Re: Should the Pats be running up the score on everybody in garbage ti
Kyro,
You're right when you say that "Every time Brady goes out to the field... he increases his chances of getting hurt." So it obviously stands to reason that if he goes onto the field for exactly one play a week, he has less chance of getting hurt than if he goes out for every single snap. Leaving him in just to score garbage points directly increases his chances of getting hurt. Add the emotions of slapping prideful athletes in the face, and it adds something more. How much increased risk he faces isn't really quantifiable, which may be why you label it "freak," but it's not like the chance of getting hit by a chandelier, it's more like the chance of getting hit walking across a freeway.
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You seem to think that a SB ring has some "value" to it and going undefeated and being seen as the most dominant team ever to step on a football field as having no value. Bill and his team view it differently.
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Well, the SB ring does have a value. If I had all of the contracts for the Pats staff and players, I could tell you exactly what that value is for each individual. Nobody could tell you how much Brady, Belichick, or Gostkowski value the pride in going undefeated, and we can only infer that someone thinks it's worth the risk of injury. It's very disingenuous to say that "Bill and his team view it differently." I guarantee you that the second string center does not place the same value on it as Belichick, but guess who's making the decision? There's no way the team is completely united on this.
Furthermore, we can also try to infer the value of going undefeated by looking at other teams that had the chance but decided the risk wasn't worth the reward. I guess the Colts come to mind immediately on that one. Dungy is an intelligent guy who didn't want to risk injury to his stars and his chances of a SB for the reward of going undefeated. Belichick is an intelligent guy who seems not to care if Brady runs a sneak in week 8 just so he can be sanctimonious about cheating. Homerism to your heart's delight, but there are very valid reasons that fans everywhere - except Boston - are deriding the Pats for their behavior.
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