1) TB12 Method won't lose credibility. It's what has made Brady what he's been for the last few years. Other players are doing it even in other sports(Hanley Ramirez) and it's working.
We know what a sketch of TB looks like.I think we know why the real reason Tom isn't at Patriots practice.
He's trying to stay one step ahead of the law...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/sketch-man-threatened-stormy-daniels?utm_term=.ygb4Q02m3M&bftwnews#.egMWR87mKn
I'm not saying this is how I would feel. I am saying I think there is a non-insignificant portion of the fan base that would hold it against him for holding up the franchise and seeing them trade away Jimmy and then Brady immediately retiring. I'm not one of those people.
Maybe on #1. On #2, the Boston media won't ever let the fans forget, especially if Jimmy ends up a perennial Pro Bowler
The problem with this is that they would not be trading away Jimmy with Tom "immediately retiring"...there were things that happened in between
I don't know what winning the pissing contest is supposed to look like for TB. He makes BB look bad in public and that helps with exactly what? He, by extension of all this nonsense, hurts the Krafts and that helps with what?
You’re right, and I take the players’ side almost every time in a League run by 32 assholes.
I don’t think it is sarcasm, but I do think it’s too harsh. He seems to be assuming that TB had these reservations and stood idly by when they traded JG — or worse, agitated for the trade. I am not comfortable with that assumption based on the little we know.
Well, if you want to feel better, here is Mike Florio kicking the shit out of ESPN, and IMO his points are valid:
JFM, any more bases you want to touch to make sure you have all your asses covered?
Giardi is the guy who scremed to the high heavens the Pats needed to keep his binkie Jimmy G then when asked how it would be possible financially had no idea. He's a troll.
Check with OnWisc on this, but Richards apparently hasn't committed to playing in 2018
Ohhh, so close.
The positives of the information age: you can scout your own players or break down your own film and post about it. If you want to do it yourself or follow others who break things down you can now! Hooray!
Really? To the extent that I understand the mentality of a hypercompetitive elite athlete, my first guess at the thinking would be,
Giardi must love it when the voices in his head disagree ... he can get scoops on both sides of a story
It is not that simple. Fans are fans of the team. Tom has been vocal about wanting to be the future and Jimmy G does not get traded if he had only one year left this time last year, or even maybe if he had only two left. There has been nothing to dispute the fact Tom wanted the Pats to commit to him beyond 1 year. So if he did hang it up, there is rightful tarnishing of his image. I would be disappointed, and annoyed, and rightfully so.
This is the problem in a nutshell. Fans who have no idea if any of these stories are true will be convinced by the drumbeat of the media coverage and therefore accept it. We've already seen signs of it here today.
This a thousand times.
for crissakes.
Its not the team's job to keep morons from moronning. In fact, I think they enjoy it. responding to this nonsense would be like responding to player on the other team before a big game. And if they do respond, even with proof that Brady is playing in 2018 (which can not by definition exist) the new "narrative" and "optics" will be that they're "panicking" in the face of "unprecedented scrutiny" or some other nonsense that otherwise intelligent people seem all too willing to eat up..
It's another example of ESPN completely inventing a story out of whole cloth just for clicks. And people fall for it time and time again. Pathetic.
Not half as pathetic as when the guys on Pardon the Interruption or whatever moniker SAS's insane ramblings are marketed under start debating whether "people" are reading too much into Tom Brady's "actions."
