Blount talks about beating the Pats: "It was perfect"

[oldrover]

'It was perfect': LeGarrette Blount talks about beating the Patriots | Boston.com

The way things ended there was not to my liking,” Blount said on America’s Game, an annual documentary series by NFL Films. “I told them how bad I wanted to be there and how much I wanted to stay there and I didn’t want to leave. And, you know, they couldn’t get a deal done for me. I just felt like they didn’t respect me at all.”

Blount spent the 2017-18 season with the Philadelphia Eagles... ...and finished with 90 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries in Super Bowl LII, earning him back-to-back Super Bowl rings.

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[Oswlek]

Meh. At least he has a reason to talk about the Patriots, unlike the other oddly talkative jamokes on their roster.

 

[Arialgg]

I hate that he felt that way when the Pats relationship ended .
I understand being thrilled that his new team was able to beat the team that he felt didn’t value him.
I can’t find it in me to be upset with Blount for these comments. ???

 

[SammyBlueCat]

Not a fan. Too slow.

 

[jah]

Didn't his Eagles tenure end the exact same way?

 

[Deus Irae]

He played well for the team. The team let him go and brought in Mike Gillislee, and the team paid Gillislee better than they'd paid Blount.

If I were Blount, I'd be pissed, too.

 

[RayClay]

Business in sports is often opportunity. No doubt Blount gave more value than it cost the Pats. Of course his behavior made him a risk for a long term contract and if you don't get the payday in your prime, it might not come.

Really liked Blount. Maybe they could have given him a short term big pay day, but they aren't required to do more than his market value. His behavior in Tampa and Pitt and failure to improve his game until his second stint [better short yardage] kept him from the big pay day.

 

[varjao]

Maybe they let him go twice because he sucked in the previous SB? Against the Seahawks and against the Falcons.

Sorry, love Blount but it was the right decision, to bad he finally had a good game in a SB, against us.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

He played well for the team. The team let him go and brought in Mike Gillislee, and the team paid Gillislee better than they'd paid Blount.

If I were Blount, I'd be pissed, too.

That's certainly one we'd probably like to have back, in hindsight. I thought Gillislee would be better than he proved to be, but so it goes. Can't win em all.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

I'd be mad too and all but... bigger picture here...the Eagles, after ending their Super Bowl drought...put LeGarrette friggin Blount on America's Game??

 

[Kdo5]

I was never a big fan of Blount's game. In retrospect I probably should have appreciated him more. It was painful watching him take a steaming **** on our defense with that TD in the SB.

I wrongly believed Gillislee would be an improvement over Blount. However it was not a significant mistake letting him go at all given that Dion Lewis took over most of the carries, stayed healthy, and IMO was the best RB we had in many years.

 

[RayClay]

That's certainly one we'd probably like to have back, in hindsight. I thought Gillislee would be better than he proved to be, but so it goes. Can't win em all.

I isn't an either or. Pats moved on at RB and tried different guys, including a #1. People here get two caught up in personalities. They wanted a younger and more versatile RB corps.

 

[goheels22002]

What is interesting about the decision to let LeGarrette Blount go was that I thought the Pats would bring in a back with greater versatility. Gillislee actually had less - no special teams play, no receiving ability, and not much of a blocker. I wish the Pats had kept LeGarrette in retrospect and harbor no ill will towards him whatsoever.

The SB loss to the Eagles boiled down to the defense not getting off the field. Blount's very solid performance was a part of that.

 

[Clonamery]

To be pissed, or not to be pissed--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of not getting fortune
Or to take arms against a field of troubles
And by opposing end them. To win, to play--
No more--and by a play to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That winning is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To win, to play--
To play--perchance to succeed: ay, there's the run,
For in that play of victory what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off Super Bowl soil,
Must give us cause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long strife.
For who would bear the quips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of love of a man's payday,
The insolence of free agency, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy tackles,
When he himself might his efforts make
With a winning team? Wentz or Foles bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered score, from whose bourn
No player returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make Eagles of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,
The pale Belichick! -- Stiff, in thy orisons
Be all my runs remembered.

--LeGarrulous Blount

 

[SHOWTIME15]

It would have helped if he didn’t fumble in SB51...

 

[A Defiant Goose]

To be pissed, or not to be pissed--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of not getting fortune
Or to take arms against a field of troubles
And by opposing end them. To win, to play--
No more--and by a play to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That winning is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To win, to play--
To play--perchance to succeed: ay, there's the run,
For in that play of victory what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off Super Bowl soil,
Must give us cause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long strife.
For who would bear the quips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of love of a man's payday,
The insolence of free agency, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy tackles,
When he himself might his efforts make
With a winning team? Wentz or Foles bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered score, from whose bourn
No player returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make Eagles of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,
The pale Belichick! -- Stiff, in thy orisons
Be all my runs remembered.

--LeGarrulous Blount

 

[IcyPatriot]

Love Blount and he earned the right to talk sh!t.

When he was here he was at many local sports games ... I liked him.

 

[Clonamery]

Maybe your Mom or Dad knows Hamlet and can explain. Maybe not. Anyway, ask them to have a professional cut your hair. And to take you to ophthalmologist.

 

[SammyBlueCat]

Dion Lewis - now there's a guy I will miss...

 

[TomPatriot]

It was last year. This is this year.