+1 antibiotic-resistant star

Yea, it’s gonna be great defending Belichick when he passes over Brian Flores, the black guy who came up through the Pats’ own system and who was responsible for keeping Patricia’s shitty defense from completely falling apart, in favor of Greg Schiano

Brady liked Butler’s Instagram post with the statement. It’s going to be awesome watching his relationship with Belichick continue to implode while Schiano manages the defense

Not putting Butler in during the first half has a plausible though flimsy argument behind it

“Do your job” is a funny line to say, especially in one of the New England regional accents

Yea but he never actually denies smoking weed in his room to calm down the night before despite weed helping countless players there, nor does he deny yelling at unnamed dictators who respond to challenges with petty ruthlessness, even if it backfires on them

Pats Jags was officiated by one of the flag throwiest crews plus it was at Foxboro instead of a neutral site. That’s why it seems rigged compared to last night

It’s a fucking tragedy, and as Samer implies, a crime

Basically what you’re saying is Trump is John Goodman in Revenge of the Nerds and the Eagles are the Tri-Lambs’, ahem, other chapters showing up

The Ertz touchdown was never not going to be one. The Clement TD is way more dubious

You’re damn right. No one ever remembers that McNair had the talents to have made himself king of the early to mid 00s. And his injuries owed a lot to Fisher misusing him and fucking up his body (with more than a tinge of the usual racism regarding the durability of black quarterbacks and how they should run not throw)

...that is literally why I mentioned him

It’s like Westworld. You never set out to be the bad guy but you end by becoming the force of purest evil

And witness the fucking nepotism that constantly happens. For every McVay there are countless idiot failsons and failnephews and failbrothers

A lot of Belichick’s success comes from realizing he only needs to be the second stupidest person making decisions, and striving to be, say, the eighth stupidest

Maybe not good but not an utter disaster

As opposed to ballistics putting him there?

McNair wasn’t a complete failure *in spite of Fisher*

He pretty clearly broke Steve McNair, an assertion supported by the breathtaking ability he showed subsequently in breaking or nearly breaking other QBs

The really striking and saddening revelation from last night is the fact Steve McNair may have been the greatest quarterback of all time, but he went to his grave thinking he was a failure thanks to Jeff Fisher