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Tom Brady explains why the flight home from Buffalo 'sucked' after the Patriots' win over Bills


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1 hour ago, GoBills808 said:

Going to be a Manning-esque fall from grace, maybe not quite as quickly

 

He can't afford to lose a single bit of velocity and that is happening. Probably has a little more pop early in the season, but that will fade with the grind of the season. Also, his survival mechanism is kicking in when he's facing the slightest bit of pressure. I'm sure he "regrets" not sticking with the play, but he's fighting basic physiology and that's a match up he can't win. The Pats will likely win the division in spite of Brady, but the end is most certainly near for TB42.

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I love this so much! 

 

Brady generally gives great public insight to most elite althletes/Olympians that aren’t NFL, NBA, NHL. Don’t get high after any win that isn’t a championship. Everything coupd always be better. 

 

This though...it as great of a response as you’ll get out of him. Beaten, bruised. Not “fix your mistakes, look at the film. We could always be better, we just didn’t play our football”. It’s just him sort of losing. They’ll win another 8+ games this year. 

 

Our next few games are tough and will be real identity makers for us. Most are playing tough hard football with a record around .500. 

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1 minute ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

What about Brady’s performance Sunday, not last year or previous years, makes you think he is the same player?

 

It was one game against one of the best defenses in the league in one of the hardest places to play.

 

And he still won.

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3 hours ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

Said it before the season and Sunday reaffirmed what I thought. Brady is almost done. I think by 12/22 when we play them again, the entire league will know what we think. This is Tom’s last season, and it isn’t ending in a Super Bowl. 

I'm not willing to go that far.  He had a game like this against Jacksonville last year.  I've seen him struggle in Miami when they had a decent d-line.  They always seem to bounce back and figure it out but I hope you're right.

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4 hours ago, Say When... said:

well to shamelessly quote myself from 5 hours ago:

 

"fact is Tom looked in the mirror Sunday and saw an old man and he's more focused on that than anything else.  He's giving credit in the form of innuendo but at the end of the day he's scared and not of getting hurt but falling down to the point the team either flounders or looks a different direction, remember this is the guy that said "I'm going to play until i'm 45" and he meant it, and that won't be as a backup.

 

now his ego, HGH, health science diet, protection from the league (in however form you choose to answer) and D will motivate him to drive on but he's a man that's now facing his inner demons and it genuinely bothers him; how he's perceived in this league means everything to him.

 

now - things will be alright in Pats*** land as they get the Deadskins next so their facade will continue but it's only masking the inevitable, if he has to throw the ball that many times with no/little running game and stronger teams on the backside of their schedule could be a tougher run than they had last year."

 

 

amen to this ^^^^^^

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2 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

I'm not willing to go that far.  He had a game like this against Jacksonville last year.  I've seen him struggle in Miami when they had a decent d-line.  They always seem to bounce back and figure it out but I hope you're right.

Bad games happen. You are right. It’s his arm that’s going bad. He can not pin point throw the ball with velocity consistently. This was what Tom did for years on those crossing routes. He has one or two throws a game in him. As the season goes on it will become more and more apparent. By the time the Bills play NE again it will be focus on the run and make Tom beat you. 

 

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6 hours ago, Fetou said:

Even if we did beat him now, it matters little at this point. You cant reverse everything he accomplished or the entire past generation of Pats-Bills. All that matters is that it is almost over and there is a chance for a new dynamic.

That new dynamic being that this new generation of Bills teams dominate the Patriots. Similar to reversing the role with the Dolphins in the Jim Kelly era.

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8 hours ago, HOUSE said:

Although Brady spent some time celebrating the win on social media Monday, he had a much different reaction during an interview on Westwood One Radio. Apparently, Brady was so upset with his performance in Buffalo that it ruined his flight home. 

"Yeah, I mean, the flight home [on Sunday] sucked. The night of sleep sucked," Brady said, via NBC Sports Boston. "You watch the film, and that sucks, and then you just lick your wounds, and you get up and you try to do better the next week."

 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tom-brady-explains-why-the-flight-home-from-buffalo-sucked-after-the-patriots-win-over-bills/

This is typical Patriot BS.  Done to make the losers feel good.

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14 hours ago, Utah John said:

Brady is in decline but his game isn't going to fall off a cliff.  He doesn't have to face a defense as good as the Bills' is until late December.  

 

Like any other player who's declining, it will be a downward trending up and down affair.  He'll have good days when the zip is still there, and he can do what he wants when he wants.  These days will compound the frustration for him on the bad days, when he can't get it done and doesn't understand why.

 

I don't blame him for playing this year because he was still very good last year.  But this does seem to be the end of the road.

 

 

Obviously you never watched Manning's last 2 months of his career.  He was down right horrible after putting up MVP numbers for the first 3 quarters of the season.  I get a kick out of guys like you, thinking he could play forever.  He is 42, the end is coming.

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16 hours ago, TroutDog said:

Agreed. Completely different QB now. Still dangerous from his knowledge but not the same as he used to be. 

 

Makes me wonder what BB will do when TB hangs them up. 

To me that’s about as important as Brady retiring. BB is a great coach and he will somehow find a decent Qb. With that team it still won’t be easy to win the division! Hopefully they walk hand in hand into the sunset together!!

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I wouldn't get your hopes up, he can still throw very well. His weapons and OL are banged up/not available. He wasn't really missing guys that were open.

That said, the things I didn't like as a Pats fan were:

- that INT was inexcusable, a veteran qb has to see that other db lurking there, not to mention that he had Gordon open in the other corner before he decided to roll out

- the bad clock management at the end of the half and game.

 

The Bills D is very good both physically and game planning, so that also had a lot to do with it. Brady's also more willing to take a 3 and out with his defense playing so well. He threw the ball away like 10 times once he saw a play wasn't developing well. 

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18 hours ago, HOUSE said:

Although Brady spent some time celebrating the win on social media Monday, he had a much different reaction during an interview on Westwood One Radio. Apparently, Brady was so upset with his performance in Buffalo that it ruined his flight home. 

"Yeah, I mean, the flight home [on Sunday] sucked. The night of sleep sucked," Brady said, via NBC Sports Boston. "You watch the film, and that sucks, and then you just lick your wounds, and you get up and you try to do better the next week."

 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tom-brady-explains-why-the-flight-home-from-buffalo-sucked-after-the-patriots-win-over-bills/

C'mon we all know there was a lot of sucking going on on that flight but don't try to pin that blame on us:sick:

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Are you sure you guys aren't using your wish as a projection here? He really did look awful Sunday, well, rattled and unable to get a rhythm. But old? Seems wishful thinking! He never outran anybody, still seems to have about the same arm strength - which wasn't never that great. If he plays like that in a lot of games, then you have a point. Otherwise, I don't see it. His game is about intelligent reads, a few clutch plays, and a dose  of whining & cheating ha ha. Nothing that goes down that much with age, sadly.

 

 

 

 

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On 10/1/2019 at 4:44 PM, PromoTheRobot said:

Don't worry, Tom. You play the Bills at home next time. I'm sure the Bills headsets will mysteriously cut out, among other odd things that always happen at Gillette.

 

Indirectly the Pats**** are probably responsible for the NFL joining the digital age...they use VOIP now and a dedicated frequency obtained from the FCC with encoding to prevent RF interference.  They (the NFL) apparently said "enough is enough" and put a huge push on after the 2015 Pitt at NE game where Tomlin had a few choice words.

 

Not clear why it took them so long, though.  Frustration from other teams must have reached fever pitch at that point.

 

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/behind-scenes-nfl-sideline-technology-microsoft-bose-power-team-communication/

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4 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

Indirectly the Pats**** are probably responsible for the NFL joining the digital age...they use VOIP now and a dedicated frequency obtained from the FCC with encoding to prevent RF interference.  They (the NFL) apparently said "enough is enough" and put a huge push on after the 2015 Pitt at NE game where Tomlin had a few choice words.

 

Not clear why it took them so long, though.  Frustration from other teams must have reached fever pitch at that point.

 

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/behind-scenes-nfl-sideline-technology-microsoft-bose-power-team-communication/

 

Gillette was built with cheat codes baked in.

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18 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

The sad thing is, this list even leaves off the various foot-ball related scandals (Spygate, the headset radio interference stuff, etc)

 

The sadder thing is that if someone were to make a shirt like this for Buffalo, it wouldn't be too different, outside of the rings.

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