Did the NFL help the Patriots?

[NE39]

I love this article, from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

Reaction in the scouting community to the Pats' Sunday night pummeling of San Diego can be summarized in two words:

"Holy (expletive)."

The really bad news for the rest of the league is the Patriots have clearly rallied around their head coach and one another thanks to the controversy and subsequent disciplinary action handed down from Goodell.

Bill Belichick need no longer concern himself with artificially fostering that us-against-the-world mentality so many coaches seem so desperate to create.

The NFL has done that for him.

This part is really interesting, although I don't know if it true:

The best of such stories being bandied about by scouts maintains Brady, who is permitted to run the offensive meeting once a week in training camp, called out Moss on one occasion and told him, in effect, if he didn't run his routes the way he's supposed to run them he wasn't going to get the ball.

That's the same Moss who had became infamous in the scouting community last season for allegedly refusing to run onto the dirt portion of the baseball diamond on the field in Oakland.

The same one who caught two TD passes from and shared one sideline embrace with Brady in Sunday night's 38-14 destruction of San Diego.

Uh-oh.

It does make sense, though, and shows how Brady leads.

 

[checkedout]

I like it. hope it is true

 

[Fahrenhype]

Yup, they're motivated beyond belief now. :rocker:

The Moss anecdote is interesting. Doesn't come as much of an admonishment as it is another way of saying "if you're not open, it's going somewhere else."

I think he's willing to take constructive criticism when the person saying it knows what they're talking about. He sure as hell can't be anything less than thrilled with the results at this point. Hammer out that extension fellas.

 

[Bella*chick]

Re: the "us against them" stuff. It's totally true, and totally the NFL's fault. Deal with it, rest of the league. Nobody held a gun to the players and coaches heads and forced them to make stupid remarks that will be haunting them later. The fact of the matter is nobody gets it, even when it's too late. Just ask LaDanian Tomlinson.

 

[ClevTrev]

I love this article, from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

The best of such stories being bandied about by scouts maintains Brady, who is permitted to run the offensive meeting once a week in training camp, called out Moss on one occasion and told him, in effect, if he didn't run his routes the way he's supposed to run them he wasn't going to get the ball.

That's the same Moss who had became infamous in the scouting community last season for allegedly refusing to run onto the dirt portion of the baseball diamond on the field in Oakland.

The same one who caught two TD passes from and shared one sideline embrace with Brady in Sunday night's 38-14 destruction of San Diego.

Uh-oh. This part is really interesting, although I don't know if it true:
It does make sense, though, and shows how Brady leads.

I question the credibility of the part of the story where Brady calls out Moss. Given how this team is fanatical about details and revealing personal information, how in the world would someone give up such information to the reporter? My guess is that this is fiction. It's this constant drumbeat on Moss' reputation as a malcontent that people keep thinking the player has these problems and has come to a team that has dealt with them. Pure fiction, I say, and you only need to watch Moss and Brady to see how they interact. They are motivated. There is no hesitation in their relationship. They make each other better.

 

[Patriotic Fervor]

Re: the "us against them" stuff. It's totally true, and totally the NFL's fault. Deal with it, rest of the league. Nobody held a gun to the players and coaches heads and forced them to make stupid remarks that will be haunting them later. The fact of the matter is nobody gets it, even when it's too late. Just ask LaDanian Tomlinson.

This is how it is, and this is how it will come down.

Law of Unintended Consequences, and all that....

 

[Patriotic Fervor]

I question the credibility of the part of the story where Brady calls out Moss. Given how this team is fanatical about details and revealing personal information, how in the world would someone give up such information to the reporter? My guess is that this is fiction. It's this constant drumbeat on Moss' reputation as a malcontent that people keep thinking the player has these problems and has come to a team that has dealt with them. Pure fiction, I say, and you only need to watch Moss and Brady to see how they interact. They are motivated. There is no hesitation in their relationship. They make each other better.

I agree, and you've stated it very well!

 

[Bella*chick]

I highly doubt Brady "called out" Moss as well. If that's even true, I'm sure Brady was speaking about every WR and it got twisted to refer to Moss because of his reputation. Watching Brady and Moss together...it's like they've been playing together for years. Such obvious mutual respect and admiration.

 

[CTPatsFan]

Moss has behaved himself so far. I think he will prove a lot of his critics wrong this year.

The last thing this team needed (as far as the other teams are concerned) was a chip on their shoulder. Oops!

 

[Bella*chick]

Moss has behaved himself so far. I think he will prove a lot of his critics wrong this year.

The last thing this team needed (as far as the other teams are concerned) was a chip on their shoulder. Oops!

And a chip the size of Wisconsin, no less.

 

[patchick]

Moss has behaved himself so far. I think he will prove a lot of his critics wrong this year.

The last thing this team needed (as far as the other teams are concerned) was a chip on their shoulder. Oops!

I don't know, this could all bring out Moss's selfish malcontent side. "Hey coach, I'm supposed to be the lightening rod for criticism around here!"

 

[PatsFaninAZ]

I do think there is a way in which this whole mess does help the patriots.

If every team is forced to play everything straight up by the rules, I give the advantage to our guy. He's more compulsive and better than the other guys.

With Goddell making an example of Belichick for the tape, you just know that every single head coach in the league has spent the last 10 days worried about what they are doing and whether they are going to be next.

The perception is the Belichick thinks he needs this stuff to get an advantage. Bullsh*t. You level any playing field and he'll rise to the top. The irony of this whole situation is that given their ability to evaluate players, review tape, draft, and game plan, if you route out rule-breaking and underhanded stuff in the NFL, the team that has the most to gain is the Patriots.

 

[LoveDemPats]

I question the credibility of the part of the story where Brady calls out Moss. Given how this team is fanatical about details and revealing personal information, how in the world would someone give up such information to the reporter? My guess is that this is fiction. It's this constant drumbeat on Moss' reputation as a malcontent that people keep thinking the player has these problems and has come to a team that has dealt with them. Pure fiction, I say, and you only need to watch Moss and Brady to see how they interact. They are motivated. There is no hesitation in their relationship. They make each other better.

Exactly. We should expect all kinds of stuff like this.

There was a time when Moss said somehting to the effect Brady expected things to be run a certain way and that he paid a lot of attention to detail. He went on to say that he was glad about it. I would imagine that this reporter made up his own little scenario for that particular comment.