Randy Moss as a Patriot
The New England Patriots traded their fourth round pick to Oakland for Randy Moss. Yup the Randy Moss who has said publicly he play when he wants to, has been in trouble with the law and had provided some on-field calibrations that we wish he hadn't. [Maybe Randy’s real problem over the past 10 seasons that he has been on teams that have lost much more than they have won.] This seem like a departure from the prototypical player the Patriots would go after however upon closer inspection maybe Moss is exactly the guy they need.
The Patriots have long held the philosophy that they need to build a team and championships first, super stars and stats second. In the 3 super bowl champion seasons, Tom Brady has never had a pro-bowl receiver [and true deep threat] to throw to yet they continue to win. This was done by adding the pieces to the puzzle to better the team. After last season, where the team went 12-4, they continually lacked real receiver threat which at times made them a1 dimensional team. In this off season, the Patriots added new talent at wide receiver and defensive backs addressing their two biggest needs. Adding the pieces to the puzzle.
The last big [6'4"] piece to the puzzle is a tall, fast can-go-deep wide out for Brady to throw to this fall. Wouldn't we all like to see Tom finally have a Pro Bowl season to go with his fourth super bowl ring? How about 4 or 5 pro bowlers from one of the best teams in the history of the game. I say if Moss can bring all of that back to Foxborough and fall inline with the Patriot way then welcome to New England Mr. Moss.
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Belichick vs The Photog
Bill Belichick, your New England Patriots just won a closer-than-the-score-would-tell playoff game against your former protégé now arch rival coach so what are you going to do? Run around the field and
beat up on local media photographers as a celebration? Of course not.
There has been a lot made out of nothing with regards to the on-field incident between Bill Belichick and Boston Globe photographer Jim Davis and
today's article by Brian McGrory just goes too far. Sure Belichick pushed Davis out of the way as he tried to reach Eric Mangini for the very traditional post game salutation however the press is first a guest of the Patriots, second on the playing field and not in the press box and third well aware of what and where the coaches are going to do as soon as the game finished. Davis' job is to capture that single moment when the two coached embrace each other so it can run in the Monday morning sports section and if they get bumped, pushed and moved because they are in the way, then that's "part of the game".
McGrory closes his article with the following question: "What would the guy have done if they lost?" I guess you would like us to believe Belichick would have run around the stadium beating up all of the press on hand not just a single photographer however since Belichick's coaching record since he has been with the Patriot's is 86 - 38 [including 11 - 1 in the playoffs] and has yet to go postal after the game so maybe, just maybe this thing is being blown way out of proportion. Or maybe the Kraft's should just pull the Globe's press credentials all together and let them buy their pictures from
their rival, The Herald. Just a thought.
In Bill We Trust.Labels: Patriots
