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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.For one, I would just like to hear all the factors that influenced Belichick's decision to go for 4th-and-13 FROM THE MAN HIMSELF. If anyone has a link to a video/article that has this, please provide. All I've heard is something to the effect of "we made the decision that we felt would best help the team".
Seems like Cowherd on ESPN radio has no problems with the Pats. He had some negative things to say, but he praises them constantly for being such a well run franchise.
Cowherd was probably the worst on air Patriots hater last summer prior to Spygate.
He ripped Belichick daily over his divorce to his wife, and the calls he made to the NY woman. Cowherd is worse than Schlereth in many respects, especially since he ripped into people's personal lives when he had big big problems in his own personal life shortly after the birth of his first child.
BRADY CALLS OUT ESPN
Posted by Mike Florio on May 13, 2008, 7:42 p.m.
In a Tuesday afternoon interview with WEEI in Boston, Pats quarterback Tom Brady addressed the harping of former NFL players in the media about the videotaping of defensive coaching signals.
Asked one the hosts: “Does it surprise you some of the former players who are in the media now who just seem to be clueless about this whole thing? I’m stunned by it.”
Said Brady: “It’s just kind of the environment right now, though. I think that’s the way that guys make it. They just say the craziest things. . . . That’s what ESPN has become.”
We agree with Brady. And we were amazed by the insistence of guys like former Broncos offensive lineman Mark Schlereth that the videotapes created by Matt Walsh were used in the same game. Any moron (even Schlereth) could see that the final product was the result of an editing process that made the thing easier to watch. It would simply be too cumbersome to forward and/or rewind through the raw tape during the three total hours of a game (including a 12-minute halftime) to make any use out of this information in the second half.
Moreover, if the purpose of the taping was only to use it in the same game, why did the taping continue into the second half?
The bottom line? Schlereth is part of the ESPN agenda aimed at making some/any story out of this matter. Since there was no videotaping of the Rams’ walk-through prior to Super Bowl XXXVI, the media needs to talk about something else.
And so Schlereth and others are yammering about the videotaped signals being used for in-game adjustments, and pondering how that diminishes the Pats’ run of success this decade.
Meanwhile, Schlereth hasn’t once mentioned the tarnish on his own pair of Super Bowl rings because the Broncos cheated on the salary cap from 1996 through 1998. Though the cause-and-effect as it relates to the on-field product isn’t as obvious, circumventing the cap in order to avoid having to cut a veteran and replace him with a street free agent results in a higher quality team.
Indeed, let’s consider this quote from Schlereth, which he offered up on ESPN Radio on Tuesday afternoon: “This besmirches to the organization to the point where regardless of how you look at these three championships that they’ve won over the last seven, eight years you will still always look at them and say ‘Yeah, but . . . they had this Spygate thing, how much of it was inappropriate, how much cheating went on, and how much did it help them during the course of some of those games?”
Now, let’s revise it a bit, and apply it to Schlereth’s Broncos: “This besmirches to the organization to the point where regardless of how you look at these [two] championships that they’ve won over the [two] years you will still always look at them and say ‘Yeah, but . . . they had this [salary cap] thing, how much of it was inappropriate, how much cheating went on, and how much did it help them during the course of some of those games?”
Frankly, we think we prefer an intellectually honest guy who can’t talk all that well (i.e., Emmitt Smith) to a former player who looks and sounds good as the horsesh-t is flowing from his mouth.
So, ESPN, we rescind our request that you fire Emmitt. But we beg you to fire Schlereth. Now.
ESPN is like MTV without the music videos.
True.
If they had more girls I'd probably watch it.
Shhh.. Brady, don't let Gisele hear that!
BB called me and said he didn't think the Ghost could make it from there (he didn't really call me, but what else could the explanation be?)
Is the WEEI internet stream not working right now?
The biggest "news" to me in the entire interview was Tom saying that Randy was open deep for a TD on the strip/sack just before halftime. Watching the play unfold from my tv, I felt that Moss was open on that play, but there was no angle of the play to confirm that. If the line just blocks on that ONE PLAY, it's 14-3 Pats at halftime AND they get the ball to start the second half.
Was good to hear Brady, but its still depressing to hear him talk about plays that were there