 "how do you stop Peyton Manning???? How????" hyperbolic chest-beating, and 1/10 "when will he do shit?" sulking (always at the end of the season).

I can't argue about Simms' dick-sucking. All I could think about was "ugh, this is exactly what it's like watching the Yankees play in the postseason."

FUCK TURNOVERS. Bellichick never shows emotion on the sidelines and he was throwing a tantrum after Faulk's fumble.

If Denver play like that that against Indy (or maybe even Pittsburgh), they'll get killed. You can't put up nearly zero offense for three quarters against Peyton Manning et al and wait for turnovers in order to win.

Beisel: 1978
Colvin: 1977
Green: 1979
Klecko: 1981
Hobbs: 1983
Gay: 1982
Poteat: 1977
Samuel: 1981
Seymour: 1979
Vrabel: 1975
Ty Warren: 1981
Wilfork: 1981
E. Wilson: 1980

Hard to call that an old defense. Sure, Bruschi and Harrison and McGinest are old, but there's a lot of young talent there.

Not to mention that Branch, Givens, Davis, Watson, Graham, most of the O line, are all about the same age... somewhere between 1978 and 1981. This is not an old team.

That comparison doesn't work ... a QB can't run, throw, and catch the ball himself. If the "talent doesn't perform", you'll lose no matter you have at QB.

Derek Jeter never carried the Yankee lineup, with the possible exception of 1999, his best (and MVP-worthy) season. Talent-wise, the Yankee lineup during their run >>>>> the Pats offense during their run.

I hear you saying this, and I agree to a point, but it isn't what I hear from EVERY sportscaster, every talk show host, etc. The adolation in the press and from many fans is very similar, and might i also add that the shortstop is often called the quarterback position in baseball.

Don't tell Kordell Stewart!

Brady = Favre only when he starts throwing 50-yd INT's into triple coverage in the first quarter of 0-0 games rather than the fourth quarter of 27-13 games. If and when that happens, I fully expect he'll get the Favre treatment from broadcasters, unfortunately.