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!
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.
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!
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.