>>>>>The New England Patriots won the coin toss, and elected to slap the living bejeezus out of the Redskins.
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>>>>>This is a road beating that makes L.A. cop videos look more like "Driving Miss Daisy"....
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>>>>In related news... Bill Belichek is a perfect example of poor sportsmanship for running the score up.
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>>>There is no rule one way or the other about running up the score. Most coaches will just log that score into their memory and return the favor at a later date.
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>>>My opinion is that they are all paid a good sum of money to play. If the redskins did not like what was being done, then maybe they should try to stop them on the field and stop yapping about it after the game.
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>>Winning should be the key aspect here, not winning by how much. After they got a healthy lead, the proper thing to do would be to put in a backup quarterback, especially since they have had struggles with such. That just proves to me that all he cares about is 1) being arrogant and 2) Brady beating Manning's TD record.
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>It is a game where stats are money. I have no problem with him getting more stats. Records are made to be broken and contracts call for records to be bigger paydays.
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>But just think how much trouble Bill would have been in if lets say (I know it is a stretch) that the redskins defense would have got to Brady and done some damge that put him out for a few games or the season.

We are of a mind on this. If players on the field slack off just because they're ahead by a lot, the coach would be justified in having their heads for lunch.