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Originally Posted by canthetuna
yeah,.. where's all the winner talk after that beautiful game??
I actually would've sent the house after brady every play after they went for it on forth down up 38-0 going into the fourth quarter. fuck the score I would've beaten the shit out of ayone in their backfield... fines be damned...
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I agree wholeheartedly. I would have brought a full-house blitz on every play, Landry and Taylor coming each time, if they hit big plays to Moss who cares. If you want to be mad at the coaching staff for something be mad at GW for not doing that.
Look, the only way you can beat the Pats, it seems, is to have your offense completely dominate time of possession and get some turnovers. Its going to be tough and we all kind of knew the Skins did not have the offense for the job going into this game. I doubt many of us expected 52-7, but the majority realized it was very much a longshot for the Skins to go into Foxboro and get a win. That being said, I still do not understand why people on here are actually defending the Patriots. I do not understand how you would not be seething with some anger after that display and then after Belichick's comments postgame. On the plus side it does seem like it is mostly newbies who apparently felt like antagonizing someone after the game and logged onto the Warpath, I still do not get it though. Look guys, they are a bunch of lowlifes up there and it is not just the Redskins fans on this site who are saying that. I have directed people numerous times to Gregg Easterbrook's TMQ column from last week because I thought he summed up everything very nicely, and did so long before kickoff Sunday. I will copy the pertinent bits below because I know it is a very long column and you probably don't want to sort through the whole thing.
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ESPN Page 2 - TMQ: Good vs. Evil
"On Sunday, the Patriots led the winless Dolphins 42-7 late in the third quarter, yet Tom Brady was still behind center. And he wasn't just handing off the ball to grind the clock, either. Rather, he was back in the shotgun, still throwing to run up the score. Here is a summary of the Patriots' possession with a 42-7 lead late in the third and Brady, Randy Moss and the rest of their offensive starters on the field: Pass, run, pass, run, pass, pass. When backup quarterback Matt Cassel entered the game in the fourth quarter, with the Patriots leading 42-14 -- a margin larger than the greatest fourth-quarter comeback in NFL history (see below) -- did he hand off the ball to grind the clock? Here were Patriots' coaches first three calls: Run, pass, pass. Cassel's second pass was intercepted and returned for a touchdown, and Brady re-entered the game. Did he grind down the clock? Pass, pass, run, run, pass. The final score was 49-28.
The week before, New England led Dallas 42-27 and had second-and-goal on the Cowboys' 6-yard line with 1:43 remaining and Dallas out of timeouts. Three kneel-downs would have ended the game. But Belichick kept calling plays, frantic to run up the score -- including calling a play with 23 seconds remaining from the Dallas 1-yard line, resulting in a touchdown that made the final New England 48, Dallas 27. The Patriots then kicked off, and Dallas got the ball with 13 seconds remaining. Cowboys coach Wade Phillips showed the dignity Belichick lacked and ordered a kneel-down. Beyond defeating division-leading Dallas, New England has beaten six teams with a combined record of 11-27. In New England's six games against nonwinning teams, Belichick kept the starters in long after the outcome was decided, trying to run up the score. This doesn't just demonstrate Belichick has no class (although it certainly demonstrates that). It's worse -- this suggests something vindictive.
Yes, you can find games the Colts have won by a big margin in recent years, and yes, Manning was on the field through the fourth quarter at Jacksonville last night. But in that quarter, the Colts mainly ran to grind the clock: If they had wanted to win by more, they likely could have. As for New England's running up the score, supposedly the Patriots are angry about the Beli-Cheat scandal and are scoring points like crazy to express their anger against the world. Wait a moment:
What right do the Patriots have to be angry? They, after all, are the ones who admitted to systematic cheating. Other people didn't impose that situation on them -- they cheated of their own free accord, imposing the tainting of their accomplishments on themselves. The Patriots were not wronged; they wronged others. Yet they're mad about being caught, and they seem to want to take out their bad feelings about themselves by embarrassing second-echelon teams. That bespeaks lack of character. That's Dark Side. That's Evil."