When it was announced that Tom Brady is at last moving on from the New England Patriots, bizarrely to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, I was lead to reflect on what for me was the most memorable Brady and Belichik performance. Super Bowl XLIX against the Seattle Seahawks, a down to the wire battle … [Read more…]
I didn’t really expect the Super Bowl to be a high scoring game. What I saw of the Rams against the Cowboys and in glowing columns written here and there about Sean McVay’s genius suggested to me that he’d simply built a thorough, modern, and well executed version of the old Mike Shanahan offense. I … [Read more…]
It was really an eye opening moment when the Patriots snagged Eastern Illinois signal-caller Jimmy Garoppolo in the second round of the 2014 NFL draft. They took him fairly high, for one, which indicated that they really liked his skill set. Also interesting, he was coming from a “Veer and Shoot” offense at Eastern Illinois … [Read more…]