I don’t think there’s much to like about the guy when he’s not playing quarterback.
You’d better believe that’s a tough thing to write, given how much joy — not to mention six Lombardi Trophies — he brought to this region. Patriots fans are probably saying, “How dare you, you dope?” Non-Patriots fans are probably saying, “What took you so long, you dope?”
Well, here’s the basic timeline. Appreciated every extraordinary thing he did on the field during his 20 years with the Patriots … recognized he was getting weird on us with stuff like the Alex Guerrero connection, offensively overpriced TB12 gear, and the no-mushroom policy, but hey, his unprecedented late-career excellence made for a heck of a case on his behalf … cringed when the formerly down-to-earth young QB who used to chug beers faster than his linemen started pushing crypto and running with the oligarch class… watched almost every broadcast of his rookie season as Fox’s lead NFL analyst last fall, eventually concluding that the reason he didn’t show much personality is that it might not be there to show …
But the tipping point that brought on the aforementioned realization was Brady’s behavior in his version of a current trend among the rich, famous, and presumably bored — buying an English soccer team, and making a documentary about it in which the star is the rescuing hero.