14/Mar/2013
NFL
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Amendola is a disgraceful move
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Patriots sign Amendola 5 years/31 million
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27/Feb/2013
Good News for New England Patriots fans!
By: Tom Nappi
Tom Brady will be a Patriot likely until the day he retires. Brady has already mentioned that he wants to retire at 40 and inked a deal making him a Patriot the next 5 years. Not only did he ink a deal that gives him all guaranteed money but it benefits the team substantially. Rather than Brady taking over 20 million in salary cap space the next 2 years, he will only take up just over 14 million. Brady took the hometown discount with this deal and showed that he is serious about winning another Super Bowl and helping the team in any way he can. If you look at Peyton Manning even after 3 neck surgeries and almost a career ending injury he was asking for top pay from the Colts and walked away when he did not get it, Brady on the other hand wants the Super Bowl and he is willing to take a pay cut to get it.
This new Tom Brady contract leaves the Patriots with a number of options they can pursue during the offseason such as giving Wes Welker and Aquib Talib contracts or pursuing free agents such as Dwayne Bowe or defensive help. Tom Brady is one of the very few in the game that puts the team above his own financial success, although he is getting a 30 million dollar signing bonus and nearly an average of 15 million a season, I think that is enough to live on.....don't you?
Having Tom Brady around for the next 5 years is music to my ears, let's not forget what Patriots fan life was like before Tom Brady.
Mr. Brady Thank You for not being a greedy rotten selfish jerk like most of the professional athletes that care about a couple extra million over their team needs and putting the team first! You are not only one of the best Quarterbacks of all time but one of the best Team Players of All Time!
Pure and Simple if anyone deserves another ring, it's Tom Brady!
07/Feb/2012
By: Craig D'Alessandro
| Tom Brady’s legacy is still intact, even after Super Bowl |
I have not watched a sports program on television or radio since the end of Super Bowl 46, because I had a good idea about what they were going to talk about, This writing is taking place on a Tuesday, and I finally decided to watch some sports, figuring they’d only be talking about the Super Bowl, 75% of the time…I was wrong. All I heard was bashing, bashing, bashing of Tom Brady particular from a Rob Parker, it irked me so much, I felt the need to write this article to all of you.
Do I think Tom Brady is in the decline…yes…but only from an age perspective.
This does not mean that Tom Brady isn’t the elite quarterback that he was on Saturday. Far, far from it.
But if you ask any other analyst after last Sundays Super bowl loss, in what was clearly the second mediocre by Brady in as many Super bowls, so many pundits, particularly from a certain four letter network, were quick to say that Tom Brady’s career is tarnished and invalid.
Hogwash, nonsense, shenanigans……Bull****
Has Tom Brady lost two Super bowls? Yes. Has he looked less than “Tom Brady-ish” during those two Super Bowls? Abso-freakin-lutley. But he has also led his team to five of them, only Brady and some quarterback named Jonathan Albert Elway Jr. have done that.
“I hope we do get back here again,” Brady said after the heartbreaking 21-17 loss on Sunday. “I’ve been lucky enough to play in this game five times in 10 years. I’d love to keep coming back to this game and taking a shot. It’s better than sitting home and not playing in this game, so I hope another opportunity comes.”
Tom Brady has now lost 2 Super Bowls, but he has also won three of them. Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana and Troy Aikman can claim the same. What do they all have in common? Canton, Ohio. Brady could lose the next 10 Super Bowls, but he’ll always have his three victories. Its not like they are now invalid. They’re not going anywhere.
Tom Brady’s place in history was already in place seven years ago when he won his third Super Bowl. Despite this fact, every analyst is treating this game like it was the defining factor of a career that had already been defined as one of the greatest ever.
“No longer will he be in that conversation about being the best ever,” Rob Parker said on ESPN this week. “Everything was set up and Tom Brady couldn’t make a simple pass in a clutch situation. Instead now, when you look at him, you know what he is? He’s just another guy. He’s just another guy who’s won multiple Super Bowls.”
Boy, it sure was nice of Parker to include that little qualifier at the end, but it’s still wrong. Terry Bradshaw is “just another quarterback who’s won multiple Super Bowls.” I mean….so is Ben Roethlisberger, and so is Jim Plunkett, and I think if you asked ten people, ten people would say that Tom Brady is much, much better then both of those quarterbacks. Hell, I bet as soon as you read the name Jim Plunkett, you immediately “googled” his name to figure out who the hell he is.
First, there are the stats. His 5,235 yards this year, at age 34, were the second-most ever thrown in an NFL season, only behind Drew Brees who reached that mark earlier this season. His 50 touchdowns in the 2007 were the most ever in a single season.
Brady has had so many seasons at such a high level that he has a real shot, if he plays, lets say, three more seasons at the level he has been playing his entire career, to be forth all time on the touchdown list, only behind Peyton Manning (399) , Dan Marino (420), and Brett Farve (508), that’s a pretty good list of quarterbacks who never won 3 Super Bowls. (Fun Fact: Tom Brady has only thrown 116 interceptions, compared to Manning’s 198, Marino’s 252 interceptions and Favre’s 336, the gold standard for NFL interception-throwers.)
Don’t believe in stats? Well fine, I’ll let Brady’s winning percentage do the talking then. Brady has excelled like no other when it comes to the very reason the players step on the field each week: winning. Brady is 124-35 (78.0 winning percentage) as a starter in the regular season. For comparison, Joe Montana, Brady’s idol, was 117-47 (71.3 percent), Roger Staubach was 85-30 (73.9 percent), Elway was 148-82-1 (64.1 percent), Johnny Unitas was 118-64-4 (63.4 percent), Marino was 147-93 (61.3 percent), Steve Young was 94-49 (65.7 percent) and Favre was 186-112 (62.4 percent). Then we look at the active quarterbacks, Peyton Manning…if you want to call him active…is 141-67 (67.8 percent), Drew Brees is 92-61 (60.1 percent), Eli Manning, everyone’s new hero, is 69-50 (58 percent). (and If you look at Eli’s career numbers…what’s so special about him really?)
And in the playoffs? Its not even a discussion, Tom Brady is 16-6, Montana was 16-7, no one else is even close.
Sorry for all those numbers, but I’ll give you the simple version, Tom Brady was and still is the Gold standard of any NFL quarterback. Brady was, is and will continue to be a winner in this league, and that’s what this game is all about. In the discussion for “greatest quarterback of all time,” Brady might not be the first name on that list, but he’s without question still in the discussion. If Brady had won this Super Bowl, if Brady has thrown a few more passes to Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, and he could very well be No. 1.
Despite all of this, there have been to many people treat this past Super Bowl as Tom Brady‘s legacy cemented. “Joe Montana’s on a different level, and Tom Brady had a chance to be in that conversation,” Parker said. “He will never, ever be in that conversation again.” Shut your mouth, Parker has made some of the most absurd comments I have ever head in my life.
And It didn’t stop with Parker “He has morphed from Mr. Clutch to Mr. Choke in the biggest games, forget Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw. He’s become Jim Kelly. LeBron James. Alex Rodriguez. Dare I say it: A playoff choker.” another writer wrote, I won’t dignify him with identification, but he works for CBS. (didn’t hear any chocking comments after the Denver game, or the Raven’s game, odd isn’t it?)
Making such absurd claims are simply taking the events of this year or last year and wrongly placing them in historical context. Jim Kelly, LeBron James and Alex Rodriguez have a combined one championship, equal to one-third of Brady’s.
Its really a whole bunch of nonsense. In time, history wont remember that Wes Welker dropped that pass, that Rob Gronkowski was dealing with an ankle injury, or Logan Mankin fighting through a bad sprained MCL and getting beat by Justin Tuck. Everyone will only remember the Super Bowls for Brady 3-2.
Unfortunately, I feel the need to remind people of this, Tom Brady still plays for the New England Patriots, and they remain the gold standard of all NFL teams. Brady and Co. aren’t going anywhere, they have the easiest schedule out of any team next season, and the Pats, if they're going to get back to the grandest stage of them all, they need to address a few Areas: they need a deep threat, something this Patriots team did not have, the pass rush could be improved, but I was still impressed with how they preformed. This team isn’t going anywhere…It’s just another chapter.
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And Remember, 3 Super Bowls, is always better then 2.
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