Seymour was pissed directly after he was traded, but seemed pretty happy to be with the team afterwards. None of the players you mentioned took any shots at Belichick, other than the periodic "I wanted to get paid" or "they never really offered me what I wanted" type comments, which happens with every single team no matter what.
Yeah, this just seems a little different from prior comments. And it's kind of weird since Belichick never takes any public swings at his own players. He protects them more than basically any other coach. And his mantra has always been "players make the plays".
Yeah - the easiest way to confirm this is the fact that no one ever makes this argument with respect to any other coach/QB pairings. It's not a point of criticism that Bill Walsh had Joe Montana, or that Chuck Noll had Terry Bradshaw, or that Tom Landry had Roger Staubach, etc. - or vice versa.
+1 but I was surprised by his BS snark today. Agreed don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
I think he's referring to a Wickersham article that came out shortly after Deflategate, which concocted a narrative about all sorts of shady things happening in Gillette, while making a laughable attempt to connect #DFG to Spygate and Gatorade-gate.
Even considering the Wickersham piece, there's zero question Brady got the brunt of the jokes and the criticism in that ordeal. No one was crying on live TV over Belichick press conferences.
Shank eviscerated Belichick for the Mona Lisa Vito press conference, and continues to do so to this day. And Volin still thinks Belichick should have faced a significant suspension despite being exonerated by the Wells Report.
This thread is literally the only place I've ever seen anyone talk about Deflategate being worse/as bad for Belichick as it was for Brady.
I never said it was. Just saying that Belichick did take a hit for it as well.
Yeah I probably stated my point badly. Let me put it a simpler way - I think most people who hate the Patriots hate Belichick, and their hate of Brady is just a follow-on from that. Which is why there now seem to be an abundance of hot takes that Brady’s success in Tampa “proves” that Belichick actually isn’t that good of a coach or some such bullshit.
He "clarified" his remarks:
You know, he didn't "have to" do any of that. He could have hired an agent and he could have not taken the pay cuts.
And BB was the one who gave Amendola his life-altering contract in the first place. And he set him up for the rich contracts that he received from Miami and Detroit. Does he get those same contracts without all those high profile playoff performances, which he admittedly deserves credit for? Seems like a relationship that worked pretty well.
He had some great great post-season moments but I never really felt he was underpaid based on regular season performance, which was generally 60 receptions/650 yards/ 2 TD.
Did BB force DA to sign the contracts? Did he handcuff him to his locker so he couldn't go to another team?
Exactly. Agents don't get offended when the GM says "Here is why I think your client is worth X instead of Y". It's just a business negotiation to them; good agents can bluff and call bluffs without feeling themselves backed into a corner.
Is that in the category of I'm so great and comfortable in being so that I can make a tweet with me reading the worst possible shit being said about me and I don't care? Any opponent's message board would have that kind of content BTW.
It's a long running segment. They're just words on a phone carefully curated to not be that personal, just ad hominem for the lols.
The cap rules in the NFL plus the fact that most contracts are not guaranteed means that the (figurative) answer to your questions is "yes" and "yes."
To be fair, it’s rare that anyone wins the MVP other than QB. He won all of his except for branch right? Or am I forgetting one. Wait - who won in Rams 2? Couldn’t have been him.
Watch his reactions after all of the four SB you mentioned, which, unless he or others he confides in actually opines on it, are the only reliable data points we have.
As an aside, it was so nice to see his mom there tonight, and appearing very healthy, all things considered.
No way, man. Sorry for jumping in late here, but down here in DC area, it's absolutely Brady first, then Belichick.
Matthew Berry said Brady has a better % of winning a playoff game than LeBron does of hitting a free throw.
