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Here's more from Wilbon. Way to go, Michael!!!

Arlington, Va.: Let me get this straight - you're suggesting blatantly trying to injure a player on the opposing team for no good reason other than you can't compete head-to-head. What kind of message are you trying to send?

Michael Wilbon: I'm saying football is a violent game and I believe in an eye for an eye. You think Sam Huff wouldn't have taken out Brady yesterday? And when I say "take out" I don't mean go for his knees; I mean a clean shot with every once of force one can summon...right in the strike zone. You think Butkus and LT and Bednarik would have stood for that stuff? No way. No chance.

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[quote=BleedBurgundy;370832][IMG]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-8/1275969/NEP.jpg[/IMG]

I think some people here need to consider changing their avatar if they've got such a crush on Bill B and the Boys...[/quote]

Nobody has a crush on that fat sack of poop. I just respect great football and great coaching and they have both.

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I'm not advocating playing dirty or giving out cheap shots... but if I were a coach and the other team was running it up, I would look the other way and tell my guys to do what they gotta do. And if I was a player in that situation I would have no problem sticking Brady right in the chest and pile driving him to the turf, late or not.

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[quote=carbofisk;370669]Be honest with yourself -- if Belicheck were in Washington with the personnel he has in New England, doing in Washington what he's doing in New England, you'd be dancing in the streets. ... But I don't think anything will happen there until your owner, who is reliving his childhood, finally says goodbye to Coach Gibbs, just as Jones said goodbye to Landry. ... The fan base, understandably, has great affection for Gibbs, but in the end it's just nostalgia. ... What happened in Foxborough yesterday, in terms of how the Patriots played, is what happens in the modern NFL. ... Wake up and deal with.[/quote]


To think that happens every week in the NFL is ridiculous. I dont see teams running up the score like that. If they are, its because the other team can not stop the running game, or the QB is throwing pick 6's every time. The NFL coaching fraternaty has more class that was Belichek showed yesterday. Had Sean Taylor or someone come in and gave Brady a concussion i think you would feel totally different about him being in the game with under 10 minutes to go up 45-0. I dont care how any of you NE fans put it, or how to try and twist it, it was a classless move by a classless coach. Too bad our staff has class and didn't order our players to take shots at brady,moss or any other of your starters. This will come back and haunt them eventually. They will run up to a team with players or coaches that will take shots at brady and company, then lets see how you feel about your coach subjecting your players to needless hits or late hits.

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And my question is, why didn't any of the Skins take it on themselves to do that yesterday? Sam Huff would have. Dexter Manley and Wilbur Marshall would have.

What's different with this team? - tho I bet Sean Taylor would have rocked Brady or Moss if given the nod.

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[quote=Mattyk72;370840]I'm not advocating playing dirty or giving out cheap shots... but if I were a coach and the other team was running it up, I would look the other way and tell my guys to do what they gotta do. And if I was a player in that situation I would have no problem sticking Brady right in the chest and pile driving him to the turf, late or not.[/quote]

Or you could do your job, have some pride and stop them like you are paid to do.

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[quote=skinsfan69;370847]Or you could do your job, have some pride and stop them like you are paid to do.[/quote]

That would be doing your job. When someone is showing you up, it's your job to let them know that it's not ok.

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I have no problem with anything the Pats did, except the winning part.

Really, most people on here (myself included) have been calling for Gibbs to step on the necks of our opponents, put them away in the second half, etc. If we have the chance to, I would hope Gibbs does just that.

We got beat down bad by a much better team on Sunday...that should show you just how far we have to go. Yeah, we're a decent team in the grand scheme of things in the NFL (NFC at least), but we're nowhere near where we need to be to compete for the crown.

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[QUOTE=skinsfan69;370827]I could care less what you think.[/QUOTE]

Believe me, the feeling is mutual. And it extends well beyond this thread.

In other news, the Redskins lost yesterday. Back to football.

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[quote=Mattyk72;370849]That would be doing your job. When someone is showing you up, it's your job to let them know that it's not ok.[/quote]

Honestly Matty,
Heartbreaking though to watch, they did us a favor. They showed us how it really is to play a top flight team. Where we are in the pecking order. How many weakness's we have a what they are.

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[QUOTE=skinsnut68;370846]And my question is, why didn't any of the Skins take it on themselves to do that yesterday? Sam Huff would have. Dexter Manley and Wilbur Marshall would have.

What's different with this team? - tho I bet Sean Taylor would have rocked Brady or Moss if given the nod.[/QUOTE]

Huff would have laid Brady out with a clean hit before the whistle. This team just seems to have no fire. Remember when the Cowboys dragged Jeff George around the stadium and no Redskin came to his rescue? I doubt that would have happened in the old days (no matter if they liked the guy or not, he was a teammate) but for some reason DS owned Skins just dont have that kind of competitive fire.

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[quote=Mattyk72;370849]That would be doing your job. When someone is showing you up, it's your job to let them know that it's not ok.[/quote]
So your saying that hitting the QB late is OK.

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[quote=Mattyk72;370849]That would be doing your job. When someone is showing you up, it's your job to let them know that it's not ok.[/quote]

I understand what your saying. But in the end, it's our job to stop them from scoring and if you asked most of the players that got beat down yesterday they would probably agree with me. Even our coaches are saying we needed to stop them.

Planting Brady in the ground is weak and that would make us look even worse than we already looked. That would make us look like sore losers.

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[quote=firstdown;370764]So in baseball a 5 point lead is enough to play safe? I've seen allot of teams score more than 5 points in an inning and would not want my team to sit on a five point lead.[/quote]


does everything have to be a disagreement? you get my point. If we were up 5 runs in the 8th or 9th, we certainly weren't playing the same way we did in the early innings. if you have ever played meaningful baseball then you know being up 5 runs in the 8th or 9th, or maybe 8 runs if you want more, you dont steal bases, show up pitchers, its one of those unwritten rules. Its amazing how different peoples perception of playing the right way has changed over the years. I guess thats one of those generation things from a previous thread.

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[quote=Mattyk72;370849]That would be doing your job. When someone is showing you up, it's your job to let them know that it's not ok.[/quote]


There's a difference between doing your job and playing dirty. What you are advocating (after you said you don't advocate it) is playing dirty. Might as well just take your blanky, put your head down, and cry all the way home because what you are talking about doing is just as childish.

As it's been said throughout this thread. If you don't like them running up the score, stop them. If you can't stop them, then you need to get better. That's it. No cheapshots on the QB because your frustrated, while the coach looks the other way...that's petty childish shit.