Tom Brady doesn’t play defense. While it is early in the season, the 2017 New England Patriots won’t make the playoffs. Most of the team’s payroll is spent on offense. Aside from Dont’a Hightower, Devin McCourty and Stephon Gilmore, the other defensive players are affordably average. Perhaps coach Bill Belichick should play poker and trade […]
Todd Gaudette
Stop the killing
As I watched the evening news recently about another black person killed by a white policeman, I worried that a response from the black community was imminent. A few hours later, the news changed, as did the focus of national lament. A black person was killing white police officers, just as I had suspected would […]
S. Brooker: Ready for that humble pie?
This letter is in response to Todd Gaudette’s letter, published Sept. 17, 2014, where he insinuated, after two regular season games, that the New England Patriots should be turning to Jimmy Garoppolo, due to Tom Brady’s act getting old and that “Due to lack of pass protection and his age, Brady may be gone as […]
T. Gaudette: Time for Tom to go
The San Francisco 49ers watched Joe Montana go to Kansas City. The Packers watched Brett Favre leave. Those two teams had built-in fixes — Steve Young and Aaron Rogers, respectively. Enter Jimmy Garoppolo. I know that it is tough to swallow, but Tom Brady’s act has gotten old. Due to lack of pass protection and […]