QUOTE(Ray @ Feb 4 2008, 08:10 AM) [snapback]465053[/snapback]
When Plaxico Burress said, "The Giants will win 17-14," Tom Brady's reaction was to laugh in his face. He said, "He think WHAT will happen? That's ridiculous." And he smirked and giggled like it was an impossibility for his flawless team to be rendered to impotent. As though he was physically unable to under-perform and not win.
Did you happen to watch the end of the game? There was one second left, one more play left - a kneel down to end it. Where was the perfect coach? The most classy guy in the game, in your eyes? He was already in the fucking locker room, he didn't even stay to watch the final play - to watch his perfect team lose. On more than one occasion, the Patriots ran up the score against an over-matched team. And, those coaches had the decency to wait until the game was over, and congratulate Belichick on a game well-played. And now, his team got their asses beaten, and he doesn't even have the balls to stay and watch? Fuck that, Cullen, you know that's bullshit. You don't leave the field because it makes you unhappy to stay. Your opponent deserves more respect than that.
Ray a big (might even say the biggest) part of any sport in the world is on the mental side. A winning team needs a confident leader so Brady just said what any captain/qb should say in a situation like that. Even if you know that there's not a chance in hell you can win a game, you still have to stay confident and show your own that we've got what it takes to beat the opponent,. The captain, in this case the QB, is always the last one to go down. Just look at pre-game interviews in any sport, their filled with the same 'arrogance'. Boxing especially.
And Brady did give Eli Manning a lot of respect in various interviews before the game, so he's not all that big of a prick as you might think.
But I agree on what you said about Belichick. Even though it's impossible to recover from a situation like that, I at least feel that the coach should stick with his team at least to the end whistle. I understand that he must've been madly disappointed at that stage (which he should, the Pats played horribly) but still..
I was rooting for NE but I have to admit that I'm no big fan of Brady either.