Tom Brady thinks Dwight Freeney is the best defensive player in the NFL
by BigBlueShoe on Oct 30, 2009 10:01 AM EDT
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Since everything Tom Brady says is gold, and since Tom Brady can say and do no wrong for both New England Patriots fans and the horny, sexually depraved higher-ups at ESPN, I guess Tom Brady's recent comments about Dwight Freeney might earn the All-Pro defensive end some props over players like Jared Allen and DeMarcus Ware.
It was toward the end of a wandering interview on Boston radio station WEEI last week that the question was posed: "Who is the most intimidating player you face?""Dwight Freeney," New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady replied. "Every play with him is a game-changing play. Advertisement
"Every time you throw the ball, (Freeney is) a factor. As a quarterback, you probably have anywhere from a second and a half to sometimes four seconds to make your decision and throw the ball.
"With Freeney, it's probably consistently around two seconds with sometimes being from the time the ball is snapped, a second and a half, you've got to throw that ball. There's no time for decision-making.
"You're making your decision before the ball is snapped based on the coverage."
Freeney is the best defensive end in football, period. While players like Allen are indeed quite good, they are not FEARED the way offenses fear Freeney. Allen, Mario Williams, DeMarcus Ware, and other high level players can make big plays and help their teams win. Freeney, however, can change the entire course of a game with one play, and Tom Brady has first hand experience with that.
Remember the 2006 AFC Championship Game? Of course you do. Remember Brady's game-ending INT, which was a poorly thrown ball over the middle that landed in the hands of Marlin Jackson? Know why Brady threw that pass?
Because Freeney was a second away from sacking him.
Dwight had beaten Matt Light around the corner and was a hair away from sending Tom to the turf. Guys like Allen, Williams, and others have yet to make plays like that in a game like that. Until they do, they are inferior defensive ends to Dwight Freeney.
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Nice praise...
from Brady!! He would know!! Didn’t Bruce Smith say something similar earlier this year? Something about how he felt Freeney was one defensive star that was going to be in the Hall of Fame.
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by TRDean on Oct 30, 2009 10:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Bruce Smith
Said he thinks Freeney will be in the HOF if he has a few more great seasons. By that Im guessing, he means If freeney has a few more 10+ sack seasons
by metal_militia on Oct 30, 2009 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here is what he said...
Jemond Smith, New Orleans
11:44 AM ET
Bruce, Other than yourself, name 4 of the next best DE’s that played during your era you strongly believe will make it to the HOF.
Bruce Smith I’ll come up with two. Michael Strahan will obviously be there. I think Dwight Freeney from the Colts also has a great shot.
This is from a BBS post…
"If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey."
"I don't really trust a sane person."
"I never met a man I didn't want to fight." The one and only Lyle Alzado
by TRDean on Oct 30, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
LovinBlue likes this.
How can you not love a team that does this?
by LovinBlue on Oct 30, 2009 11:03 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Cass likes that LovinBlue likes this.
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by Cassieper on Oct 30, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
here we go:
peytonsthebest likes that Cass likes that Lovin Blue likes this.
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007
by peytonsthebest on Oct 30, 2009 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by Cassieper on Oct 30, 2009 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
hmm..
Free must be difficult to block even while they’re stealing defensive signals.
That’s some high praise.
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by MarshallPlan on Oct 30, 2009 11:19 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
In all Honesty...
There’s not a lot of complexity to Dwight’s particular signals. Not much secret that 95% of the time his marching orders lok like this:
1) get in the backfield
2) fast
3) grab a ball carrier and throw him down
4) get ball if possible
5) repeat as necessary
even if they anticipate a blitz, I bet they double him in some way 75+% of the time.
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by Bobman on Oct 30, 2009 12:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're missing a step somewhere
2a) by spinning to the right
OR
2b) by spinning to the left
How can you not love a team that does this?
by LovinBlue on Oct 30, 2009 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
When it's all said and done
Dwight Freeney will go down as one of the best pass rushers in NFL history. What I really admire about Freeney is that he plays hard on every play something that Julius Peppers doesn’t know anything about. It’s cool that Brady said that about Freeney, but it’s even cooler that a HOFer like Bruce Smith says that he, and not Peppers or Allen, is HOF material.
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by KMR24 on Oct 30, 2009 11:21 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Peppers, that thief of the DROY award
can bite my a$$. Did you hear he’s really tall? And really fast? How did Al Davis not draft this guy? He is a phenomenal athlete, but so is Michael Phelps. But as far as being an elite DE, he’s over-hyped. If he was not the #2 pick that year, Freeney with more sacks in fewer starts wins that award. I am still holding a grudge, and it’s not even JP’s fault—it’s the a-hole voters.
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by Bobman on Oct 30, 2009 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bobman with a grudge.
Scary thought.
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by Cassieper on Oct 30, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
MIchael Phelps
isn’t really that great an athlete. He’s just a great swimmer.
Ask him, he’ll even say so. He’s horribly uncoordinated and not all that powerful. He can’t play any other sport even passably. There are hundreds of better athletes than him (overall) on NFL rosters and even practice squads.
by willyduer on Oct 31, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Career Year!
I think this may end up being the best year of Freeney’s career and I think he is on the cusp of becomming a Hall of Fame player. Like Bruce said, he just needs a few more years like this. Even so, I might put Jared Allen just a fraction ahead of Freeney at the moment. Not in terms of career accomplishment, mind you, but as best pass rusher in football right now. Demarcus Ware is fairly over-rated in my opinion. If you are talking about all defensive players Troy Polomalu needs to be in that discussion as well, but Freeney is right there with any of them.
by invisibulman on Oct 30, 2009 11:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
There is a reason...
…we call him Dwight the Fright!
by IBelieve1237 on Oct 30, 2009 12:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Especially tomorrow NIGHT!
keep the Halloween-themed rhyme going, folks….
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by Bobman on Oct 30, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Make sure you do the rhyme RIGHT!
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by Cassieper on Oct 30, 2009 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
'cause if you don't, that will BITE
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007
by peytonsthebest on Oct 30, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmmmmmm...........
“Dwight Freeney,” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady replied. "Every play with him is a game-changing play. Advertisement
What the heck? How did the word Advertisement sneak in there? This is just another example of how Stampede Blue is being taken over by corporate advertisement crap. Now BBS is trying to send us subliminal messages.
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by Cassieper on Oct 30, 2009 1:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I thought
That I was going to have to bitch-smack you.
I also wish I had time and motivation to blog at Speed Blue Nation
by Bullard47 on Oct 30, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sarcasm can do that.
One of the main reasons I put the warning there.
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by Cassieper on Oct 30, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeeeesh!
Tom Brady can’t even make a comment about a Colt’s player – a respectful comment in answer to a question – without getting beat on and ridiculed just proves he can’t catch an objective break around here. It was a local radio station – nothing to do with ESPN – that he calls into every week. What’s up with that???
Keep the faith!
by Marima on Oct 30, 2009 1:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
But ESPN is fun to make fun of.
Why can’t we do that?
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by Cassieper on Oct 30, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
make fun of ESPN???
well…. okay…. but don’t let it spoil your dinner.
Keep the faith!
by Marima on Oct 30, 2009 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It just might.
It fills me up with so much joy.
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Random fact of the week from the empty void that is my mind: This video right here has produced one of my favorite lines ever. It was so awesome that there has been 2 sequels. One where you must put a banana in your ear, and another where you must grab their tongues. Purely awesome.
by Cassieper on Oct 30, 2009 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why can't Brady catch an "objective break" around here?
Do you really want us to answer that?
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by MarshallPlan on Oct 30, 2009 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Allen and Ware knocks are unfair, Brady doesn't play the NFC guys enough to form a full opinion
Of course Tom Brady is going to say Dwight Freeney ahead of guys like Allen and Ware, he has barely played against the other two.
Tom Brady has faced Freeney every year, sometimes twice. He’s faced Allen twice, but not since 2005 and Ware just once.
While it would seem like Tom Brady should be an authority on the issue, he doesn’t see NFC guys enough to have much of an opinion on them.
by TheNoodleMan on Oct 30, 2009 3:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
but bruce smith might just be a little more qualified and he has also said a such thing about freeny
GO COLTS!!! 09 IS OURS!!!
by TheAngelsColts on Oct 30, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also, Brady did play the Cheifs several times wtih Allen there.
So I would say he knows about Allen. And Brady faced Ware in 2007, so he is familiar. And once again, Ware is NOT a DE. If he had to go from a Three-Point stance against a LT everytime, he would have 30-50% less sacks. If Freeney was a 3-4 OLB, God would end the world to save the QBs(obvious exaggeration).
I also wish I had time and motivation to blog at Speed Blue Nation
by Bullard47 on Oct 30, 2009 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If by "several" you mean 2 then yes Brady did play the Cheifs several times wtih Allen there.
BBS has tried to frame this statement as Brady picking Freeney over Allen and Ware. This is a distortion.
Read the question that Brady was asked:
“Who is the most intimidating player you face?”
Of course he is going to say someone he faces often.
Goes ask Aaron Rodgers the same question, you think he is going to say Freeney?
by TheNoodleMan on Oct 30, 2009 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I finally agree with Tommy.
"You can't defend the perfect throw, what can I say?" Peyton quoting Marino
by Indy Lori on Oct 30, 2009 6:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
im from chicago and ride with the bears. but i fucks with the colts 2 since like 06. LOL
by damasta on Oct 31, 2009 8:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Let's be fair
You said that the other top defensive ends aren’t on the same level as Freeney because they haven’t had great success on a big stage…
But every 2-3 weeks you write a post about how Peyton is better than everyone else despite only winning one superbowl. True, manning is the greatest QB of all time. But we moan and complain when people negate everything he’s done because he’s only won the big game once.
Same thing with freeney, but we’re doing it the oposite way.
That said, there is no RE (or DL, for that matter) that I would rather have on my team. He’s among the greatest pass rushers of all time and is not a troublemaker.
by AbroadColtsFan on Oct 31, 2009 8:49 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs
Eff that…stop complimenting our Defensive stud BRADY….calling him the best player in defense isn’t going to spare you come 11/15/09…He will Sack you!
by Z.Pain on Nov 6, 2009 9:13 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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