OT is Brady trying to be a hero

[intlzncster]

If you can’t beat Blake Bortles at home in a Conference Championship game you weren’t that good.

Just setting it up, huh Whaler? As a Pats fan, I'm not even feeling all that great about this one.

I would have rather played Pittsburgh personally. Pats almost always beat the Steelers.

 

[huskysupporter]

Really? Because he's never done that once in his professional career before. In fact exactly the opposite. Strange he'd start now.

Yes really. He is not alone there are plenty of attention seekers in pro sports. He has a boo boo and he is playing.

 

[methodology]

Just setting it up, huh Whaler? As a Pats fan, I'm not even feeling all that great about this one.

I would have rather played Pittsburgh personally. Pats almost always beat the Steelers.

Think people are overlooking jags. Bad matchup for pats compared to steelers. Shut down corners and a great pass rush. Pats D isn't that great if Brady gets hit and rattled could be a long day for pats

 

[intlzncster]

Yes really. He is not alone there are plenty of attention seekers in pro sports. He has a boo boo and he is playing.

Sure there are plenty of attention seekers, that doesn't make everybody, or even half the guys, the same. Again, for 15 years he acts nothing like that, and now, because something happened (clearly, as he didn't practice), he's all of a sudden an attention seeker? Makes absolutely no sense, but ok.

 

[intlzncster]

Think people are overlooking jags. Bad matchup for pats compared to steelers. Shut down corners and a great pass rush. Pats D isn't that great if Brady gets hit and rattled could be a long day for pats

I agree. I don't think it's a great match up at all. I think the Pats will shut down the run for the most part, and Blake will have to beat them on a few plays. But it seems to me that he's been able to do that over the course of the year. At times.

The Jags are weird. Some days they look unbeatable, and then others it's like, what?

The key for the Pats is going to be Deion Lewis, James White, and Rex Burkhead. Those short/intermediate plays out of the backfield might very well dictate the tenor of this game. It's going to be impossible to go outside. Middle of the field and screens/draws are it.

This is one of those games I feel like it should be really low scoring. That means it'll probably be 42-35.

 

[whaler11]

Just setting it up, huh Whaler? As a Pats fan, I'm not even feeling all that great about this one.

I would have rather played Pittsburgh personally. Pats almost always beat the Steelers.

I don’t care who wins.

My only interest is I bought a single Jacksonville can of Bud Light during the summer. The joke being I’d drink it when they won the Super Bowl. It has probably frozen 3 times in the garage this winter.

Will it make it two more weeks?

It’s road Blake Bortles. If you lose there aren’t excuses.

 

[intlzncster]

It’s road Blake Bortles. If you lose there aren’t excuses.

If Tom Brady goes 5-25 with 5 interceptions, I'm going with the hand.

 

[whaler11]

If Tom Brady goes 5-25 with 5 interceptions, I'm going with the hand.

I’d go with giving away a franchise quarterback for a second round pick if I was interested in making excuses.

 

[intlzncster]

I’d go with giving away a franchise quarterback for a second round pick if I was interested in making excuses.

Fair. No idea what else they could have done with him though. Keep him for a half a year in case Brady gets hurt?

 

[Fishy]

Fair. No idea what else they could have done with him though. Keep him for a half a year in case Brady gets hurt?

Um, yes?

 

[whaler11]

Fair. No idea what else they could have done with him though. Keep him for a half a year in case Brady gets hurt?

That’s what I would have done.

 

[temery]

Fair. No idea what else they could have done with him though. Keep him for a half a year in case Brady gets hurt?

You mean like what they did with Brady in case Bledsoe got hurt?

 

[whaler11]

Um, yes?

Fishy is following Brady closer right now than upstater.

This is like when the 04 field dissolved and UConn was looking at the Alabamas of the world.

 

[uconngb]

You mean like what they did with Brady in case Bledsoe got hurt?

Not even close to the same scenario. Options w Garropolo were extremely limited due to his contract status.

 

[intlzncster]

Ya'll are way underestimating Hoyer the Destroyer.

 

[formerlurker]

Just setting up the excuse in case they lose. Easiest path to Superbowl in playoff history. If they lose it will be talked about daily on sports center. If he plays and they win he will go down as a folk lore sports hero for his performance

^^^^THIS

Different sport, same logic.

 

[Scoe]

Whats our so called Willis Reed moments for Uconn. Shabazz playing on sick stomach from 7/11 wings, Shabazz coming back near the end of the Nova game in round of 32, Emeka back spasms in the 04 season, Boatright turning his ankle against UK in title game.

 

[CL82]

Brady is the best QB ever.

Billicheck is the best Coach/GM ever.

Saying otherwise is kind of insane at this point.

Giants fan btw.

This. Greatest football player ever is a silly metric, but he's the GOAT at his position.

 

[intlzncster]

Whats our so called Willis Reed moments for Uconn. Shabazz playing on sick stomach from 7/11 wings, Shabazz coming back near the end of the Nova game in round of 32, Emeka back spasms in the 04 season, Boatright turning his ankle against UK in title game.

Pretty much most of what Selvie did.

 

[upstater]

Oh man please don’t compare anything to the Paul Pierce wheel chair incident. That was truly an embarrassment. Pierce is softer than Charmin. His recent crying about Isaiah Thomas just solidified it.

And yes, Brady is doing a “hey look at me! I’m going to play with an injury!” Routine.

Just shut up and play Tom.

So, by not saying anything about his injury, he is drawing attention to himself. If he said something about it (and we know over the years Brady constantly talks about his injuries) then that would be the equivalent of NOT saying anything about it.

 

[upstater]

Sure there are plenty of attention seekers, that doesn't make everybody, or even half the guys, the same. Again, for 15 years he acts nothing like that, and now, because something happened (clearly, as he didn't practice), he's all of a sudden an attention seeker? Makes absolutely no sense, but ok.

And to top it off, he hasn't even said anything about his hand! LOL.

 

[Scoe]

A lot of people have thought that Brady has brought attention too himself more then he ever did the majority of his career with his TB12 method and having his trainer preach it to the team, and doing more commercials its like hes trying to cash in on what he could have done earlier in his career,and there is a conspiracy that Brady went to Kraft to get Jimmy G off the Pats. Bottom line all athletes have ego even the most humble ones.

 

[Scoe]

Pretty much most of what Selvie did.

Haha no question.

 

[upstater]

The amount of winning this guy does is unbelievable. 7 straight championship games? 12 overall in his 16 seasons? Ridiculous. He makes it to this game 75% of the time.

 

[upstater]

A lot of people have thought that Brady has brought attention too himself more then he ever did the majority of his career with his TB12 method and having his trainer preach it to the team, and doing more commercials its like hes trying to cash in on what he could have done earlier in his career,and there is a conspiracy that Brady went to Kraft to get Jimmy G off the Pats. Bottom line all athletes have ego even the most humble ones.

Why would Brady need to go to Kraft to get Garoppolo off the Patriots? Garoppolo was leaving this summer either way.

As for the trainer, people don't even seem to realize that Brady met that guy IN the Patriots locker room, as he was the personal trainer for Patriots from the 1990s before Brady even got there.