Posted on 09/11/2015 6:12:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Timely post, thanks.
Two missed field goals? What? The Pats are moving the goalposts?
The NFL is skrewed..
The Patriots have a Judge on their bench.
Tom’s Babe (or soon to be ex-Babe) could run nekkid on the field to distract the opponents and the opponents would get flagged for looking.
All I want is the rules to be followed.. something the Patriots have had an issue with for quite some time.
Go VIKES!!! beat Da 9ers!!
Once is an accident
Twice is coincidence
Three times (and more!) = enemy action.
Bingo!
That was then, this is now. It’s a vastly different league. When Lombardi was in the game plan consisted of 12 running and 12 passing plays plus their audible variation. Now that’s not even enough plays for the opening script.
The NFL needs to take better control of the headset situation. There’s really no reason with modern technology to ever have headset problems. Throw some money at it, install permanent triple redundant system in each stadium that are totally under control of the league and just make it happen. Or if that’s too complicated for the league make the TV network that’s broadcasting the game be in charge, they seem to be able to get constant uninterrupted signals from all over the stadium, I’m sure they can handle 4 more.
Vince Lombardi didn’t coach at a time when defensive lineups changed by down and distance.
Your starters went in and played until the ball was turned over by score or downs.
Lombardi also thought of the forward pass as an necessary evil where 3 things could happen, and 2 of them were bad.
1984 Superbowl, LA Raiders vs Skins.
The game was still close and the Skins had the ball.
Some assistant assistant coach upstairs had the notes the Raider staff had made from game film.
This assistant noticed that on 3rd and long in their own end of the field, the Skins would throw to a certain reciever to the left.
He gives this information to the coaches on the field.
Coach Flores pulled his starting right linebacker and subbed Jack Youngblood, who played the pass better.
Sho’nuff, Theisman drops back and throws to his left.
Youngblood intercepts and scores the TD.
The steam leaves the Skins machine and the Raiders go on to win 38-9.
Lombardi was a great coach, but the game has changed.
I don’t say for the better, but it has changed.
I know - he also ain't with the Pats any more and his "legacy" still haunts them.....
Tom Brady is 130 games over .500 - he’s absurdly, devastatingly, excellent. Sour grapes. He’d take whatever team you root for and win 12 games a season.
I don't care how good he is - a cheater is a cheater is a cheater. The Patriots organization is rightfully under a cloud of suspicion for cheating, because of the number of times they have been caught and the pattern of behavior surrounding the club.
It's even worse when the really good ones cheat to get that extra edge, as they can't trust their own extraordinary talent to get the job done.
They didn’t lay a glove on Tom Brady and you are full of sh$t. The Cato Institute and countless others have shown that. The judge even asked the NFL - you are saying he did what exactly? Further, the only thing the Patriots were caught doing was filming the signal caller in front of 80,000 other people but not doing it in the space allotted for such filming but from another vantage point. Some spy operation out in front of 80,000 people. It’s nothing but sour grapes and you should get over your delusions. I believe you should give your address so Tedy Bruschi and Rodney Harrison and Willie McGinest can come over your house and discuss your slander of these great, great players. So full of sh$t. The only team to handle the Pats were the Giants and their magnificent defensive lineman. That is how you beat the Pats. IT’s not cheating it’s not anything. It’s defensive linemen.
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