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  • ‌ So you just decided arbitrarily that Brady’s “cheating” doesn’t matter and that he somehow couldn’t easily deflate footballs in Tampa Bay, but that despite assuming that Brady might’ve benefited from having the defensive signals from other teams, this doesn’t count as “heavily involved” in regards to what you deem the worse of the scandals…
     See, this is why I say this is all just a convenient excuse to stay in denial. People are just unilaterally cherry picking their facts to fit the narrative, arbitrarily choosing what counts as cheating or who holds the blame, getting themselves into a pretzel to rationalize selective outrage… It literally relies on whatever you assume happened, and you choosing the interpretation you want.






  • I only even reluctantly add Brady to the HoF, because he went to a completely different organization with completely different FO personnel and still managed to win a ring. Throughout his entire Patriots career I said “well, all these Super Bowls need to have asterisks next to them and I don’t think he deserves the HoF”, but then he went ahead and won it again in Tampa and made me change my mind.

    So did the Bucs title convince you that he wasn’t cheating before? Because trust me, I’m not here trying to tell you Brady is a cheater, but this looks like the standards shift depending on the argument being made. If you think it negates the cheating allegations for Brady in NE, why do the same ones stick against Belichick? It’s kinda weird how people can’t decide whether Belichick needed Brady or if he needed cheating, because him not being able to win since Brady left would suggest the former, but if he relied on cheating, it should have no impact (as if he forgot how to cheat when Brady left). Make it make sense!






  • Ok, but Brady was involved in the same scandals Belichick was; if anything, for whatever you think deflategate is worth, Brady was directly involved in it more than Belichick ever could be. So again, this is the mental gymnastics you have to do when you have people who have long since provided evidence that their achievements are legitimate, but people want to believe otherwise so they cling to any crackpot controversy to justify their denials.
    As for Belichick’s record without Brady, you can say all you want about it, but to take a fraction of this man’s career and give the credit for every success to the QB, while leaving out the context of his failures, is maliciously disingenuous. The guy built the SB winning Ravens defense that carried Trent Dilfer, and did it again in New England, but because of the Browns’ relocation got railroaded and doesn’t get credit for those moves. And the revisionist history is even more insulting when people forget Brady only made 3 TD passes on the first SB run; he wasn’t lighting the world on fire for those first few years; the defense was the one that stopped the Greatest Show on Turf. And I’m not even saying the man was perfect, but even with his failures post Brady, people act like Kraft didn’t interfere with his succession plan, then threw him under the bus when it got messy. The game passes everybody eventually, but it’s bad faith to pretend his entire 3 decade career was made by Brady, taking everything out of context.