WEEI interview with Bill Belichick (Mon 12/17/12) - Page 2 - New England Patriots Forums

Uncle Rico · 12-18-2012, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by KontradictioN

The team is probably going to be paying for it this week. Laps and gassers to death at the end of practice... fully padded of course.

Wouldn't want to be the Jags this week. (Well, OK, any week; but especially this week).

neuronet · 12-18-2012, 01:11 PM

I think the Newtown tragedy is influencing people in the NE people more. I live in NC, and everyone is very sad about it, but when I talked to my family up in Amesbury, they were clearly much more shell-shocked than me. After all, it is a typical small New England town, much like Amesbury.

I do not think that is a crazy theory at all.

***goheels22002*** · 12-18-2012, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Bella*chick

I thought about the Newtown theory as well....I read an article in which Bob Kraft talked about how many players were talking about it Friday. I briefly wondered if it would affect focus, since how could it not? But then I figured it would be same for the 49er players, since it has affected people all around the country and the world. But the Patriots are close to the area, same with Giants and Jets. The Giants also played really poorly and couldn't manage to rebound a bit as we did. I read that one of the little victims was a huge Victor Cruz fan and that Cruz was driving over to Newtown with a bunch of stuff from the Giants locker room for the family. I can't help but think it may have had an effect when I read stuff like that. With the Jets level of play in general, it's hard to tell either way, though.

I think the Newtown effect is very real. Young people in their 20s, with or without kids, have been hit hard by this where I work. It is a tragedy of unimaginable evil - less understandable than Columbine, Oklahoma City or Waco before it. These young men with families and new mothers are not immune, especially when they, too, have none of the answers those around them are seeking.