I don’t know what he does.
I don’t know what he lives on.
But I want to be reasonable here.
I’m not going to go allad hominemat one of our own.
What makes me right is the fact I’m right.
So the question has been asked … Let’s take it in chronological order, shall we?
I could’ve taken a much deeper dive, but I made my point.
Not to mention a nice way to earn a living for some of us.
Now we’re in a new phase.
This will be the fourth season we’ve had to navigate them.
I can deal with that.
Because you don’t simply lose the GOAT for good and bounce right back like it’s nothing.
Or Babe Ruth begets Joe Dimaggio who begets Mickey Mantle and the winning never stops.
But that’s not an argument.
Like the financial people are legally obligated to say, past performance does not predict future results.
Brady is just the latest in a long line of indispensable Patriots we couldn’t live without.
It’s a list too long to shoehorn in here.
(I have a life outside of simply defending this team from attacks, believe it or not.)
One that includes players on offense, defense, special teams, coaches and executives.
And survived them all.
There’s no arguing that Brady is the least dispensable of them all.
But as DeGaulle was fond of saying, “Cemeteries are filled with indispensable men.”
(Ol' Charlie was not the guy to invite to your Labor Day cookout.)
The question of the Pats relative measurement on the Suck Quotient.
They’re coming off an 8-9 season.
Does that qualify as “sucking”?
In no way, shape or form is that acceptable.
Not by the standards of Mr. Kraft, who has made his feelings extremely known.
And it ignores the fact that they were two colossal mistakes away from their second straight 10-win playoff season.
There’s no mulligan.
They’re part of the permanent record which is on file in the Principal’s office.
Not to mention most of the last 50 years or so of Nicky Smokes' Dolphins?
The 2022 Patriots had major issues.
Beginning with major incompetence on the offensive coaching staff.
A thin depth chart at the skill positions.
The worst special teams imaginable for a franchise that invests more in those units than anyone else ever has.
Everyone of those problems has been addressed.
I refuse to acknowledge suckiness of any kind, in any degree.
This probably won’t change any hearts or minds.
But then it never has in 24 years of making this case.
When I’m wrong, I’ll be man enough to admit it.
But trust me, being right all the time never, ever gets old.
And the next one.
