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I am really getting tired of fans/media thinking that opposing team's players walk on egg shells when it comes to discussing the Pats. "Man he was really stupid to diss the Pats...now they are really dead." Players are not thinking "if we piss them off, they are going to beat us up even more, so lets not say anything so the beating is less severe". The Pats are going to play as hard as they can. Period. They are not the Hulk, and gain extra strength the angrier they are, or get faster. Nor do they get better at making reads. Smack talk is part of the game...ALL teams try to discourage it.
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I am really getting tired of fans/media thinking that opposing team's players walk on egg shells when it comes to discussing the Pats. "Man he was really stupid to diss the Pats...now they are really dead." Players are not thinking "if we piss them off, they are going to beat us up even more, so lets not say anything so the beating is less severe". The Pats are going to play as hard as they can. Period. They are not the Hulk, and gain extra strength the angrier they are, or get faster. Nor do they get better at making reads. Smack talk is part of the game...ALL teams try to discourage it.
I get what your saying, and normally I'd agree, but the Pats seem to have bigger games following weeks in which members of the other team talk sh.it (Chargers, Vanderjagt back in the day 21-3 etc.) so I do actually think that they know being on top they have to search for that last little bit of whatever you want to call it (adrenaline, anger, chip on the shoulder mentality). They realize they need something to balance out the fact that, for the guys lining up across them, this is their biggest game of the year. Finding that edge every week is tough when the other team usually has nothing to lose and you're expected to win, and I think turning them into the enemy that has said something to disparage you and what you've worked so hard for is probably the easiest way to tap into that emotion. You can play as hard as you can every week, but there will always be that reservoir of emotion that if you can tap into, it can make all the difference.
You really are some sort of MENSA candidtate, aren't you? You just refuted your whole premise with that conclusion. If it were so meaningless, unimportant and only pertaining to the realm of fandom, then why would teams try to discourage it? Exactly, McFly.
As I said in the other thread, what gets annoying are the sanctimonious fans who put players on such a high pedestal, so as to make any and all forms of gamesmanship beneath them and their moralizing ways. I mean, seriously, have you watched this team at all for the past 7 years? This stuff fuels them big time. There are endless articles, quotes and snippets about which players really play this stuff up in the Pats locker room and how they respond after wins to what other players have said about them.
The coach isn't even above this sort of thing. One only needs to go back to the "they hate their coach" craziness and how Bill responded.
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My 2 cents - its overblown and media sensationlizes it - not only in case of pats but in case of all teams . "this guy gurantees win, that guy calls out X guy". When teams win people justify those actions when they lose they forget.
Bottomline is this -
Pats have won consistently because of who they are -well prepared, well coached team.Other teams say some stuff because they dont see the 'talent' at least before this yr to think that the pats can be so good for yrs to come.Once the pats win , the players question about what the others were saying .it adds nothing to the game or to BB. Maybe during pre superbowl speeches BB rouses all this kinda stuff but our team is too mature and professional to go and look for material to fire them up. They just laugh it off on the field and win because of playing better. it just a coincidence that people think pats get extra motivated because they win all the time.
The Patriots blow stuff out of proportion, create disrespect and feed off of it. I'm really tired of people saying that it somehow matters that bulletin board material "shouldn't" make a difference. WHO GIVES A CRAP IF IT SHOULDN'T? It does.
I am really getting tired of fans/media thinking that opposing team's players walk on egg shells when it comes to discussing the Pats. "Man he was really stupid to diss the Pats...now they are really dead." Players are not thinking "if we piss them off, they are going to beat us up even more, so lets not say anything so the beating is less severe". The Pats are going to play as hard as they can. Period. They are not the Hulk, and gain extra strength the angrier they are, or get faster. Nor do they get better at making reads. Smack talk is part of the game...ALL teams try to discourage it.
awww
steeler fan no like Hulk??
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You really are some sort of MENSA candidtate, aren't you? You just refuted your whole premise with that conclusion. If it were so meaningless, unimportant and only pertaining to the realm of fandom, then why would teams try to discourage it? Exactly, McFly.
I am really getting tired of fans/media thinking that opposing team's players walk on egg shells when it comes to discussing the Pats. "Man he was really stupid to diss the Pats...now they are really dead." Players are not thinking "if we piss them off, they are going to beat us up even more, so lets not say anything so the beating is less severe". The Pats are going to play as hard as they can. Period. They are not the Hulk, and gain extra strength the angrier they are, or get faster. Nor do they get better at making reads. Smack talk is part of the game...ALL teams try to discourage it.
Boy, when this quote hits the bulletin board in the Pats locker room, the guys are going to go crazy! BB will save it for the Steeler game, I'm sure.
The "Patriots = Hulk" Thing
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