Because Belichick has won over 200 games and Schwartz hasn’t even won 30. Hate Belichick if you want, but after his accomplishments it takes more than a mistake like that for him to deserve ridicule.
Texans cut 3 players for smoking pot at team hotel
I think marijuana should be legal, but you have got to be a true knucklehead to smoke marijuana on a business trip in the hotel that your employer is paying for.
Boy this game is horrible. The only thing worth watching is the Giants run defense containing Adrian Peterson, but other than that, it’s just plain bad football. Good to see a change from Pewter to Purple hasn’t helped Josh Freeman’s suckitude.
It’s much easier to contain Peterson when you know Freeman can’t throw the ball anywhere near the field. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an NFL QB throw that many passes that far out of bounds.
And conversely, why are they throwing 50 times (with a new QB, no less) when they have Adrian Peterson on their team?
ETA: I take that back. I’d forgotten that Peterson’s 5-year-old child had just been murdered. I can understand not building the game around him.
Peterson’s murdered son was 2 years old. Admittedly anyone’s to be forgiven for experiencing difficulty in keeping up. Apparently there are somewhere between 5 and 7 depending on who you ask.
Was he even aware of that child?
Yes, but not for very long and he’d never met him until he was in the ICU.
Who will now defend Josh Freeman’s stats and honor?
Well, ESPN has them sharing the blame, Foles for his decisions and Kelly for his failure in schemes and play calls.
The Vikings said Freeman was going to start again on Sunday despite that showing, but now they say he has a concussion and probably won’t play. So yeah.
Well, Belicheck’s comments show that he clearly knew the rule was passed this year, but he was going off of the NFL’s written and website guidance on the rule, which clearly stated that it was only a penalty for someone lined up at the second level. (The rules committee changed the rule to omit the bit about second level before passing it, but nobody at the league offices bothered to change the guidance, or the web site, until miraculously the web site was quietly with no notice changed a couple hours after the game Sunday).
I mean, sure, I guess a better coach would not believe the NFL’s guidance about their own rule book and go check the rule book directly, but were this a court case, the NFL would be facing an uphill battle making the penalty stick.
I suppose it’s also possible that people saw the video of the Jets pushing a teammate on a Patriot’s field goal attempt earlier in the game, and think that it’s hard to blame a coach for arguing a call against him that was not made against the other team in similar circumstances.