I don't know why there are so many that are rooting for him to fail.
I really don't think it's that at all. I see it as, people simply lost patience in rooting for him to succeed.
In the eyes of many people Chad has already failed. He has to...unfail.
I've got to give this one to Brdmaverick. Haters gonna hate, and a lot of people are taking great pleasure in bashing "Ochostinko". Some of them had ridiculously high expectations for what he would do coming into a brand new system that was very different than what he was used to:
http://www.patsfans.com/new-england...expectations-chad-ochocinco-haynesworth.html
"Realistic expectations" my *ss. People over-hyped Ochocinco, then over-bashed him when he didn't meet their expectations. That's SOP for this board.
I give Ocho credit for embracing a challenge and not resting on his laurels. The guy went to 6 Pro Bowls, had 7 1,000 yard seasons and put up almost 11,000 yards receiving before he came to the Pats. He embraced coming to a team where he knew it was the team first over individuals and where he knew he would be the #4 option at best. He embraced coming to a team with a complex offensive system which has stymied other very successful veteran WRs and which was in some ways antithetical to the style which had made him successful. And he shut up and never complained. He never got frustrated, never whined in public about not being more involved in the offense. As far as I can tell, he was always upbeat and positive, and took great satisfaction in the team accomplishments. That doesn't earn him a roster spot, but in my book it earns him enough respect to not merit scorn or derision just because he had a difficult time adjusting. And if the Pats didn't cut him last year - they cut Joey Galloway pretty damn quick - maybe it was because they saw enough potential and work ethic to believe that he might be able to eventually figure it out.
What if Wes Welker hadn't been franchise tagged and had signed with another team in the offseason, and his numbers had gone down dramatically in a new offense which didn't focus on the slot receiver? Would that earn him scorn and derision from those fans? Would that diminish his accomplishments with the Pats over the past 5 years?
Frezo, the doctor taking out your appendix is doing the exact same thing he has done hundreds or thousands of times before. He's not coming into a new environment with new tools and rules and trying to figure them out while he operates on the fly.
Give the guy a break. The odds are very much against him making the team right now. But they're against Anthony Gonzalez, Jeremy Ebert, Donte Stallworth and a bunch of other guys, too. That's what competition is about. Let him compete, and if he earns a job then it will be because he's going to bring something positive to the team.