Irish Hooligan
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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.I believe that middle finger was stuck out at you and your brethern.New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick basically stuck out his middle finger to the other 31 coaches in the NFL Tuesday.
I believe that middle finger was stuck out at you and your brethern.
PWP I read it for the same reason, and had to share it just to balance out the disgust, it is just bad journalism and foolishness all the way around.Since it's the football Dead Zone time I read this article.
Prisco is like a middle school girl feeling hurt when stood up by the popular kids. So BB slips out of a press breakfast which hurts the massive egos of the oh-so-important writers, most of who do not have the intelligence and/or do not spend the time to understand the salary cap rules for the sport they cover as their "profession'. I could not have less respect for these doofuses.
I wonder how often sports writers believe what they write and say, and how often they just do it to create controversy an audience in order to generate revenue.
Using the word arrogant right after the name Belichick is a low form of pandering to the masses, even more so when it is in the headline. An obligatory spygate reference in the column makes it even more obvious.
There's no free agency to write about and with the lockout in place the only other scheduled event is the draft; so writers reach for a story to create news.
Prisco isn't the only one to jump on this. Greg Bedard and Shalise Manza-Young at the Globe are whining about it too, saying "Belichick should have talked today because Patriots fans deserve to hear about the team. He didn't talk at the combine. There's a lockout. What you would have heard today could likely be the final comment on Patriots football until September."
When asked "so he won't talk on draft day?" Bedard said "I don't know." One person said to Bedard "Fans deserve? Fans don't care." to which Bedard responded "you haven't read my emails."
Belichick did speak yesterday, but it was a whole lot of nothing with his responses; I'm not sure why Bedard feels as though today would have been any different.
SMY pointed out that "while it is not a requirement that coaches attend the breakfast, since they must attend the league meetings, the breakfast is placed on their schedule as a courtesy to the media covering them" and knew precisely how much time Belichick spent with them yesterday (7 minutes and 38 seconds according to her stopwatch).
It seems to me what it comes down to is that some reporters like Prisco and New York Post writer Bart Hubbach (who wrote "31 coaches showed up for the NFL media breakfast. Only exception: Belichick. Once again Bill acts like the rules don't apply to him. I hear Belichick had a legit excuse for his no-show today: He was busy studying illicit videotape of opponents' defensive signals.") simply jump on anything Belichick does and disparage him because they know it's money in their pockets. Other like Bedard and SMY get upset because covering him and the Pats is a more difficult job than covering a coach like Ryan (note Hubach's very next comment: "no surprise, on the other hand that Rex was epic this morning. Held court for more than an hour. Great stuff ...") and the Jets, for example.
When exactly did the reason for these meetings specifically and the job of a coach in general become to entertain the media?
One last comment: kudos to CSNNE's Mary Paoletti for calling out Hubbach with her "you're an NFL reporter?" response to him. And kudos also to writers like Christopher Price and Mike Reiss who continue to find interesting topics to write about even if Belichick isn't talking, and making that the story.
I can tell you this: Several coaches were more than aware that he wasn't there and weren't thrilled that they had to be and he wasn't there.
I just hope one of them has the guts to call him out on it. Rib him about it.
"So your time is more valuable than ours?" they should say.
Why wouldn't you? He's just a peer, even if he sometimes acts like he isn't.
NEW ORLEANS -- New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick basically stuck out his middle finger to the other 31 coaches in the NFL Tuesday.
How else can you explain his not attending a supposedly mandatory media breakfast here at the NFL league meetings?
The other 31 coaches all showed up, some probably a bit reluctantly, but not Belichick.
And word is the league will do nothing about it.
Belichick, who spoke with the media shortly on Monday, has skipped the breakfast occasionally in the past. Belichick will not be fined: The league asks coaches to show up for the interviews, but does not require them to be there.
Does the moron even know why he didnt show up? Maybe he had a family emergency, sick family member or something. He should probably have found out why before spouting off.
"Sorry I missed you this morning. Alarm clock just didn't go off," he cracked.