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Leif Larsen! Tom Brady goes to the Patsy's 5 picks later, we all know the rest is history. Alex Van Pelt, Flutie & Johnson were just that good. The curse began with Leif, I say let's burn him at the stake!

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Alex Van Pelt, Flutie & Johnson were just that good.

You say that like Tom Brady was a big deal coming out of school. Last time I checked the 199th overall draft pick doesn't get a 60 million dollar contract as a rookie. They are lucky to get a team hat with their first contract.

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Not sure if the Bills were using HGH at that time

 

Apparently Tom Brady found some

 

http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tombrady-combine.jpg

 

Tom Brady was the friggin' back up at Michigan. Tell me who saw this schlub as a future 3X SB MVP and hall-of-famer? Did the Bills whiff? So did 30 other teams.

 

Not that I can prove it but I believe Tom Brady only became ***TOM BRADY*** because he went to New England. Was it coaching or something else? As a Bill he would likely have been cut and forgotten long ago.

 

PTR

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Tom Brady was the friggin' back up at Michigan. Tell me who saw this schlub as a future 3X SB MVP and hall-of-famer? Did the Bills whiff? So did 30 other teams.

 

Not that I can prove it but I believe Tom Brady only became ***TOM BRADY*** because he went to New England. Was it coaching or something else? As a Bill he would likely have been cut and forgotten long ago.

 

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While you're generally right, he wasn't the backup.

 

http://www.totalfootballstats.com/PlayerQB.asp?id=403

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Leif Larsen! Tom Brady goes to the Patsy's 5 picks later, we all know the rest is history. Alex Van Pelt, Flutie & Johnson were just that good. The curse began with Leif, I say let's burn him at the stake!

 

Get over it. It was 11 years ago and I'm sure you weren't sitting in front of your TV screaming that we should take Brady.

 

On another note, what guarantee is there that he would have been nearly as successful on the Bills?

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While you're generally right, he wasn't the backup.

 

http://www.totalfoot...erQB.asp?id=403

 

 

No he wasn't. I remember watching him at Michigan; he was pretty good QB on a very good team. Looking back, it's hard to figure why teams had so little interest in him given that he was a good pocket passer from a big program and there was so little QB talent in that draft. The Browns took a QB named Spergon Wynn from SW Texas St earlier in that round. Good call there.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/2000/nfldraft/breakdowns/by_position/QB.html

 

SI's review of Brady was fairly positive, sounds like they thought he had everything other than the dreaded "big arm" that so many teams have followed to their doom.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/nfl/2000/nfldraft/players/13296.html

 

He wasn't the outright starter, he was splitting time with the phenom Drew Henson.

 

True, but the 'split' was about 80/20.

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Tho me their downfall was picking Mike Williams over Bryant McKinney, who was a pretty obviusly more talented left tackle. We went for "character" whatever the hell that is. Character and a buck will get you a cup of coffee some places, but it ain't going to get you into the playoffs.

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The bigger mistake was trading a #1 for Drew Bledsoe. Drew only looked good for one year and eventually decided he needed a replacement. It gave New England another #1 and allowed Brady to be the permanent starter.

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Leif Larsen! Tom Brady goes to the Patsy's 5 picks later, we all know the rest is history. Alex Van Pelt, Flutie & Johnson were just that good. The curse began with Leif, I say let's burn him at the stake!

 

This topic is a triple wallbash.

 

 

:wallbash::wallbash::wallbash:

 

There.

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And only if I had put a grand on the Giants to win the last World series in the spring of 2010....what were the odds? Look, we all look good when we know the outcome - in this case as you'll recall, we paid a ransom for RJ who was to QB us for the foreseeable future and we needed D-Line help...the move made sense then.

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Leif Larsen! Tom Brady goes to the Patsy's 5 picks later, we all know the rest is history. Alex Van Pelt, Flutie & Johnson were just that good. The curse began with Leif, I say let's burn him at the stake!

I liked Leif because he had the talent but he didn't have the heart for the game. Growing up in Norway and and just trying out for his college Team (Texas Elpaso ?)as he had a track scholarship, it just wasn't in his blood. No one new about Brady so lets quit beating this horse.

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