According to the Dan Patrick show, Curran gave his reasons why and it involves a certain farm animal. "If Tom Brady was still with the Patriots, would this many players be opting out of the season? @TomECurran doesn't think so."
Curran said Stidham and Newton were "7 and 9" quarterbacks and that the team would be "championship caliber" with Brady. He also said the reasoning the players gave was hard to accept excuses. That's pretty low for the NBC Analyst.
From having children to surviving cancer, these players are human. They might get paid thousands to millions of dollars to play a kids game but they're still human. How ever, Tom Curran's comments show he has zero respect for their humanity.
Brian Mazique of the Heavy weighted in in this, writing "If Curran believes each player is truly concerned with all of those things they mentioned (health, family, etc), but they would be willing to make the sacrifice for a chance to play with Brady again and win, that concept calls the priorities they shared into question."
Some people chose to play and don't care about the virus, that's fine. As fans, we all appreciate those who put their health and safety on the line to entertain us and take our mind off the seriousness of the world. Calling these grown men liars though, that's disrespectful.
Then to say the players have no faith in either Stidham or Newton? Really Cam took the Panthers to the superbowl in 2015. Sure both quarterbacks have red flags but to lie and say they're worried about covid when they're actually not willing to lose is unbecoming of the Patriots way. "Do your job" and "next man up" aren't just sayings, those are things Patriots take seriously.
I just cannot phantom Curran being right about this. This take is way, way out there for a ratings grab. Tom had better have quality sources on this one. To question the man hood and honor of these six New England Patriots is sad and pathetic.
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