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Originally Posted by Paintrain
The mentality of playing not to lose and being scared is why we've lost games where we held a 2nd half lead since 2004 than anyone else in the league.. You can't 'ride it out' in the NFL anymore.. Did you hear Belichick today? He put his starters back in because the Dolphins(!) were 1 possession away from a 14 point game.. When you have the lead, that's when you put the foot on the other team's throat and crush it not just hope to 'ride it out'..
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I agree with you in principle, I'm just saying that we're clearly not playing sharp football right now, and it's much easier for Belichick to go out there and air it out than it is for Joe in terms of talent available, health, and so on. I personally think we'd be 1-5 if we'd been taking more risks with 2nd half leads, rather than 6-0.
Besides, Belichick's a flaming asshole.
He was just running up the score, because he wants to stick that spygate draft pick fine up the entirety of the NFL's collective rectum.