I like the shower to end on my terms.
It's just the worst when you see it coming too. You realize you're turning the dial at an increasingly faster rate for less and less improvement and that it just isn't gonna be that great of a shower. Eventually you turn it all the way and take whatever last hit it has, but you can't even enjoy it at that point because you know it's the end and you're just resisting having to get out rather than you're still enjoying a shower.
Worst.
I feel like the great Drew Brees is in a similar sort of predicament here in year 2020, his 41st. I predict he ultimately will decide to retire, rather than take that last little hit.
Tom is a free agent now too.
His shower has cooled a tad, but his is built really well and he isn't in that vicious cycle of pushing too hard on the string yet.
Those teeth are beautiful, in general. Objectively wonderful. I would have expected a crisper white out of Tom though, even in year 42. So maybe he's starting to crack.
It also seems fair to credit him for only 1 front tooth, and then make a legitimate argument whether you go left or right for its match. But that's just the angle of the pic I think.
Different equation for Tom and Drew.
Tom has all the titles. So tapering off and showing us a couple mediocre seasons wouldn't change much about how we remember him, especially if he was serviceable enough to compete. There'd be "Tom Brady" and then there'd be "the version of Tom Brady who played until he was comically old".
If he managed to go on deep runs or heaven forbid find himself in another Superbowl at age 44 or something, it would be another feather in his cap. And even if he did it on a great team where really he was just a small part of it, it would be easy to give him credit, since his thing is being smart and clutch and magically finding ways to win.
For Brees, his thing is more his precision and passing excellence, particularly what we've seen out of him in his last stanza, grand-master years. So tossing in a clunker to weigh against those years, and to be the last memory of him, would I think diminish him a little. It would crush his luster a little.
And if he won a Superbowl as a shell himself, it would just be like "oh okay, Drew Brees was on a good team". I don't think he'd get credit for magically steering them in quite the same way Brady would.
So more downside and less upside.
Of course, how much they want to play probably factors in more than what it means for their legacies. (I bet their legacies matter kind of a lot though, even if on a subconscious level.)
My feeling is Drew would hang around if they'd pay him like an elite QB. But then the window is closing fast in terms of how competitive that team could be. Paying him that much is a gamble that he won't hit the cliff. I feel like he probably senses that he'd need to take less, and that'll ultimately tip him to decide against playing.
And then yellow-tooth will break his TD record next year and get all the glory again. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
You heard it here first.
p.s. sugar does not make you fat. Sugar fuels your brain. Fat makes you fat. Meat and dairy (dairy -- literally a growth hormone designed to make a little cow become huge) is what makes you fat.
Lots of people are fat. So clearly something is making people fat. No one would believe that nothing is making people fat. Lots of money is invested in meat and dairy. So try to pin the blame on something besides meat and dairy. Don't be tricked.