Classless Coach Belichick

[dgack]

Sit Jason Campbell down, and start... who?

You think Brunell would have survived being attacked by Mike Vrabel all day long? I can pretty much guarantee you it would have been 7+ sacks rather than 3.

[troy]

cambell is not the only qb we have. our offence has not been the same since saunders was hired as the offencive cordinator and jason cambell started. hell if were gonna keep saunders then start collins. at least he knows his system better.

[jsarno]

I belicheat being classless a surprise to anyone?

[SanFranSkinsFan]

Originally Posted by Dlyne8r

I know, I should wait until 24-hrs. before I post. But, my emotions have the best of me at this moment. What a classless act Bill Belichick is. O.k., we're down 38 to zip late in the 2nd half and this fuck is throwing deep routes and anything else that may put more points on the board! What did we do to piss him off already?? Granted, the Pats out played us, out coached us, out scored us. Give them credit for that. They are an awesome force. But, when they had us beat, and beat bad, what did they do? They kept pouring it on. Enough! We're done. We're toast. Raise the freakin' white flag! I have never been a proponent of dirty play, but after it became apparent that Belichick was going to run up the score on the 'Skins, I would have sent the house on Brady on every single play. Yep, damn the torpedos. Even if it had caused a personal foul each and every blitz, if I were Gibbs and/or Greg Williams, I'd have pummeled Brady for Belichick's transgression. Buried his ass in the turf. Brady seemed so smug on the sidelines anyway. I only watched the end of the game to see what Gibbs' reaction would be when he met Belichick to shake hands. I was hoping for something similar to a Chuck Noll / Jerry Glanville interaction. Back in the day, Noll at least had the balls to get in Glanville's grille and let him know how he didn't appreciate how "Glandville" ran up the score on the Steelers that day. I have yet to see, or hear, any response from Gibbs after this embarrassing loss, but after the clock ran out, the camera was following Gibbs and it appeared that he simply avoided Belichick and ran off the field. Someone please tell me that I missed something and that Gibbs addressed this issue and stepped up for the team. Because if he didn't, I've lost a great amount of respect for him, and I love the guy. I had great respect for the Pats, and even Belichick, until today. I now hope they go down in a very very painful way.

I was seething when I saw BB do this, but after reading the posts and reflecting on it, I'm not sure what to think. If he wanted to risk Brady and his starting WRs out there, he had a right to. In college football, you have to run up the score for the BCS. For the Pats, they've already won their division, but that doesn't mean they cant screw with the Colts' brains before next week's mega-matchup. We blew this game on the first drive when we punted, before all of the turnovers started. I don't blame our defense for the loss, the Pats did the same thing to every team this year. So I say BB did what he had to do, to get negative press and some more motivation before next week's game. We need to beat the J-E-T-S next week and hopefully classy Dungy will put him in his place. Gibbs will always be classier than Belichek, but that doesn't mean BB isn't a great coach, or a very sick puppy to say the least. Go skins.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by SanFranSkinsFan

I was seething when I saw BB do this, but after reading the posts and reflecting on it, I'm not sure what to think. If he wanted to risk Brady and his starting WRs out there, he had a right to. In college football, you have to run up the score for the BCS. For the Pats, they've already won their division, but that doesn't mean they cant screw with the Colts' brains before next week's mega-matchup. We blew this game on the first drive when we punted, before all of the turnovers started. I don't blame our defense for the loss, the Pats did the same thing to every team this year. So I say BB did what he had to do, to get negative press and some more motivation before next week's game. We need to beat the J-E-T-S next week and hopefully classy Dungy will put him in his place. Gibbs will always be classier than Belichek, but that doesn't mean BB isn't a great coach, or a very sick puppy to say the least. Go skins.

I would love to see one of his key players go down with an injury when they're in the middle of running up a score. Maybe then we would see Belichick without that smug F'ing look on his face in the post game presser.

What did you want us to do, kick a FG?

What an a-hole.

[SanFranSkinsFan]

Matty-

Thanks for all your hard work on the blog. Yeah the way the Pats feed on negative motivation is just sick, just like playing Brady then. Brady is kind of scary though, I'd like to see JC have some more killer instinct (Rypien and even Joe Theisman had that). That fake spike touchdown to Randy Moss was a really nice play, something Gibbs wouldn't really ever try.

What happened to the the reverses and trick plays we ran in the 80s and 90s with so much success? Why couldn't we put together some plays like we did on that first drive (short passes, screens, Cooley crossing routes). We got flat outplayed today, but Belichek deserves credit for deflecting attention from his team, AGAIN, going into that matchup next week. Let's stay positive, and focus on the Jets, who we can stomp (along with BB disciple Man-Genie).

JON

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I would love to see one of his key players go down with an injury when they're in the middle of running up a score. Maybe then we would see Belichick without that smug F'ing look on his face in the post game presser.

What did you want us to do, kick a FG?

What an a-hole.

[MTK]

You don't sit Campbell after 14 career starts.

That's just DUMB.

Man, the overall IQ around here really drops after a loss, doesn't it? People seem particularly retarded tonight.

[dgack]

"they" run whatever Ol' Sweats says they run. So it's more a question of whether HE is trying to send a message. And based on the eternally constipated look that guy always has, I think it honestly, truly might be that he's trying to send a message to anybody watching.

Of course it is his right to do what he's doing. I think it's his right to tell the American people, "up yours, I don't care what you think of me, because I'm a winner".

He just better hope he never hits a losing streak with that kind of attitude. The Greeks had a word for it. They called it hubris.

[Hijinx]

In regards to the original question: I am of two minds about it. If the Skins players wanted the Pats to stop scoring they should have done something about it. Plus some crazy comebacks are possible in football. I happen to have been at the 1993 Bills- Oilers game where they came back from more than 30 down.

However Billichick should know that this pisses off players and may come back to haunt him. Also when players get real frustrated they tend to so dumb things. What if one of the Skins D took a cheap shot at Brady or one of their other "skill" players. Personally I wouldn't condone that sort of thing but I could see it happening. Plus I am going to pray for a day in the future where we run it up every bit as hard on them.

[Daseal]

Get over it. People on both sides get a pay check, and the Redskins didn't earn theirs today. It's not Bellichek's job to keep the Pats from scoring, it's ours. If you're embarrassed, you should be -- but suck it up. These guys can go home and cry themselves to sleep on their beds of money if they like, but don't tell another team to not run up the score. Hell, when they're running for 8 yards a pop right up the gut, we deserve it.

[dgack]

Lovely post Daseal, but it doesn't change the fact that Belichick is a douchebag.

[Daseal]

I don't like Belichick by any stretch of the imagination. From all accounts he is a real douchebag. The only thing that bothers me is skins fans whining that they scored too many points on us. Wonder how many people would be complaining if we did this to the Cowboys.

Here's a great quote by Belichick that Gibbs should start to follow:

"I've been coaching too long," Belichick said. "I remember being on that side. When I was coaching defense it was my job to keep the score down, not theirs. When you're playing defense it's your job to stop them. It's not (the offense's) job to not score. It's like I tell the offense, what the (bleep) do you think I send you guys out there for? To punt? We have a punt team for that. That's not your job. Your job is to go out there and score points. If you come off the field and you haven't scored points you haven't done your job."

[dgack]

Originally Posted by Daseal

Wonder how many people would be complaining if we did this to the Cowboys.

At least Cowboys and Redskins fans respect each other. I get the feeling that is not true of the Patriots and pretty much any other team in the league.

Like I said, karma's a bitch. I, like many Redskins fans (and really, fans of pretty much every other team in the league this season) won't soon forget this, and when the day comes that the hubris party happens in Foxborough, I will be loving every minute of it.

I have to confess that I've been fairly bored of the Patriots lovefest over the years and rarely pay any attention to their games, even when they've been the Super Bowl. I'm going to be watching them every week from now on, just waiting for some linebacker blitz to crush Tom Brady.

On a side note, the more I think about it, the more I wish Jason had taken a play out of football movie comedy land and "thrown the ball away", squarely at Belichick's nuts.

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by Daseal

I don't like Belichick by any stretch of the imagination. From all accounts he is a real douchebag. The only thing that bothers me is skins fans whining that they scored too many points on us. Wonder how many people would be complaining if we did this to the Cowboys.

Here's a great quote by Belichick that Gibbs should start to follow:

That is a great quote. Post of the year.

[Paintrain]

I'm the lone dissenting vote (so far) but it's with a condition.. Yes, they ran the score up, but no more than they have done vs. anyone else.. If you've watched any of their games, they have beat the tar out of everyone and kept on coming.. It looks worse because we couldn't generate anything on offense.. Yeah, they could have throttled down but that's what 3/4 of us kill Gibbs for so it'd be hypocritical to whine about it happening to us..