For The Tom Brady Conspiracy Theorists
January 16th, 2021
“Now listen, if Marshon Lattimore so much as looks at Mike Evans, you pull that flag out of your back pocket. Or you will work nothing but Jags and Jets games next year, got it?”
It boils down to this: The NFL is a TV league. The reason why offenses have been opened up as a result of rule changes over the decades is because offense sells tickets.
More importantly, offense puts rear ends in front of TVs.
For example, tomorrow’s game between the Bucs and the Saints in the divisional round of the playoffs is billed as “Brady vs. Brees.” Quarterbacks are what people pay attention to (and owners know this very, very, very well).
Quarterbacks sell jerseys. Quarterbacks sell drama. Quarterbacks sell suspense. Quarterbacks get the attention.
And TV eyeballs.
After all, only a full-blown moron would try to sell the Bucs-Saints tomorrow night as Bradley Pinion vs. Thomas Morstead.
Simply put, the NFL loves quarterbacks and there are few quarterbacks the NFL covets and markets and promotes more than park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking Tom Brady.
Look how many primetime games the Bucs had this season. Look how many late-afternoon, nationally-televised games the Bucs had. Both Bucs playoff games are night games. That’s because of Brady.
It sure as hell isn’t because of Taylor Heinicke.
So with the Packers pounding the Rams today to advance to the NFC Championship, which will be played at historic Lambeau Field, easily-triggered slimy Saints fans are already smelling a conspiracy.
Slimy Saints fans already think the fix is in. The Bucs will advance to the NFC Championship with the help of the refs because, they believe, the NFL and FOX want a Brady vs. Aaron Rodgers matchup.
You know, eyeballs.
Damn. He’s right. Brady vs Rodgers is an NFL dream. 30 mil audience? 40? https://t.co/E7zulRkkwv
— Jason McIntyre (@jasonrmcintyre) January 17, 2021
Now Joe’s good friend Jason McIntyre, of FOX Sports, is an unapologetic NBA honk. The NBA for decades has always had conspiracies and rumors of shady backroom deals going on because of TV contracts. Allegedly.
The NBA conspiracy-types believed the league always shafted teams so Magic vs. Larry would play in the finals. Michael Jordan played under a fully different set of rules because he was the league’s golden goose; ping pong balls in the NBA’s dumb draft lottery were like loaded dice so the Knicks could get Patrick Ewing… on and on and on.
So McIntyre comes from an NBA conspiracy background.
Would NFL strongman Roger Goodell have zebras throw a game to produce a desired result? Joe doesn’t think so (certain sportsbooks the NFL is now in bed with might have something to say about a stunt like that).
Would Goodell order zebras to call defensive interference penalties to help Brady win a playoff game? Joe doubts it.
But would Joe cry if the Bucs took advantage of a really shady Don Denkinger-like call in which the Bucs beat the slimy Saints to advance to the NFC Championship?
Hell, no!
(Or could all of this just be that Saints fans are so conditioned by so many Saints choke jobs of playoffs past?
January 16th, 2021 at 8:44 pm
Brady vs Brees
Brady vs Rodgers
Brady vs Mahomes
I don’t care if the fix is in or not so long as it happens.
January 16th, 2021 at 8:45 pm
People would watch a Rodgers/Brees matchup, too.
January 16th, 2021 at 8:50 pm
The refs don’t have to cheat. Just call the obvious Jersey pulls on Lattimore and Gardner Johnson. A nice personal foul on Jordan would be good too. Not like he won’t commit one. Dirtiest team in the league for God knows how many years. Refs need to do their job with this bunch
January 16th, 2021 at 8:53 pm
This is called building in a excuse in case you lose. We’ve been seeing a lot of this lately.
January 16th, 2021 at 8:54 pm
The league already didn’t make the Saints vacate their illegitimate Super Bowl win, so they don’t need another one.
January 16th, 2021 at 9:32 pm
Kentucky: I’ve been saying it all week; the Saints have always played dirty and are going to try to bait us into a penalty or ejection.
Rod Munch: that was funny as he!!
January 16th, 2021 at 9:38 pm
Cam Jordan will use all his dirty tricks to bait Ryan Jensen into getting a flag. I wish we can get a big lead late in the game with about 4 minutes left n Jensen just take one for the team n just whack CJordan one time in the gut. I’m tired of SPeyton n his undercover boundary. Anyone remember Brees beating us late in game with game outta hand n saints still trying to run the score up on us. Please don’t take it light on Brees
January 16th, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Oh please…everyone would love to say Brees retires a Super Bowl winner.
January 16th, 2021 at 10:08 pm
I want the Bucs to blow the Saints out so they have no excuses for getting their tails kicked.
January 16th, 2021 at 10:10 pm
And make tomorrow the last career game for that racist garden gnome #9 wearing ugly black and gold.
January 16th, 2021 at 10:23 pm
Yea right I don’t care who plays QB it’s the Bucs and we never get any calls our way. Have we gotten a little more cause of Brady maybe but nothing like the patriots would get with Brady and Bellicheat. Sean Payton and Brees get a lot of calls there way and saints play dirty..
January 16th, 2021 at 10:29 pm
Aye… I’ll take it any way it comes got dammit..😂😂😂
January 16th, 2021 at 10:29 pm
@Logan, nobody outside Louisiana gives a crap if Brees wins a Super Bowl or not. That team is despised league wide. The stench of bounty gate will never leave that team. They still embrace dirty play in a time that it’s been eliminated for the most part.
January 16th, 2021 at 10:31 pm
It’s about to happen family!! It’s our time!!! This is our time!!!
January 16th, 2021 at 10:44 pm
It’s our time. Never forget how the Saints have disrespected us with the eating Ws, and dancing in the locker room after they blew us out in our own house. Karma is a biotch. Third time is a charm! Go Bucs!!
January 16th, 2021 at 10:51 pm
The Bert Emanuel call in the 1999 NFC championship was shady as hell, so I don’t put anything past the NFL when it comes to fishy calls. Yeah, I’m still bitter about it too. 😛
January 16th, 2021 at 11:18 pm
Feel like they would try to give the game to NO if this were the case. Rodgers/Brees also pulls viewers and it’s his last season with the ability to go out on top.
January 16th, 2021 at 11:21 pm
Buczilla
I’m with you.. NFL couldn’t stand the idea of Buc ball(defense) beating the greatest show on turf.
If we win that game, the Bucs destiny would have been totally different. Perhaps no lost decade.
January 16th, 2021 at 11:23 pm
So what NO is saying is, “ the only way we lose is if it is rigged” ??
January 16th, 2021 at 11:25 pm
welp…
that video sure was fun to watch tho…
saints taking it on the chin over and over and over…
brees kinda beefing to matty hasselback post game too…lol
January 16th, 2021 at 11:27 pm
remember earlier this year when cam jordan punched rojo in a pile, when he was already long down on the turf…
i guess he thought that punch would be buried in the may lay…but it was super visible
January 17th, 2021 at 1:17 am
I live here on New Orleans joe. Their fans definitely are waiting for them to have a horrible loss. I hope we can deliver Tomorrow.
January 17th, 2021 at 2:16 am
Dude is wrong. He obviously hasn’t seen any Bucs games. We usually are playing the other team and the refs.
January 17th, 2021 at 2:40 am
word on the street is ron jeremy is gonna be rooting for the bucs from his jail cell
January 17th, 2021 at 3:44 am
Anybody who has watched Brady and Pats games know how bad the ref screw jobs against them were getting towards the end. I think it was another reason why Brady wanted out. NFL doesn’t want two white men (Brady/Belichick) getting any more great than they already were. Brady might have a chance if it’s just one white guy.
But don’t kid yourself, the rigging for Mahomes last year was ridiculous. The Pats-Chiefs regular season game ref’d by Jerome Boglar was the most rigged thing I’ve ever seen. I fully expect the refs to be on the Saints side today. Helping Brees’s legacy hurts Tom’s and that’s what the NFL wants. Times need to change and the NFL is just an arm of the social engineers. WFT fumbled and TB recovered in the previous game. WFT had a TD drop that they reviewed and still called it a TD. Huge huge swing plays.
The only reason the Pats-Rams SuperBowl was so cleanly ref’d was because the refs were under a microscope following the screwup in NO with the Rams not getting PI against the Saints in the NFC Championship.
January 17th, 2021 at 4:47 am
Never mind the zebras.
Just winthefriggin game.
January 17th, 2021 at 7:05 am
Jmarkbuc……. The most disturbing quote of all. “they can’t win unless lt’s fixed” For those with an i.q. higher than their age, know what happened in November. It took them 4 yrs to design the plan but they pulled it off. That senile old ,(i’m 69), got 80 million votes? REALLY???????????????? “here’s your sign”
January 17th, 2021 at 7:20 am
The only way we win is if they call roughing the passer every time they sack Brady. That’s what this game will come down to. Who can put the other guy’s QB on his arse the most.
January 17th, 2021 at 7:25 am
Make it so.
January 17th, 2021 at 7:46 am
Alton Green, Binden won and trump lost so sit down and stfu!
January 17th, 2021 at 7:49 am
#PoundBressIntoRetirement
January 17th, 2021 at 8:21 am
ROD MUNCH IS SMART 😭😭😭😭😭😭
January 17th, 2021 at 9:50 am
Alton
Your Q is showing. And it directly effects your IQ.
January 17th, 2021 at 9:52 am
Wow and all that talk about censorship from the right…🤔
January 17th, 2021 at 10:16 am
Alton-head up to DC and protest your beliefs-I hear security will be light.
January 17th, 2021 at 11:01 am
Joe, apparently the NFL honchos don’t like you even insinuating that the officiating could be suspect. Content from the linked site has been blocked.
January 17th, 2021 at 11:32 am
Rod munch wants cheating. Rod munch had eagles like integrity. Zero.
48-3 Saints row munch on that
January 17th, 2021 at 12:02 pm
Bucs play Aints like they did the Packers earlier this season, the refs and Payton won’t be able to beat them. How SWEET that will be.
January 17th, 2021 at 12:19 pm
??????????????
The only thing Joe has linked in this story is a Don Denkinger video from YouTube, which works fine by the way.
January 17th, 2021 at 12:37 pm
Alex Jones it’s not about two white guys! It’s that Brady and Beli are lizard people and they were drawing too much attention. So they split. Does any conspiracy nut stop and think of the logistics of Conspiracies. It would cost waaaay more to fake a moon landing then just going to the moon.
January 17th, 2021 at 2:31 pm
Yeah right.
If anything it will be the total opposite.
The NFL has been giving the Saints bogus calls week in and week out ever since that playoff mishap.
Make no mistake Bucs fans, we will once again be playing 2 opponents today.
January 17th, 2021 at 2:34 pm
Lol jmark!!
January 18th, 2021 at 12:13 am
With a name like “Alex Jones”, inbreeding is an automatic presumption.