Pats Don’t Look Haunted By Colts Loss In Demolition of Jets
I keep hitting the refresh button on Boston.com, Bostonherald.com, ESPN.com waiting for an apology or retraction from Dan Shaughnessy, Bill Simmons or maybe Ron Borges. Something that admits how horribly wrong they were yet again. Or better yet an article that discusses how games like yesterday more than anything sum up the greatness of Bill Belichick and why fans always stick with him. Unfortunately nothing yet. Instead Ron Borges talked about Wes Welker and Shaughnessy talked about Northeastern football being cut. Weird because in case you forgot here is what guys of Shank’s ilk wrote 3 seconds after the Colts game ended last week;
“We’re disappointed, but we’re moving on,’’ said Belichick. Not everybody. This one will linger for a while, maybe into the winter. This was a horrible loss. It changes everything. And Bill Belichick gets the blame.
My question is how do you write an article that is so horribly wrong and then not even have the balls to address it? Like anybody with half a brain knew that insinuating that the Colts loss would haunt the Pats for the rest of the season was pure lunacy. After all we’ve seen time and time again during the Belichick era that whenever something bad happens or a major controversy strikes nobody circles the wagons better than than the Patriots. It doesn’t matter whether it’s cutting Lawyer Milloy, Richard Seymour, Ty Law, Tom Brady getting injured or losing to the Colts in horrific fashion, there is no team that stays at an even keel and takes it one game at a time better than us.
So you’d think that with so many people talking about the defenses “hurt feelings” and how the Colts loss would “linger” through the winter that a few reporters would have stepped up by now and pointed out that games like yesterday prove the very greatness of Bill Belichick. Why he will go down as one of the best coaches of all time and why Patriot fans support him at all costs. Because we know that year in and year out Bill Belichick is going to have this team playing it’s best football at the end of the year. Sure sometimes there are some bumps in the road, but he always has this team ready when it counts. Do we win the Superbowl every year? No, but we’re one of the few teams that have a legitimate chance every season and we’ve won more than anybody else over the past decade. What more can you ask for as a fan besides nothing? And it all starts with Belichick’s ability to block out distractions and focus this team on winning every week regardless of what happened the week before. It’s just a shame that all the reporters in this town are so blinded by their own ego and hatred towards Belichick that they can’t appreciate how brilliant he really is. Did he make a bad decicion last week? I obviously don’t think so, but even you didn’t agree with it to somehow insinuate that it signaled a larger problem with him or the organization is flat out as dumb as you can be.
EP just stop it already. When you get smoked by the Saints on MNF how are you gonna spin that one?
nice job trying to disprove a point with speculation. good going idioto, you live up to your name.
IF they lose to the Saints, which they could, they will move on and get ready for Miami…it is what they do…it is why they have been successful for a decade. So funny to see all these teams (Jets after week 2, Josh McDaniels after beating Pats, etc) act like they did something important after a regular season win. BB and the Pats are singular in focus – not too high after the wins, not too low after the losses. It really is remarkable – the picture of professionalism. I can guarantee you, no one ever wants to see New England in the playoffs.
Maybe Joey Porter should see how its done. . . you talk smack and you have to back it up like Darrelle Revis did.
speaking of which where is Jerry’s Knee Kerk reactions blog?
dunno but it’ll be interesting. not much else to say after what EP said. good offense, good defense, coulda had more pressure on the qb, maroney ran well for what he had, we just can’t run block very well, and let up in the 2nd half again. we’re the best first half team in football, but dunno if anyone saw that scoring stat half to half, we score so much less in the 2nd half. and no, not all of that is cuz of blowouts
i think mike reiss and chris gasper do a good job covering the pats. i ignore borges and shank.
fucked by a half point on the over.
fart, i love reiss. he doesn’t get all whiny and emotional, he just tells it like it is. and he’s around the team so much he gets really good inside stories. here’s a good one he wrote on what the pats were doing while in london:
http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/columns/story?columnist=reiss_mike&id=4594483
No. I’m still with Borges. Fire BB and pick up Wade Phillips when he gets fired in Dallas.
Whoa, let’s not go sucking everyone’s dick right now….you beat the fucking JETS. It’s still fall, not winter.
Beating the jets with their 8completions and 4 INTs shows the genius of Belichick?? Or maybe it shows they beat a shitty team they were supposed to beat- as Chris Rock wud say u don’t get much credit for doing what ur supposed to
they have not beaten team with a winning record (beat 2 5-5 teams) see how they play the saints before telling everyone they shud recant articles
All this shit talk from all you cocksuckin faggots aint gonna matter when the Pats hoist #4 high above their heads now is it?
I think Belichick is pretty good on EEI and the All Access show on channel 4, kind of surprised he has such a bad relationship with some members of the media.
And for Slade, Quest, Plummer and any other NY pussy who is just upset that the Pats are clearly better than your 3 teams (bahahah)…..Who is a better coach than BB? Answer the question truthfully and provide reason’s why they are better than BB. Then tell me what QB to WR combo is better than Tom Brady to Wes Welker or Tom Brady to Randy Moss. Lets hear all the genious responses…..
Win a game on the road in this Country and then start talking your usual crap EP !
The only ‘demise’ I see around these parts is the ‘hurt feelings’ of newspaper sports hacks like Borges and Shaughnessy. Of course they’ve seen the news that ‘newspaper circulation is probably worse than it looks.’ Hanging in the balance are careers built on negativism and hatred and haughtiness. The Patriots will sail on just fine; the same can’t be said for newspaper sports hacks whose spots in the Smithsonian should be given to something more worthy…like some extinct sloth-like mammal from Africa.
bruins when did i get caught up in the anti-pats category? have u read my comments??? do u know who chris slade is??
Gonna have to solve that 2nd half issue, good teams (read; Colts) will make us pay for sitting around and letting them back into games. Crap, if it wasn’t for dirty Sanchez just blowing that game could have easily gotten a lot closer.
agree that mike reiss is a good reporter…i always like the articles where him and bruschi go back and forth even though thats all usually bruschis insights and reiss’s questions
BostonBruinShockey……I was simply stating that an apology should not be expected for the ‘this one will linger for a while…maybe into the winter’ comment. You’re still 7-3 which is a far cry from perfect. I just wanted to throw out a precautionary, ‘before you start to suck any cock’ statement because you beat the fucking Jets…..as did 5 other teams. Circle jerk all you want to the thought of that eluding 4th title of this decade….just trying to get you to tone it down until after you go to the dome in Nawlins….pick up a W there, then proceed to smoke BB pole.
bruins
“clearly better” will be determined at the end of the season (Pats fans more than any other should know that)
despite what your homer heart says Peyton- reggie wayne has better number this season than any other QB-WR combo in the NFL (wayne has more yds, rec, yds/game than Moss – Peyton has more yds and more compl with less attempts than brady)
better coach is unquantifiable – but you can thank the Giants under Parcells in 1990 for passing along Belichick, Weis and Crennel after we won to run the same system in NE
remind me again, when is the last time the Pats won a superbowl? Listening to EP everyday you would think it was last year. NFL=Not For Long–what have you done for me lately? Yes BB is a good coach but he’s not some god who can do no wrong.
Word.
Quest how can you know the word unquantifiable but spell should shud? Gro Fruck Yuself!
Bottom line is that The Herald and the Globe (except for Mike Reiss) are no longer worth reading for Pats coverage. And Simmons sucks too.
and truly, the Pats have only been good for half of a decade.
My apologize slade. I didn’t mean to put your name in there.
it was a hastily made post…..But Quest you can go fuck yourself cuz when it comes down to the playoffs I want Brady to Moss (128109) tm. Not Manning to Wayne. And that is not my “homer heart” talking.
bwah hahahah, shockey you asked for a better qb/wr combo and when quest hands it to you with facts to back it up….you still get all bent out of shape cuz your poor wittle patwiots aren’t the bestest ever…..
meaning, your ‘homer heart’ is talking.
Plummer I’ll give you facts-
Peyton 7 -8 playoff record (1 ring)
Brady 14 -3 playoff record (3 ringS)
Facts when it matters….nevermind Brady/Moss record breaking year in 07 playing OUTDOORS – Your boy Peyton can’t take it outside…….
For fuck’s sake, are we talking stats or are we talking when it matters? When it matters I see the Steelers and Cowboys as dominating as far as their superbowl appearances and wins go. But I forgot, you Patriot fans only like to talk about this decade…..or I should say, the first half of this decade.