Brady Redux

Much has been already written about the Brady injury, but I have to add my two cents. People around here have gone WAY overboard, including my erstwhile colleague at SITH !!



Brady, despite all his other great attributes, is ONLY a football player and football players get hurt. This is not a national day of mourning or something that I will remember where I was for the rest of my life when I heard about it, like some true calamity such as 9/11. Get over it homers !!!



Yes, the team will be greatly impacted and there will be no Super Bowl. But, how spoiled are we ?? To expect that a guy whose last start was in High School to not have a really rough go is NOT realistic. Miracles such as when the backup becomes a Hall of Famer when he gets his chance (Brady, Favre, etc.) happen about once a decade. Cassel could be very good, average, or very bad. Time will tell. But to listen to these morons on WEEI state that they expect the record to now be 10-6 is FOOLISH. By the way, what size head must you have to be on EEI ?? How 'bout those Pentagon sized DOMES on Ordway, Shepard, DeOssie, Smerlas, etc. Too bad they have so little to offer in the way of wisdom. Anyone (ESPN, FELGER, etc.) who DARES to not act like the Patriot mouthpiece is ostrasized. SOMETIMES, there just might be another side to a story if you are not blinded by the laundry !! Ah, but I digress.



Backup quaterbacks are like backup baseball catchers. There are only 2 ways to go. Either you employ a grizzled veteran (Doug Flutie/Doug Mirabelli), or you rely upon a young player and hope to groom them over time. For a very good team, the usual path is to go with experience and groom the young guy as the third stringer until he warrants the backup job (ala a young Brady). Both the Patriots AND the Red Sox have not done a very good job of fortifying this important backup job. When Varitek got hurt a couple of years ago, the Sox (a very GOOD team - listen HOMERS) dropped like a rock out of sight. It remains to be seen how the Pats will fare, but history says things will get rough for the Flying Elvises, despite the NFL's easiest schedule.