OT: Hats off to Tom Brady

[upstater]

More triggered than Giants' Fans.

This is Al Grohs revenge.

 

[Waquoit]

I'm sure Lorraine enjoyed her 15 minutes.

 

[noeynox]

Anyone here still saying Payton Manning was better?

 

[SportsFan88]

The Bucs QB coach was on McAfee's show this morning and he said ABrown got the whole play wrong. He was supposed to run in, pivot and go outside. He did the opposite. Brady just went with it.

Brady's line last year was just like KC's last night. 4 injuries. QBs with a bad Oline look bad. But you don't need an all-world OLine. Brady has had a mediocre OLine his whole career, with only one Pro Bowler (Mankins, who never played on a Super Bowl team).

You gotta respect the football iq on that play cause it seemed like honey badger was clued in on that lil out route which it was why he got so cooked at the top of the route.. and your absolutely right in ur 2nd point it’s all starts up front and that pats line his last year there was shaky and beat up all year especially at tackle

 

[SportsFan88]

It frustrates me. So many dumb football fans out there. My fellow Patriots fans are all concerned about the next QB, and upgrading the "weapons", better WR, TE etc. Sure, they need a guy to throw the ball. Between veterans and the draft, there are more of them than there are teams right now. QB is the most important position, but the caliber of play is now very high across the league.

What I'm concerned about are a pro-bowl C and LG that are free agents to be, mediocre left tackle play, and a DL that is the worst Patriots DL I've seen since before Parcells arrived. The LB Corps, aside from Hightower (assuming he comes back) and rookie Uche, is terrible.

So we get hot takes about trading everything for Watson, when we need a competent QB, maybe one WR with speed, and to put everything else into the front 7 and OL.

Yea I feel u man I’m a pats fan as well die hard to be exact and I’ve said all year our roster talent and skill position players gotta be bottom 5, and we STILL won 7 games and people in the thread are calling BBelichick a loser smh

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

With few exceptions, Belichick would never overspend or typically use low draft picks for OL. There were exceptions but he seemed to pride himself in finding free agents/cuts/or mid round draft picks for his teams. Dante S also seemed to enjoy the challenge of coaching guys "up" and was excellent at it.

I have tons of respect for Tom's accomplishments and doing it his way. On paper during SB time/playoffs over the years, rarely did the Pats have the better athletes as a whole. They were winners ,well-prepared/ rarely outcoached. Despite their tremendous successes as a franchise. .I always thought of them as a blue collar/lunch pail kind of team.

Tom is a student of the game and is always well-prepared and precise. Sunday was a lot of fun to watch.

BTW.Agree with you on OL liking to know what QB is going to do: was a season ticket holder in Denver during the Elway years.. Another baseball player oriented QB like Patrick M with great athleticism.

Your first paragraph punctuation was stellar. The third paragraph was similarly solid. Read alone, they made for a clear, well-argued post that combined perception, information, analysis and emotion.

(Just doing my part to get this thread to 20 pages)