Archives for February 2010

Tom Brady earned high praise from parents and elected officials Monday night for listening to his constituents and deciding to keep two elementary schools open.After listening to hours of public debate on the proposed school closings, Brady made the following recommendations:

Delay closing Windmill Elementary School and Feinstein Elementary School at Sackett Street until a task force studies how to restore neighborhood schools at the elementary level.

Postpone the creation of three K-8 schools until the School Department is able to thoroughly explore the pros and cons of this approach. The district currently has middle schools with grades six through eight.

•Close Feinstein High School and Perry Middle School, but keep Bridgham Middle School open. Brady decided to keep Bridgham open because the building is in much better condition and has superior educational facilities.

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The patriots were just not the dominant team this year. They did not have an every down back who is a threat. This type of back would only help Brady greatly.

His Wide Outs are decent, however they are not very deep. Wes Welker is a work horse. He catches everything that comes his way.

He was much better we he was an unknown player. He has become the guy to stop in that offensive system.

Randy Moss still has the ability to have Hugh games, but these two are not the same duo they once were.

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The great debate of the past decade has centered around two top-tier quarterbacks. Tom Brady.

Peyton Manning. Dead horse? Maybe. It's been broken down hundreds, maybe thousands of times in the past.

Some would say that the two are beyond comparison because of their black-and-white styles of play.

Brady is far more cerebral, making safe throws on short patterns, while Manning is a risk-taker. The numbers don't lie in that regard.

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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s shoulder, fingers, and ribs have healed enough for him to play. Well, to play golf, anyway. Brady yesterday teed off in the first round of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Playing with pro Steve Marino, Brady's tandem is tied for 92d overall. They’re tied with, among others, Jason Gore and Don Cheadle.

Brady made SportsCenter this morning for one wild shot. He smoked an iron from the fairway that landed in the left rough, bounced off a hill, and rolled to within about five feet. Then he missed the putt. Does that count toward the Patriots’ red-zone problems?
 

Superstar quarterback Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts were defeated by the New Orleans Saints 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV Sunday at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida.

The game was ultimately decided by a crucial Manning miscue when his pass was intercepted and returned 74 yards for a touchdown by Saints cornerback Tracy Porter with only three minutes remaining in the decisive fourth quarter.

Manning, 33, a four-time AP NFL MVP and ten-time Pro Bowl selection, is rightfully considered one of the greatest signal-callers of all-time.

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Tom Brady and Peyton Manning a classic duel of top quarterbacks in football. Tom Brady took the league by storm in 2001 leading the team to the superbowl and winning it.

Since then he hasn't looked back winning two more superbowls and superbowl MVP in all three of them, a league MVP, set the single season passing touchdown record set by you guessed it Peyton Manning. Then he lost his first superbowl to the New York Giants.

Peyton Manning on the other hand has had an almost as good of a career. He has set records led team to playoffs, 4 mvps and 1 superbowl trophy.

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With quarterback Tom Brady entering the final year of his contract with the New England Patriots, the sides are expected to negotiate an extension that will likely make him one of the highest paid players in the NFL.

The question is when those talks will truly heat up.The presence of a $3 million roster bonus could potentially take negotiations to a higher level.

Brady is due the roster bonus on March 5, which is the first official day of the 2010 league year.Roster bonuses can create an added incentive for a team to strike a deal with a player.

Instead of paying the roster bonus and then later striking a lucractive extension, there is sometimes a benefit for the team to get it all done at once from an overall cash standpoint.

Brady's new deal could be anywhere from $15-18 million per season, and possibly higher, so it's difficult to gauge how much a $3 million roster bonus could factor into the pace of negotiations. But it is one factor that could come into play with Brady's contract situation.

New England Patriots’ Tom Brady and Indianapolis Colts’ Peyton Manning were named the quarterbacks on the National Football League’s All-Decade team for the 2000s.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick, 57, and retired Colts coach Tony Dungy, 54, also were named to the team, which was chosen by the selection committee for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the league said on its Web site.

Brady, 32, led the Patriots to three Super Bowl titles during the decade, while Manning, 33, won a record four.

Most Valuable Player Awards and one championship. He could win another when the Colts face the New Orleans Saints Feb. 7 in the Super Bowl in Miami.

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Every year the top stars from the NFL are selected to the Pro Bowl, but this year it is time for another edition of the team of the decade to be decided - with the best players from the last ten years chosen. There are no surprises as quarterback, with the two triggermen from the top two teams of the last decade included in Brady and Manning. Indianapolis Colts star Manning has won four MVP titles, including this year, and could bag a second Super Bowl if he can mastermind a win over New Orleans in Miami on Sunday.

While Manning has performed at a level of consistent brilliance, he has just his one Super Bowl crown in 2006, whereas Brady has been the ultimate big-game player after lifting the Vince Lombardi Trophy three times.
MVP Brady was MVP of the Super Bowl in wins over St Louis in 2002 and the Panthers in 2004, and led the team to retain the title in 2005 against Phialdelphia.

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