What is the Pats Problem?

If I'm playing against the Patriots and they have a big lead, I'd want them to keep throwing the ball and going for it on 4th down. Force an interception or a turnover on downs and you get the ball back for your offense.

 

I'm serious... i'd be surprised if Tom Brady makes it through this season unscaved. Someone will go after him after the whistle sooner or later.

 

The Pats players have worked extremely hard to get to where they are. The NFL is the showcase league for men who’ve chosen their profession and it’s the only place that they can truly exhibit how all of this hard work has paid off. I would agree that at every other level running up the score is indeed poor sportsmanship, but at this, the most elite level, I want to see the best achieve all that they possibly can while playing flat out for the entire game. I want to be a witness to excellence. It pains me that such an amazing team will be pressured to tone it down just so they don't show up the mediocre for being exactly that... mediocre.

It'd be like if in the 1973 Kentucky Derby the jockey pulled on Secretariat's reigns. Secretariat is famous for winning by forty lengths, but in today's culture of sport people would be worried about showing up the other horses. I want to see performances like Secretariat's... that type of excellence is rare and should be embraced. It’s the reason I’m a fan of professional sports. It pains me that it doesn't seem possible in today’s pro team sports. And it pains me even more so that it’s not possible simply because of the insane (and widely accepted) notion that one team’s excellence will so damage it’s opponent’s competitive psyche that they may never recover. On the contrary I think athletic performances like the Pats have been putting on only serve to inspire others to achieve similar greatness (including those they defeat).

 

agreed, and I agree it'll probably be a Jet or maybe FA turned into a Jet mercenary

 

So what would you rather have? Sportsmanship/Fisherball or Bill Belichick's style?
And these are PROs. This isn't USC vs some Div III team as everyone keeps acting. These guys are getting paid millions to do a job that most of us would kill to have, so why the pity party?
Nobody cares when a DivI school beats a DivII school 65-0, and there's actually a talent gap there. Nobody cares when your local highschool beats a team 45-0. So why do they care in the NFL?
Again, if you're going to cry about it instead of stopping a team, take your 1st stringers out first rather than begging for charity.

 

A fellow Dane posted this excellent link on a Danish site:
http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/showthread.php?t=43949

This is why I have beef with the Patriots. They're quick to blame everyone and anyone else of playing dirty, running up the score, etc. and at the same time do it themselves.

 

In that case, let's hope they keep running those scores up. haha

 

Yeah, I loved it last year when Rodney Harrison was up in arms for that very legal shot that Wade put on him. Freaking Rodney Harrison, cheap shot artist extraordinaire