ESPN readying "hit piece" on the Pats dynasty
 

Oh my.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The article claims that the rift is so severe many Patriots feel this is the last year together for the trio. Also that Brady went to Kraft to force Belichick to trade Jimmy G. ESPN is planning a full day of promotion tomorrow for the article and its author <a href="https://twitter.com/SethWickersham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SethWickersham</a></p>&mdash; Bruce Allen (@bruceallen) <a href="https://twitter.com/bruceallen/status/949069691691130880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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If this dynasty ends this year I'll believe there is a God.

This.

Middlekauf called it a month ago

Fake News....

Im telling you guys Bill is leaving.

Giants I think

Isn't this old news? Amnorix broke this I think.

What makes you say this?

I hope so.

He will fail elsewhere, unless he goes to San Fran with Jimmy G.

LOL

Bill ****ing the Pats by trading their future QB on his way out.

ROFLROFLROFL

That would be glorious.

He wants to win without Brady so he can say it was all him, not Brady.

This story is kinda shocking and the hint of it was the Grap trade. Now NE has to languish with a rapidly aging QB and a new coach.

It's the fall of Rome.

Just a feeling. :hmmm::D

If the Chiefs ended it, that would be so sweet

Grapp, and Brissett... both

Like a few years ago rams leaving feeling or something else

Yes. This would be very, very nice.

The first team to beat Brady at home twice in one season... :hmmm:

I figured Stan would have made a run at him. But it looks like he hit a grand slam hire.

Belichick leaves to return to Cleveland to bring balance to the force.

:D I think cowherd has a theory that was recommended as a listen.

But yeah, same kind of feeling

Not a single **** was given by truly yours.

I remember when they ended Brady's career a few years ago. It was great.

San Francisco w/Grap.

Dont care.

**** that team.

What they've been able to do the last 17yrs is very impressive, especially in today's modern game w/ the salary cap/CBA etc...

All 3 of them deserve credit. Kraft is a good owner, but he looks like a genius because of what BB and Brady have been able to do. Kraft just signs the checks but also understood both Brady and BB needed to stick together.

BB wasn't shit as a HC pre-Brady. Just ask any CLE fan. But he's been a defensive mastermind for a long time. We all know about LT's Giants D w/ Parcells etc. One thing BB has been able to do is field a competitve defense. Pats show up on D in the postseason, and that benefits Brady more than anything. It's a big reason why they're so tough to beat at home. There have been yrs where the D struggled in reg season but they've clamped down when they had to. BB is a great coach. Sometimes great coaches don't pan out at certain jobs for x number of reasons.

It takes luck/good fortune, sometimes stars have to align a certain way, sometimes great coaching and execution is enough to win, sometimes you can get away w/ cheating, sometimes the refs help you win, and sometimes WR's make great catches in clutch situations and send your ass home. Sometimes things end up working out. Brady was a 6th rd pick who looked like a 15yr old and ended up playing good enough when it mattered the most.

And sometimes Arrowhead Stadium is built over a sacred ancient Indian burial site.

I've thought he might end up there for a while. They've got their guy at this point.

I think giants

Gotcha

Hope he leaves. Would be noce if the chiefs ended it

That simply isn't true.

If we're going to give credit to somebody or the most credit then it goes to Tom Brady.

His teams did not perform anywhere close to the level that the Patriots have performed at.

Why would the 49ers fire Shanahan??

I'm not disagreeing with that. But to act as if his tenure in Cleveland was Gus Bradley, Steve Spagnuolo, or Hue Jackson bad is hyperbole.

How many people still watch ESPN—or like it?


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The Chiefs are going into Foxboro to end the dynasty. It's only right, if you think about it.

Ya know, if the grieved owners who made a fuss about the Rodgers IR ****ery actually held Goodell to the rules, Rodgers and Brady being potentially available as well as other guys like Smith, Cousins and McCarron could competitively realign the league in just one season..

This is so ****ing perfect. The Patriots dynasty ends and the Patrick Mahomes era begins.

A changing of the guard is coming.

The real Patriots hit piece will be when someone finally uncovers that Brady is using PED’s.

Please don’t..... you’re giving me an erection!

Nah, its the quack doctor he has.

No, the Jets ending the dynasty would be the perfect ending. Not the Chiefs.

Ehh, not really. They're not going to be in position to do so anytime soon.

The Chiefs were supposed to be the team who ended it in 2014. Then, to start the year they smacked them again in Foxborough. Beat them twice in one year at Foxborough? That's storybook.

Andy Reid finally knocks BB down for the count.

Hard to argue that!

You make no sense. The Patriots and Chiefs aren't rivals and Brady is still New England's QB after Pollard tore his ACL.

Belichick spurned the Jets to go to the Pats. Then the Jets injured Bledsoe, which made room for Brady to start. Plus Spygate and all that stuff.

The two teams I view as the rivals to the Pats since Belichick's been there are the Colts and Jets. Not the Chiefs.

Seth Wickersham is legit, and if it's true, it's not a hit piece, but I wouldn't expect that kind of reasoning from a sports media as provincial and ignorant as Boston's.

Yeah, yeah, I know the history. I'm just saying, the Jets don't have a chance in hell of being the team to do it anytime soon. The Chiefs do.

The Chiefs under Andy have been the Evil Empire's Achilles heel. To finish them off in their place would be very fitting, especially after many of their fans are begging for the chance to bring us back to Foxborough. They want to prove that week one was a fluke.

Two regular seasons wins and a playoff loss in New England doesn't scream Achilles heel to me.

You could have argue the Giants with Eli and that would have been a better answer.

The two regular season wins weren't ordinary. They got whacked both times, and were supposed to be dead after the first time. Then, the game this year happens, and all of their fans said 'see ya back here in January'... they think they will prove it to be a fluke. They might.

The Giants, like the Jets, have no chance to be the team to do it. They're irrelevant to the conversation.

I hate them with the passion of a thousand suns, but if any team has been an Achilles heel for Brady it is the Broncos. He is 7-9 all time against them. The only team he has a losing record against.

Cheating ****s.

Again, two regular season games do not mean anything.

I was going to post the Broncos and I am aware that playing in Denver is Belichick's waterloo. But I figured that their more recent success vs New England was in part due to Manning.

I know McFistPump beat him in '09 with Orton and went crazy.

This would pair with that video of Colin Cowherd a few weeks ago. I'll go see if I can track it down.

A Patriot hit piece the week of the divisional round...interesting timing. *chuckles

http://www.patriotsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=74470

This is how I would respond to that post:

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Here's a link that has the video. I'm not going hunt it down for hours, but this is the one posted here a few weeks back.

https://247sports.com/nfl/new-englan...iots-112622724

They won't.

He just won 5 games in a row with Garappolo. He signed a six year deal to begin the season, they have a massive draft haul ahead plus $100 million in cap space.

San Fran will challenge the Rams for the NFC West crown next year and it'll be a surprise if they don't advance in the playoffs.

They're going to be a very good team for a very long time.

That would be so epic if Hoodie went back to the Giants.

Let's hope the NFL is tired of them this go around. Make them play the refs for a change.

The NFL doesn't want the Patriots in back-to-back SBs...

Great franchise. Wanted them to go 19-0

The donks are the Patriot Killers, not you.

This is all fun and games until Elway changes course and throws Joseph off a mountain and hires Belichick.

Patriots fans are about as defensive as it gets, especially since Deflategate... but there's no denying that the team has had a strange year. They traded away two QBs who have looked pretty solid so far, even though they have a 40 year old QB. Then the Alex Guerrero thing. For a team that usually runs a pretty well oiled ship it's all pretty strange.

I swear to ****ing god....

They will win 2 more titles together. It's bullshit.

The Jimmy G trade never made sense...it does make you wonder...

What happened was months ago. It has not affected anything for them and won't now.

I hope he does. Bill without Brady won't work. Bills rules and all his bullshit only work when a team wins. That is what Brady does for him.

Again, I'm talking strictly about relevant teams.

The Broncos are not that.

This. ZERO chance Bill leaves

ESPN hates that Kraft, Bill and Brady are Trump supporters.

Too good to be true

I stand by what I said when it happened...Shanahan threw the SB and allowed the NFL to complete the "Brady revenge tour" narrative. It was set-up with the TMZ-style courtroom drama...kept people engaged during the off-season. It ended with the biggest comeback in SB history...

He was compensated with a HC gig and a NE QB.....

Who trades both QBs when you have a 40 year-old starter..especially someone as pragmatic as Belichick. He contingency plans every situation...

The rat smell is strong on this one...

It was a bad decision long-term, but if they looked at it and decided Brady could play another 2-3 years at a championship level, and they saw an opportunity to put Jimmy G far away in the NFC rather than watch him sign with the Jets...

Has been obvious that Belichick and Brady haven't liked each other for years. Don't see either one departing from NE, though. Both probably think they can out wait the other.

What have you seen specifically that makes you think that??

Manufactured drama so they can have a story for when they win it all again.

“They overcame their differences in the pursuit of a common goal”

Tired of this shit. Aim for Brady’s knees - that could end the bullshit.

Fire Andy hire Bill

Talk about a reach

I think they got a visual of Mahomes and decided it's best right now to get out.