Making it sound like this is a big deal is one of the most idiotic bits in the whole article. Anyone watching the locker room celebration videos on patriots.com knows that Kraft basically always hugs Brady and also hugs many other players.
Re: the first part of this, I can only say Amen. I guess if your team is the Yankees and you're afraid it might stop being the Yankees soon, it's natural to worry about the end being nigh...but speaking as a fan of one of the other 31 teams, some of you really need to chill out.
I agree. Sure it is possible to dismiss everything with rose colored glasses, but it seems it could be true. The JG trade seemed to make little sense, considering other chances to trade him, talk they were not trading him coming from inside sources.
Curran says in his article today that Jimmy was not going go get a contract offer unless it included the ability to start next season because they knew he’d expect nothing else. Thus, the decision was to trade Jimmy at the deadline or to hold him and trade Brady in the offseason, likely for a pittance as BB wouldn’t trade him to a contender and mediocre or rebuilding teams wouldn’t give much up. Trading Brady also incurs a 14 million dollar dead cap hit and leaves Jimmy all the leverage, particularly because he and Brady share the same agent.
I think Curran's piece was amended. Here is how it reads this morning
This makes a LOT more sense.
I give no consideration to this. See Curran's piece. Kraft never told BB that. Said he would discourage such a move, but not veto.
Yup. I have no doubt it worked for him in some level and he became enamored with the concept, but the way that stuff took over his whole life is crazy, not to mention how slimy the aggressive monetization of every single aspect of the "TB12 method" is. Belichick is absolutely right to be irked if that is seeping over the team and making players hesitant to follow his staff's advice.
No. That is not how medicine works.
I agree wholeheartedly--and I wonder if at some point the combination of the pseudoscience, TB's cult-like devotion to it, and the relentless, mercenary promotion of the TB12 Method begins to turn off more fans. In my own case, I feel like he's already slid down the slope from 'guy I love rooting for' to 'gifted weirdo I root for regardless of the fact that he's inching closer and closer to the outright charlatan status of figures like Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, or Trump.'
http://www.espn.com/new-york/nfl/columns/story?columnist=howard_johnette&id=5078659
No I know that. But medical people in the west often think eastern medicine is bunk. But millions and millions of people swear by it. And in many cases it seems to work.
Of course, TB and JG are both represented by Yee. More reason why this Brady forcing Kraft's "mandate" narrative stinks something awful.
I'm not sure medicine is what the TB12 Method should be equated with.
Yeah, I don’t get the hate on the “pseudoscience”. I mean, as the article even states, what the TB12 method is about #1 being preventative in nature, and focusing on bandwork instead of weight lifting (hurts joints is the theory), a vegetable based diet, stretching and massaging both before and after playing, staying as hydrated as possible, and making the body as pliable as possible. I get the concussion water stuff as being “quackery”, but everything else seems. . .. kind of. . . . Common sense that it would be helpful?
Yeah, I don’t really see a big deal. I don’t think much anything Brady has said about how he focuses his workouts or conducts his diets is all that controversial, outside of the stupid concussion hydration claim. Willie McGinest seems about as reasonable and down to Earth as they come and he raved about the guy. Nink was on the radio the other day and had positive things to say, as well. If pro athletes want to try a different approach to how they handle their bodies, I’m not going to call them all lunatics, absent evidence of them actually doing loony things.
I don’t know what AG is exactly, and I find the above to be plausible. And I think that it’s absurd to call Brady’s behavior to be shameful.
What group of highly driven, hyper-competitive, extremely successful people won't have friction over a period of nearly two decades? If Kraft, Belichick, and Brady were always on the same page about everything, that would not be plausible.
