JPH, post: 412629, member: 6636 wrote: I love how people like to just mention the "cheating", without actually naming what he did, like it's just an acknowledged and horrible fact.
I'm not going to pretend that he didn't break the rules. But take a look at what other teams have done, and you tell me where taping from a banned location ranks with some of the offenses that other teams have committed.
And deflategate, nothing was proven there. I hope if someone's trying to nail me on something, that I don't go down on the same kind of shoddy evidence that what was used to convict Brady and the Patriots.
How he treats people? I don't know your sources, but there are disgruntled and offended people everywhere. Your post is hearsay.
Hearsay? No, publicly reported facts. cheated on his wife multiple times, including a long running affair with his secretary. Broke it off when it became public as her husband filed for divorce. Numerous occurrences of cutting players right before a big game or the holidays to avoid paying them. Firing of coaches and staff for such egregious errors as missing work to be present for the birth of their child or simply because they did not agree with him.
And how is breaking the rules as you put it not cheating? Oh, he's not the only one, great justification. I guess that makes it ok for everyone to break the rules since other people have done it? Like I said - great coach, lousy human being . The facts are publicly available just do search. If you care.
I have yet to see a player or former player bad mouth him. Sure, there have been guys who weren't happy when they were traded, or released, or couldn't get their contracts negotiated to their satisfaction. But they seem to come back to the fold in time.
Rob M, post: 412632, member: 476 wrote: Numerous occurrences of cutting players right before a big game or the holidays to avoid paying them. Firing of coaches and staff for such egregious errors as missing work to be present for the birth of their child
If there are multiple, well documented incidents of this behavior then you shouldn't have any trouble providing citation.
Neither one of us knows what's going on within another's marriage, so I'm not going to comment on that.
Not justifying what he did with the spygate scandal, it was stupid. Kraft even called him a "schmuck" for doing it. But as said, it's up to you where you rank this against everyone else's offenses, and then decide if Belichick and the Patriots deserve their reputation. But like most, you're probably more than happy to just repeat the accusation without looking into it further.
Spygate was dumb on their part but it's also been blown completely out of proportion. LaDanian Tomlinson and Deion Sanders offered up some insight from a player's perspective on that last night after the game on the NFL Network.
The whole deflate thing was a joke. The lawyer's report commissioned by the NFL pretty much says they couldn't prove anything untoward took place; apparently the NFL exists in a parallel universe where the Combined Gas Law doesn't apply to inflated pigskins. Anyone who drives a car in a place with significant temperature variation knows what happens to air pressure when the temperature drops.
Lee D, post: 412649, member: 7971 wrote: deflate
Exactly; we, as the expert measures of the planet, understand that no measurement is absolute. Others don't.
Putting a number on a line between right and wrong doesn't really address the issue. Was there malice...
Stacy Carroll, post: 412616, member: 150 wrote: Until this past Thursday I didn't know who was even in the SB.
I pay even less attention to sports. I don't have enough brain cells and time to deal with everything already in my life and can't spare any for that. We were driving across town yesterday.
Wife: "Sure is quiet this afternoon. Must be because of the game."
me: "Game?"
wife: "The Super Bowl."
I was born and raised outside of Boston. Now live just outside Baltimore. It is quite some fun harassing the locals when Boson wins. Of course, the locals like to bring up deflate gate. I promptly remind them that the title was not stripped from the team for that mess, the win stands. As does yesterday's.
People like to hate other teams for not much reason it seems to me. So, when I get a chance like this to rub their faces in who won, of course I do. And have lots of fun doing it. :imp::imp:
The Pats won this game by grinding it out and dominating physically when it counted. As bad as I wanted the Falcons to win, they won fair and square. They did not panic and made adjustments throughout the game. I take my hat off to them and sincerely hope that we kick their butts until their nose bleed when we play them again.
