DBWI: Tom Brady plays pro football

The seemingly ageless fitness magnate Tom Brady called not being drafted into the NFL “a blessing in disguise,” especially after he started his fitness empire TB10 (Tom Brady, number 10 from his playing days at Michigan.) He certainly is no worse for wear after his company went public and made him a billionaire overnight.

And I just read his book as well, the one about the counterterrorism unit working out of Michigan’s football team - good for him to get the university’s permission to use the school’s name and history - and it was good but not super-awesome.

Could Brady have been anywhere near as good a quarterback as he is a businessman? Was anyone going to take a chance on him or would he have made it as a UFA?
 
At the time, if you remember, he had what was famously described as the "body of an accountant". If Brady had all the stress of the NFL put on him, he'd probably end fizzling out because of his fitness and worsened mental state. It would be cool to think of, though. He could play against his now-best friend (and, in my opinion, the Greatest of All Time) Peyton Manning, or the early-2000s Dynasty Patriots and the vaunted Drew Bledsoe-Bill Belichick pairing.
 
IIRC Brady wasn't even projected to be drafted all that high (if at all), the experts had him as a 6th-round pick at best. Barring some catastrophe, he would have been another forgettable "career backup" quarterback.
 
IIRC Brady wasn't even projected to be drafted all that high (if at all), the experts had him as a 6th-round pick at best. Barring some catastrophe, he would have been another forgettable "career backup" quarterback.

I can't imagine what team would have even picked him up... all the QB needy ones found their man earlier in the draft, or in free agency. At his very best he could be a poor man's Kurt Warner, and even then he probably wouldn't have gotten Warner's three rings.
 
He was drafted by baseball and played college football but again...at best he could be the next rich gannon...if he get a gruden like coach..maybe the raiders draft him?
 
Yeah, at best he’s probably a flash-in-the-pan who’s memorable only for a short time, but that might be fun. I’m thinking he cobbles together a good run with a team focused on running and defense, like that Buccaneers team that won it all.

I kind of got curious about him because I took some money from my tax refund to buy the first steps in his program. I’m in my late 30s now and it’s hard to stay energetic - I have to say it’s working pretty well but it’s driving my wife up the wall. That and some dipshit Ohio State bootlicker saw me reading the book that came with it and smacked me upside my head and said “Michigan sucks!” when he did it. I hate Columbus sometimes.

So I did some digging and it led me here of all places - a very dedicated fan wrote a TL called “The Patriot Way” where Tom Brady won a shit-ton of Super Bowls with the Patriots. It was intriguing, if for no other reason than that every Super Bowl but the last one (the author must have been tired) was a barnburner if it involves the Pats (a little ASB since only 25% of Super Bowls are one-score games.) Figures the author’s a Pas fan - the two rings against the Panthers and Eagles weren’t enough.

(OOC: The Patriot Way is OTL, globviously.)
 
Those 2003-4 Pats were totally defense-based, Drew Bledsoe was basically Jim Plunkett with those back to back Super Bowls, except that he had also gone to one in 1996 nd lost to the Packers.

Interestingly, Plunkett was a Patriot at first. It's like not letting go of Bedsoe let them do what they maybe could have done had they kept Plunkett. Bledsoe has never sniffed the final 15 of the Hall of Fame selection, and neither has Plunkett. History may not repeat - but it rhymes.

But, speaking of history rhyming, Brady and his empire is much like another athlete who was just not quite good enough yet extremely successful at something else - Chuck Connors. "The Rifleman" played pro basketball with the Celtics for couple years and had a cup of coffee with the Cubs in 1951, and Brady did get up to the majors for a few games in what, 2002 or so, but when he didn't make the majors gain the next year he retired. And, I can see Brady playing a few yeas in the NFL like Connors in basketball.
 
(OOC: The Patriot Way is OTL, globviously.)
yeah but like the dawg pound dynasty that TL read like a fucking NE fairytaile, seriously, not even browns fad were as jaded as pats one.

I kind of got curious about him because I took some money from my tax refund to buy the first steps in his program. I’m in my late 30s now and it’s hard to stay energetic - I have to say it’s working pretty well but it’s driving my wife up the wall.
You need discipline for that program, it works and brady and others how if you follow it with discpline work, that is why some credence he could have pull something in football at pro level but not unlike the fairytale of patriots way
 
I think that Brady would have been an average quarterback who would show some promise but just fizzle out after a while. Who knows, maybe he would have won six super bowls, but I think that'd be very improbable.
 
I think that Brady would have been an average quarterback who would show some promise but just fizzle out after a while. Who knows, maybe he would have won six super bowls, but I think that'd be very improbable.

And maybe I’d be the Pope. If Tom Brady got drafted at all, there was a 50% it’d be to an AFC team, which would mean he would have to face Peyton Manning’s Colts quite a bit until 2016, or dynasties like the early 2000s Patriots, or the late 2000s, early 2010s Broncos and Aaron Rodgers. That’s assuming he even plays long enough to pass the 2000s Pats.
 
And maybe I’d be the Pope. If Tom Brady got drafted at all, there was a 50% it’d be to an AFC team, which would mean he would have to face Peyton Manning’s Colts quite a bit until 2016, or dynasties like the early 2000s Patriots, or the late 2000s, early 2010s Broncos and Aaron Rodgers. That’s assuming he even plays long enough to pass the 2000s Pats.
Maybe the Lions would have drafted Tom Brady, due to him having gone to school in Michigan. Then again, Detroit was a quarterback's graveyard during the 2000s, until Sam Bradford turned out to be quite good and lead the Lions to a few playoff berths.
 
Brady's upside as a NFL QB is Ryan Fitzpatrick. That's not bad, Fitzpatrick has enjoyed a nice career as a journeyman QB and made a lot of money to play a game but that is Brady's upside. He may not have been that good.

In his fitness and health business he has been revolutionary and pro athletes from any number of sports attest to that. Lebron James and Michael Phelps both credit Brady's program with helping them perform at such high levels for so long. Meb Keflezhigh said there is no way he wins the Boston Marathon at the age of 38 without Brady's help.
 
Guys, if he was splitting reps with Drew Henson at Michigan, I don't know why we're having much of a conversation about this.

He sure made Henson look bad when he came through Columbus. I mean, shit, Brady with the Tigers’ AAA team in Toledo drove the Clippers (AAA Yankees at the time) up the wall. Maybe if Brady hadn’t been hurt (or on that dreadful ‘03 Tigers team) he would have stuck with baseball.
 
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