Compared to how his peers have handled similar situations, yeah Brady failed and I consider him to be an immature cry baby. He was out to lunch to chastise the fanbase for booing their efforts after the same BS for 5+ years. Context is hard for you guys to comprehend but try your best (also love the ignorance of him saying ‘stop booing us we are trying our best’ vs ‘he’s just defending his coach! Shame on you fans’).
If you knew anything about me, the last thing anyone would describe me with is toxic masculinity. I call out the facts, and yeah he’s a f***ing cry baby that hopefully has learned his lesson. He sure is setting the league on fire since those comments…
Just so we’re clear I was speaking about the post, not you personally. I don’t know you, and you seem chill as a poster, so we don’t need to go there. But calling a guy a cry baby because he vented his frustrations in his answers to questions asked is exactly toxic masculinity. You want him to shut up and be a man, not a cry baby.
I’d prefer he be a guy who shares what he actually thinks when asked. I think this all boils down to some very thinned skinned fans who are stunned by a little push back. I personally dislike the vanilla panned answers that everyone knows is just bullshit. Some fans like it because it means they never get called out and it’s safe. Sadly Brady will likely never be that candid again in an interview due to the backlash. We need more candidness, not less.
The rest is a difference of opinions. Not many players in the league are Brady’s age in Brady’s situation. You really do have to consider the entire context of the player, the team, and the relationships to give it a fair shake.
Any way you slice it, the home team fans chanting to fire the beloved coach is a douche thing to do, and of course is going to piss off everyone on the team. Add in DJ mentioning how upsetting it all was for his family, and you just know the guys in the locker room were pissed.
I know I know, fans have their rights and pay good money, blah blah blah, sure, they can douche away. But I’m fine with Brady calling them out in defence of his coach. Not sure why fans being respectful is such a weird concept. No one deserves a better fate on the ice from the stands, you pay for your seat, don’t like the results, don’t go. It is 100% your own fault for buying the ticket and going to the game.
I also don’t consider what he did as calling out ‘the fans’ in general because I’m a huge Sens fan and he wasn’t speaking about me, or most Sens fans in general, at all.
He called out some fans who were being douchy at a game half drunk calling for the coach to be fired. They can eat that one for all I care. You give and you get. Must feel frustrating to try to win, lose a ton, and have some home town fans pile on.
Like I said, there are always a million excuses for poor behaviour, always someone else’s fault in the end, instead of calling other people names, or calling a 23 year old captain of the Sens a cry baby, maybe just be better. Be the change.
Sorry for the rant, but we are just so shitty to each other in general, and it feels like we’re just getting worse instead of better. We seriously struggle to process emotions and accept responsibility for our actions as adults, constantly looking to off load onto others.
Stepping away from the phone…..
