Two writers think Pats hiring McDaniels is unfair

[cmasspatsfan]

I just heard on the radio, the Steelers did a similiar thing a few years ago adding a fired assistant to their staff right before the playoffs. Where was the moral outrage then?

I bet its been done more than once over the years by other teams but the media loves to crucify BB any chance they get, I dont give them clicks or buy their toilet paper.

 

[NJPatsfan26]

I bet its been done more than once over the years by other teams but the media loves to crucify BB any chance they get, I dont give them clicks or buy their toilet paper.

Oh my goodness....Are you saying that "Sports Journalism" is biased???? Someone call the commish.....time for JoshGate to go into FULL LOCKDOWN MODE!!

 

[PatsDeb]

Hi, welcome to Patsfans. Go to the 3rd post in the game thread and you'll see how wrong you are. Deus and many others of us here at Patsfans picked the Tebows to beat the Squealers.

Welcome to the site!

LOL - how do you know Deus is not Tebow's mother? So you think these guys are right and BB hired McDaniels to beat the Broncos?

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

Look, this is a no brainer, think about it, IF they didn't let McDaniels start now, then nobody would be allowed to fire their coach during the season. Granted most teams fire their coach and take someone from the staff and make them the interm coach, but others have brought in new coaches during the season.

McDaniels was under contract with St. Louis, the Ptas asked for permission to speak to him, under the league rules, it was granted and mcdaniels was relased from his contract. If they want to beef with someone, they should beef with St. Louis who could have kept him.

IF they blocked McDaniels from coming onbaord now, then the Pats would turn around and block every new coach from assuming his position until after the Superbowl.

 

[Ice Cold Bruschi]

Please if they played that game 10 times yesterday the steelers would have won 9 of them and no one would be talking about how we hired McDaniels THE DAY BEFORE THEY EVEN PLAYED THE GAME. Not only that but last time I checked McDaniels wasn't on the Bronco's coaching staff this year.

 

[Uncle Rico]

W...

If this rule was instituted, then would O'Brien have been allowed to take a job in the first place? So, let me get this straight. Its OK for the Pats to get completely F'd over by having O'Brien take a ridiculously high profile job a week before their first playoff game - which, O'Brien has a duty to his family to accept that offer, I don't begrudge him - but its not OK for the Pats to try and fill that void? ...

Exactly. Absurd.

Might as well get used to this stuff folks. The deeper the Pats go the more crap folks will pull. "Spygate" will be beaten to death yet again. Just no way around it.

 

[borg]

Looking at the issue, just in general terms, I think it is bad policy for the league to allow coaches to jump ship during playoffs. Sorry. If the acquiring team is still in the playoffs, it shouldn't be allowed. Of course we are talking about a league that turns its back on player tampering...so why enact another charade. But can't you see a scenario where playoff team A approaches a team out of the playoffs and says, "Let me hire your guy for the short term and we can work out compensation." Can O' Worms...I say

 

[The Gr8est]

Only one team has ever been caught filming another team's walkthrough; the Denver Broncos, when they filmed the 49ers pregame walkthrough. I remember reading Broncos messageboards back then and they were so worried about losing their #1 draft choice, or worse, since Goodell had already set a precedent with the Pats.

As it turned out, the Broncos were a bad team and weren't a threat to the Rats quest for a Superbowl so they were given a slap on the wrist; $50,000 fine.

Combined with the salary cap violations that allowed the Broncos to keep players that they otherwise couldn't, the Broncos are the last team who should be complaining about cheating.

Of course, BB is so slick that he asked the for permission from the Rams and the NFL before interviewing and hiring McDaniels. That gave the Pats a viable alibi they could use, and they even got the Chiefs to pretend that they were interested in hiring McDaniels too to improve the cover up even more. What a cheating snake BB is.

It has already been mentioned before, but what about the Rats consulting with Rob Ryan and Eric Mangini about devising a game plan to help beat the Pats in last year's playoff game? BB and the Pats never uttered a peep of protest about it, but I wonder if that is actually against the rules.

If it IS against the rules, it is likely just one of those things that everyone does and everyone looks the other way on; like stealing signals, unless you are a loser franchise who can't beat the Pats without turning them in to your Uncle Roger so that he can try and bring them down to size for you.

 

[Uncle Rico]

Reiss on Twitter:

Good note by @tomecurran. Cowboys, in 2009, hired Paul Pasqualoni in playoffs after Pasqualoni was fired by Dolphins. Similar to McDaniels

As seen on ESPN.com.

 

[Ivan]

The really bizarre aspect of this criticism is that McDaniels didn't even work for denver this entire season. It would be one thing if the Chiefs made the play-offs the last weekend and a team hired Haley just for the play-offs to gain an edge, but even then it would still fall on the Chiefs for letting him go, but at least there would be a clear conflict of interest involved. With a full season between I don't see any grounds to b.tch at all.

 

[DEVIOUS 1]

Both writers have a history of biased vitriol regarding one Mr. William Belichick.

Silver especially has a hair across is arse. There is no journalistic integrity there, just pure unabashed hatred.

 

[Mainefan]

This is only an attempt to establish, in advance, an excuse for losing and to create a distraction. I wonder if they would have complained if St. Louis had outbid the Patriots and kept McD? Would that have been "fair"?

The easy way silence these bozos is to beat the Broncos by 20 or 30 points. I hope the good Lord takes some time off from conversing with Tebow to make it so.

 

[JoeSixPat]

It all balances out - O'Brien may be a bit distracted with other thoughts these days and perhaps McDaniels helps fill that gap a bit.

Its sour grapes on Denvers part though - it could have been any coach - it just so happened to be McDaniels.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

LOL - how do you know Deus is not Tebow's mother? So you think these guys are right and BB hired McDaniels to beat the Broncos?

That's not the item I was referring to but given how badly Denver destroyed the Pats with Tebow it's obvious Josh is only here to win the playoff game against the Tebows. BB KNEW who would win that 1st round game and was prepared in advance.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

read the comments on the Denver artilce, the ones written BEFORE the game speak of McDaniels horrible talent evaluation and how he scrwed the Broncos with bad drafting...

and then the two guys they were complaining about hooked up on a 80 yd TD pass and suddenly McDaniels is a genius and the Pats are cheating.........

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

I just heard on the radio, the Steelers did a similiar thing a few years ago adding a fired assistant to their staff right before the playoffs. Where was the moral outrage then?

This and a similar event with the Cows being ignored once again illustrates the blatant incompetence and overt bias of paid sports journalists and their obvious agenda driven reporting, I mean editorializing. Oh, and delete sports from the previous sentence.

 

[IllegalContact]

to be honest, I don't think its right to allow a guy who has been coaching all season for another team onto the staff of a new team before the season is over.

on the other hand, the fact that he was employed here before is a factor, and the fact that no rules were actually broken is another factor. I guess this outweighs the fact that the wierdness of the situation stems from the fact that tebow was drafted with mcdaniel being the coach there.

that's life....things lined up that worked out for the pats....there are no rules against that

 

[PatsDeb]

That's not the item I was referring to but given how badly Denver destroyed the Pats with Tebow it's obvious Josh is only here to win the playoff game against the Tebows. BB KNEW who would win that 1st round game and was prepared in advance.

Yes, I know that was not what you were referring to, and I, as an experienced poster (despite your warm welcome), should have clarified with my "nobody but their mothers" comment, that I was talking about media members, since they are the bozos complaining.

 

[shmessy]

Looking at the issue, just in general terms, I think it is bad policy for the league to allow coaches to jump ship during playoffs. Sorry. If the acquiring team is still in the playoffs, it shouldn't be allowed. Of course we are talking about a league that turns its back on player tampering...so why enact another charade. But can't you see a scenario where playoff team A approaches a team out of the playoffs and says, "Let me hire your guy for the short term and we can work out compensation." Can O' Worms...I say

I agree 100%. The league should have closed the door on this with a rule.

However, it currently is not against the rules.

Belichick did nothing wrong here.

Anyone complaining has ulterior issues.

 

[neuronet]

More hack writers trolling for clicks. Don't supply them.