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You do make good points. I guess then you believe it really wouldn’t matter where Brady got drafted he would have won easily at least 7 big ones? … I tend to disagree.
Not saying that because it also depends on the team. Tom didn't win it all by himself. Belichick obviously contributed. The other players all played their part. It's a team sport. QB is the most important position on the entire team. Everyone knows that. Winning is extremely hard. Ask Shanahan. It's incredible what the Patriots accomplished in those 18 years. Tom was a big part of it. Bill was also a part of it, but imo, not as big as Tom's (we can argue on the %). Even Kraft played a small but important part (keeping it all together).
If we could believe counterfactuals Frank Frink would have been shot in the head by Joe Blake and/or America would have won the war. Sorry, I've been rewatching "The Man in the High Castle" because I'm nostalgic from when a Nazi takeover of America was fanciful fiction. Point is, and this goes for all of us, maddening as it is, we just don't know. Even worse, we can't know. The moving finger and all that.
Excellent post .. the “truth” is what we lived for 20 years. Ying and yang. All the rest is tired old hyperbole.If we could believe counterfactuals Frank Frink would have been shot in the head by Joe Blake and/or America would have won the war. Sorry, I've been rewatching "The Man in the High Castle" because I'm nostalgic from when a Nazi takeover of America was fanciful fiction. Point is, and this goes for all of us, maddening as it is, we just don't know. Even worse, we can't know. The moving finger and all that.
That said, now I'll do it.
TFB is famously motivated by the perception that he is underestimated. Being drafted at 199 is arguably the best thing that could have happened. Brian Griese's backup all over again. So maybe the need to be that exceptional is born in his reaction to adversity.
So while we're playing, let's hypothesize that the chip-on-shoulder injury that Brady suffered as he watched 6 rounds worth of QBs go before him was softened. Let's say he went in the 3rd round. All the tools, living the dream, if he's good enough one day he'll be a star. Then suddenly, nothing happens. No amazing opportunity courtesy Mo Lewis, because TFB isn't backing up a motionless throwback (hard to believe there was a guy that made Brady look mobile. I know I know, he move the pocket etc., but in today's game there have been calls every year to get a trendy mobile QB.)
He carries a clipboard, he gets a dose of reality, and he's really good, and once he gets his shot he's mature. He surprises everybody by coming through, but accepts that just one SB is more than most guys get, etc. He gets however may rings in whatever proximity... let's even say 3 out of 4, just delayed, although zero is also a possibility. We don't know what weight to give the chip-on-shoulder injury.
But maybe he "learned" the "mature" way to deal with the Ws and Ls. Maybe there's no first dynasty at all.
And let's talk second dynasty. With the media and fans bought in to his greatness (later, his GOATness,) the chafing with BB could well have been the goad he needed from the drafting of JG onward. You could certainly argue that his self-perception of having years of football left vs. BB's evaluation of him as not the same player had a chip-on-shoulder effect. Without the early success, what kind of hapless egomaniac would TFB have been to think he'd better play to 45, because history?
So yeah, we can argue both sides of woulda coulda shoulda until the cows come home, or preferably the Lombardis. The main thing is that in the world that did happen, things lined up just right for us, as Pats fans, to have had an unsurpassed ride. Here's to it. We won't likely see its like again.
"likely."
Oh yeah in case nobody made this joke, for the Krafts, BB makes a handy scapegoat. Get it? Get it?
Watch the series and make up your own mind. There's a lot of posters white knighting for Bill, as if he needs it. The series is accurate, told by the players, coaches & execs in the building. At the end of this none of them will come out looking great (BB, TB, RK), despite them achieving greatness. It's an interesting approach instead of yet another documentary about the Patriots success on the field, of which there are many. This is not that, but it's also not a smear against Bill.
Maybe you're right you would know because you are the foremost authority on smearing Bill Belichick.
maybe a little. I’d say there’s plenty of drama too especially “episodes” 1, 2, 6 and 7. Players can say what they want about Patricia and Judge running the offense and how they felt about their HC as he approached the finish line? Or what they felt about letting Brady go and then he wins it all? I’d watch.
Here's the truth.
Above all else ….
It may not be a smear against Bill (ro at least not as much), but that seems to be all I'm reading in various outlets.
I did too, could watch TB highlights all day.
Then the series is generating controversy and thus achieving its goal to draw more interest to the story. Hope you enjoy it.
