Ehh, don't take it too hard man.
I'm a Jets fan. I'm tired of the Pats winning, and I hate them. But they're the best in the league until Brady and Belichick retire. Until then we just need to respect the fact that we're watching the best of all time.
Congrats to the Patriots, they earned it, they were the best team. I still hate them, but at this point I'm resigned to knowing they'll be there every year.
I'm glad the Super Bowl turned out to be a boring, miserable DUD with the Scams losing in such embarrassing fashion. They didn't deserve to be there and that was proven last night.
As far as the Patriots... props to them, mostly their defense and Belichick. I think it's the last Super Bowl we'll see from them in the Brady era though.
I find the moral high ground card from fans of the team who were caught paying players to hurt opposing players to be hilarious.
Nobody was paid to "hurt players." There were bonuses given out for big plays which included big hits (which if you ask any old school type player, was a regular thing on EVERY team). There was never not once proof that the Saints targeted a specific player to be injured. The only real damning evidence was Gregg Williams lockerroom speech where he screamed and yelled about head hunting against the 49ers. Williams was coincidentally fired after that game (long before the audio was released) and has found much success on other teams since then.
So target Gregg Williams and whatever organizations hire that asshole (which is about half the league at this point lol), not just the Saints.
Seriously.
There was never any proof that anyone was paid to specifically injure a player. Saints had a "pay for performance" program which included big hits whether they caused injury or not. Here are the FACTS.
1. The Saints were in the top tier of least injured opposing players that year. So the best team in football that year was really shitty at the part of their job where they were supposed to "injure" opposing players? That makes zero sense.
2. It was a different era of football, where hitting people was allowed. The Saints game plan was to hit the QB as much and as often as possible, a technique used to effect the timing of the opposing offense. How this is proof of a "bounty program" is ridiculous.
3. All the players suspensions were voided... why? Because THERE WAS NO PROOF and it couldn't hold up in a court of law. Sean Payton's suspension was only kept because he didn't have the same appeal process privileges as the players.
4. It's funny that this is being brought up, because just this week it was revealed in Brett Favre's new book that the Vikings were the ones with a bounty program. Straight from the horse's mouth...
https://vikingswire.usatoday.com/201...-favre-was-qb/“I had coaches start a pot and all the veterans put in an extra $100, $200, and if you hurt someone special, you get the money. There was a bottom line, and I think we all bought in: you’re there to win, and if taking out the other team’s best player helps you win, hey, it’s nothing personal. Just business.”
One of Minnesota’s “targets” in the 2008 season, according to the excerpt, was Nick Barnett, a Green Bay linebacker. The price to “take him out” was $500.
The Saints were hosed on this bounty nonsense and it hurt the organization big time for a good amount of years. To finally get over that, build a championship quality team, and get robbed by the refs... it really fucking sucks. Just got to hope Brees has it in him to have one more good MVP caliber year, because if he does, then we have at least one more shot. However, I'm not very optimistic with the way he looked from the Cowboys game and that point on
TIL Dwayne Haskins, who passed for 4,800 yards and ran for only 100 yards last season, is a running QB. Thanks Stephen A. Smith
Cause he's black.
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