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We don't like dudes like him around here. They need to ball and stfu. Except for this year where everyone is blabbing and it's perfectly fine.
@dreighver my post was a sarcastic snark about the below posts. If you find them to be positive, so be it. I wasn't taking a shot at Belichick at all but rather the patsfans that think that Patriots players have to be robots (not celebrate on the field, not express their thoughts, etc.). I like my players to be real people with personality and character.
I never said it was "disturbing" that players were being outspoken, I said:
"Another thing, have we ever heard so much commentary coming from these players in the last 20 years? It's baffling how much things have changed."
That's hardly a controversial or negative post.
Regarding the quotes in your post, did you make those up because I never said any of that.
Take care little buddy.
Overly simplistic and misplaced. Bennett was/is a SJW with well-documented anger issues -- never a good combination in the ultimate team sport where, like it or not, a certain degree of conformity is required to succeed. He was a very talented square peg trying to make everywhere he went a round hole, which is part of why he bounced around between five different teams. BB was able to accommodate him for a while here and Marty bought in to perhaps the best results of his career, but it didn't last long. (I seem to recall an altercation he had with an assistant coach here, couldn't find a reference.)
I get how some found him "real," refreshing and entertaining. Yes, Bennett was a different cat who often shared thought-provoking observations alongside reactionary weirdness, but his outspokenness in itself never was the issue. Plenty of players have been outspoken short of acting out to the detriment of their teams, the latter being where Marty had some struggles. Front and center amongst his causes was racism, where he's been seen as both courageous crusader and imprudently provocative. And whatever truth there might be in his criticisms of QBs he played with (Jimmy G. isn't the only one he's disparaged), you wonder what the point is of stirring that pot beyond calling attention to himself.
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