This doesn't happen much here, but I'm with Kev all the way in this. Like I said, this off season is the right time to move away from TB. I think he's still an excellent QB, though certainly no longer in his prime, but his days are necessarily numbered and they were in a position to move on. If all of this is true, and it certainly seems plausible, I don't see Bill sticking around and Kraft has really done a number on the team.
Something else I don't see is him moving to a new team. His legacy is cemented and if he wanted to add anything further it would be an epilogue where he set the Patriots up to carry on without him. That no longer seems to be in the cards.
Correct. I don't think it's going out on a limb to now think that Belichick doesn't give a damn what kind of shape he leaves the team in once he is gone. When you consider that they are not usually the most talented team, but one always coached up by the GOAT coach and his staff, it will be a sharp fall once Belichick departs and Brady really does hit the cliff.
I completely agree with you. I would love to sit here and say that the Pats are going to "fall from grace" as you described it, but the fact is that until that downward spiral actually happens, the Patriots will remain the best team in the league. And as far as the story goes, RK, BB, and TB all came out and said it isn't true. It's their word against the writer's word, and nobody knows who is correct except for the involved parties. It's a non-story.
They did? Where?
Please don't say that joint statement that someone in the Pats front office likely wrote and put out.
Besides, saying it's the "writer's word" implies that it is just his word, when, no, his story had quotes from, what, a dozen sources, all of whom are close to at least one of the three. Some like to quibble that the sources are anonymous, but a) many big stories are broken as the result of anonymous sources, and b) most anonymous sources say more
because they are anonymous, and if the writer broke their word and cited them by name as a source, that writer would never get anyone to tell them anything again. That is how it works.
I beg to differ. Everybody has a boss. This is unique. No quarterback has been this great at this age. Everybody looks for a cliff or wants to see a cliff. This is not Farve who just gave up his last year or Manning who lost arm strength after all those surgeries.
I will say this: you Patriots fans better pray that Alex Guerrero, who has a bad rep with a lot of people, doesn't eventually get exposed for using questionable and illegal (by NFL rules) methods of training, eating, nutrition, etc., or else Brady's playing well at 40 story will turn into "he had to do a Barry Bonds and employ a shady wannabe doctor to stay healthy to keep playing at a high level for a long time."
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