Bill Belichick’s silence becomes conspicuous

Yahoo ^ | June 5, 2020 | Mike Florio

[C19fan]

In this historic moment, there is no middle ground. The choices are to support the notion of equality, liberty, and justice for all, or not to. Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore, the 2019 NFL defensive player of the year, left no doubt regarding his position on the matter, given his involvement in the powerful and moving video produced by several prominent NFL players. So where does his boss stand? The question of Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s silence has been raised by Tom Curran of NBC Sports Boston. At a time when more and more coaches are speaking out in compelling fashion (including a pair of former Belichick lieutenants, Brian Flores and Bill O’Brien), Belichick remains quiet.

[Bernard]

When the NFL does finally get a few games in some neutral site with no fans in the stands, it's going to sound like "The Connors" without a laugh track.

Between the knee-taking, ghetto trash talking, contract woes between the players and the owners, contract woes between the TV networks and the owners, and the constant temp-taking needed on the sidelines to satisfy Fauci Fantasy Rules, having a 2020 season sounds like a dream that won't happen for the NFL and the NBA.

[woodbutcher1963]

Of course, PC sucks. However, it is the reality IF you want to be an entertainer on TV. Joe Buck, Terry Bradshaw, etc are entertainers. They are paid to talk about football as an analyst, but they also have to project a non controversial image if you want to get paid to be a spokesman.

Look what happened to Tiger Woods. He lost millions in endorsements.

Look at Tom Brady. I think he is actually a conservative.
He NEVER says anything political.

Michael Jordan still said it best:
“Republicans buy sneakers too”

[Psalm 73]

I don’t think BB will allow himself to be baited by single-digit IQs like Tom Curran and Mike Florio.

[ByteMercenary]

Brees is worth over $250mm as of today. He could live in a palace, eat Wagyu fillets, caviar and kale served by a black waiter every day until he dies and still have millions left over to leave to his kids.

For him to concern himself about doing car commercials after retiring from pro football is ridiculous. I am not saying that you are wrong about that, just that it seems to me to be a waste of his time.

[Vermont Lt]

“Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité“

It has a familiar sound to it.

[lurk]

But now the mandate is that silence is support of racism.

This parallels the Chinese cultural revolution in shaming and destroying.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

In this historic moment, there is no middle ground.

Just like China circa 1949.

[NotSoFreeStater]

“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?”

[richardtavor]

Belichick is smart. With a lying, political press, everything you say will be taken out of context and distorted, or absolutely made up. I would not issue any statements about race, race relations, riots, blacks, black lives matter, white lives don’t matter, etc, and would only release written statements, at the time of my choosing. Perhaps even have them notorized after each release and infrom the liars that if it is not notorized, it did not come from me..

[EBH]

Silence is Violence don’t ya know?

[FreedomPoster]

How did that work out for Robespierre?

[Sirius Lee]

The inevitable goal of socialism is either fascism or communism.

Then they silenced anyone who disagreed with them. - a sure sign you are dealing with either fascists or communists.

Now they demand everyone mouth the words they want to hear. - a communist for sure.

There was an old woman in East Germany who was interviewed after the fall of the wall. She was asked about having lived under bot the nazis and the communists. She said preferred living under the the nazis because they would tell you what to do, but would otherwise leave you alone, whereas the communists would keep badgering you, demanding that you like it.

[Bookshelf]

I wonder if the NFL isn’t in the twilight of its career?

[StoneRainbow68]

-—I don’t think BB will allow himself to be baited by single-digit IQs like Tom Curran and Mike Florio.-—

Curran went heel-turn a couple years back when he was falling behind for clicks.

Florio is an ambulance-chasing, muckraking scumbag.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Modem Salem witch hunt

[rlmorel]

A lot of people hate Bill Belichick for a number of reasons, but I'll tell you where I think Bill Belichick stands on these things: He is against this crap, this rioting about the myth of and epidemic of black men being murdered by police. And the kneeling during the National Anthem? He will never, ever, publicly endorse it.

Never.

He will resign before he does that. I don't know Belichick, and none of what I say is more than my opinion, I was only in his close personal presence once (a story I have always found humorous) and none of this is to say he is a good person, because I don't know about that. As a matter of fact, my impression of him is that personally, he can probably be a dick at times. I say this because in the last twenty years of observing him, I believe these things to be true of him:

1. He is a conservative. He reeks of it. And the main reason I say this is that he is a realist, and deals in facts, not what he wishes the facts were. That alone disqualifies Leftism in him.
   
   
2. He believes in personal responsibility. He demands it of people who play for him. That isn't to say he hasn't had players under him who don't share that belief and fail at it, but overall, he has very high expectations of people, and demands that from them. And some players simply cannot handle that. As anyone knows, having high expectations placed on you means it is more likely you will be held to account if you don't achieve them, and that is a hallmark of Bill Belichick. That is also an arguably conservative outlook, having high expectations and holding people to those expectations.
   
   
3. He is a Patriot (not the football kind, the American kind) and he loves his country. That automatically makes him a non-Leftist. Another reason he will never publicly state support for kneeling during the National Anthem or otherwise disrespecting the flag.
   
   
4. He is a student of history in all of its forms, and not just football history, of which his knowledge is legendary. If you have any doubts about this, you can ask people who have been around him. Leftists have no use for history except as a tool to further their political goals.
   
   
5. He is a traditionalist, in some aspects, even a sentimentalist. He believes in the power and meaning of positive symbols and ceremonies. I believe it is due most of all to his father, but also to being in close proximity to the military for many years in his life. And there are few organizations that (at least up to the last decade or so) value tradition and ceremony as much as the military does. So I am 100% certain he views the kneeling and disrespect of the flag in the dimmest of lights. But his hands are tied in some respects by reality.
   
   
6. He is stubborn. I believe he is so stubborn, that if he is forced to mouth platitudes about something that is completely not rationally based, but emotionally based and based on racism (not the racism of brutal police and supposedly institutional racism, but the racism of accusing others of that) that I believe they would have to resort to physical torture to get that out of him.

Again, this is my opinion based on twenty years of close observation, not just what the media says about him, but his actions in various things, and I believe this is all true.

[rlmorel]

That will almost certainly be his response, said in a flat, emotionless voice.

With scarcely lidded contempt beneath it.

[rlmorel]

Sadly, I believe it is.

I have been an ardent NFL fan since I first watched a game, a 1972 Saturday night game in 1972 between the Redskins and Bears where the Bears won the game on a broken play on the last play of the game where Bobby Douglass bobbled a high snap for a PAT, and ended up throwing it in desperation into the end zone where Dick Butkus somehow caught it lying flat on his back.

But I lost a huge amount of enthusiasm the last several years with this kneeling crap, but I kept watching because I didn’t believe the owners or the NFL leadership itself were into it, just being held hostage, and stupidly so. They seemed to be reluctantly paying lip service.

But now they appear to be fully into it with money backing it too, being given to the worst race baiting organizations. I don’t know if I can continue to watch in that light.

And I believe they are cutting their own throat in do so. The same people coming after them from everything ranging from concussions to player union rights are the same people behind making them kowtow and kneel to Black Lives Matter. They are going to eventually rub out the NFL anyway, and now they have the NFL helping to do it to themselves.

[Redwood71]

“IF he wants to be employed by Fox, NBC, ESPN, CBS post NFL player he needs to correct his speech.”

Profound you are. I suppose no one remembers what happened to Rush Limbaugh with ESPN when he told the truth.

rwood

[rlmorel]

Exactly. And it is what we see behind all this unrest today. It is more akin to the Chicom Cultural Revolution, where people were forced to denounce everyone else, including parents, siblings, and children.

My brother and I were discussing the movie “The Lives of Others” about life behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany.

The Nazis took their Teutonic striving for order and efficiency, and harnessed it to mass murder.

The Communists took their Teutonic striving for order and efficiency, and harnessed it to surveillance of their citizenry.