This seemed relevant. <a class="postlink" href="http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/20/nfl-com-article-contributes-to-confusion-regarding-rule-that-burned-pats/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... rned-pats/</a>
Ravens, Giants, Eagles, Raiders, Jaguars... 5 of Denver's 6 wins. Wonder if they're still gonna be breaking all those records ESPN says they will.
Actually, he's barely above average in roughing the passer calls. Strangely enough, the guy with the most roughing the passer calls in his favor is Jay Cutler. Followed by Brees, Ryan, Fitzpatrick, Garrard, and then Brady. And even with how he's been getting sacked this season, (O-line has been "meh") he isn't getting many calls this season, either.
Not worth bothering. Just like with the "Romo can't handle pressure" line, it's been parroted so long that nobody will believe anything but. There's a fair bit of irony in how much people whine about the so-called "whiny Patriots." How many times have you heard someone complain about or reference the "tuck rule" which was an on-the-books rule, called appropriately - and yet, when some Patriots fans complain about this other call (another on-the-books rule, called appropriately), they're a bunch of whiners. The objective evidence doesn't back up the storyline, but the story has become reality for so many people that it doesn't even matter.
I'd be interested to see the corresponding number of sacks. Cutler being that high isn't surprising given how many times he's been hit in the last 4 years.
Seriously Pats fans. Get over it. People hate you. That's the way it is. It is the price for being so dominant for most of recent memory. After a while of success, everything you do that can even be perceived as wrong is going to be blown up. Sports fans are huge on hyperbole. And perception is always going to matter more to most people than cold hard numbers. So Brady crying like a little girl because his own line man pushed a ravens player into him means Brady ALWAYS cries like a little girl. Belecheck getting caught doing something any coach with half a brain would do given the opportunity means he is the worst type of cheating scum known to man. If it makes you feel any better, it's a lot like being a Notre Dame fan except for having enjoyed A LOT of success recently to console you. Basically what I'm saying is haters gonna hate. (Myself included because fuck Brady and the whores he road in on.)
^ Well, that doesn't mean I won't tell people they're idiots when they spout nonsense. Even for teams I don't root for. I'll try to find the article when I'm not behind the work firewall, but someone did an analysis that took sacks into account, and the stats were basically the same - IIRC, it might have been Ryan Fitzpatrick who had an anomalously high number of roughing calls, but in any event, it wasn't someone you expected and it certainly wasn't the people that everyone claim get all the calls thrown their way (e.g. Brady, P. Manning).
People hate the Patriots? What? Come on! It's not like we're the Yankees where we simply out pay for everyone. We just simply out play everyone. Can't hate us for that! Why hate him because he still has time to be a fashion model, fuck the highest paid most popular supermodel in the world, raise a family, and carry one of the worst receiving cores in the league on his back? People are supposed to appreciate and enjoy perfection. But haters gon' hate.
The Patriots got theirs already. There is no karmic payback anymore. His name was David Tyree. HE IS NOT EVEN IN THE FUCKING LEAGUE ANYMORE! HE WAS OUT A YEAR AFTER! We're even.
The funniest thing was, I had a Saints fan try to tell me that losing to the Jets was "karma" for... something. A New Orleans Bounties fan talking about karma. Never thought I'd see the day.
My team has exactly zero championships in over 50 years of existance, lost all four Superbowls they've gone to, and endured some absolutely painful NFC championship losses. We've got a long way to go before we can approach anything even approximating something close to "even".
Ha, what a joke. Penalties are "cheating" when the Pats do it, and Belichick saying he was in the wrong means "he was mad he got caught."
Yeah, so should Rex Ryan. And every other coach. Because every other team did it, so much so that the league actually sent out a memo reminding officials to enforce the penalty.
Why can't Patriots fans just accept that most every fan base hates them? Who the fuck cares? All arguing about it does is give the fans that hate them yet another thing to hate them for.
DO YOU HEAR ME, PARKER? YOUR TEAM MUST SUFFER TO MAKE UP FOR MY TEAM'S FAILINGS. Fuck, Buffalo lost four Superbowls in a row and competes in the same division as the Patriots, and I don't furiously masturbate myself into a hate-coma over them.