Comments on: Shut the Gates

By: howzie

howzie — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:50:10 +0000

We’re blessed out here in the desert to have some really good,really smart, sports-obsessed guys on our ESPN affiliate. It probably helps that they all bet on sports, religiously, and tend to break the games down more to get an edge.

Anyway, all I heard this week was them mocking the “blueprint” meme…To quote one “a blueprint to lose by only 3? I’m sure Belichik will take it”.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:19:26 +0000

Point well taken, MnB. Like Scott said, we all do it, and I’ve been as guilty as the next guy. I think the problem is that a big part of the ritual of being a fan is to check what people are saying about the game. And that’s where it’s been hijacked away from actual game discussion into the various gates.

This week it was the stupid “blueprint” talk. I’m all for talking about how great a game and gameplan the Eagles had. Not to mention having the talented and motivated players to implement it. If they’re going to talk “blueprint”, maybe they should mention having a Lito Sheppard to slow down Moss.

The Eagles are the ones who should be insulted by the “blueprint” talk. They played an inspired game, and all anyone’s talking about is their scheme.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:44:53 +0000

I would take issue with the ‘greatest team of all time’ designation but by and large I think you’re correct. I’m not speaking for anybody else but me here but I do worry from time to time that I (as fans, after all) do spend a lot of time focusing on the coverage of the team over the team itself. Its a hard habit to break, as Chicago once said, particularly with all the controversy surrounding the team this year. I guess I just want to acknowledge your point as having some validity.

I would point you, though, to Mike Reiss’s afternoon update regarding the ‘blueprint’ and Ron Jaworski’s comments regarding same. He seems equally dismissive as Dan of the subject.

Thanks for the input.

By: turn68

turn68 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:38:01 +0000

I can’t read other columnists this week because of so much drool slipping from their mediocre pens, right onto my keyboard. Never have I read so much crap from experts salivating so much over what was ALMOST an upset; ALMOST good-over-evil…they were downright angry that the hollywood script was altered in the end; that they had paid good money to see what ended up being a less-than-perfect rewrite of a perfect story ending. The headlines the nex morning all but screamed “Patriots Blow Another Game By Winning”

By: Maroney no Baloney

Maroney no Baloney — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:20:00 +0000

I’m like 95% okay with slamming the mediots 95% of the time b/c most of what they have to say about this team is garbage.

But holy Maroney, is it really that outlandish for someone to write or opine that the Eagles’ play, if not their gameplan, demonstrated that it’s possible for a team to stay in the same stadium as the Pats? Seems like that’s human nature rather than STOOOORYLINE–Goliath gets staggered a tiny tiny bit, that’s what people are going to focus on: smart people as well as the (95%) stupid mediots. To borrow a phrase, seems like it just is what it is there.

Sometimes I wonder if some of the honorable citizens of Patriots Nation actually enjoy the wins for more than 20 minutes before getting their undies in a bunch anticipating what this idiot or that idiot might write. They’re dummies…be happy we’re watching the greatest team of all time!