Patriot-Hating Morons Showing Their Ignorance

Friday, December 17, 2010

Scott Cordischi, GoLocalProv Sports Editor

Here we go! All of the ignorant Patriot haters are coming out of the woodwork to defend Sal Alosi and the New York Jets. However, as usual, they just don’t get it.

They caution Pats fans to take it easy on Alosi and the Jets because no team and coach has epitomized cheating over the last decade in the NFL that the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick.

My response to that is, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China in the winter time? Exactly! Nothing is the answer.

Comparing what Alosi did by sticking his knee into Nolan Carroll of the Dolphins to anything the Patriots were accused or found guilty of last decade is down right stupid!

It’s very simple (except for the moron Patriot haters apparently). What Alosi did was deliberately interfere with and attempt to injure an opposing player. While Carroll was hurt on the play, thankfully he walked to the Miami sideline under his own power. But what if he had blown out his knee and his season, or even his career was over with? That’s what makes Alosi’s actions so despicable.

What Belichick is accused of is far different. Yes, he either broke the rule, or at least violated the spirit of the rule by taping opposing coaches defensive signals with Spygate. He also tried to prevent Marvin Harrison of the Colts from returning to the field quickly after he went out of bounds on the Patriots sidelines a few years ago. Was it a dirty trick? Yes. Was he trying to injure Harrison? Not a chance.

So spare me the comparisons between what Alosi did and anything Belichick and the Pats have done. There is no comparison.

If you want to compare Spygate to what the Jets are accused of, then let’s go a little deeper.

Jets GM Mike Tannebaum in upgrading Alosi’s suspension from season-ending to indefinite was, as he said, the result of more information uncovered during their internal investigation.

Apparently, Alosi instructed four inactive Jet players to line up next to him forming the now infamous wall we saw on the television replays of the incident. Tannenbaum, however, was adamant that special teams coach Mike Westhoff and head coach Rex Ryan knew absolutely nothing about this practice that it was all Alosi’s doing.

Hmmm. After more digging. Check that. After a few Jet players voluntarily went public to the New York media, we now learn that this practice has been in place since the beginning of the season.

Okay. No problem. As I have said before, simply forming a wall of players on the sideline is no big deal in my opinion. I wouldn’t want to give an opposing gunner free reign of my sideline to run down and tackle my punt returner either. But, are we really supposed to believe that Westhoff and Ryan knew nothing of this taking place? Please!!!!!! I may have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night.

So let me get this straight. Jets special teams coach Mike Westhoff told us two days ago that he knows for a fact that the Patriots employ a similar practice in blocking opposing gunners by lining up their whole defense on their sideline. So Westhoff is well aware of the Patriots doing this but has no idea that the team that he spends probably 80 hours a week working for does it? Yeah, right!

Bill Bellichick and the Patriots were punished severely for Matt Estrella’s camera work in Spygate. Why? Because as head coach, Belichick knew everything that was going on within his organization. And in the odd chance that he didn’t, he should have because the head coach is held accountable for the actions of all those coaches and other assistants beneath him.

Why, then, should Rex Ryan and the Jets organization skate on this?

So stop the apples vs. oranges comparison between what Sal Alosi did to Nolan Carroll to what the Patriots and Belichick were accused of doing last decade. Alosi tried to physically hurt someone. Belichick did not.

And if you really think that the comparison is legitimate, then it’s time for Roger Goodell and the NFL to dig much deeper into this story and hold Rex Ryan and the entire Jets organization accountable for it, period!