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MTZehvor on 24 October 2019
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Shaunodon said:
MTZehvor said:

Yeah, Tom Curran, the guy who said Jimmy Garoppolo was probably going replace Tom Brady by 2017? The guy who insinuated that Brady was using his Netflix documentary to get back at Kraft, peddling the very story you complained about earlier? Get real.

Look, I respect Curran more than the average Boston sports reporter (especially so for retracting that tweet later on), but none of these so called sources have an insight into decisions being made on that high a level. It's all just insipid speculation about dysfunction and how the team is falling apart on the inside. Stories get blown up to ridiculous proportions. It happened in 2014, it happened in 2017, and it's happening now.

This wasn't a story that was blown up to any degree. None of the mainstream sports media have even mentioned it to my knowledge, and it was difficult to even find the articles about it. It was just a nugget of info that got buried in the fallout of everything.

And what exactly makes his insipid speculation about dysfunction any less reliable than your spitballing about what must be happening behind closed doors? At the very least, he is closer to the team than you are. So if he's trying to report things like this, there must be something going on, with some kind of tension.
Not that I'd ever bet my life on the total accuracy of his reporting, but where there's smoke there's fire. From reports before AB joined the team (Kraft texting Brady about whether he was in on AB, in hindsight probably because he himself didn't really want him), and then while AB was with the team, when he was apparently outraged to hear about the allegations. So it's not like Mr. Kraft being the main reason for AB being cut just came out of nowhere.
And it's not difficult to figure out why he wouldn't want that attention right now, especially of that nature.

Nothing makes my speculation any more reliable, of course, which is why I'm not going around pronouncing it as the truth of what happened. I'm not taking my speculation, using it as a basis to say that something is wrong, and then decrying that there has to be some breakdown or dysfunction in the system. Literally the whole point of the speculation is to show there's no reason to inherently assume something's wrong: It provides a realistic, albeit purely hypothetical, scenario in which this is all handled without the need for some silly drama at the top.

Not really sure how Kraft texting AB means anything: That just seems like asking the guy who's going to be throwing him the ball to make sure he's ok. If Kraft didn't even want him to be there in the first place, he just...wouldn't have signed him.

And, no, there really doesn't have to be anything going on to get reports from "sources." It was just 2 years ago that Curran boldly proclaimed from "sources" that there was next to zero possibility that the Patriots would make major moves in the offseason. You know, the offseason they picked up Stephon Gilmore, Brandin Cooks, Lawrence Guy, etc. And Curran is probably one of the more reputable reporters for Boston sports: There's plenty far more egregious examples I'm sure both of us can bring up of absolute bullshit peddled by Boston and US media. The adage of "where there's smoke, there's fire," doesn't work in a world where the people reporting the fire are the ones often creating the smoke.