Anyone following the Tom Brady Divorce?

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Moksha wrote:
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… Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at San Luis Obispo.
I don’t get it. Help bring the joke home for me, please.

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:22 pm
Moksha wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:01 pm
… Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at San Luis Obispo.
I don’t get it. Help bring the joke home for me, please.

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It has to be taken all together. Look up George Santos and see what qualities he might have in common with Donald Trump.
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Moksha wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 3:05 pm
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
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I don’t get it. Help bring the joke home for me, please.

- Doc
It has to be taken all together. Look up George Santos and see what qualities he might have in common with Donald Trump.
Is there an allusion to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and San Luis Obispo I’m missing?

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ajax18 wrote:
Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:57 am
Look at how poorly Andre Agassi played while he was married to Brooke Shields. Look at much stronger he was as an older player well past his prime undoubtedly because he was married to Steffi Graff.
Could also be because he tackled his addictions and stopped smoking meth.
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Doctor Steuss wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:31 pm
ajax18 wrote:
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Look at how poorly Andre Agassi played while he was married to Brooke Shields. Look at much stronger he was as an older player well past his prime undoubtedly because he was married to Steffi Graff.
Could also be because he tackled his addictions and stopped smoking meth.
Maybe a little but Meth probably helped him at least for the first few matches. Even though it appears to be an individual sport. Tennis is very much a group effort. It takes an entourage and the significant other is a huge part of that entourage.
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 4:24 pm
Moksha wrote:
Wed Jan 18, 2023 3:05 pm

It has to be taken all together. Look up George Santos and see what qualities he might have in common with Donald Trump.
Is there an allusion to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and San Luis Obispo I’m missing?

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Moksha wrote:
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Vēritās wrote:
Fri Oct 14, 2022 3:51 pm
And now it looks like he's going to be the first indicted President in history.

Yes, please Trump, please run again.
He needs a new VP who can easily follow the Trump style. George Santos is tailor-made for that role. Santos was once quarterback for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at San Luis Obispo. He threw biggly.
Both Trump and Santos make things up in a spectacular fashion. Might as well throw in totally unrelated and impossible story parts (neither Trump nor Santos could get into Rensselaer and it is on the opposite side of the country from San Luis Obispo). The juxtaposition of these oddities tickles my funny bone. Besides, they are fun names to say. Only the Republican leadership knows these things are BS and they don't care.

"He threw biggly", makes a slight effort to tie things into Tom Brady. Beyond that explaining is irksome.
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Some Schmo wrote:
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I like Brady; he seems like a decent dude. I do, however, consider him the MOOAT (most overrated of all time). People can call him GOAT, but people can believe in god, too. It's a question with no definitive answer, and ultimately makes no difference. He's had a great career, but to call him the best is to not really understand football, in my opinion.

That game on Monday was unsurprising. Brady is 45 and doesn't like getting hit anymore, and it showed anytime there was a hint of pass rush. He hurried passes and left most of them short.

But regardless of all that, I think the game showed in vivid detail that football is a team sport, and Brady (perhaps the LOAT - luckiest of all time) played on a lot of great teams in the past.

I still contend that Dan Marino was a better QB than Brady.

Anyway, he should have retired last year and paid attention to his family. How's that for Monday morning quarterbacking?
OK, you need to explain how you define GOAT then. I mean good Lord, if what he's accomplished doesn't qualify, I don't know what does.
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Vēritās wrote:
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OK, you need to explain how you define GOAT then. I mean good Lord, if what he's accomplished doesn't qualify, I don't know what does.
I define it based on talent, not championships.

And frankly, I'm reluctant to call anyone the "greatest of all time." Brady certainly wasn't the greatest last Monday, and Monday is part of "all time."

Would Brady have had his career success on every other team (or any other team, for that matter)? Highly doubtful. He was the beneficiary of a great coaching staff and system. No doubt, he made the most of it, but it was circumstances more than his individual talent that led to all that success. When the Patriots beat Seattle, it was their defense that made the critical play. Without the Patriot defense, Seattle's a 2 time winner. I think if someone like Dan Marino was in the Patriots' system all those years, they'd have been even better.

I'm not saying Brady sucks, but I think he's not as awesome as most people seem to think. He is obviously a decent team leader, great in big games and competent in the pocket, but he has his downsides. No mobility. Weak under pass rush pressure.

I'll admit that I find his game boring to watch, so that's probably part of it.
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The other thing that bugs me about the label "GOAT" is that the game has changed significantly over its history. It is WAY more QB/offense friendly today than it was even 20 years ago. You could absolutely blast a QB in the pocket back then, but these days, you can't even land on top of them on a sack.

It's not fair to compare today's QB's to those in past eras, because they're dealing with much different defenses today than they used to. There is no proper measure for "greatest of all time" because they all played different games depending on the era.
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