Bart Scott Basically Says Brady Fakes Injuries Before Every Big Game
Damon Amendolara – Tom Brady did not practice Thursday and is reportedly suffering from a hand injury that may or may not impact his performance in the AFC Championship on Sunday.
This could be a legitimate concern for New England, Bart Scott said, but it could also be Tom Brady up to his typical tricks.
“Brady always seems to have an injury around a big game,” Scott said on The DA Show. “I think that’s like a built-in excuse. It looked like he has maybe the splint on the thumb. So I don’t know if he maybe was throwing a pass and hit his thumb. But if it is his thumb, that is a cause for concern. …
“I mean, before it was the Achilles and it’s this and that,” Scott said. “Every year during the big game, it always seems to be an injury or a phantom injury or his shoulder was messed up and we just left it off the scouting report and things like that. I don’t know. …
“[The Jaguars are] going to have to have a plan for Gronk – and it can’t be one plan. It has to be multiple plans because you have to continue to mix it up with him. If I’m Jacksonville, I’m tackling Gronk low all day. He’s had lower-body injuries. That gets him thinking (about) guys taking his legs out.”
And if the Jaguars get a chance to hit Brady’s thumb or throwing hand, Scott said, take it.
“Yeah, all that,” Scott said. “I’m trying to bang on it, step on it, bite it – I don’t care what I got to do. Listen, I’m surprised somebody hasn’t just hit Brady late and slammed him on his head, like, ‘I just can’t take it no more. Fine me. Whatever.’ They might kick you out the league, though, if you hurt Brady. (You’d get) a lifetime suspension.”
Sweet Jesus, must we? Can’t everyone in New England lapse into full on, 5-alarm panic mode without hearing from Bart Scott? Can’t I just drown myself in a bath tub full of moderately priced hard liquor without having to listen to this pea brain not only accuse Brady of faking the injury but basically putting a bounty on Gronk’s leg and Brady’s powerful, beautiful, genetically perfect magic hand?
I’m convinced more with each passing minute that this is bad. Bad bad. As in “the only way to get to Minneapolis is to have Brian Hoyer in the pilot’s chair” level bad. Like the time in 1998 they met Jacksonville in the playoffs with Scott Zolak at quarterback instead of Drew Bledsoe and they scored 10 points. Only this time, the world will try to annihilate Belichick for the decision to trade Jimmy Garoppolo and leave us in the hands of Hoyer the Destroyer. The last goddamned thing I need in this life right now is mouth gasbags like Bart Scott who never won a thing in his life dancing on a grave that hasn’t been dug yet.
If this is what the future is going to be like, count me out. Please somebody make the bad things go away.