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[PeteNYC]

It's funny watching you get in a snit over the Yankees as though you play for them or any one of them would piss on your ass if it was on fire.


You can't stop talking about Patriots fans defending Brady... But someone dare utter a word about Dirt's Yankees and them gloves are a-coming off...


Last week you called Rock "the biggest pussy on the boards" because he uttered a negative word about them.

today, you got his back because he doesn't think they'll be in last place.



You're not on the team Dirt... it's Ok to not take everything so personally.

HOLY SHIT!
aren't you the one that wants to kill Johnny Damon because he left the Sox?

Aren't you the one that pretend named your kid after the QB for the Patriots?

But- Dirt takes it too serious!?!?!?

 

[BUCCS469]

Anne Franks Deli


But its hard to find

i thought that was up in the attic of some place in queens

 

[Rock Strongo]

So Tom Brady sees "ghosts" under pressure. At least that's what Pittsburgh nobody Ryan Clark says. Well, then, maybe other quarterbacks should see what Brady does. Because if there's a gold standard for the position, it's Tom Brady.

Since taking over as New England's starter in 2001, he's been to five Super Bowls and seven conference championship contests and won the AFC East title every year he finished a season except for one.

That was 2002 when New England tied for first and lost the tiebreaker.

Nevertheless, Clark insists Brady's not the same and wilts under pressure. Maybe, except there are a couple of things to point out: Brady is 35, so, no, he's not the same. Plus, he absorbed a zillion hits over his career, so I'd hope he's sensitive to pressure by now.


But wilt? I don't think so. Since returning from a season-ending knee injury in 2008, Brady hasn't missed a start, hasn't lost a division title and is 49-15, with 137 touchdowns, 37 interceptions and one unanimous league MVP award.

Impressive? You bet. But pass the message to Clark. He said Brady will "duck" and "flinch" even when he's not about to be sacked, adding that he reacts when "his clock goes off in his head and the ball should be out." I don't know about that. What I do know is that too many quarterbacks don't listen to clocks in their head and commit stupid mistakes, get pulverized or both.

Meaning they should be more like Tom Brady.

Clark seems to suggest that Brady is morphing into a present-day Jim Everett, but that's not even close. Brady is tough, accurate and enormously successful, and if he has a shortcoming it's not enough support from teammates he's had to carry for too many years.

I think back to 2006 when his go-to receivers were Jabar Gaffney and Reche Caldwell, yet somehow Brady had the Patriots within a minute of advancing to Super Bowl XLI. That was the season Clark joined Pittsburgh, so he should remember. He should also remember that in three games vs. Pittsburgh since Clark's been there, Brady is 2-1, with nine touchdowns, no interceptions and a passer rating of 116.9.

I'll take that, ghosts or no ghosts.

Still, his critics tell us Brady's lost his mojo, pointing to a 3-5 record in his last eight playoff games and his failure to win a Super Bowl since the 2004 season. Fair enough. What they forget to mention is that Brady hasn't had a downfield threat since Randy Moss left, was forced to tough out the 2009 playoffs with broken ribs and had to carry the club in recent years -- with the New England defense ranked no higher than 25th the past three seasons, including 31st in 2011 when the Patriots reached the Super Bowl.

Oh, yeah, then there's this: Brady lost his last two Super Bowl games ... except he didn't. The New England defense did. In both defeats, the Patriots couldn't prevent the New York Giants from driving the length of the field on their last series. In Super Bowl XLII, it was an 83-yard drive punctuated by a touchdown with 35 seconds left. Five years later it was an 88-yard series, with the Giants scoring the go-ahead TD with 57 seconds remaining.

I don't argue that Tom Brady isn't the quarterback he was five years ago. The guy turns 36 in August, for crying out loud. Yet he continually is asked to do more with less.

In 2006, the Patriots shuttled Brady's favorite receiver, Super Bowl MVP Deion Branch, off to Seattle after he held out of training camp. In 2010, they got rid of Moss after he complained about a contract extension. Then, two months ago, they let Brady's favorite target, Wes Welker, walk to Denver after Brady called him "the heart and soul of what our team is all about."

Tom Brady's problem isn't ghosts. Playmakers are. He doesn't have enough of them. He never did. Yet somehow, some way, he wins where others could not, and listen up, Ryan Clark: It's that success -- not imaginary pass rushers -- that makes Ton Brady unique.

the numbers ESPN showed when he is in the pocket for more than 3 seconds, were nauseating

i wonder what a guy like bens QBR is in the pocket for more than 3 seconds?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

i've notice all the blue jays bashers have had a lot less to say the past few days. normally we would have about 15 pages full of jays bashing.

If the Heat lose tonight, do they get swept?

 

[Down38st8]

Oh...and the Yankees on May 8th? 17th in runs scored...a week late, and 4 spots in the rankings off on my prediction...Give it another week or so...

Shoot me...

 

[heatwave31]

blue jays suck

does that make you feel better?

ahhhh back to normal

 

[BUCCS469]

blue jays suck

does that make you feel better?

they are still in last by 2 games too....its not like they suddenly got to.500.....or even close for that matter

 

[PeteNYC]

What's the one deli off Broadway near time square?


I got a turkey sandwich from there that was about 7 inches high.

7"... are they calling it a Turkey Sandwich now?
I can't keep track - donkey punch, rusty trombone, turkey sandwich. too many to follow

 

[cerealboi]

Haha. Avoiding the question without avoiding it, and a touch of humor thrown in. Good job buddy!

What's wrong with keeping a little mid-game snack on your left forearm? Sabathia keeps a stick of butter in his belly button for his 5th inning munchies.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

HOLY SHIT!
aren't you the one that wants to kill Johnny Damon because he left the Sox?

Aren't you the one that pretend named your kid after the QB for the Patriots?

But- Dirt takes it too serious!?!?!?

Kill Damon? No... Hate him more than any other professional athlete?

Yep..


And yep, my youngest son is named Brady.


Any other questions, Peter?

 

[heatwave31]

If the Heat lose tonight, do they get swept?

if they lose tonight they win 4 -2

 

[Uno]

Oh...and the Yankees on May 8th? 17th in runs scored...a week late, and 4 spots in the rankings off on my prediction...Give it another week or so...

Shoot me...

lol....so you were wrong...way wrong...


and now you're refusing to address your "rock-like" changing the definitions of words used in everyday conversation


shocking!

 

[Village Plumber]

Love me a nice Corned Beef sandwich on rye.

Pete / VP, best Jewish deli in NYC?

Huge misconception - if you want to know what the best jooish deli's are, the last people to know the answer are joos

Most of the famous ones are entirely patronized by the gentiles who are jealous of our way of life

 

[blade]

He strikes me more as verlander than Scott Richmond, and I'm not one that typically humps a small sampling. The kids total makeup, hos pounding of the strikezone, and his stuff has me believing this is a rare type of pitcher

Let's see how he handles some adversity.

Let's see how he handles a slump.

Let's see what he does when he comes up against an umpire that has the balls to squeeze the strike zone on him the way all umpires are supposed to do (see unwritten rules of baseball) to rookies.

Let's see how he handles it when he has to pitch with some pain.

He's still an infant in terms of his major league career. We don't really know a damn thing about him yet.

 

[Sake Bomb Sam]

i've notice all the blue jays bashers have had a lot less to say the past few days. normally we would have about 15 pages full of jays bashing.

You think the bashing has slowed or stopped because the Jays won 3 in a row?

More likely that horse has been beaten beyond recognition.

And since you are such a fan of emoticons.....

 

[mike hunt]

When Brady see's the Ghosts do they wear Blue and sport a NY on there helmets

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Memo to Sandy Alderson learn how to put together a bull pen and trade or sign a real outfielder, carry on

Testify.

 

[black francis]

Faith No More wrote "Easy" for the Commodores

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

Ryan Clarke knows what's up

 

[BUCCS469]

You think the bashing has slowed or stopped because the Jays won 3 in a row?

More likely that horse has been beaten beyond recognition.

And since you are such a fan of emoticons.....

well said sake...well said