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

[Observer]

Blount was great at what he did. I wasn’t a fan of letting him go then and it sucked double when he beat us as an Eagle.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

He was OK for us and he was OK for Philly. He was nobody's lodestar.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

lodestar

I see what you did there.

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

He was good at the price we paid him and a great teammate. However my grandmother on one leg could have gashed our defense in the sb and the colts defenses he did well against. Otherwise he was a nonfactor in playoff games dating back to 2013 and actually a detriment in sb51.

The decision to go with Gillislee turned out to backfire but at the time it had potential to be an upgrade, and the error was not much of a factor with Dion staying healthy last year as hes a superior back to both.

 

[Huckleberry1]

Fair enough. Blount played hard for the Patriots for low money. He got to win there and against them, I can imagine that felt pretty sweet.

 

[Soliel]

Blount blabbering

Of course he had a good game against our defense that day. The oldest, slowest guy in the league woulda looked like Walter Payton

For the record tho, I disliked the idea of him leaving

 

[Delicate Genius]

Anyone else tired of players crying "disrespect" because a team didn't bring them back?

 

[oldrover]

Well, truth be told, I must admit to having a soft spot for Blount in these moments....


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[Kdo5]

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

Best RB we had since Dillon, without question. 2nd best of the entire BB's tenure. Not much longevity obviously but a real threat.

 

[Family]

I agreed with Gillislee over Blount because Gillislee's upside was greater at the time.

Even though Gillislee flopped, as others correctly pointed out, better options than Blount appeared. He was a take it or leave it minimum contract plus incentives contributor.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Blount was willing to take a hometown discount, but they wanted him to take pennies on the dollar. I would say it was a big failure to give Gillislee that contract, but I don’t want to ignite the “hindsight!” crowd. I always thought that scouting and projecting a player’s performance and value was what they excelled at, but apparently when they get it wrong (which has been very often on FAs and draft picks for a few years), it’s all part of the master plan and can’t be second guessed.

 

[Wrath Mania]

Keep in mind in the same special Blount goes on to say that he loves Belichick and everything he did for his career. And he did seek out and hug BB after the game. He has every right to be miffed with how NE handled his departure (such as trying to limit his FA options), and in retrospect his de facto replacement sucked ass (and for way too much $$$).

Also, I agree with what someone already said: why on earth was he one of the featured three for the Eagles's America's Game? Yeah it's a cool story and he had a nice SB, but honestly he barely played for Philly after they got Ajayi.

 

[Thelonious]

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

Heh. Here's an unadapted Sks quote (MSND) which applies pretty well to football fora everywhere:

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold—
That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt.
The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven.
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy.
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

 

[Simpelton]

I'm not sure why a lot of fans are making the mistake BB never makes, of assuming that a running back has to be your #1 option to be worth his money.

Blount was a solid roleplayer and there would have absolutely been room on the roster fir both Blount and Gillislee if they had decided to do that. All these opinions about how Blount was not a #1 back would have been more informative if anyone actually believed Blount was a #1 back.

He was a roleplaying power back who could occasionally step in to fill a vacuum at #1 RB if there wasn't a better option, like he did early in the 2017 season during the suspension. He got abused in the playoffs because that's where the best defensive lines are, power running in the playoffs against elite DLs is one of the hardest things in football.

If he was pretending to the role of #1 running back, and only got exposed in the Superbowl, I'd call that a pretty good outcome for a middling power back

I don't think BB recognizing that and switching to a more finesse-heavy running game with White in the Superbowl is an indictment of Blount. It wasn't his job to dominate the very good Atlanta run-stop, it was to play a power-running, short yardage role, and it became clear that the game the Atlanta defense was playing required a different roleplayer who could gain yards more efficiently. Nothing more than that.

Not to mention a power back is nearly useless when you're playing from behind, especially if you're behind multiple scores. A running attack is at its best when you have a lead and need to kill clock. That simply didn't come up in our recent Superbowl, thus Blount's no-show. Not his fault. Just the situation on the scoreboard and BB needing to go a different way.

On the other hand with Philly leading most of the way, the role Blount plays best featured prominently in Philly's game closing strategy so we got to see a lot of him. No surprise he feels pretty good about that.

 

[Thelonious]

I think he's within his rights to feel as he does, irrespective of whether the Pats did the right thing in letting him walk. That our feelings get hurt in life does not mean others involved in a situation have done anything wrong, or that we have, but that doesn't mean we we feel great about it.

As for Blount's being slow or sluggish, he seemed that way, but he wasn't. I used to work with a guy (tree work) who would slouch and lumber through a job, and you'd feel sometimes, "Why won't that s.o.b. get a move on?" But at the end of the day, he'd somehow manage to have pulled his weight, or more. Some people just work that way. Festina Lente.

 

[goheels22002]

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

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you cut us, or trade us for a late round draft pick, or low-ball us, or bench us in the Super Bowl do we not seek revenge?"

 

[Thelonious]

So I guess Blount will now be known as the Elon Musk of the National Football League.

 

[RobertWeathers]

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.

The carries Blount had in 2016 went to Lewis the following year.

Overall, letting Blount walk was sound logic as they wanted to get younger and be more unpredictable.

Giving the money to Gillislee was not.

 

[Tunescribe]

Well, truth be told, I must admit to having a soft spot for Blount in these moments....

That's fine, I would guess that most Pats fans do. But the reasons behind letting him go were reasonable and his presence on the field was not missed last season. What's irksome about threads like this is highlighting a former popular player expressing how happy he was getting revenge against the Patriots in a championship loss that was painful for most of us. I liked Chris Long a lot too, but don't need to read about him also feeling righteously satisfied over the Eagles beating New England. We're on to a new season, this kind of stuff is best left off the radar.

 

[oldrover]

What's irksome about threads like this is highlighting a former popular player expressing how happy he was getting revenge against the Patriots in a championship loss that was painful for most of us. I liked Chris Long a lot too, but don't need to read about him also feeling righteously satisfied over the Eagles beating New England. We're on to a new season, this kind of stuff is best left off the radar.

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