The New England Patriots Are Assholes

If you don't want the score run up on you, play some defense.  This is not a pop warner match where everyone is going to get a trophy.  These are highly paid professionals doing a job in a league with a salary cap!!!  Your gonna have to find a better angle to pick on the Pats with.

BTW - Ditka ran up the score on the Pats in the superbowl letting the fridge run one at the end!

Logic aside here, revenge is a dish best served cold!

We all will just have to face the fact that the Patriots are great and suck at the same time. Before the bandwagon fans I liked the Pats. There was a time when the Pats had hardly any fans.  I liked it better then.

http://www.boston.com/sports/nesn/wilbur/sports_blog/blog/2007/11/01/four_score_and_several_more/

Does three superbowls in 5 years mean that we have to judge the patriots differently.  What about records!!  Doesn't Brady have the right to cement his place in the record books and the Hall of Fame.  Don't forget Indy scored 3 touchdowns in 4 minutes a few years ago.  The game is 60 minutes for a reason, maybe we should push the league to have an automatic forfeit rule when a team has a 3 touchdown lead!!!!    

Sure, I'm Patriot fan, and i am sure that if this was your team you would feel as i do, play for 60 minutes.  I am sure jealousy about the way the patriots are playing has plenty to do with the criticism.     If your bothered about high scores, may i suggest watching Soccer!

The dainty little Washington Redskins are angry with Bill Belichick, and I think it's cute. Sweet little Redskins. They couldn't stop New England from destroying them, so they were sort of hoping New England would stop itself. New England didn't, rolling to a 52-7 victory, and the Redskins are pitching a fit. Poor little guys. If I could, I'd pat every Washington player on his little bitty Redskin head and give him a lollypop.

Hey London Fletcher, tell your teammates to stop whining. You're all men for pete's sake. (US Presswire)    
The babies.

Elsewhere around the NFL, people are laughing at the Redskins for whining about Belichick's ruthlessness on Sunday. Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri, whose team faces New England this week, said Washington's whining was "a little bit silly. ... This isn't a junior high atmosphere. This is professional football."

Longtime NFL quarterback Phil Simms, now an announcer for CBS, disagrees with Vinatieri. The Redskins weren't acting like junior high kids, he said. More like "high school and college," Simms said. "I wouldn't expect to hear (that) in the NFL. My first instinct is, instead of (worrying about) running up the score, you've just got to do your own business in the NFL."

Exactly. This isn't college football, where unfair matchups are born from NCAA classifications, like Rutgers' 59-0 blowout of Division I-AA Norfolk State on Sept. 15. Rutgers used its timeouts late in the first half to get the ball one more time before halftime ... already ahead 45-0. That was classless. Norfolk State wasn't equipped to defend itself and was at the mercy of Rutgers coach Greg Schiano, who showed his scumbag side.

New England vs. Washington is different. This is the NFL, which has a salary cap. If the Redskins can't keep up, tough. Their coach is in the Hall of Fame. Their owner has thrown huge contracts at big-name free agents. If Washington can't stop New England from scoring, the shame is on Washington.

But just to be sure, let's take a closer look. Let's look at the specific instances that had the Redskins crying for their mommies.

First, the Patriots were winning 38-0 with 11 minutes left when they went for it on fourth-and-1 at the Washington 7. Quarterback Tom Brady gained two yards, then threw a touchdown pass to Wes Welker to make it 45-0.

The Redskins bitched about Belichick's decision on fourth down, but if he'd kicked a field goal would Washington have been any happier? Of course not. Washington would have wondered why New England needed three more points on top of that 38-0 lead. So what other option does that leave the Patriots? A pooch punt from the 7? Brady takes a knee with 11 minutes left? Pity is the biggest insult of all.

Here's what New England was guilty of on Sunday. New England was guilty of being too good. That's all. Because an NFL team ought to be able to take a 38-0 lead and still get to treat the final 11 minutes like a football game.

With more than half of the fourth quarter remaining, Belichick put in backup quarterback Matt Cassel. On fourth-and-2 from the Redskins' 37, Cassel threw a 21-yard pass to Jabar Gaffney. Two plays later he scored from 15 yards out to make it 52-0.

Washington players whined, but again, what is Belichick supposed to do? He would have been ripped for kicking a 54-yard field goal, and he didn't want to waste Cassel's opportunity by pooch-punting from a spot on the field where he wouldn't normally pooch-punt. Belichick needs to get Cassel legitimate game experience, and handing off on every down doesn't count. On that six-play drive, New England passed three times and ran three times. What's the problem? It is OK if Cassel gets to act like a real football player. Right?

The whole thing baffles me. Old-time Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer and former Florida coach Steve Spurrier were constantly vilified for running up the score, when all they did was let their reserves run the same offense as the starters. Oklahoma's scrubs ran the wishbone and scored. Florida's scrubs threw the ball and scored. These guys practice one offense all week, but when they finally get in a game they have to run another offense? You can't possibly think that makes sense.

Now Belichick is being vilified, and normally I'm OK with that. He got caught cheating on the field and he's dislikeable in general, always acting as if he has swallowed a scorpion and the thing is stinging his spleen. Belichick's a jerk, but not for this.

And not for what happened a week earlier against Miami, when he was accused of running up the score for putting Brady back into a 42-21 game. On the surface it looks strange, but look beneath the surface. Belichick pulled Brady with a 42-7 lead, but the Dolphins scored twice quickly to make it 42-21. Was New England in real danger of losing? Probably not, but the Dolphins did have 10 1/2 minutes left to score those 21 points. On that same day, the immortal Sage Rosenfels had led Houston to 21 points in the final 7 1/2 minutes against Tennessee's usually dominant defense.

Weird things happen, so back in the game Brady went. He threw another TD pass, then left for good.

Belichick wasn't running up the score, and even if he was, so be it. This is the NFL. If the Redskins can't handle their end of the bargain, they should schedule Norfolk State.