Not a fan of either writer, but even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. Please point out to me where either one of them is wrong in their "Patriot Way" columns.
They are both wrong because neither one mentions the other 99% of the players that have played for this franchise since the Krafts bought the team who represent what is right about professsional football.
It's not correct that the "Patriot Way" is a sham. The Patriots do not preach perfection. If anything, they preach trying to get better every day.
Every franchise - every employer - is going to hire people who don't work out and who do things outside of work that get them into trouble no matter how much due diligence and reference checking you do. Doctors lose their license, lawyers get disbarred,
Globe and
Herald reporters plagiarize, CFOs embezzle, athletes use PEDs, law enforcement get too close to the bad guys, etc.
Borges and Shaughnessy are using this situation to climb onto their holier than thou soap boxes to stick a needle into the Patriots. That's their right as members of the 4th Estate, but it does not make them correct.
Answer this question on behalf of your beloved reporters:
Do you think the New England Patriots would have drafted with the 113th pick in the 2010 NFL draft or extended the contract of a 6'1" tight end if they had known he would become the central suspect in an execution style murder during the off-season between his 3rd and 4th seasons with the team?
Belichick and Kraft have reached at reclamation projects and some guys like Corey Dillon were model citizens and have been since. Albert Haynesworth turned out to be what he was reputed to be.
Borges takes an unfair shot at Aquib Talib who has not done anything to earn our criticism since he became a Patriot. He might, but he knows the deal.
The Randy Moss shot is Borges at his worst. Randy Moss was a unique talent and quirky personality, but he never did anything to embarrass the Patriots like this situation. He came in with a cloud over his head for run ins with the authorities in Minneapolis, but stayed out of trouble here. He shot his way out of town at a moment in time when his abilities had diminished, and his role was changing. That was not an indictment of the so-called "Patriot Way."
