by Dan Snapp
dan@patriotsdaily.com
Nobody says “quash” anymore. A verb meaning “to suppress or extinguish”, it’s been all but stricken from usage. It’s been replaced by “squash”, which sounds more like what “quash” means.
The word “accountability” is pretty well squashed, too.
Once upon a time, those claiming accountability had actions tied to their words. Something went wrong, somebody [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
I admit, they almost had me.
I had gone more than three months without writing about You Know What-Gate, choosing instead to amuse myself with talk of the free agent and draft markets, and the question of how in the world the Patriots will be able to come back from blowing a perfect season [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
Once again a bottom-feeding sports desk has played hide the sausage with an incendiary hatchet job on Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
An alert reader (thanks Steve) tipped us to this ESPN Page Two five-star nutty by Gregg Easterbook, which calls for Belichick’s suspension for life from the NFL.
Easterbrook, a first-class weirdo who is apparently [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
“…it’s embarrassing, it’s absurd…”
Yeah, it’s that, all right. Bill Belichick was talking about Matt Walsh, but he could just as well have been tying a bow on this whole episode.
Because it has been nothing but absurdity since last September, and now we have the tight-lipped coaching legend making a surprise appearance on CBS [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
By now you’ve read John Tomase’s explanation as to how he and the Boston Herald came to accuse the Patriots of cheating to win Super Bowl 36.
To me, it sounds like reckless personal ambition trumped sound judgement and professional responsibility. Because we now know the whole thing was predicated on the whispers of [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
I know I just wrote a whole column yesterday telling the Star Trek Convention (Chapter President, here) to get a life when it comes to Spygate, but I just have to share:
John Tomase, the Herald beat reporter who wrote the infamous Walkthrough-Gate story in February that seemed to ruin the Super Bowl for [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Matt Walsh end up as a defense witness yesterday in this Lewis Carroll-esque Trial of the Century?
Yes, there were ticket scalping allegations and suggestions that a player on IR had practiced with the club, but in the end, Walsh confirmed;
He didn’t tape the walkthrough, he wasn’t [...]
by Scott Benson
scott@patriotsdaily.com
Jim Nance was the featured attraction at the first Patriots game I ever attended, on a sun-dappled Sunday a long while ago. I caught him at his apex as a pro football player, the reigning league MVP on his way to a second straight AFL rushing title. The rest of the team wasn’t [...]
by Chris Warner
feedback@patriotsdaily.com
Outside of my cynical outer shell, I am essentially a sentimental creature. I love stories with happy endings for underdogs. I still consider myself president of the unofficial Bam Childress Fan Club (aka “The Bamwagon”), even though he’s gone to the Eagles.
Coach Bill Belichick has taught Patriots fans that sentimentality will get you [...]
