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NFL world in disbelief over Bill Belichick Hall of Fame announcement (www.usatoday.com)
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Can of worms right there… I wonder if they're gonna hold Brady to the same standard or if they find some other excuse to rationalize not holding deflategate against him.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Brady won a SuperBowl in Tampa and still had one of the longest careers of any player in history.

    I hated him, but even I have to admit he deserves the HoF.

    Belichik not only has the multiple cheating scandals over his head, he also just plain sucked without Brady. To the point where the Patriots had to fire him. Honestly Bill might have been better off if he just retired a few years sooner.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    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. Although... All the stuff with his TB12 company does seem awfully suspicious and like a way to get him money outside of the salary cap... And what a coincidence that he famously took mid-tier QB contracts his whole career too... If there was ever more investigation into that it's possible I would change my mind back.

    How many QB's have won Super Bowls on multiple teams? I mean actually win, not just guys on the bench like how Kenny Pickett has a ring lol.

    1. Earl Morral. Backup QB to Johnny Unitas for the Colts and Bob Griese for the Dolphins. It feels weird putting him here- he only played for the Colts because Unitas was injured, and he and Griese kind of went back-and-forth as Griese came back from injury rather than there being a clear starter. So he gets credit for the specific games but not quite for the entirety of Superbowl winning seasons imo

    2. Peyton Manning

    3. Tom Brady

    That's it. That's the list.

    If Belichik had gone on to another team to have success perhaps I would view him differently. I really don't think Deflategate was a huge deal, but Spygate absolutely was. The bigger issue with deflate gate imo was that it was more evidence of Belichik teams cheating. Two separate cheating scandals re-contextualizes his record-breaking success. Instead of wondering "how is Belichik so good at being a football coach?" Fans are left wondering "what else is Belichik doing to cheat that he hasn't gotten caught for?"

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think Brady was as heavily involved in the cheating. I weigh Spygate much more heavily than deflate gate, and that seemed much more like something driven by a front office than players. The players may have known, may have even been shown the tapes, but I highly doubt Brady was actually in the stands with a camera at any point, and I also doubt he had the authority to command people to do it on his behalf (maybe later in his career, but not then).

    Deflategate was cheating, but it seems such a smaller and more minor violation that just got blown up because it happened to be Brady and Belichik. If any other QB did that they might get a 1-gane suspension, max.

    If Brady was someone a mythical cheating mastermind, it would have been way harder to translate that to a new team. Different coaches, trainers, equipment personnel, security guards, janitors, etc.

    Belichik needed both Brady and cheating to win. Or at least someone better than Mac Jones. Bill Belichik as the GM was pretty terrible.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    ‌ 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t know that much about NFL mores, I’m pretty sure a personal fine is as close as a coach can get to being judged guilty, does a suspension carry the same weight for a player? AFAIK Tom Brady was never fined

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    ‌ Suspension is worse than a fine; you can easily pay the latter and keep playing. A suspension doesn't just have financial penalties, but performance and contractual ones, as well as hindering your ability to compete.

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