Tom Brady and the Pats in hot water....again

[feldspar]

I think everybody knows that.

Is Gisele a doctor now?

Or did she make a fortune posing in panties?

[Joe Fo Sho]

Is Gisele a doctor now?

Or did she make a fortune posing in panties?

When Tom Brady tore his ACL, did she talk about that? Did she diagnose that herself, too?

[feldspar]

When Tom Brady tore his ACL, did she talk about that? Did she diagnose that herself, too?

No, I think Russ Brandon did that...

What's your point?

[Joe Fo Sho]

No, I think Russ Brandon did that...

What's your point?

My point is that she doesn't have to diagnose his concussion to know that he had one, which seems to be what you're arguing.

[feldspar]

My point is that she doesn't have to diagnose his concussion to know that he had one, which seems to be what you're arguing.

How did she know he had one then, and to what severity?

Some guys get on protocol by actual experts and play the next week too.

But I guess sometimes it takes a panty model...

[Joe Fo Sho]

How did she know he had one then, and to what severity?

Who cares?

Don't pretend like Giselle doesn't make Tom tell her every single thing about every single day of his life. She is the bread winner of the family...she wears the pants, he wears the Uggs.

Some guys get on protocol by actual experts and play the next week too.

Yeah, and some guys cheat by hiding that information from the 3rd party unbiased medical professionals who are in charge of that protocol process.

[chris66]

Laugh all you want. Football hasn't been enjoyable for 15 years. The biggest reason for that is the incompetence of the Bills organization. The second biggest reason is those ****ing cheaters. It isn't bad enough for us to suck. We have to watch the most deplorable team of my lifetime win to rub salt in the wound.

We know about Spygate and Deflategate. We know they steal the play scripts. There were numerous reports of them ****ing with the headsets of the other teams that the NFL somehow squashed. And that's just what we know about.

Think about it: with them in our division, nothing less than 12 wins was going to get it, and most years that wouldn't have been enough. If they hadn't cheated, they wouldn't have been as good. Maybe, if they weren't cheating, we beat them once or twice and an 8 or 9 win season becomes a 10 or 11 win season and we get a wild card. Or maybe they have an off-year and 9-7 is good enough to win the division- it seems to happen in at least one ****ty division every year. But their cheating eliminated that possibility for us for a decade and a half.

So, **** the Patriots and **** Tom Brady. I never thought I could have so much disdain for someone I've never met until Tom Brady came along. The only other person on the planet I despise that much is Donald Trump.

Stealing play scripts? Thats a new one. As far the headsets go the Nfl takes care of those not the team.
Deflategate was a witch hunt that backfired.
Bills ineptitude. Cant argue that one.

[Arm of Harm]

There are two different stories here.

1) The story about concussions, and about what the NFL is doing to protect players from concussions.

2) The story of Patriots cheating.

Item 2) is not news. We already know the Patriots cheat, and are constantly searching for new ways to cheat. Item 1) is what needs more attention. The NFL has done its best to bury the concussion thing for years. "Protect the shield" and all that. They've refused to use better helmets--helmets designed to deflect lateral blows--on the theory that improving helmets now would be an admission that their old helmets weren't good.

I've read articles about former players experiencing concussion-related mental problems. So much so that some are driven to suicide. Typically, the player will shoot himself in the chest, or in some area other than the head. The player doesn't want to destroy his own brain, so that after he's dead they can examine his brain and see the extensive scarring in his brain tissue.

Brain trauma can happen to any football player, and it does happen to plenty. Making this about Brady's merits or demerits is pointless, because this is a league-wide problem, not a Brady-specific problem.