stevegroganfan |
12-23-2021 12:24 AM |
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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
(Post 16028296)
Did Tom whine for rule changes when other teams lost critical players and he was able to win against those teams over the past 20 years?
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Sure Patriots were helped at times by other teams missing players or other players a shell of themselves due to injury. Every Super Bowl team benefits from injuries to opponents. It is the nature of the sport. But similar injuries hurt the Patriots and he even lost valuable players to off the field incidents.
With the Bucs at least, Brady is on record before the Godwin injury stating the NFL should do more to protect the receivers if they are protecting the QB's and other players as well.
If he was just being self centered, it may make sense for him to stay quiet on this one. After all, Brady is advocating for a change that will just make it easier for even more quarterbacks to eventually surpass his passing records/milestones or at least come closer. More healthy receivers and making it tougher to tackle them = easier for quarterbacks to accrue statistics.
I am not even sure I agree with Brady on this one but for sure it is a player safety topic worthy of debate. A counterpoint may be one is just trading off knee injuries to offensive players for perhaps shoulder to defenders.
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