Totally explains his bad first half last night: it was past his bedtime!m0ckduck said:Don't forget that he goes to bed at 8:30 every night. Having to maintain the same bedtime schedule as my five year-old son mitigates it a lot in my eyes.
Totally explains his bad first half last night: it was past his bedtime!m0ckduck said:Don't forget that he goes to bed at 8:30 every night. Having to maintain the same bedtime schedule as my five year-old son mitigates it a lot in my eyes.
lithos2003 said:
Maybe Belichick gave him a snickers bar at halftime?
The Mort Report said:
Why is this getting no love? Pure gold bravo
You know Boston gets to claim Louis CK and Steven Wright, right? Burr is great, but he's on the next plane after those 2 with Leary (who was great in his prime), Gould, Birbiglia, and such, IMO.GeorgeCostanza said:Bill Burr is my Boston comedian go to guy.
SumnerH said:You know Boston gets to claim Louis CK and Steven Wright, right? Burr is great, but he's on the next plane after those 2 with Leary (who was great in his prime), Gould, Birbiglia, and such, IMO.
SumnerH said:You know Boston gets to claim Louis CK and Steven Wright, right? Burr is great, but he's on the next plane after those 2 with Leary (who was great in his prime), Gould, Birbiglia, and such, IMO.
rodderick said:
Bill Burr in my opinion is the funniest comic working right now, even if he drinks out of the MRA well a little too often for my tastes. Louis seems to have transcended comedy to become a voice for commentary on the human experience (especially on his show Louie), which I find awesome but not necessarily as funny as his earlier material.
Anyway, back to Brady.
simplyeric said:
So in terms of top five New England QB's or comics, it's:
1. Loius CK
2. Bill Burr
3. Birbiglia
4. Jonas Gray
5. Tom Brady
?
The movie sucked, which is a real shame because I've listened to a live version of it (the live show predates the movie) and it's much funnier. Way better delivery, etc etc.Devizier said:I like Birbigs, but his movie did suck.
simplyeric said:
So in terms of top five New England QB's or comics, it's:
1. Loius CK
2. Bill Burr
3. Birbiglia
4. Jonas Gray
5. Tom Brady
?
“On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.”Prodigal Sox said:
Leary was great in his prime because he was "borrowing" heavily from Bill Hicks. Once Hicks died Leary had only his own material.
m0ckduck said:To me, it just seemed that he generally lacked feel for the touch/finesse passes last night (and egregiously so) but was fine on his usual bread-and-butter on-a-line stuff. And that he made a conscious decision to stop being cute after the pick at the end of the half given that Indy couldn't stop the run or the tight passes. Iow, it seemed to be as much about the pass type as anything else.
No offense, but your "weird theory" sounds pretty absurd. If there is one thing we know about Tom Brady, its that he is ridiculously, singlemindedly focused on winning football games. I doubt he's even watching Andrew Luck very carefully when he's on the sidelines, much less getting jealous about his touch passes and concocting plans to one up him in ways that might undermine the team's chances of winning.PedraMartina said:I have this weird theory that Brady's horrible touch passes had something to do with watching the young phenom on the other team. Luck threw a few incredible tear drop passes early in the game that made me think, "Wow, this guy really is something special" -- and next thing I knew Brady was trying them too (with much worse results). Probably crazy but it seemed like a sort of competitive/jealous reaction. It has to be weird to go out onto the field knowing you're one of the greatest of all time, but find yourself up against the one guy (entering his prime) who is closest to eclipsing you.
PedraMartina said:
I have this weird theory that Brady's horrible touch passes had something to do with watching the young phenom on the other team. Luck threw a few incredible tear drop passes early in the game that made me think, "Wow, this guy really is something special" -- and next thing I knew Brady was trying them too (with much worse results). Probably crazy but it seemed like a sort of competitive/jealous reaction. It has to be weird to go out onto the field knowing you're one of the greatest of all time, but find yourself up against the one guy (entering his prime) who is closest to eclipsing you.
Lions at Patriots: I’m not sure the Patriots will lose again and if they end up winning the Super Bowl, I want every asshole Boston fan that complained about Tom Brady to print out their complaints and then fucking swallow them. That includes Simmons, who basically wrote that Brady doesn’t take charge enough because he had three older sisters who pre-pussywhipped him as a child. I didn’t make fun of this enough when it first ran, but look at it again…
Brady grew up differently than Manning … as the baby brother of three older sisters. Repeat: THREE OLDER SISTERS…
Could you say that Brady, for 15 seasons and counting in New England, is still tagging along to some degree?
These are not people who deserve a fourth ring. They deserve an alternate universe where that loss to Kansas City really WAS the death blow, and Brady is replaced by Jeneane Garofalo, and Garofalo ends up sucking, and Brady gets pissed and forces a trade to the Jets and wins five more Super Bowls. THAT is what Boston fans deserve. "Tagging along." Get fucked.
Devizier said:
Yeah, that was brilliant.Marciano490 said:I'm a big JG fan, but Jeneane Garofalo is just an all time great dagger of a nickname.
Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
Magary is an amusing writer. He admits to loathing the Pats but always has respected the shit out of them. Plus, he's really shitting on Simmons here, because he's making the very common mistake that Simmons still represents the vast majority of Boston sports fans' attitudes, which we've discussed here ad nauseum as being not remotely true.
soxfan121 said:Can we pay him to start calling himself the ESPN Sports Guy? Or the LA Sports Guy?
Marciano490 said:I'm a big JG fan, but Jeneane Garofalo is just an all time great dagger of a nickname.
Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
Magary is an amusing writer. He admits to loathing the Pats but always has respected the shit out of them. Plus, he's really shitting on Simmons here, because he's making the very common mistake that Simmons still represents the vast majority of Boston sports fans' attitudes, which we've discussed here ad nauseum as being not remotely true.
Eh, I like Simmons and I liked his article about birth order and Brady. Simmons basically explored the difference between the two QBs' systems: Brady/Belichick's team first mentality where they spread the ball around and put stats far below team success, vs Manning's command-and-control system where he, not the OC, runs the offense and tells everyone what to do, down to the details of celebrations.MainerInExile said:
I can't decide why I want to punch Simmons in the face more. Because he gives all Boston sports fans a bad name or because I'm the father of two girls.
crystalline said:Eh, I like Simmons and I liked his article about birth order and Brady. Simmons basically explored the difference between the two QBs' systems: Brady/Belichick's team first mentality where they spread the ball around and put stats far below team success, vs Manning's command-and-control system where he, not the OC, runs the offense and tells everyone what to do, down to the details of celebrations.
I thought it was a fun article with likely a grain of truth. But only a grain.
(Many many sociology studies show that birth order and siblings do matter for adult personality and for things like income and career choice. The precise effects on individuals of course are nearly impossible to determine.)
Crap, Brady must be getting old (which means I am too). Once these kind of article appear the end is near. :gonk:bougrj1 said:Great article on Brady and how he takes care of himself... hopefully he does play forever. Because that would be sweet. http://www.si.com/nfl/2014/12/10/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-age-fitness
bougrj1 said:Great article on Brady and how he takes care of himself... hopefully he does play forever. Because that would be sweet. http://www.si.com/nfl/2014/12/10/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-age-fitness
Import78 said:Crap, Brady must be getting old (which means I am too). Once these kind of article appear the end is near. :gonk:
The bolded cracked me up. I can't help but notice that they took a new center (Stork) when drafting Garoppolo this year.
To Brian Hoyer, a 2009-11 New England backup who’s now with Cleveland, Brady was a blueprint. He remembered when Brady broke a finger in practice during Guerrero spent what seemed like the next 24 hours attached to Brady’s hand, even massaging it in meetings. “It was eye-opening to see how committed this guy was,” Hoyer said. The broken finger “was just another challenge to overcome.”
When Hoyer became a starter in Cleveland in 2013, he tore his ACL, and he called both Guerrero and Brady regularly for advice. (Another Brady tidbit: He is known to respond quickly to email.) Hoyer did his rehabilitation with their influence. He found an anti-gravity treadmill in the Cleveland area—not as easy as it sounds—because that’s what Brady used. He came back from the injury to hold off Johnny Manziel for the Browns’ starting job this season. “I always hear him, still,” Hoyer said. “He never wanted to come out, even during run plays in practice. He would always tell me, ‘Be ready for your opportunity,’ but then he would take all the reps. Except when there was a new center. Then he’d be like, ‘Hoyer, you got this one.’ I took those words to heart when I got the opportunity and had the injury and Johnny was drafted here.”
SeoulSoxFan said:Gronk credits TB for changing the momentum of the game with his 17 yard run. In all the years I've never seen Brady so determined to get 1st downs by running for'em.
Ed Hillel said:Meh, he initiated contact with his non-throwing shoulder. It's all good.