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Tom Brady and Tampa Bay Buccaneers win the Superbowl, decisively. 31-9.
Http://www.won't.let.me ^ | 2.8.2021 | Google News, NFL Live

Posted on 02/07/2021 8:01:23 PM PST by Kevmo

The GOAT [greatest of all time] honor belongs to Tom Grady.

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To: basalt

...to go to a different team that was 7-9 the year before?.


The team was *stacked* with under-utilized talent from being so poor for several years, but that 7-9 represents a new coaching staff beginning to pull it together from a pair of 5-11 seasons. The choice to go there wasn’t random - and then he brought Gronkowski Brown with him, and they added a cut rate Antonio Brown and Fornette.

This is how the NFL works: Losing teams get first shot at the best talent, and winning teams choose amongst what is left. It is supposed to cycle through every 4-5 years, especially with the salary cap causing teams to lose a portion of their best players when the second contract comes up. Right now, Tampa bay has a bunch of top-tier talent at reduced price, and has them locked up for the next couple of years - after which, things typically come apart. The same effect happened with Manning when he went to the Broncos - a team stacked with talent from being poor for several years, with some good drafts. Just missing a QB.

Only a few teams, like Pittsburgh, New England, Green Bay, and Seattle have stayed above the median despite these constraints - though Seattle has had to reload after losing so many top tier players when those initial contracts ran out.


221 posted on 02/08/2021 6:41:23 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

“What turns the white people off is not the racial makeup of the actors, but the messages.”

Segregating out white people seems to be a message.


222 posted on 02/08/2021 6:41:41 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: ChessExpert

Sorry, forgot to read the entire headline. 31-9.


223 posted on 02/08/2021 6:42:26 AM PST by ChessExpert (Viruses are too small to be stopped by our porous masks.)
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To: Bob434

Mahomes almost always passed- gaining lots of yardage (but never converting to touchdowns) while brady kept handing off to the players to run up the middle smack dab into the line of KC players- Stark difference in play styles-


One of Brady’s best talents from the beginning is that he can play a wide variety of styles and tempos - as long as he doesn’t have to run himself. And he can switch on the fly. Manning couldn’t do that until late in his career.


224 posted on 02/08/2021 6:44:59 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Kevmo

All that success in New England wasn’t due to Bellichek, it was due to Brady.


It was both - and Brady brought a lot of New England with him.


225 posted on 02/08/2021 6:48:48 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Poser
had to wrap the dancers faces to hide the white people

Were they really wearing jock straps?

226 posted on 02/08/2021 6:51:38 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: toddausauras
Brady wins his 7th superbowl in his home stadium in his first season as a Buc....the guy has a horseshoe somewhere.

Talent, you know when people have true talent when half the world hates them.

227 posted on 02/08/2021 6:52:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: lepton

Brady does a masterful play fake in which he appears to hand the ball off for a running play and suddenly he’d be drilling the ball into the endzone for a TD. Even the viewers on TV are fooled and usually have no idea Brady still has the ball. His running backs would complete the deception as they’d realistically appear to “cradle the ball” in their arms going up the middle. I’ve seen him do that time and time again.


228 posted on 02/08/2021 6:53:53 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

KC’s secondary didn’t realize their holding (cheating) would not go unnoticed in the big game, where the refs are eagle-eyed.


And they still got away with a lot.


229 posted on 02/08/2021 6:55:13 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

not sure what all that means....nobody saw this coming...geez


230 posted on 02/08/2021 6:57:34 AM PST by basalt
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To: Hot Tabasco

Now Brady needs to humbly and graciously retire at the top of his game. ‘Nuff said.
Critics have been saying that for the last few years........LOL!


Every year since about 2014, IIRC.


231 posted on 02/08/2021 7:02:10 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Tom Brady plays QB the way its supposed to played...sees what the defense is..reads it faster than anybody and has an uncanny ability to play under pressure. He doesn’t run around like a maniac, trying stupid, acrobatic throws that gets the announcers all giddy....hes not a WR or RB....hes the QB...duh...


232 posted on 02/08/2021 7:04:11 AM PST by basalt
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To: SamAdams76

Before Brady, his coaching record was 41-55 (.427) over six seasons (and only one season with more wins than losses).

Over the next 19 seasons (with Brady), Belichick’s coaching record improved to 232-72 (.763) with ZERO losing seasons.

In his first year without Brady, Belichick returned to another typical losing season 7-9 (.437)


Excluding first years, and the team collapse when Cleveland announced they were moving, before Brady he was 36-28, and had built the #1 scoring defense in Cleveland in 1994 with the 4th best record in the league, up from #14 Defense in 1991. In New England, he had a scoring defense in the top 8, in 14 of his years there. 5 either #1 or #2.

As for this year, what was it, 9 starters took the COVID waiver? After a decade of pick 28+, he didn’t have enough draft capital to get an even middling QB, and had to make due with a one-dimensional running back off the scrap heap? Games with no allowed practices?


233 posted on 02/08/2021 7:49:14 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Kevmo

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/02/07/watch-super-bowl-lv-kicks-off-black-national-anthem/


234 posted on 02/08/2021 8:00:39 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: basalt

not sure what all that means....nobody saw this coming...geez


Winning it all? Only a few. At least one of the commentators on the CBS show did pre-season pick TB and Chiefs for the SB.

Many expected them to solidly compete for the playoffs (Teamrankings.com gives 60%), with a firm expectation to win their division (30%, and CBS Sports and Sporting News are among those who outright picked them by a full game over NO). Pre-season, Tampa Bay was picked as Superbowl winner by twice as many as Green Bay.

No. 1 Seed Odds:
New Orleans (21.1%), San Francisco (17.3%), Dallas and Tampa Bay (9.6% chance each)


235 posted on 02/08/2021 8:15:53 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

just stop....


236 posted on 02/08/2021 8:17:24 AM PST by basalt
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To: basalt

He doesn’t run around like a maniac, trying stupid, acrobatic throws that gets the announcers all giddy....hes not a WR or RB....hes the QB...duh...


Definitely. He drops back - often after a play action fake - either throws it then, or takes a couple quick steps this way or that to disrupt the pass rush into his blockers, then throws. For the most part, he doesn’t get himself in to the troubles in the first place.


237 posted on 02/08/2021 8:18:39 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SamAdams76

Brady does a masterful play fake in which he appears to hand the ball off for a running play and suddenly he’d be drilling the ball into the endzone for a TD. Even the viewers on TV are fooled and usually have no idea Brady still has the ball. His running backs would complete the deception as they’d realistically appear to “cradle the ball” in their arms going up the middle. I’ve seen him do that time and time again.


What is funny is how often he is able to do the play-action successfully when the team isn’t even trying to run, or has an ineffectual running game.


238 posted on 02/08/2021 8:22:24 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SamAdams76

Oh, and his ridiculous success at QB sneaks until it became only good the last few years after teams finally caught on to the keys.


239 posted on 02/08/2021 8:23:29 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Jewbacca; Major Matt Mason

“Blacks outnumbered all other races 5:1 in ads.”

Gaslighting on steroid. We now live in the Matrox.

They think that creating a fantasy world on TV will change reality. I take it there were no ads featuring common black achievements like these...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3932594/posts

And who is they? They are all the self serving, virtue signaling, slobbering WHITE CEOs of big corporations who will grovel and slobber at any demand by blacks.


240 posted on 02/08/2021 8:31:56 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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