Classless Coach Belichick

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Wow. So many different ways to go here...

First, I disagree with your premise that Bill Belichick ran up the score. He didn't. He sent his backup quarterback out there when the game was well in hand, and Cassel still scored a touchdown. So it really wasn't Bill Belichick. It was Matt Cassel doing what he's supposed to do..

Yeah, because it wasn't obvious by midway through the 3rd quarter that we were going to lose. Did you really think we had any chance in hell to win the game after midway through the 3rd quarter? If so, pass the joint because I've been looking for some good s--t.

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

What purpose did he serve? Well, let's see... as a head coach, his job is to lead the team to victory. Not to show "humility" as some have argued. And you call it "needless". Didn't the Detroit Lions just set an NFL record by scoring 34 points in the fourth quarter this year against the Bears?

See my above response.

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

A player "risks injury" each time he steps foot on the field, no matter what the score is.

A football game is 60 minutes long. Nowhere is it written that you're supposed to stop scoring ( you call that 'running up the score' ) after a team is ahead by a certain number of points or after you're at a certain point in the game.

Unless you disagree with my points above, then Belichick needlessly exposed his players to injury. He did it for some other reason than to win.

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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

Yeah, because it wasn't obvious by midway through the 3rd quarter that we were going to lose. Did you really think we had any chance in hell to win the game after midway through the 3rd quarter? If so, pass the joint because I've been looking for some good s--t.



See my above response.



Unless you disagree with my points above, then Belichick needlessly exposed his players to injury. He did it for some other reason than to win.

I didn't think we had a chance after their first drive. I know that sounds bad but after they marched down the field I knew even if we managed to slow them down our O could not keep up.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

Yeah, because it wasn't obvious by midway through the 3rd quarter that we were going to lose. Did you really think we had any chance in hell to win the game after midway through the 3rd quarter? If so, pass the joint because I've been looking for some good s--t.



See my above response.



Unless you disagree with my points above, then Belichick needlessly exposed his players to injury. He did it for some other reason than to win.

I can't get inside Bill Belichick's brain. If you can, congrats. And I want some of your sh*t.

We can say now that we weren't going to score 34 points in one quarter because it didn't happen. Did Bill Belichick know that at the time? He probably thought it was unlikely, but at the time, anything could have happened. Do you think Dan Reeves thought it was likely that Doug Williams would have led his team to 35 points in the second quarter of Super Bowl XXII?

You say it was needless to leave his starters in at a point in time different than Bill Belichick. And you say that equates to running up the score.

Fine. I guess we disagree. I'd love to go on and on endlessly with this, but my lunch hour is long over.