If you're going to complain about the other team trying to draw more blood in garbage time, you'd...

If you're going to complain about the other team trying to draw more blood in garbage time, you'd better not have the red stuff all over your hands. On the play in question, a third-and-6 from the Patriots 45 with 30 seconds left, the Jets sent seven rushers at Brady -- a zero blitz. It was just the third time the Jets had sent that much pressure at the quarterback all afternoon.

If we're talking decorum here, normally, taking a shot downfield like that as late in the game as the Patriots did may be considered bad form. But coming after another team's quarterback like that in this kind of situation is probably worse. So it's hard to see -- even for a guy who can appreciate Ryan's heart-on-the-sleeve style -- how this isn't a case of throwing stones from a glass house.

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in terms of tit-for-tat

he might have a point, but just as the defensive players have a responsibility to stop the big play at any stage of the game, blowout or not, the offensive unit is similarly charged with protected the QB at all times as well.

I don’t know if that’s the point the author was actually trying to make (that rushing the QB is better/worse sportsmanship than trying to score late), but I do agree with the crux of the article: “Quit crying, everyone.”

by jctsai12 on Nov 25, 2009 4:09 PM EST reply actions

^

protected = protecting

by jctsai12 on Nov 25, 2009 4:09 PM EST up reply actions

I thought football was supposed to be the Anti-thesis of weenies?

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by Farorefox on Nov 25, 2009 4:11 PM EST reply actions

What's with the new pictures every day?

The last couple has been the fleur du jour?

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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 25, 2009 4:23 PM EST up reply actions

If it turns into a fleur-de-lis, there will be hell to pay

Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.

by Comedic.Sans on Nov 25, 2009 4:39 PM EST up reply actions

I hate feeling complacent, I change my computer background

Screensaver, Avatars etc… constantly.

by Farorefox on Nov 25, 2009 6:31 PM EST up reply actions

I will send you a fleur-de-lis if you would like

And even help asimulate into the saints fandom

by simone219 on Nov 25, 2009 6:23 PM EST up reply actions

Does that mean eating gumbo?

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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 25, 2009 6:26 PM EST up reply actions

HA

Saints fandom comes with gumbo,jambalya and crawfish etufee

by simone219 on Nov 25, 2009 6:57 PM EST up reply actions

Burp.

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The more you know, the more you know that you don't know.

by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 25, 2009 7:14 PM EST up reply actions

And beer. I remember going down the street before the games

and seeing people sprawled out with kegs of cheap beer BEFORE the game had even started.

by Farorefox on Nov 25, 2009 7:18 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks, but Saints aren't my boys

and neither are Pats.

by Farorefox on Nov 25, 2009 6:30 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah -- he just keeps hanging around here.

We can’t get him to go and we can’t get him to join the borg. It’s a real frustration.

As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about. --Shaun of the Dead

by JohnHannahRules on Nov 25, 2009 7:57 PM EST up reply actions

borg?

by Farorefox on Nov 25, 2009 8:02 PM EST up reply actions

Star Trek robots?

by Farorefox on Nov 25, 2009 8:44 PM EST up reply actions

Cyborgs

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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 25, 2009 11:22 PM EST up reply actions

When my boys were younger

If one of them ran up to me to tell on the other one, I made them tell me what they did to their brother first. It cut down on a lot of unnecessary yelling and unjust punishment.

This was a case of Ryan running his mouth off to the media to tell on what mean old Belichick had his Patriots do to his poor defenseless Jets team. Same thing as the above scenario, but Ryan knows he can whine to the media and get away with some sympathy because Belichick will never complain.

Keep the faith!

by Marima on Nov 25, 2009 4:21 PM EST reply actions

It sounds like Rex Ryan is losing the plot

He didn’t just shed tears; he shed enough tears for a protracted enough time that he weirded-out his senior players. Cryanosaurus Rex is emotionally unstable? Who knew?

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by Comedic.Sans on Nov 25, 2009 4:41 PM EST up reply actions

who was this quote from?

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by dolphinsinbuffalo on Nov 25, 2009 5:28 PM EST reply actions

click the link

Albert Breer on his blog for the Globe.

As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about. --Shaun of the Dead

by JohnHannahRules on Nov 25, 2009 5:34 PM EST up reply actions