Belichick Leads his Team by AHOLE Example

Here are some quick recap thoughts of last night's crazy NFL game.

• The Pats seem to have more lives than the 2006 LSU Tigers.

• Three 4th down conversions for Pats on the last go ahead drive. Insane.
  

• Ravens DC Rex Ryan needs to take his timeouts to the tread mill.

• Gaffney seemed to bobble his game winning TD catch but Pats would have first in goal at the 2 anyway after Ravens LB Bart Scott melted down by throwing a flag into the stands. How does someone get 2 personal foul penalties on the same play?

• Scott's brain fart allowed the Pats to kick off from the 35

• Oh Boy, do not ever call someone on the Ravens a Boy.

• Ravens dominated the whole game up front and ran it down the Pats throats. McGahee was a man possessed. The Pats LBs showed their age last night

• The Pats only real success moving the ball was by running it themselves or short dump off passes to their RBs.

• The footage of ex-Hurricane players: Reed, Lewis, McGahee huddling up and talking about their dawg Sean Taylor gave me goose bumps. RIP, 21.

• The current great white hope at WR, Wes Welker, was held in check and cost me a fantasy win. Just call my fantasy squad the Detroit Lions.
  

• Ex-Dolphins RB Mercury Morris caught some grief in the sports blog world a few months ago but I find the dude hilarious. He needs Emmitt Smith's job as he was awesome on the ESPN pre game show.Check out the video

• I loved the Led Zeppelin music that ESPN played throughout the night. I wonder if Disney has a cut of their new upcoming tour.

• Do not play a drinking game in the coming weeks that revolves around the phrase, "blueprint to beat the Patriots." Your liver will not be able to stand the alcohol consumption after every sports pundit repeats this line over and over.
  

• The Ravens lost this game not as a result of bad calls by the refs but by conservative play calling on their last 2 drives that could have put the game away.

On the last questionable holding call on 4th down, I mean maybe it was or maybe it was not but in that situation the WR better be tackled for the ref to make that call. At the end of basketball games, very rarely do refs make the calls unless it is a blatant foul. Most good refs want the game to be decided by the players and not them.

I wanted to see more replays of the last 4th down holding call and god forbid they would actually show them on the Monday Football broadcast so I sat through the post game interviews until ESPN or NFL network would analyze the penalty.

I knew Belichick did not have a good reputation with treating the media and after watching his interview session, things have not improved at all.

He is short, rude, talks down to them, and overall just a DICK to everyone asking a simple question like, "how often did you run the 4-3 last night?"

The range of vocabulary in Belichick's answers would earn him the scorn of most middle school teachers. "Great Job, Good player, Nice job. Good team."



Memo to Bill:

You are paid millions of dollars and part of your job description is to talk to the media. I know in your eyes, the press is the enemy and you successfully feed off this "Pats against the world," crap after you were busted for stealing signals from other teams but at least show SOME personality to the fans. We do financially support the existence of your profession.

I think you are the best coach in football and I admire your aggressive style of play. It makes me always ask, "What would Bill Belichick Do?" in a football coaching situation.

I just do not understand why you have to be such an Ahole or portray this hostile image to the media/NFL consumers. This is not my memory of Bill Walsh or Jimmy Johnson.

My biggest problem is how your cankerous attitude has seeped into the behavior of your players. Last week, Welker cut off a live interview by using you as an excuse. (Video has been taking down)

Brady was similarly smug and acrimonious in his post game interview last night. He bolted the interview by running off the podium and muttered, "he said only 2 questions."

Aikman, Marino or Montana never talked/acted this way. Other current star QBs like Favre, Manning, and Romo always exemplify the up most class in their interviews or at least in the ones that I watch.

I expect more from one of the best players and coaches in the league.

Column on game last night.
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(Thanks to Baltimore Sun for the Pictures)



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