Are reporters afraid to ask Belichick the tough questions ?

patfanken said:

What are you up to Kontra. Almost none of what you are saying above is true. Are you channeling your inner Borges today. Gronk never missed a regular season game his first 2 years until Pollard sprained his ankle. His other 2 injuries have less to do with his durability and more to do with random bad luck. Anyone hit on the knee the moment he planted his foot would wind up with an ACL. BTW- when you have a TE who is the most impactful non-QB on offense in the league, your TE corps is NOT the worst in the league. Lots of teams have Jags as back up TE's and you know it.

Sorry about your bad day, but don't take it out on us or the Pats FO.

As for the OP - You think the Pats WR corps is weak Scott. Did you ever think that BB and his staff don't see it that way and drafted accordingly. Who is to say that any of the players BB could have drafted in the 2nd or 3rd rounds were projected to be better than the guys we already have on the roster.

As for the TE question, its way to early to ask it, since we don't know how it will work out before TC. Maybe he'd answer it by stating, "Scott, looks like we are only going with 3 TE's this season and we feel good about winding up with a solid group from the guys we have on our 90 man roster right now.

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After him, the team has probably the worst TE corps in the entire league.

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1960Pats said:

I have a friend who's a TV sports anchor, and whenever we get together the topic eventually ends up being Bill Belichick. According to him, when Belichick refers to the media as a whole he uses the phrase "those a******s" as he points toward the media room.

The way Belichick was treated by the media in his early years has led him to the point he's at now. He took a beating from them in Cleveland and New York, and does "duplicitous pond scum" sound familiar to anyone here?

Payback is a *****.

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shmessy said:

Exactly. What the OP simply does not understand is that a sportswriter has to produce 250-1,000 words on a deadline. Unless he/she is wasting their own time, they are there to get something out of the person they are questioning. If, over a decade and a half the subject has proven time and again to go stonefaced at certain questions, guess what? Those types of questions won't be asked by people who have to produce news copy within a few hours.

However, if someone from TMZ or that 1920's fellow in Dallas gets into the room, then Scott99 may have his wish.

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DarrylS said:

50 years ago, Marshal McCluhan wrote a book about media, which documented the evolution of how the "medium has become the message"... no where is that more obvious than amongst sports reporters.

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jays52 said:

People really need to wrap their heads around just how good this roster is. It is everybit as good on paper as 04.

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p8ryts said:

Agree. Injuries will tell the story at the end of the year. Last year was pretty amazing with all the injuries and the success they had.

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chasa said:

those are not really tough questions, and we already know the answers.

"We drafted what we thought were the best players available at the time, that fit our teams needs" "We did full medical work ups on him, and we are confident he can be a big piece of our team"

If anything those questions are Softballs, and the only people who gets upset about them are the MMQB's who think they have what it takes to be a PRO gm, and lead a team to teh playoffs every single year, when in reality they have a tough time handling the duties of an assistant manager at some local clothing store.

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