In today’s installment of the media and NFL’s obsession with all things Patriot, we have this gem from a couple days ago. Teams are trying to avoid touchbacks to keep opposing teams inside the 25. Good strategy…except the Patriots are one of the teams doing it:
How Bill Belichick is exploiting the rule book and why the NFL has to stop it immediately
(Note: I see the thread about the Green Bay play has weirdly devolved into a question as to whether the Pats are singled out, or something. Of course, the comic-if-it-wasn’t-the-sad-truth is that we’ve just gone through almost two years of nonsense due to how the Pats are treated, so it’s a valid issue. Obviously.)
Anyway, with the new kickoff rule, many teams are intelligently proceeding as they see fit…you know, playing the game of football. But I guess they shouldn’t be, or something, according to this. But particularly the Patriots….except many teams have a
lower touchback percentage than the Pats. But this doesn’t matter, because….wait for it:
“Thirteen teams have a lower touchback-percentage than the Pats but Belichick is doing it with more panache.”
The mind reels.
Of course it’s mostly funny, until it’s not. The conclusion goes into the “not” category, becoming super-duper cereal, saying that the rule has to be changed NOW, because, you know, football teams are returning kickoffs and players are going to start dying, I guess. Think of the children. Not changing the rule now, waiting a year, would be “unconscionable.”
Conclusion: Bill Belichick is killing NFL players. He must be stopped.
