This does not come across the right way.....or is it just me?

Well if it ticks you off, you gotta bow up and stop it!

I think the attitude of getting angry in response to that is on-target, but to not have that make you bow up enough to stop it from happening suggests something is wrong.

"Conuficus wrote:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000107356/article/miami-dolphins-new-england-patriots-disrespected-us

To me it just seems like whining. Not exactly what I'd like to see being said at the moment, at least not in that way. And, frankly Starks is right; you can do something about it.

McDaniels' attitude is the wrong one to have.

That's the stupidest thing I've heard a player say since the last time Cromartie talked to the press.

He thinks the Pats disrespected us by running the same play over and over successfully? The Pats couldn't have done anything more to take it easy on us that drive other than lining up with 7 players.

I agree, do something. Elevate your individual play,.....hell make a play. But don't say its disrespectful, it makes you look like a soccer kid waiting for mommy to walk out on the field and demand that her son get the ball back after some mean kid on the other team took it away and scored in his goal.

"Conuficus wrote:

I agree, do something. Elevate your individual play,.....hell make a play. But don't say its disrespectful, it makes you look like a soccer kid waiting for mommy to walk out on the field and demand that her son get the ball back after some mean kid on the other team took it away and scored in his goal.

To me, running the same play over and over to close out the game is respectful.

Something tells me Miami doesn't bring back McDaniel this time around.

I'm hoping he meant to suggest it was embarrassing rather than that there was a sense of decorum to the game that went above doing what it takes to win.

"RoninFin4 wrote:

Something tells me Miami doesn't bring back McDaniel this time around.

I think Kheeston Randall has pretty well made him redundant.

This reads almost like quote from a story in the Onion. It would be much funnier if it were satire instead of reality. This is an embarrassing form of whining.

"Disgustipate wrote:

I think Kheeston Randall has pretty well made him redundant.

That, and if they shift Odrick inside and still keep Randy Starks, there's no need for McDaniel.

Whats really scary is that he knows the same play is happening, yet doesn't get into a spot to actually stop it. Hell, even in practice if the offense does a do over that play is screwed, so how many times does it have to happen before you just attack that spot regardless? 11 guys out there, and what? Not a one had a whiff to just jump the damn hole?

Good luck this week when SF oline and Frank Gore ram it up their asses. What will that be? Disrespectful? Criminal? Fine worthy? Hope those two check their vagina's at the door this weekend. What a joke. Every year this team finds a way to say or do something to make themselves a joke. Never ends.

I think McDaniel and whoever played the other DE during that drive might have failed their audition for continuance on the team. Then, to make it worse, the whined about it. OY.

"Finascious D wrote:

To me, running the same play over and over to close out the game is respectful.

I'm not so sure I'd call it respectful, because it wasn't like they had a 21 point lead and decided to just run out the clock. There was a ton of time left and they were only up a TD. Like good teams do when they have a late lead, they challenged themselves to run the ball and challenged us to stop it. To me, it was more like a "F. U. Stop us." McDaniel felt disrespected? He was. Perhaps he should have earned their respect by making a few plays.

"Conuficus wrote:

Whats really scary is that he knows the same play is happening, yet doesn't get into a spot to actually stop it. Hell, even in practice if the offense does a do over that play is screwed, so how many times does it have to happen before you just attack that spot regardless? 11 guys out there, and what? Not a one had a whiff to just jump the damn hole?

Yeah, I read that on PFT, I think that the original source was a Ben Volin story in the Palm Beach Post. You're absolutely right- it does not come across the right way. Here's a guy playing on a very good Miami defense- and he's what, 6-7, 320 lbs? And he's whining because the Patriots ran a basic running play over and over that the Miami defense couldn't stop. So instead of actually stopping the play, he gripes about it and say that the Patriots should have had the decency to poke at the Dolphins defense elsewhere, because, well.. the play was just working too darned well, and using it repeatedly was "direspectful".

That is just purely pathetic. And it's loser speak. This isn't pee-wee T-ball or soccer, this is the NFL. Tony McDaniel should be embarrassed for what he said, and I'd also be disappointed if his teammates, coaching staff and FO weren't thoroughly pissed off at him for embarrassing the entire organization like that.

McDaniel is a blithering idiot if he really said that.

What should tick him off is his unit's inability to stop the same play over and over and over again.
I"m embarrassed for him.

I originally read this on CBS Boston and couldn't believe what I read. How the heck do you NOT stop it if you know what is coming? goodness.

"Disgustipate wrote:

I'm hoping he meant to suggest it was embarrassing rather than that there was a sense of decorum to the game that went above doing what it takes to win.

I hope so, because really, this Pats team is the type that COULD run up the score on you really high and they didn't seem to try to do that at all... they were doing the smartest thing they could to win... run the ball, kill clock, take the play that worked and use it til they stop it.

Good coaching, really. And certainly not showboating.

It kind of seems like he was saying it out of frustration. It may piss him off because they have issue stopping them, despite them running the same, but not exactly pissed at NE.

Poor choice of words if that's the case.

"dolfan32323 wrote:

I originally read this on CBS Boston and couldn't believe what I read. How the heck do you NOT stop it if you know what is coming? goodness.

its not that uncommon you can know a play but if there other team blows you off the line its irrelevant its just being out classed by a better team

"Disgustipate wrote:

I'm hoping he meant to suggest it was embarrassing rather than that there was a sense of decorum to the game that went above doing what it takes to win.

I agree, I think you just didn't use the right choice of words. At least I hope so.