So anytime all 45 active players aren’t used in a game, that’s not okay with you? What a ridiculous thing to say.

i have yet to see a piece of reporting that says Jimmy was actively refusing to sign a contract if he wasn’t guaranteed to start. i don’t really know where you’re getting that from, but that’s the basis of your argument.

you keep saying he never started a regular season game... when he started two. you cite his wins against crap-bag teams as a knock against him... when he beat them with equally as crap-bag of a roster on the 49ers. again, you refuse to acknowledge that the Patriots offering him an absurd contract for a back-up is a…

i never said he held them hostage, i am saying that Brady’s situation has the potential to turn into him holding the team hostage. the team simply cannot allow an aging quarterback with an uncertain future (and uncertain desires to continue playing) to affect the long term prospects of the team.

i mean, you’re not wrong, but these conditions didn’t exactly not exist until this season. the team cannot be held hostage by an aging quarterback, regardless of how that player looks in a previous season. Peyton Manning fell of a cliff. the team felt they had the logical successor to Brady, something that is…

yeah, i kind of do. he can certainly decide to heel-turn if he well wants to, but again... that’s not what he has done for his entire career. why now.

i’m not saying that Brady does not have legitimate reasons for sitting out, but none of the above have been reason enough for him to sit out before. that’s the point. not even the season where they trotted out Jabar Gaffney as a #1 WR.

so long as you credit @TurdFerguson

that is still a departure from what Tom Brady has always done. JG is not here; Tom has what he wants. I’d be much more inclined to believe that Brady’s frustration and reason for sitting out is the lack of Guerrero in the locker room.

them being voluntary and the fact that he missed them one other season in his entire career does not change that it is a massive departure from modus operandi for Tom Brady... a player who has been outspoken about the importance of showing up early and staying late, even when it is not required. from Zolak...

what are you even saying?

again, I can simultaneously enjoy having won Super Bowls & be pessimistic about the outlook of the team. those are not mutually exclusive. what are you not fucking getting. 

i mean, fandom doesn’t preclude you from realism. i can like the team, spend my money to watch their games, and still feel pessimistic about certain aspects of the organization. why you think those are mutually exclusive is a mystery to me. quite hilarious. 

getting called out by a no-name on Twitter? yeah, i’ll take the verified journalist & Ian Rap’s word for it. 

what you’re failing to realize, is these two things intersect when the Patriots lose the Super Bowl to a backup with their #2CB on the sideline & the quarterback stops showing up to practices that were of the utmost importance to him when there was someone other than Brian Hoyer and Danny Fucking Etling who throws the…

here you go

sunshine & unicorns must be so nice. 

where

it’s all garbage, because you don’t like it. you can be a fan of a team and acknowledge that the team isn’t perfect. they deflated football. they filmed other teams signals. all of that happened. that doesn’t really change my fandom. this off-season bothers me because it, in combination with last season, is a wild…

your sheep-like loyalty to the Patriots is all well and good, but having a shred of objectivity goes a long, long way. your fandom doesn’t preclude you from that... but i don’t sleep with my BB boxers on.