Hate seeing stuff like this

betterthanthealternative said:

I'd suggest that it is a basic, entry-level responsibility of a professional athlete, in any sport, to do the personal emotional growth work that allows him to not have his mindset and concentration affected by the behavior of other players.

And, I'd suggest that the Patriots players and coaches don't care what the other teams think of them. They don't care if they think they are "easy to push around." Reality shows up on the playing field, and the Patriots aren't going to play differently because of the state of mind of another team. And any team that gets a false sense of confidence because of what your refer to is actually being set up for a surprise on the field, which works in the Patriot's favor.

When you say, "you can't allow that to happen" I hear weakness, not strength.

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Wrath Mania said:

This thread is moronic. Out of all the problems last night, the fact the Patriots didn't tear the crap out of some punk that Brady pretty much LOLed at is your biggest concern? We could be focusing on the shaky O-line, the turnovers, the lack of anyone competent playing safety besides Devin McCourty- you know, actual football- but instead you want to make a big stink about NEEDIN TO SHOW WHOS BOSS GRRRRAWWWRRRR BECAUSE THIS WORKED ON MY HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY TEAM AND BELICHICK SHOULD TRY IT TOOOO

There's a difference between being more 'physical' and giving a **** about jr high spats. The Patriots lost to the Ravens last year partially because they got outmuscled I guess- but there's a lot of technical football things that went wrong too, that chalking up to something some primitive-cave man would conclude, "WE NEED TO SHOW WE CANT BE PUSHED AROUND," is idiotic. Should we have asked Hernandez to try to execute Ray Lewis on field (oh man)? Or maybe the team just needs better players and better execution?

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Sciz said:

That's hard to watch, but retaliating is not the right thing to do. As we saw with Antonio Smith (although in a pretty extreme example), Goodell is willing to suspend guys during the regular season for something that happens during the preseason. So if Mankins takes out Young and starts a brawl with punches being thrown, it's not absurd to think that there could be regular season ramifications. There's no reason to risk that.

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Sciz said:

That's hard to watch, but retaliating is not the right thing to do. As we saw with Antonio Smith (although in a pretty extreme example), Goodell is willing to suspend guys during the regular season for something that happens during the preseason. So if Mankins takes out Young and starts a brawl with punches being thrown, it's not absurd to think that there could be regular season ramifications. There's no reason to risk that.

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Big-T said:

Retaliating will cost the team 15 yards.

Let other teams be idiots and let the Pats have the free 15 yards.

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sb1 said:

Some 7th round draft pick Lions stiff got in Brady's face last night (and quickly benched, to Schwartz's credit).

That got me thinking about the comments in the game thread last night that teams know this team won't physically retaliate anymore for this crap and that's too bad... and the book is out on Brady to try and intimidate him.

They have to get nastier or teams will keep trying to push us around.

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LivinLovin&Breathin_Brady said:

I don't know. Brady should've got back in this thug's face, like he got in Sugg's face a few years ago. Instead of letting this punk drag him to the side and put his finger in his face and do nothing, except shout for the ref.
I do agree with some, Belichick has got to put some manliness and toughness back into this team, how can they intimidate teams, by allowing opposing teams to talk *** and bully them around and not do anything about it and still get whupped in the end. It's like the Jets, Giants and Ravens all over again. Who cares about letting plays do the talking for you? Even if they did beat those teams, fans of other teams are gonna still look and be like, "Brady got scared", "Brady's a punk", "Brady let that boy get in his face and said or did nothing!" and that will make it ok for all the teams and young punks to do this to Brady.

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PatsWickedPissah said:

I would pay front row game ticket prices to see various Patsfans lecture the players about their lack of manliness. If this means I'm liable for the medical bills then I rescind this post.

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PatsWickedPissah said:

You're Gisele, admit it.

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LivinLovin&Breathin_Brady said:

I don't know. Brady should've got back in this thug's face, like he got in Sugg's face a few years ago. Instead of letting this punk drag him to the side and put his finger in his face and do nothing, except shout for the ref.
I do agree with some, Belichick has got to put some manliness and toughness back into this team, how can they intimidate teams, by allowing opposing teams to talk *** and bully them around and not do anything about it and still get whupped in the end. It's like the Jets, Giants and Ravens all over again. Who cares about letting plays do the talking for you? Even if they did beat those teams, fans of other teams are gonna still look and be like, "Brady got scared", "Brady's a punk", "Brady let that boy get in his face and said or did nothing!" and that will make it ok for all the teams and young punks to do this to Brady.

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