Brady versus Belichick Open Thread

His wife is really attractive

Really? I thought the “do you even eat bread?” Line was hilarious.  As was his “it’s just a commercial” retort. 

Reminiscent of that scene in Ted 2 when they break into his house to steal his sperm.  

Tuck rule?

Absolute horseshit.

Unlike his father. 

Pretty shitty to be honest for what he gave to this franchise. Even Brees was over there like wtf and had a few claps to at least do something to show it had been broken. 

It was terrible not to give him his moment when he broke the record.  Im in Massachusetts.  The Pats fans still love Brady.  They want the Pats to win but they would have given Brady an ovation  for breaking the record if the powers that be could have had the decency to pause for a minute to recognize him. 

Hey, better than Subway’s original marketing campaign they had to quickly scrap. 
 

Their corners have been decimated by injury.

They’re not as good (so far) as they were towards the end of last year. Absolutely. Some of that has to do with their secondary being decimated by injuries, JPP has been out the last two weeks, Gronk is out tonight and probably for a while, and their RBs have been awful. What’s kept them in all their games is their passing game and Brady has been having Evans, Gronk, AB and Godwin all at his disposal, and each of them always being able to get him yards when they needed it.

They should get better as they start getting guys back from injury, and they still have a fantastic front seven. But their secondary is so bad/thin right that all the pressure the front seven can generate is almost negated, because opposing receivers are just getting open so quickly. 

They looked pretty meh at the start of last year too, iirc.

I think he will be a solid QB for them as well and the best from his draft class.

That being said, I think his success will be due to the much better situation and overall franchise leadership when compared to the situations that Lawrence/Wilson/Fields and Lance (to a lesser degree) all find themselves in.

I was at the 2020 Citrus Bowl.  Mac Jones is the real deal. I’m surprised he dropped as low as he did in the draft.  

The Mac Jones hype train is out of control. He looks ahead of the other rookies in his class, but he also inherited a much better situation than most rookie QBs (the Patriots over/under for wins this year was 9.5). Despite all of that, he still has a lot to prove. He has been able to go through his progressions and get the ball out quickly and accurately under a lot of pressure, but the Patriots offense also has been extremely limited, and Jones has taken few shots downfield. Jones has also had a couple of near miss bad INTs.

One other thing to keep in mind is that Tampa Bay played most of that game without almost their entire starting secondary (Sean Murphy-Bunting and Jamel Dean did not play, and Carlton Davis and Antoine Winfield both left the game with injuries). Richard Sherman was just signed off the street a couple days ago and played almost the whole game. The Tampa secondary should have been easy to take advantage of last night. Stafford lit them up for almost 350 yards and 4 TDs last week before some of these injuries, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of QBs put up monster numbers against them moving forward if these are long-term injuries.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/buccaneers-lose-carlton-davis-to-quad-injury-vs-patriots-another-big-loss-to-their-secondary/

I think its one of those where you need to at least make an effort to get back in bounds. Sure there were TB players in his way, but he didn't even try.

You can't just run down the sideline out of bounds. He needs to attempt to enter immediately, they may very well push him back out, but he has to try to get back in. I don't think they're allowed to block out of bounds anyway so he could come back in and they can push him out again.