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Bennett interview with ESPN:
DE Bennett calls Belichick the 'Yoda of football'
DE Bennett calls Belichick the 'Yoda of football'
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I can assure you that is not what Officer Stacy did. Quite the opposite.I’m confused and / or not smart enough to get this joke.
I can assure you that is not what Officer Stacy did. Quite the opposite.
His point is the BLM radicals anti-police morons create fake news.
His pic is an example.
Yea leave it alone. Was just was explaining the crap Kontra is trying to stir up.Got it. Yeah I’m not touching that one, two pages in this thread already got nuked this morning.
the desire for civility remains, in many cases, that elusive unicorn.
I mean just look at this thread. No Politics allowed and even when it sneaks in, its the exact opposite of civil.
This little bit hits it on the head. One of the main reasons why I finally had to pull the plug was due to the fact it took away a lot of people who initially came as fans and were here to have fun and talk football. We lost a lot of them due to the animosity created there. The mods went above and beyond and every one of them, beginning with @Patters, who was the first to step up, are all saints for everything they did while it was open. Some things I know behind the scenes with certain individuals who were part of that section has left me with a lot of guilt and regret, with a lot of things I wish I could have done differently.
Honestly, I started this site as a place for Patriots fans to get together to discuss the team and for us to have a fun community to talk football. Seeing a lot of people start to absolutely hate each other was frustrating and I could tell you stories of things that I dealt with personally with people over that span that made a lot of it painful. Given the times we're in now, I can't imagine what it would be like. While the Pub would be ideal for it, people would kill each other and it would create far more work for the mods to have to mediate the discussions, taking them away from just being able to have fun and hang out on the football forum - which is the main reason we're all here. They're all doing this in their spare time to help out as things come up, and dealing with political arguments is not fun.
So unfortunately, this is a football board and it's just too polarizing to offer a section for it. I love all of you guys, but it's just too difficult.
It would be impossible for anyone to state their case more eloquently and as well as you did with this post. The political twists that seem to eventually permeate so many threads are maddening and disappointing. I'm as guilty as anyone in that I respond to them. But, I don't initiate them and those that do,This little bit hits it on the head. One of the main reasons why I finally had to pull the plug was due to the fact it took away a lot of people who initially came as fans and were here to have fun and talk football. We lost a lot of them due to the animosity created there. The mods went above and beyond and every one of them, beginning with @Patters, who was the first to step up, are all saints for everything they did while it was open. Some things I know behind the scenes with certain individuals who were part of that section has left me with a lot of guilt and regret, with a lot of things I wish I could have done differently.
Honestly, I started this site as a place for Patriots fans to get together to discuss the team and for us to have a fun community to talk football. Seeing a lot of people start to absolutely hate each other was frustrating and I could tell you stories of things that I dealt with personally with people over that span that made a lot of it painful. Given the times we're in now, I can't imagine what it would be like. While the Pub would be ideal for it, people would kill each other and it would create far more work for the mods to have to mediate the discussions, taking them away from just being able to have fun and hang out on the football forum - which is the main reason we're all here. They're all doing this in their spare time to help out as things come up, and dealing with political arguments is not fun.
So unfortunately, this is a football board and it's just too polarizing to offer a section for it. I love all of you guys, but it's just too difficult.
It's just tough, and you can already see how polarizing those moments are when they pop up in threads anytime someone equates a topic with the political world - people turn on each other quickly. But unfortunately, the examples of where the thread ends up needing to eventually be closed is really a better example of the problem with political discussions, especially right now. It makes people turn on each other and it takes away the enjoyment for those of us who just want to talk about the team. The bigger issue is it drives a stake between people who, before that political post came up within the thread, deep down were rooting for the same thing (the Patriots). Now they dislike each other over things that have nothing to do with that. That's the real problem.It would be impossible for anyone to state their case more eloquently and as well as you did with this post. The political twists that seem to eventually permeate so many threads are maddening and disappointing. I'm as guilty as anyone in that I respond to them. But, I don't initiate them and those that do,
in my opinion, should just get the f### off of a football board and join a political one. That's it, over and out.
It would be impossible for anyone to state their case more eloquently and as well as you did with this post. The political twists that seem to eventually permeate so many threads are maddening and disappointing. I'm as guilty as anyone in that I respond to them. But, I don't initiate them and those that do,
in my opinion, should just get the f### off of a football board and join a political one. That's it, over and out.
That's the problem and believe me, none of the mods ever want to have to touch the thread. Making a political reference about a player doing something politically motivated is obviously within context. The problem is the tangent political post that pops up usually not long after that and has nothing to do with the discussion stemming from the first reference, which was, as I said, in context of the discussion.The problem is when people start with politics that go beyond the requirement of the thread.
It's just tough, and you can already see how polarizing those moments are when they pop up in threads anytime someone equates a topic with the political world - people turn on each other quickly. But unfortunately, the examples of where the thread ends up needing to eventually be closed is really a better example of the problem with political discussions, especially right now. It makes people turn on each other and it takes away the enjoyment for those of us who just want to talk about the team. The bigger issue is it drives a stake between people who, before that political post came up within the thread, deep down were rooting for the same thing (the Patriots). Now they dislike each other over things that have nothing to do with that. That's the real problem.
Again, I know what it meant to a lot of people and knowing many of the people involved behind the scenes, it still deeply bothers me. But as hard as it was to make that decision, especially given all the effort the mods put into it, I think it was for the best.
“Aging” Bennett was significantly more productive than “Prime” Jackson last season. It wasn’t even remotely close. 9 sacks to 3.5, 30 QB hits to 12, 15 TFLs to 7.
Even as a PoFo regular, I completely understand and support the decisions you made in regards to it.
The fact you let it go as long as you did speaks to, if nothing else, the amount of patience you have.
I appreciate that, but @Patters was there from start to finish, he's the saint. @IcyPatriot was key at the end of it as well. It just got out of hand and became too much. I had to keep getting involved in some ugly situations where people were making their lives tough and finally made the decision.LOL, we tried to moderate it for a couple of months and it was too much. Imagine @Ian having to do it for years. Guy has the patience of a saint.