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It's a shame that the Patriots have dropped Antonio Brown. Bill Belichick and he have so much in common. Both, for example, are excessively autonomous.
January 2007. The Belichick Pats had defeated the Jets 37-16 in a playoff game. Belichick is headed to the field to shake hands with Jets coach and protégé Eric Mangini. After two regular season games, Belichick seemed to have snubbed Mangini. So, there was extra attention to this one, it was on Belichick.
Belichick was followed by NFL accredited photographers who hurried to do their job, trying to capture that punch or whatever.
But suddenly, and for some reason still unknown, Belichick turned quickly to his left, grabbed the camera held by the Boston Globe's veteran photographer, Jim Davis, and then slammed it into his face, specifically to its orbit.
Shocked and hurt, Davis staggered.
Admittedly, Belichick would be arrested, accused of unprovoked aggression. And if the local law enforcement forces drop, the NFL would not do it.
But nothing has happened. Nothing. He does not even appear in his permanent file.
Since then, we have learned that Belichick, apparently at a private moment, apologized to Davis, who graciously let it go. But it was not up to Davis to act; it was at the NFL.
The story – the very public reality – has quickly collapsed, as is fitting for a coach en route to his fourth Super Bowl.
So, why is Belichick thinking today that he is required to respond to the NFL freight audience and explain to him why he chose to sign Brown when the civilized world recognized Brown as an act rotten and possibly criminal?
Why would Belichick not be rude and provocative instead of giving even bad answers to good questions? He acted the same way this summer when the Pats came back with WR Josh Gordon, who was breaking the rules for repeat drugs.
Why? Because he has a copyright. And for no reason, he is right!
Randy Moss was perhaps the most talented and selfish catcher of the NFL in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Enough talented to play 15 years and yet so selfish – a splitting pain in the field fanny and off the pitch – that he could have been lost by five teams. His sustainable employment has become a matter of desperate need, like Brun.
However, Moss was hired by Fox, then by ESPN for these reasons: a talented but intolerable man who calls me first. Moss's judgments on the air would be suspicious, or even doubtful, given his past, no one in Fox and then to ESPN?
So on Monday, before the ESPN Skins-Bears, Moss defeated Brown as extremely talented and extremely selfish, and therefore extremely consumable. He asked aloud who holds Brown accountable for Brown.
So we kept thinking, "Look who's talking," as if Moss's irresponsible behavior had not helped open the way for Antonio Antonio Brown. But self-awareness is often extremely opposed to the right to autonomy.
They do not live in the real world, not in ours, anyway, not in the one in which we are held responsible for our sins. We are simply supposed to provide unconditional dedication and PSL fees to the NFL.
Bill Belichick may owe his life to fans of the NFL, but no explanation. One way street. Like many players, he demands respect in exchange for nothing. He has the right.
Advertisers bring the noise
I tried, so help me, but this is the mandate: the game broadcasts will be enamelled, drowned, in verbal excess, as stupid and boring as it may be.
Why? If I knew you would be the second to know. Turn the dial:
Rich Gannon of CBS in Sunday's Jets-Pats game said: "Belichick does not tolerate quarterbacks who do not care about football." What coach does? But who else did Tom Brady Belichick have to tolerate the last 19 seasons?
SEC's CBS analyst Gary Danielson was adored for his candid football. Then he began to perceive modern nonsense, so the players who were once "open" are, as he said three times in a row, consecutively during Saturday's victory at Notre Dame in Georgia, "in space ".
Sunday night analyst NBC Cree Collinsworth was appreciated as a concise observer. He did not deliver a speech or evaluation of the players after each game. He is doing now, relegating himself to the background noise. Why would he copy Moose Johnston?
Round Barber, of Fox, is another member of the list of analysts, who seems to be instructed to say much more than what needs to be heard. He finally ended Sunday's Giants-Bucs filibuster with "And the Tampa Bay Pitch Game Trouble Continues, Again."
And Fox's "innovative" idea of teaming up with Tiki Barber, Ronde and Kenny Albert was a rehearsal of last season's clumsy gadget, more of an intrusion than inclusion. I do not know if it attracted other viewers, but it bothered those who already existed.
Once again, when Fox promotes Michael Vick as a panelist at one of his FSFL NFL shows, does he think smart people are thrilled to agree or shake their heads in a pathetic wonder?
Giant stuffing by Francesa
Some work without a net, others without awareness. This is how Mike Francesa attributes this to this: he never tires of being an artist of transparent guesswork, a pompous, condescending and self-inflated swamp gas bag again.
If Daniel Jones plays well on Sunday, "let's be honest" will claim to have discovered him in the third year. As @backafttathis reports, Francesa said in April that after applying his expertise to Jones while playing at Duke – big luck – "he is not a good athlete" and "does not have a good arm ".
He also accused the Giants of being unfit – "a laughing stock" – for choosing Jones with the sixth choice.
This week, as if he had not said anything, Francesa said Jones had a good arm.
ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball continues to violate the Geneva Convention. After Yasiel Puig of Cleveland made his usual career – posing a double or triple in a single – Matt Vasgersian said, "Have you ever seen a single so far !?
Yes, all the time, these days, Matt, especially Puig, whose "style" of play is described in Rob Manfred's children's campaign entitled "How to have fun in baseball".
Vasgersian explained that Puig "thought" that he was gone. No idiots'. Is Vasgersian the last to know that we are now seeing a game as minimalist as ever?
Alex Rodriguez then explained, "It's all right in July, but not in a pennant race in September." Yeah, those July games do not count.
A "Now, See!" Graphic from ESPN on Monday night provided statistical evidence that Baker Mayfield of the Browns is a smarter smuggler when he throws within 2.5 seconds of the second.
In other words, this exhaustive research has shown that shorter passes are easier to complete than longer ones. Who knew?
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