Classless Coach Belichick

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by Dlyne8r

It didn't "worry" me. I was simply expressing my personal frustration over the fact that Gibbs had not shown more emotion over Belichick's classless display. I understand, and appreciate, Gibbs typical reaction to "rise above" someone like Belichick. But, I truly think the team would have found a new spark if Gibbs had reacted at least a little more aggresively.

Because Gibbs is too much of a classy guy to get into a childish shouting match on the 50 yard line. What would it prove? It has nothing to do with being a pussy and everything to do with having the maturity and class to not bicker on center stage.

[hagams]

Wow....This is the reason there should be the 24hr post rule. What they did was not cool, and I tried to turn the game off...but couldn't. We ALL knew what we needed to do to slow these guys down, but we flat out didn't do it. Them running up the score isn't hurting anyone, it's just showing what kind of team they are. This is the pros, and there is a mercy rule here. Didn't we beat someone last year, or the year before 40'something to zero????

[12thMan]

I'm sorry, but I just read the first hand full of posts and it's completely laughable that Belichick is being accused of being classless for "running up the score". What?! And Godfrey had comments afterward? Listen, these are grown ass men playing football for crying out loud! Since when are you supposed to dial down on the competitive juices. I loved Belichick's presser. "We're just out there playing football."

If he's accused of having his team ready to kick ass, guilty as charged. The Skins had absolutely no fire, and the Pats did. That's the bottom line.

If anything I hope it serves as a wake up call to Gibbs and co.,but somehow I doubt it will. But to answer the question, I have no problem with the way the Pats scored on us yesterday - none.

[irish]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

I'm sorry, but I just read the first hand full of posts and it's completely laughable that Belichick is being accused of being classless for "running up the score". What?! And Godfrey had comments afterward? Listen, these are grown ass men playing football for crying out loud! Since when are you supposed to dial down on the competitive juices. I loved Belichick's presser. "We're just out there playing football."

If he's accused of having his team ready to kick ass, guilty as charged. The Skins had absolutely no fire, and the Pats did. That's the bottom line.

If anything I hope it serves as a wake up call to Gibbs and Co. But some how I doubt it will. But to answer the question, I have no problem with the way the Pats scored on us yesterday - none.

Another Post I totally agree with. BB had his team ready to roll, Gibbs didnt, and it showed.

I also agree that this likely wont be a wake up call for this team. While I believe that this team has a ton of talent (as much or more than many teams in the league) I know that talent is not enough. These guys dont have the discipline, fire, and attention to detail to be a championship team. For some reason the sum of this team is less than its parts.

[BleedBurgundy]

I can't believe there are (currently) 16 people who think the Patriots did not run up the score? What game were you clowns watching? And don't give me that whole "if you don't want us to score, then stop us" bullshit, either. There's class and then there's classless, this is most definitely the latter. I wore my Landry jersey to work today, just because I think true fans show their colors after a loss, especially a big loss like that. I have never gotten more support from fans of other teams who said things such as the Patriots were lucky we didn't go after Brady's legs. Obviously, that would be the antithesis of everything JG stands for, but there are teams that would have. 6 years ago, I felt bad for Boston and was happy when their teams started winning. Now, I'm getting the same feeling for them that I've had for Philadelphia and NY.

[irish]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I can't believe there are (currently) 16 people who think the Patriots did not run up the score? What game were you clowns watching? And don't give me that whole "if you don't want us to score, then stop us" bullshit, either. There's class and then there's classless, this is most definitely the latter. I wore my Landry jersey to work today, just because I think true fans show their colors after a loss, especially a big loss like that. I have never gotten more support from fans of other teams who said things such as the Patriots were lucky we didn't go after Brady's legs. Obviously, that would be the antithesis of everything JG stands for, but there are teams that would have. 6 years ago, I felt bad for Boston and was happy when their teams started winning. Now, I'm getting the same feeling for them that I've had for Philadelphia and NY.

The Skins would have actually had to get close to Brady to get his legs.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

I can't believe there are (currently) 16 people who think the Patriots did not run up the score? What game were you clowns watching? And don't give me that whole "if you don't want us to score, then stop us" bullshit, either. There's class and then there's classless, this is most definitely the latter. I wore my Landry jersey to work today, just because I think true fans show their colors after a loss, especially a big loss like that. I have never gotten more support from fans of other teams who said things such as the Patriots were lucky we didn't go after Brady's legs. Obviously, that would be the antithesis of everything JG stands for, but there are teams that would have. 6 years ago, I felt bad for Boston and was happy when their teams started winning. Now, I'm getting the same feeling for them that I've had for Philadelphia and NY.

In case you haven't noticed there are a handful of people that take some sort of twisted joy in shitting on their own team. Just ignore them, otherwise you'll drive yourself crazy trying to figure out why they call themselves fans of the team. I've always related it to someone who says they like a certain band, but then complain about every song and every album.

[Skinner]

Belichick is a fucking asshole with no respect.Yea I know we lost!,okay but he still pours it on! And im sick of hearing "aw quit crying this is the nfl" Well this isnt Madden, what does running up the score prove? Why the hell was Brady in in the 4th quarter? To get stats? I dont care what anybody else says, I hope it comes back and bites them in the ass.

[Giantone]

I picked the Skins and never imagine this would have happen .With that said These guys are all professionals and the fact is the back ups took advantage of their oppertunities,the back up QB scored ,there Defensive players were playing on O and they were scoring.How do you tell a back up not to play hard when he's playing for his job in the future,hell some of these guys might never see a pro game ever again..................you can't get mad at the other team just becuase your team let you down.Lets not forget that last time Bellicheck put in the back up QB and he threw a INT he was benched.......................so what would you have done?

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Giantone

I picked the Skins and never imagine this would have happen .With that said These guys are all professionals and the fact is the back ups took advantage of their oppertunities,the back up QB scored ,there Defensive players were playing on O and they were scoring.How do you tell a back up not to play hard when he's playing for his job in the future,hell some of these guys might never see a pro game ever again..................you can't get mad at the other team just becuase your team let you down.Lets not forget that last time Bellicheck put in the back up QB and he threw a INT he was benched.......................so what would you have done?

It's a ridiculous argument, dude. The damn back up QB runs for a 15 yard touchdown and we call Belichick classless. And Randall Godfrey, of all people, had the audacity to say something in the locker room of all places. Don't we get it? The Pats are saying we're not going to talk trash, but we'll give you every opportunity to kick our ass fair and square? And if you for some reason decide to run up the score in the process, we have no problem with it all.

[Skinner]

Belichick is a fucking asshole with no respect.Yea I know we lost!,okay but he still pours it on! And im sick of hearing "aw quit crying this is the nfl" Well this isnt Madden, what does running up the score prove? Why the hell was Brady in in the 4th quarter? To get stats? I dont care what anybody else says, I hope it comes back and bites them in the ass.

[12thMan]

This thread really has me fuming because this is part of the damn problem at Redskins Park and to a large degree, our fan base. Everyone wants to win a certain way or look a certain way while doing it. Give me break, will ya? When that helmet cracks into someone's chest on the other side of the ball, no one's going, "oh don't hit him so hard." I can barely articulate my frustration with this mindset. I guess I really don't see the classless nature in what went down yesterday.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Alright, here's how I see it:

Late in the game brady dropped back to pass into the endzone with Daniels running towards him very fast. Brady was throwing again even though they had a really comfortable lead (around 40 points), but what if Daniels had been able to make the hit and he blew out brady's knee?
What would belichick's excuse have been if he lost his golden boy because he had him passing late in a blow out?
Would he have been able to justify it by saying that he needed to secure a win even though they were already ahead by something like 7 TDs and our offense was constantly moving backwards?
So, isn't it pretty classless to put your team in that sort of situation? Like others have said, NE is lucky our team isn't really dirty because if we were I'm sure we could have made them regret that brady was still in late in the game.

I remember last year or the year before I was watching a U of Alabama game (for some reason) on TV and even though they were ahead by a lot late in the game they were still throwing deep and their best WR ended up suffering a broken leg. I understand that in college you need the whole margin of victory thing, but still a kid broke his leg when he should have been on the bench. In the NFL you don't even have to worry about margin of victory so there is no excuse for having your star player in late in a blow out.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Now that I think about it I bet that belichick only kept his starters in late in the game was because all week he heard that the Skins had the best defense that we was going to face so far this season. Once again, this was his attempt to prove his manhood and his superiority to the entire NFL.
I really think he's a pathetic, sad little man who has some real self esteem issues. (geez, I sound like hessel)

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

Now that I think about it I bet that belichick only kept his starters in late in the game was because all week he heard that the Skins had the best defense that we was going to face so far this season. Once again, this was his attempt to prove his manhood and his superiority to the entire NFL.
I really think he's a pathetic, sad little man who has some real self esteem issues. (geez, I sound like hessel)

The guy is an asswipe on and off the field. Cheats on his wife with a secretary, cheats in football by sending his minions to videotape defensive signals, shoves reporters and cameramen and treats anyone who asks him a question like a second class citizen who doesn't deserve his time , and when he's finally caught cheating by the NFL his response is to basically lash out at everyone else like it's THEIR fault he got caught. What a dick.

In my opinion, anyone defending this guy is just demonstrating their own lack of character.