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Those of you who've seen my reaction to the "nut-uh we don't cheat!" threads know I'm something short of a full-on homer when it comes to the ahem, Incident.
But I'm also beyond annoyed at other teams using the "get out of losing free" card, by claiming various sorts of poor sportsmanship/cheating on the part of the Pats. JP Losman -- who is such a loser, it's built right into his name -- now says Wilfork intentionally injured him.
Oh yeah. That Vince Wilfork. He's notorious.
This is just the latest in a series of comments about the Patriots' poor sportsmanship -- almost all coming from someone who has lost to the Patriots.
I realize just about everybody has done so, but these are the guys that have lost big: Hines Ward. Jerome Bettis. Lady Tomlinson. Donovan McNabb. JP Losman. Who'd I miss?
I do remember back in the day, everybody in the league has a story about Conrad Dobler of the Cardinals, but they were pretty much considered colorful funny stories.
Other than that, I can not remember a time when more players came forward to courageously whine on camera about the conduct of a team that coincidently beat the living crap out of them in an important way, or in a recent game.
To this extent, I will jump on the homer bandwagon: it's like it's open season on the Patriots, past or present. Anything bad that happens in a game or as the result of a game, it's considered "fishy."
So here's the thing - one of the things I've actually learned from football that applies to life, is **** happens and you move on. It seldom matters why. It seldom even matters if there are mitigating circumstances when your own performance is not considered superb. It matter that you find a way to move on and win.
That's why I have issues with what I see as cameragate denial -- it becomes all about what "everybody else does" and all about "good intentions" and what one was "trying to do". It should be about "did you break the rules?" We knew the rule, we did it anyway. Move forward.
But a more eggregious example of externalized locus of control is the reaction of players and even some coaches, who just blatantly go out and say "we would have won [I would have kept my job] except the Patriots cheat," in so many words.
Is the league headed toward a Critical Mass of Whininess? What happens to the competitiveness of the league, if players take this as a general, recognized, and condoned trend -- blaming losses not on their own play, but on their opponents' perceived intentions and bad actions?
Thoughts, please.
PFnV
But I'm also beyond annoyed at other teams using the "get out of losing free" card, by claiming various sorts of poor sportsmanship/cheating on the part of the Pats. JP Losman -- who is such a loser, it's built right into his name -- now says Wilfork intentionally injured him.
Oh yeah. That Vince Wilfork. He's notorious.
This is just the latest in a series of comments about the Patriots' poor sportsmanship -- almost all coming from someone who has lost to the Patriots.
I realize just about everybody has done so, but these are the guys that have lost big: Hines Ward. Jerome Bettis. Lady Tomlinson. Donovan McNabb. JP Losman. Who'd I miss?
I do remember back in the day, everybody in the league has a story about Conrad Dobler of the Cardinals, but they were pretty much considered colorful funny stories.
Other than that, I can not remember a time when more players came forward to courageously whine on camera about the conduct of a team that coincidently beat the living crap out of them in an important way, or in a recent game.
To this extent, I will jump on the homer bandwagon: it's like it's open season on the Patriots, past or present. Anything bad that happens in a game or as the result of a game, it's considered "fishy."
So here's the thing - one of the things I've actually learned from football that applies to life, is **** happens and you move on. It seldom matters why. It seldom even matters if there are mitigating circumstances when your own performance is not considered superb. It matter that you find a way to move on and win.
That's why I have issues with what I see as cameragate denial -- it becomes all about what "everybody else does" and all about "good intentions" and what one was "trying to do". It should be about "did you break the rules?" We knew the rule, we did it anyway. Move forward.
But a more eggregious example of externalized locus of control is the reaction of players and even some coaches, who just blatantly go out and say "we would have won [I would have kept my job] except the Patriots cheat," in so many words.
Is the league headed toward a Critical Mass of Whininess? What happens to the competitiveness of the league, if players take this as a general, recognized, and condoned trend -- blaming losses not on their own play, but on their opponents' perceived intentions and bad actions?
Thoughts, please.
PFnV
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