Grizzafted
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Lost in all the (lmao AGAIN) breathless emotional meltdowns by members of the press and opposing fans, which I fully expect will culminate with a few of them running bare-*** naked into the woods shaking a stick and incoherently yelling about tarnished Lombardis is this --
How the hell does someone steal a playsheet from a HOTEL? Correct me if I'm wrong but don't hotel rooms have locked doors? Is Ernie Adams supervising a black ops intern training program somewhere in a cave under Foxoboro, where 19-year-olds are being trained to scale the side of Mariotts in ninja outfits and crawl through air ducts? That's a fairly strong allegation from ESPN that if everyone would catch their breath for a moment actually doesn't make much sense. The details of that would be insane if it's true. What, they're paying off friendly local hotel managers to double-print keycards, waiting until team dinners start and then slipping into people's rooms? That's a fairly big leap from holding a videocamera on the sideline in an NFL films T-shirt or putting a needle into a football in the pisser.
Some of this is just crazy. I'm starting to think that the reason that the Patriots have won so much the past two decades isn't because Belichick is some kind of savant genius football mind 1 percenter, or a rogue CIA operative, but because the rest of the league is full of mouth breathing neanderthals with whistles rattling around their skulls where their brains should be.
So 1. you're telling me the f*cking Rams went through their SUPER BOWL WALKTHROUGH WITH SOME DUDES IN PATRIOTS GEAR HANGING OUT AT THE OTHER END OF THE FIELD? if that's true that's absolutely insane, instead of staring into the horizon wondering "what if the Patriots cheated," Mike Martz should jump off a bridge for being so stupid as to not check the field before running his team's plays.
2. If the Patriots were able to steal playsheets in opposing locker rooms that means that people were LEAVING THEM LAYING AROUND UNATTENDED. Unless Ernie Adams has a locker full of Harry Potter-style invisibility ponchos, that means that coaches and players were in the habit of going to an opposing team's stadium and just sort of leaving the playbook out on the desk during halftime. Again, if you do that, you deserve whatever happens to you.
3. And this just endlessly goes without saying. If you aren't switching up your defensive signals before you see a team the 2nd time OR in a big playoff implicated game, you are an incompetent buffoon who should not be in the business of running a professional sports team.
at the end of the day, whether or not you think the Patriots "cheated" -- and that conclusion is going to have to do with any number of emotional and personal factors, including what jersey you keep in the closet -- what it looks like to me is that Belichick systematically exploited the foolishness and idiocy of other teams and the NFL. And why wouldn't you? In ANY other corporate, military, or advocacy situation that's called BEING GOOD AT YOUR JOB. Other teams leave their playsheet on the toilet? Tough luck, it's ours now. You can't switch your signals up? Well they're f*ckin ours now. You ran a practice with our people still there? Your bad.
A lot of this is just about kicking the edges of other teams sloppiness and unprofessionality. Could you imagine a Belichick team leaving the playsheet out in the opposing team's locker room?
And ESPN needs to explain themselves with this "playsheets from hotels" thing because that sounds like the Patriots were organizing break-ins with interns or whatever. Unless other teams were making a habit of leaving the sheets out at the hotel buffet line or pool, that means that there was some kind of larceny happening which is absolutely ridiculous to contemplate logistically.
How the hell does someone steal a playsheet from a HOTEL? Correct me if I'm wrong but don't hotel rooms have locked doors? Is Ernie Adams supervising a black ops intern training program somewhere in a cave under Foxoboro, where 19-year-olds are being trained to scale the side of Mariotts in ninja outfits and crawl through air ducts? That's a fairly strong allegation from ESPN that if everyone would catch their breath for a moment actually doesn't make much sense. The details of that would be insane if it's true. What, they're paying off friendly local hotel managers to double-print keycards, waiting until team dinners start and then slipping into people's rooms? That's a fairly big leap from holding a videocamera on the sideline in an NFL films T-shirt or putting a needle into a football in the pisser.
Some of this is just crazy. I'm starting to think that the reason that the Patriots have won so much the past two decades isn't because Belichick is some kind of savant genius football mind 1 percenter, or a rogue CIA operative, but because the rest of the league is full of mouth breathing neanderthals with whistles rattling around their skulls where their brains should be.
So 1. you're telling me the f*cking Rams went through their SUPER BOWL WALKTHROUGH WITH SOME DUDES IN PATRIOTS GEAR HANGING OUT AT THE OTHER END OF THE FIELD? if that's true that's absolutely insane, instead of staring into the horizon wondering "what if the Patriots cheated," Mike Martz should jump off a bridge for being so stupid as to not check the field before running his team's plays.
2. If the Patriots were able to steal playsheets in opposing locker rooms that means that people were LEAVING THEM LAYING AROUND UNATTENDED. Unless Ernie Adams has a locker full of Harry Potter-style invisibility ponchos, that means that coaches and players were in the habit of going to an opposing team's stadium and just sort of leaving the playbook out on the desk during halftime. Again, if you do that, you deserve whatever happens to you.
3. And this just endlessly goes without saying. If you aren't switching up your defensive signals before you see a team the 2nd time OR in a big playoff implicated game, you are an incompetent buffoon who should not be in the business of running a professional sports team.
at the end of the day, whether or not you think the Patriots "cheated" -- and that conclusion is going to have to do with any number of emotional and personal factors, including what jersey you keep in the closet -- what it looks like to me is that Belichick systematically exploited the foolishness and idiocy of other teams and the NFL. And why wouldn't you? In ANY other corporate, military, or advocacy situation that's called BEING GOOD AT YOUR JOB. Other teams leave their playsheet on the toilet? Tough luck, it's ours now. You can't switch your signals up? Well they're f*ckin ours now. You ran a practice with our people still there? Your bad.
A lot of this is just about kicking the edges of other teams sloppiness and unprofessionality. Could you imagine a Belichick team leaving the playsheet out in the opposing team's locker room?
And ESPN needs to explain themselves with this "playsheets from hotels" thing because that sounds like the Patriots were organizing break-ins with interns or whatever. Unless other teams were making a habit of leaving the sheets out at the hotel buffet line or pool, that means that there was some kind of larceny happening which is absolutely ridiculous to contemplate logistically.