does tom brady have his own rules?

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

It's the NFL. Too freakin bad. It's not NE's job to stop playing offense just cause we can't stop them. I remember this game very well and everyone around here was up in arms. I don't understand why. I use this as an example..I think it was Gibbs' last year in 92 and we beat the shit out of the Cardinals. The game was over and Gibbs put in Cary Conklin and threw the ball to Monk for a TD very late in the 4th q. Remember who the coach was for the Cardinbals? Joe Bugel. In other words Gibbs ran it up on one of his own guys.

Well the difference on that is that Gibbs is not a prick like Belichick. Sean Peyton could have easily ran up the score on Monday...and in this case it would have been somewhat justified because New England is like the bad guy in a horror movie, you have to shoot them three times in the head and cut it off to make sure they are dead. But Peyton didn't, notice that they went more to the run when Darth Hoody had thrown in the towel.

When the Pats killed the Redskins, the thing that killed me was them going for it on 4th and short even when they were like three TDs ahead. Which was a standard Belichick practice, along with keeping your starters well into the 4th quarter after building double-digit leads. But you know what? I'm not complaining about that anymore because the Pats lost the Superbowl that year (since they were more concerned about the undefeated record than winning the Superbowl), Tom Brady went down with injury the next year, and they missed the playoffs even after having a winning record.

The funny thing about this is that running up the score...or well not doing that, is sort of an unwritten rule, yet the guy that did it a lot (Belichick) bitched about some unwritten rule about other coaches going after players in the waiver wire....I can't remember exactly what it was but I know he bitched about it.

Originally Posted by Chevy13

I agree 100% if you don't want them to do it, well F'n STOP THEM! I find it even more embarrassing that a team had to take it easy on us cuz they're whooping our ass so bad. I don't understand how anyone could feel any better by getting a "lesser" ass whooping cuz they took their starters out or stopped trying. Personally I'd rather them keep their starters in and keep playing football, Besides what if the 2nd string comes in and continues to whoop your ass even more? I'd rather get killed by the starters

Well if the 2nd stringers continue to whoop on you that's on the team. But Belichick kept his starters well into the 4th quarter after building three TD leads. But like I said, it eventually came around to him.

[tryfuhl]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

When the Pats killed the Redskins, the thing that killed me was them going for it on 4th and short even when they were like three TDs ahead. Which was a standard Belichick practice, along with keeping your starters well into the 4th quarter after building double-digit leads.

That still doesn't bother me. You've gotta be at least 3 TDs up before you let up. Look at when the Saints came back after losing to the Dolphins, down 24-3 wasn't it?

You have to practice 4th and short situations in game and that was a good chance to see what they could do. Sure they probably knew that they had it, but whatever.

It's a competitive game, compete or don't.