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OK, you summed it up nicely. Yeah, I'm not a Brady fan. I agree, he's "exceedingly" talented at his position, but root for him? Not me, I don't, and you pretty much spell out why. Good job, man! And I'd like your post, but don't want to see blood. I turned off the bloodbath that was TN at Foxboro when the score reached 27 to 7 (didn't stick around for the extra point, just went to bed). To say the Pats had all the momentum is a ridiculous understatement. I still don't know the final score... or who "won."I just hate that utterly lucky POS Brady. Obviously he is great and exceedingly skilled, but I don't think he would be nearly as great on most other teams--obviously a good system in any situation is good because of lots of positive feedback, but as I've also come more to accepting that Brady really is good, I think it remains the case that Bellichick really is that much better. Brady's career essentially started with "the tuck" and for anyone that isn't a homer from the beginning, that reputation just sticks with you and is going to be reinforced more by events that support it rather than destroyed by all of the other counter evidence. It's just how it is....
I like Bellichick, I think he's the right kind of shady and "I don't give a shit" attitude. I like that people bitch about the way he wins. You just have to beat him is all.
One of the things (non football) that grates on me about Brady is that he really is a human piece of shit. Proud homophobe, proud Trump guy, and just the absolute personification of idiot jock that everyone knew growing up. This insistence that he is some kind of "American Dream" story is utter shit: "Oh, but he was drafted so late...and look at him now!" Ummm...that, right, there: he was fucking drafted into the NFL! fucking cry me a river, Francis. You're talking a 0.05% human is some kind of come-from-behind dream story? yeah, fuck off.
The guy was only ever and has only ever been the supreme dickhead jock everywhere he went in life: premadonna in San Mateo, on to Michigan, then a "poor, woe is me has-been" that was barely drafted. please. The guy hasn't known a day in his life where he wasn't the king of his castle and money, fame, worship, and broads weren't handed to him on a silver platter. not once!
Bruce Jenkins, before the playoffs even started, predicted a Pats sweep in the SF Chronicle. I scanned the story (speed read, in my fashion). I had hope that he was wrong, but have to admit, he might have been just plain right. The Pats seem to be well prepared, it's their m.o. The Raiders loss to them in Mexico City was for me all the proof I needed that Jack Del Rio was a goofball. The Pats prepared at altitude in Colorado and Del Rio had the Raiders fly in the night before from Oakland. His firing took me by surprise, but I had to think it was inevitable. Hard to think how Bay Area pro football has done this 180 in terms of being interesting since mid season.
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