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Originally Posted by 12thMan
Okay let's be brutally honest for a minute, part of the issue, and correct me if wrong, is that we have a problem with Belichick as an individual and the perception we have him.
Secondly, if this were to happen at the amateur level, then I would lean on the side of calling character and class into question. But this is professional sports. Why is that important to consider here? Because we invest so much of our time and money looking for the best and the brightest. Drilling it into our kids from the time they can run and compete, "win at all costs" Give one hundred percent...leave it on the field. Well, the Pats have a higher standard for those cliches.
You see in the end, we want it both ways. We love to hear at the end of the big games, "no one deserved it more than so and so". But see, that's not the real world. Sometimes classy people win, and I'm okay with that. And sometimes assholes win and win big, and I'm okay with that too. To me "running up the score" isn't the big deal. As long as he wasn't intentionally cheating or trying to injure someone, then I'm okay with that. His eleven guys pushed our eleven guys back for 60 minutes. What's the problem?
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we can go on and on about what happened yesterday. Nothing anyone can say or do will change that. Hopefully we can put the many pieces together and put some good games together for the rest of the season. Maybe we can use the ass kicking as motivation for the rest of the season.
Regarding the "running up the score". I personally think that was very classless. I have played sports my entire life, and we are tought when we win, we win with class. What they did yesterday was far from it. In baseball you dont steal bases late in the game when you are up 5 or so runs. if you do, then the next guy is getting plunked in head, and the next guy. show up a pitcher by posing at the plate, and the next guy will pay for that, and when you come up again you will pay. Playing football when you are up that big in the 4th, you dont line up in shotgun and 5 wide and throw balls all over and down the field. If you want to go for it on 4th down, fine, but run the ball. make the D stop you, if they dont, then they dont. But they lined up and threw for the 1st downs from shotgun. The blitzed the balls off late in the game. I thought it was zero class by a coach who has zero class. He was being as ass after the game "what do you want me to do, kick a field goal?" I just wish for about 10 minutes, our coaching staff would have lost their class and made them pay for doing that crap. Unfortunately we dont have coaches like that. Had it been Buddy Ryan, Mike Ditka, Jerry Glanville, ect they would have taken Brady or who ever was taking the snaps out. I would have sent Sean Taylor after Brady every play, would not have cared about the 15 yard penalties, then Landry, then Marcus, then London. Everyone would have taken their shots. Their will come a team, or a player that wont act as classy as us and they will take their shot at him.
I dont like Ray Lewis very much, but do you think he would have stood their and watched this crap take place with out letting the other team know it wasn't going to happen? He would have taken his shot at someone.