This Week’s Bulletin Board Fodder Comes Courtesy of the New York Press
NY Post – Bill Belichick would run over his grandmother if she stood in his way. He is the ruthless, merciless, cutthroat coach who takes no prisoners, who adheres to the old Billy Tubbs Oklahoma basketball philosophy of: āIf they donāt like it, they should get better.ā …But sometimes, when you live by the sword, you die by the sword. Belichick has lost All-World tight end Rob Gronkowski for 4-6 weeks, and for that, Rex Ryan and the Jets will be forever grateful on Thanksgiving night. The Patriots lost Gronkowski, who underwent surgery on his broken left forearm yesterday, because Belichick left him in to block for the extra point that concluded the 59-24 New England Massacre of the Colts.
NY Daily News - Bill Belichick is certain to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame five years after heās finished coaching – three titles gets him in – but to call him a football genius these days is completely outdated… The longer Belichick goes without winning a Super Bowl after the Jets and the NFL put an end to his intricate spying operation of opponentsā defensive signals, the more a case can be made that his championships deserve an asterisk. The mystique and aura of Belichick has taken major hits. He is supposed to be so much smarter than everybody else, so until now he has escaped criticism for his bizarre deployment of personnel in blowout games… But how sick must Belichick feel now that he will be Gronk-less for the Thanksgiving Night game against the Jets at MetLife because he kept All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski on the extra point protection team after New England scored its eighth touchdown Sunday to take a 59-24 lead against the Colts
With Rex Ryan duct taping everyone’s mouth and the Jets being as well behaved this week as they can possibly manage, leave it to the hacks in the New York tabloids to stir the shit and make things interesting.Ā So what exactly are these axe-grinding, agenda-driven wretches argument here?Ā I get that they still can’t stand Belichick because in 2000 he left them at the altar when he refused to take the HC job of the NYJs.Ā So instead of having a decade of Super Bowl appearances to write about, they’ve had to generate ad sales and page views opining on when to fire the coach or which worthless QB should start.Ā But claiming that Belichick is a lousy coach because he didn’t take one of his blockers off the field on an extra point is pig-ignorance of the highest order.
I defy anyone beating the “Gronk Shouldn’t Have Been Blocking on that Extra Point” drum to cite me one instance… just one… of a coach of any NFL team subbing out blockers on a kick try, ever.Ā No one does that.Ā Not Rex.Ā Not Tom Coughlin.Ā Nor did Bill Parcells or any of the other football coaches the NY media has fawned over. First of all, you simply don’t have the players on a 47 man roster.Ā Second, how exactly do you decide who comes off the field for their own safety and who doesn’t?Ā Is it just the “skill position” guys, like your tight end?Ā How does that work?Ā “Look, Gronk, on the 100 million-to-1 shot you break your forearm here, I’m taking you out. Ryan Wendell?Ā Stay in because you’re expendable.Ā Solder?Ā Vollmer?Ā You guys are more of a gray area…”Ā Sure thing.Ā And good luck with team unity and “Just do your job” and all that.Ā Like I’ve already said, I’m a firm believer that every coach should take a guy off the field the play before he gets hurt.Ā The problem is, good as I think Belichick is, he has yet to develop the power to know that ahead of time.Ā Though I’m sure he’s working on it. If him not being psychic makes him “die by the sword” or means “his mystique and aura have taken hits,” so be it.Ā But he’s the only coach in NFL history to get blamed for freak injuries.Ā @JerryThornton1
I’m actually starting to like you, Thornton. Keep up the good work.
That blog was just a word by word recount of Bellichick’s interview from earlier in the week without any quotation marks.
Belicheck should sit everyone this week. It’s not like they need actual starting players to beat the Jets.
@pawts i hope the pats massacre the shitty Jets, but dont say shit like that man. Football Gods are listening. We dont need a jinx
Spygate is the most overblown excuse ever drawn by those that don’t think BB is head and shoulders with the elite among head coaches in the history of all sports. These motherfuckers would drop Rex in a heartbeat if it were that simple. The Jets are a prime example of how terribly managed a team can be, from just about every aspect you can imagine. I’ll take “ruthless” and “merciless” any day of the week over all hat and no cattle.
Since when is it a bad thing to be “ruthless” and “merciless” anyway? We’re not talking about pop warner here
Jesus, what a hack job. So after the taping scandal (which was done,and is done by every team to this day. Why do you think guys hide their faces when they make playcalls?), they go 18-1 when Brady finally gets a decent receiver. And they lost on a last second heave that was caught by a helmet, by a guy who never played another down. I’d like to call that “being unlucky” instead of “they won because they cheated”.
Belichick won without Brady… I think he can manage 4-6 regular season games without his starting tight end. Not meaning to disparage gronk but he’s one position.
And I’m starting to realize why jets fans are so ignorant, dilussional, and insufferable. The ‘journalists’ which they listen to for team coverage are mongoloids of the highest order.
Yes, it makes sense that Gronk was in for the extra point play, and that’s not on Belichick. However, you could certainly make the argument that having all their starters in (Brady, Gronk, etc) is what led to that TD in the first place. If Mallett is in, it’s possible that TD never happens. So Belichick’s “ruthless style” did somewhat cause it. Either way, it’s still a fluke play.
@cantstandzya
Gronk didn’t play a snap that series
i love the rationale that a coach sucks because he lost the LAST TWO superbowls out of the FIVE he has been in. or brady. yeah Tom, you suck because you didn’t win EVERY superbowl of the five you went to in your ten years. literally every other year these clowns go to the superbowl. try to remember that shit, new york.
fucking giants need to win one more, then get back to the big show twice to start calling themselves equal to BB and the Patriots. we Pats fans remember how cocky we were when the Pats won their first two Lombardis, too. just simma the fuck down. you have a ways to go to catch up.
as for Rex… how the fuck is it genius coaching to base your game plan on hoping a key opposing player gets injured?