Tom Brady may be incensed that his best-laid plans have been up-ended by a bunch of NBA tacticians.
For years NBA players have known that Oscar-level performances can convince referees that a foul has taken place where none occurred. We see NBA stars collapse in a faint when another player with halitosis breathes on them.
It’s immediately whistled as a foul.
Though basketball players are willowy and look like twigs in a hurricane, they fall over with all the resilience of Marlon Brando performing a dying scene in one of his movies.
Tom Brady loves to control rhythm and tempo. He uses the no-huddle offense to drive the opposing defense to distraction, if not to the oxygen mask.
When Tom implements his dastardly and cruel strategy, the Patriots move the ball and bury the opponent.
A new, performance-enhancing technique came to his attention on Sunday while he sliced and diced the San Diego Chargers.
A funny thing happened when Tom Brady began his march. It was like someone took the surgical knife away from Jack the Ripper.
Big and powerful San Diego Chargers started to keel over like dysentery and bubonic plague had hit them on the line of scrimmage.
Brady is not a trusting soul. He hovered over fallen Chargers, not offering tea or sympathy, but offering suspicions that the fall in the line of duty was a fake.
The Chargers ended the Patriot progress, managed to make substitutions and succeeded in stopping Brady’s quick picks.
Tom has seen basketball at the TD Garden, and he knows a flopper when he sees one.
Brady may have even pointed out to the referees that the injuries sustained by Chargers were fortuitous at best, suspicious at worst.
Alas, Tom, the referees in the NBA still have not caught on to the act of a flopping, and we do not expect NFL referees to show any more insight into a stunning performance that would rival Garbo as Camille.
Get used to it, Patriot fans. We are about to receive a heavy dose of flopping during all Patriot drives to the Super Bowl.
If Tom has the football in hand and goal line in sight, NFL players will suddenly come down with the heebie-jeebies.
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