Why was LT so pissed off during the post game interviews?

It wasn't the entire team, just some bad apples. This whole thing is being overblown... on both sides.

 

ahhh, but you left out the important decision that allowed the opportunity for the fumble to happen, McCree made a decision to try to advance the ball.

Thus there is no "luck" involved, what happened was a direct result of the player's poor decision. When you have the ball, there is a opportunity to fumble it.

I just don't how to word "luck" gets thrown around when discussing sports, to me, it is meaningless

 

So, you subscribe to the theory that two wrongs make a right? If you're so outraged by Merriman, there is absolutely no reason for you not to be outraged by the Patriots.

 

once again, no. but if you and i were playing one on one, and i was punching you in your testicles all game each time i scored, without you responding or retaliating whatsoever...then you ended up beating me, and after the game was over, you walked up to me and kicked me in my testicles as hard as you could to rub it in, would i not look absolutely ridiculous crying and b****ing and screaming foul about it??

 

No, you wouldn't. But if a big group of my buddies and I all started kicking your friend in his testicles when he went to congratulate me on a good game, he wouldn't look ridiculous crying about it.

 

not to mention....how the hell does "two wrongs don't make a right" even apply here?? it's a cocky, high school bully getting a taste of his own medicine, and i do subscribe to that theory.

does "two wrongs dont make a right" also apply to a murderer getting the death penalty?

 

You think Merriman's dance or whatever is classless, yet I have missed a post where you have called the Patriots classless. You've even defended them saying they were ok to do that since Merriman did it. That is the classic definition of two wrongs making a right.

Well, since I'm anti-captial punishment, IMO, yes.

 

Basically yes. In the heat of a game, it's okay to show some passion and emotion, they are your OPPONENTS. But when the game is over, that's usually a time to congratulate the other team or say "good game" or whatever. Sure you can celebrate all you want, but to gather in the middle of their (Charger's) field and mock them, when you should have been at least giving the MVP a hand shake is a little disrespectful IMO.

 

Once again...how was this one Marty's fault? Close game throughout and boneheaded mistake by the players.

 

a lot of people blaming him for not having enough timeouts for the last push. especially that wasted one on the challenge that had no chance.

 

There are gray lines on this. Its not totally black and white.

If you have a "trademark dance" like Merriman or Ray Lewis or something like that, that's pretty stupid. If someone makes fun of you for doing it by mocking it or whatever, then you basically deserve it for being an idiot. By some player mocking Merriman, he's basically showing Merriman up for being a poor sport and classless. You are basically disrespecting someone for being disrespectful, so that's OK.

However, a whole team jumping around on another team's logo on their home field after they just one is pretty classless all around. That's being pretty disrespectful for no reason other than being a bunch of asses.

 

Any doubt if these teams meet again next year, Merriman will destroy Brady if he gets the chance?


I think LT was just upset he wasn't asked if he'd like a Diet Pepsi. (Notice Rivers and Shottenheimer in the ad...)

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Ok, maybe it is wrong to mock your rival like that, but this is not different when Mario Williams imitated the Giants celebration, I root for the Texans, but that the same thing.

 

I was at the game, and all of us in the stands were yelling, "what the hell are you challenging?" before they even showed it on the jumbotron because it was obvious when watching it live that it was a catch and the ball was out while he was still standing up. This is not unusual for Marty. He has done basically the same thing about 4-5 times this year, but this is the first time it bit him in the ass even though I had been yelling about it all year even though we won despite it.

Other problems with Marty in yesterdays game:

1) 4th and 11 at the 29 and you go for it? Then you tell your kicker later, he go hit that 54 yarder to tie the game, "we believe in you". By the way, this is not second guessing. I was yelling at him to kick the FG well before he decided to go for it.

2) Tie-Game 3:30 left, Chargers with the ball, Injury timeout for AT LEAST 3-4 min, the Chargers come out completely unprepared and have to burn their 2nd timeout which again proved critical. If you watched the Chargers all season, you would see that we RARELY had timeouts at the end of the game. This killed us in the Baltimore game earlier in the season as well. Inexcusable to me.

3) End of first half, 14-3 Chargers, Patriots had done NOTHING on offense, 2:45 left, Pats with 3 timeouts, and the Chargers come out in a F'n Prevent defense. 2:45 left with 3 timeouts is an eternity in the NFL. We basically gave them 3 points there (They scored a TD, but I have to get the Pats some credit for executing and punching it in)

4) Bottom line, this team was not prepared for this game mentally and that was painfully obvious.

I think Marty needs to be gone. He is a good coach, but he makes way too many critical mistakes. All I ask of a coach is to put his team in the best possible position to win. If they lose because they don't perform so-be-it, but if a big reason they lost is because of unconvential and stupid coaching decisions then that is inexcusable.

I put up with playoff defeat after playoff defeat as an Oiler Fan in the 90's. I finally move to SD in 2002, and now I see a very similar playoff defeat here. Not to mention the Chargers might be on their way out of town just like the Oilers did. Bottom line is that you better hope I don't come to your town and start rooting for your team or they are screwed.

 

Where are they supposed to be headed? L.A.?

 

Actually all indications right now are that they are heading to oceanside, which is the county directly north of San Diego.

Exactly. Chad Johnson used the Merriman dance for a touchdown celebration when he played the chargers and nobody had a problem with it. When a couple players from the other team do it in the middle of the field and on the team logo, its disrespectful. Your not showing up one person, but an entire organization and city.

 

It probably is ludicrous to expect Schottenheimer to lose his job after his team won 14 games; however, it is a pretty well-known fact that the guy can't get it done in pressure situations like the playoffs. He has coached at Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington, and San Diego and his playoff record is like 5-13?? I know that players make plays and such but the coach has to be accountable and to play 18 playoff games and to have won only 5 times is not a good sign on the coach. And if I recall correctly, this isn't the first time that a Schottenheimer-coached team had the #1 seed and lost their first game in the playoffs. I know that his Chefs did that once maybe even twice. Then there were the 3 losses in the AFC Championship Game to my Broncos - I mean, come on - when the pressure is on, Marty's nuts shrivel up to the point of him being a castrato. The guy folds under pressure time and time again and it isn't like he has had mediocre talent. He had some very good players on those Browns, Chefs, and Chargers teams. He just doesn't prepare them the way they need to be prepared. He is the classic example of how a coach can cause a team to lose by simply being incompetent or folding under pressure despite all their talent.

 

Of course it is different. If Mario Williams and a good number of other Texans did that as Tiki Barber came up to congratulate them, it would be the same thing. Do you believe LT would've been pissed off had Bruschi done the Merriman celebration after a sack in the middle of the game? Hell no. Or if they were, they certainly wouldn't complain to the media about it.

 

I think LT was referring to some of the gamesmanship tactics belichick used right before the game. During team introductions the PA announcer at the chargers stadium announced the Patriots 3 times, but they didn't come out. So they started to introduce the chargers. So the patriots ran out of the tunnel onto the field during the Charger players introductions. Doing that while your the visiting team is pretty classless. Belichick is fast becoming my most hated football coach. Add that to the other things hes done and its not hard to imagine why LT took a shot at him.