Over/Under on How Many Games Before Brady Gets "Theismanned"

You have an idea, you're just concealing it with your latest rationalization.

 

Yeah, I know. It's definitely not your fault. But this is exactly what I'm referring to... sportswriters consistently try to make up anger/emotion type stories because they know it's what people want to read... and in many cases, they stretch (or in this case, completely abandon) the truth to get that angle.

I know, I know, the CNNSI article had quotes as well, and obviously our different interpretations of those quotes is the debate here. But with things like the first paragraph, I think we should all be a little more skeptical than we are.

 

I'm going with not this season, if only because the Patriots' offensive line is ridiculously, absurdly good. I'm so freakin' jealous of that... what I'd give to even have a mediocre line in Houston.

 

I'm not sure I am arguing it's unsportsmanlike. I'm just not all that offended by it as I am when it happens on the amateur level.

 

Yeah, but usually late hits aren't absurdly flagrant. Usually late hits happen when someone is already making a bull rush, the ball gets thrown a second or so early, and he just continues and plows into the QB. Rarely do you see someone come out of nowhere after a play is done (well, unless it's the A&M defensive line ) and hit someone. But the New England defensive line is so good that rarely is Brady even rushed, and that's why I'd be surprised if it happens... but it's possible.

 

But if you're losing anyway (and getting blown out), why not blitz 3 or 4 people? It's not like anything else you tried worked. Or at least, that's what I would do as a DC - not to hurt him, but to knock him down and try to discourage them from running their pass-happy offense.