If there was any misjudgement by BB, and I don't think there was, that misjudgement was colored by TFB turning into TB12 right before our eyes.
The last year he was here, when he had more 'tude than any of us had ever seen from him, most of us knew BB wouldn't stand for that kind of mutinous behavior any longer.
It wasn't Brady's play, it was his attitude that turned BB against him.
First off, the correct phrase is "collossal" misjudgement. Please try to keep that straight moving forward.
In all seriousness, part of the complexity of the situation was that Bill has always had the final say here and we all recall the dilemma we had with an established legend getting well into
QB old age and a young QB with potential that couldn't get snaps. We couldn't be sure WHAT exactly he was but carrying two starter QB salaries wasn't realistic. Brady knew he had
plenty of clout with Kraft and didn't appreciate actual competition.
Brady knew full well that Kraft was even more emotionally attached to him than the fan base who expected a Super Bowl trip or a close call every season -- so he stopped
being a dutiful soldier and starting flexing his muscles by forcing the Jimmy trade and lobbying hard for a talented-yet-borderline sociopath in Antonio Brown who lasted
exactly one week before he once again was in big trouble. Brady was finding out that that he was the most powerful player in the league and once he got a taste he wanted
more and played out the string in 2019 as he tunneled his way out of Foxboro one spoonful at a time while pretending to give a shit for idiots like me who paid 1300 bucks
a season to watch him. He didn't like taking orders, Bill didn't like having criminals on his roster and Kraft just wanted Tom to love him. It was like an unintentional comedy. Things
had reached critical mass in Foxboro.
I could criticize all three of them for various mistakes along the way, but, perhaps more importantly for the sport as a whole, Brady showed all the other top stars in the league that they didn't have to just cash their ridiculous paychecks and do what the boss said anymore -- They too could be the influential swinging dicks and what Rodgers is doing up in Green Bay is right out of Brady's playbook. This is not the last time we will be seeing guys mobilize the media and the fanbase to get whatever they want and the contract they signed is just a piece of paper because
now they get to be HAPPY too. The inmates can now run the asylum. You can't sit your superstar QB out because he's being a dick, so he's in control.
All of this is considered fact based on Tom's Big 2019 Tampa Adventure. A perfect scenario that might never happen again. Everything came up rainbows and unicorns for them in the
shittiest year ever of NFL football for anybody outside of Tampa Bay.
I don't know if anybody here knows that Tampa is FAVORED to go to the Super Bowl this season, but I just figured I'd mention it in case anybody missed the news.
It's also possible that they could get key injuries, have chemistry issues or just plain not play as well as so many other teams have found out the hard way. Or maybe next season their last two opponents don't lose both of their pro-bowl OTs and replace them all with sorry-assed slappies who can't pass block. That was unbelievably fortunate for Tampa. Any idiot could see that.
Now, MAYBE it's all directly due to Giselle's mystical crystal stone altar and Tommy will win ten straight Super Bowls until football gets boring and he decides to leave his human form behind to become a spiritual being comprised of shimmering white light but, it's way more likely that shit will go sideways for him and the Bucs in 2021.