Hey Tom, know what’s a problem? Sexual assault. Indecent exposure. Issuing threats of violence by text message. This is not difficult. “Antonio is a great player but there’s no place for him on the Patriots after these serious, credible allegations against him emerged.”

Bill, working with the knowledge that your boss enjoys paying for sexual release, one of your defenders was arrested on drug charges and that you had employed a murderer, was part of your strategy this season staffing your receiving corps with as many accused sex criminals as possible?

That doesn’t really work, because the obvious followup is “why did you let him play a game for you if you take accusations of sexual assault seriously?” The honest answer is “we thought this initial rape accusation would be settled quietly out of court because it’s a civil case, and we weren’t expecting there would be…

“It’s so easy for us to blame and shame because everyone has a voice now”

“We’re in a culture where we want to cast judgement on people, we want to disparage people so quickly.”

“Innocent before proven guilty” is a legal phrase (kind of) that has nothing to do with the Patriots signing and cutting Antonio Brown.

This line from Brady says it all.

False. It means winning at rapeball is the highest good.

Kraft is buddies with Trump, Belicheck wrote a love letter to Trump, and Brady paraded a MAGA hat around. What do you expect? They’re all assholes.

Belichik: Rape is o.k because it’s rapeball before all, and bitches be bitches, as Mr Kraft always says, but threats of violence via text is just not acceptable.

My guess is if you dont want to answer questions about degenerate rapist scumbags maybe you shouldnt hire degenerate rapist scumbags to play for your team.

Seriously, “we are all hurting” How the fuck does this hurt you. You hired an asshole with a ton of baggage, more, much serious allegations came out after you signed him, and yet you still played him. You only released him after he freaking threatened his accuser in text messages. You have no sympathy for the victims,…

You know what’s worse than this “negative culture” that Tom Brady describes? The avoidance, denial, and lack of accountability culture which speaks in generalities, “whataboutisms”, and vague platitudes when asked about specific issues.

Tom: “Sure, he did some terrible things before he joined the team, but that’s all TB12 under the bridge”

It’s a perfectly valid leadership tactic to want to insulate a team from distractions, by taking the media heat. This is one of the reason why most of Belichick’s players respect his leadership style, since he never says anything negative about any player publicly.

The silence/misdirection speaks pretty loudly. I don’t think it’s anything all that complicated: the Pats didn’t vet AB very well and assumed they’d be able to handle all of his baggage. They couldn’t and they saw a way to get out from under their financial obligation to him, and they took it.  It’s crass, yes, but as…

It’s not his fault the interview was held in a park full of squirrels across the street from the post office.

Tom Brady: “I blame society for blaming people too frequently.”

I think Brady just somehow found a way to hit on:

Another reminder that Tom Brady is football Tom Cruise.