And Mike, this Brady bash was much less subtle than your St. Thomas one. Not sure which you wrote first, but you either warmed yourself up to the St. one or came out swinging but couldn’t manage a second round.

As soon as I saw this line, I thought, “I bet Florio wrote this nonsense.” Then I scrolled back up to see who wrote it… YUP, as expected.

As a 1 or 2, no way.

Arrington is a fine player within his given role, and I’d gladly like to see him back.

This line of thinking from people is interesting. Brady added 3 years to his agreement at $9M per below market value to lower cap hit for his team in exchange more security, up front $, and injury security and he somehow did something wrong here (i.e., way below – say 50% to 55% below – given he could have asked for $18-$20M given what Brees, Flacco, and P Manning got in their most recent deals)? He lowered his cap hit, evening out the hits over the next 5 years, and took 3 years way below market to do that so his team could sign more players to give them a better chance to win. Yes he gets $3 million more the next two years than otherwise would be the case (assuming the Pats were not going to cut him in that window) & more guaranteed, but in this day and age, taking less than MV should be applauded rather than going for every last nickel and exhausting more of your team’s $ available under cap. Plus adding the years was needed to extend the accruals and lower the caps in next two seasons.