Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Old
Dec14
on December 14, 2022
at 12:01 am
Brock Purdy was born on December 27th, 1999. On April 16th, 2000, roughly 3 and a half months later, Tom Brady was drafted by the New England Patriots. Brock Purdy’s entire life, save for the first 111 days, has taken place during Tom Brady’s professional career. That’s….fucked up.
I’m still not convinced Brock Purdy is a real name
Father Time really made a comeback for the ages. I remember when he first “retired” our thoughts were “either this is a lie, or Father Time has met his match.”
That Bucs-Niners game was one of the worst coaching clinics I’ve seen in a while. I was low on Arians during his tenure but at least the team showed up for the most part. Bowles just looks absolutely lost on the sidelines.
I don’t know how accurate Mike Silver is with his report, but if this is true?
https://sportsnaut.com/tom-brady-rogue-tampa-bay-buccaneers-offense/
If Brady has basically decided *HE* is the HC and is actively undermining the coaching staff with players-only gameplanning sessions? Then I think it’s time for Todd Bowles to take off the kid gloves and punch this f-er in the mouth. Repeatedly.
While I never liked Shady, I at least respected his conduct on the field, once. He’s showing his colors now, though, and it’s a reeeeal ugly look. Petty and petulant, putting his psychopathic obsession with winning above everything else. He’s become Gollum, basically, a shell of a human being, pursuing his need to be “the best” beyond all reason.
For a while there I thought you were talking about Nick Saban
I honestly doubt this is true considering the game plan doesn’t look like anything Brady would call. It’s very obvious when Byron Leftwich is running the offense versus when Brady is running the offense just based on what they call on first down. Byron loves to play for third and manageable, which they often do at the beginning of games or when they have the lead. Brady, meanwhile, prefers to be aggressive on early downs, which you see more of around the 2 minute mark or when the team gets in a hole.
That being said, if Brady wants to call his own shots, honestly, he probably SHOULD at this point. The Bucs, despite having one of the absolute worst offenses in football this season, also happen to be one of the best, if not the best 2-minute offenses in the league. Maybe you can’t run no-huddle all game, but it’s clear that it’s the only thing that’s consistently worked for them all season. If Brady, with the amount of clout that he has given his many years of experience, feels compelled to go behind his coaches’ backs to formulate a game plan, rather than just discuss it with Leftwich himself, that just says a lot about how broken the relationship is between the two sides, which does not bode well for Tampa given Brady’s impending free agency.
Personally though, I just don’t think the Bucs are fixable at this point. The OL is decimated. The receivers are inconsistent and often not on the same page as Brady. And the coaching is trash-tier. They don’t scheme. Their play calling is extremely safe and predictable. And they continue to refuse to adjust to anything that defenses are throwing at them. Coupled with a statue old man QB that isn’t as good as he was a decade ago, it’s a sinking ship and I wouldn’t be shocked if Brady decided to abandon it altogether this offseason (for a new team rather than the retirement home, much to my dismay).
I don’t even get to watch Giants games these days, so I will immediately concede that I have not watched any Bucs games this year, and your description of their styles sounds pretty reasonable.
I hope one day we get the full story. I know I rag on him a lot, but if it’s all just bad coaching, then if Brady really did force Arians into retirement, this would be the greatest NFL self-own I’ve seen in awhile.
Their record certainly says they won’t be getting any better, and if they make the playoffs, it’ll be at like 7-10 or 8-9 at this point. Considering he lost his marriage over coming back, I doubt he’s going to end it now. I wouldn’t doubt if he plays for another 2 or 3 teams before finally calling it quits.
The one thing I’ll give him credit for, and if it sounds like a backhanded punch to the face, that’s because it is… nobody before him was ever willing to sacrifice their entire life – fun, family, hobbies, children, health, you name it – the way he has. Other players all get bored and move on, or their kids need their attention. This guy is sitting here in his mid 40s, and football is still the only all-encompassing obsession left to him. I’d admire it, if it wasn’t so sad.
Honestly you should consider yourself fortunate for not having to sit through any Bucs games. They’re an embarrassment and if I weren’t a Brady fan I would have long since stopped watching their games by now. That being said, I do believe that he did force Arians into retirement which is a hilarious self-own. Brady sycophants are now being forced to admit that coaching does in fact matter when it comes to winning a lot of football games after having spent years attempting to discredit Bill Belichick’s role in the Patriots’ Dynasty. Suddenly now they’re clamoring for him to abandon ship and join a team like the 49ers … which would just prove the point that he’s a guy that needs an excellent system and weapons around him to succeed. But that’s enough rambling about the disaster that is my Twitter TL.
I agree on everything you said. He can’t get away from the game, and for me it’s been brutal to watch. He really had nothing play for at this point, yet he’s thrown away literally everything just to keep at it because he can’t get away from the game. There was always a joke that Brady was a bit of a psychopath when it comes to winning, but this season is proving that he’s actually insane. His commitment to football would be admirable in most other circumstances, but here, at least for me, it’s just pathetic, because it’s happening to a guy who had absolutely nothing to prove. He’s tarnishing his own legacy for nothing. Tanking his reputation for nothing. Getting himself killed for nothing. Everything he’s doing right now to continue playing is pointless.
I’m sure most people are enjoying it, and I can’t blame ’em. If I wasn’t already attached the guy, I damn sure would be too.
I love how in these writeups it’s always everyone but Brady’s fault that they’re playing bad.
That’s my take on it. The Bucs have the talent to win. The coaching just isn’t there. Arians did far better with almost the same team. Bowles looks like almost as bad a “hire” as Hackett. He’s certainly proven he’s not solid head coaching material, just like Dennis Allen.
I had a feeling the Bowles promotion would backfire on them but I never expected it to be THIS bad.
Brock Purdy is a Madden franchise mode QB drafted in 2030
I appreciate to cuteness of the early-mid Peanuts-style face on Brock, I hope that stays his face for his career.
…whatever that career looks like, the dude’s played one game.
Tom’s face in the last panel is gold
a two year old would never speak that coherently
I wish this comic was actually the backstory to that game
Maybe it was. Nobody ever asked Brock if he ever met Brady before he epically beat him down?