CBS: Billy Cundiff didn’t know what down it was on Sunday when he rushed on to the field to try and kick a game tying field goal in the AFC Championship game, and it wasn’t his fault.
Baltimore Ravens kicking consultant Randy Brown told Angelo Cataldi and The Morning Team today on 94 WIP that the scoreboard in New England was incorrect during that final drive. “The scoreboard was one down behind, the entire last three plays, from what we understand,” Brown said. That caused Billy Cundiff to have to rush on to the field with just seconds left on the play clock to try and make the kick, which he missed.
When Cataldi asked Brown if he thought the Patriots did it it on purpose to gain an advantage, Brown replied, “I don’t think you can rule anything out in New England, can you?”
The Patriots were fined $250,000 and coach Bill Belichick fined $500,000 for violating league rules in 2007, when they were found to have videotaped the New York Jets defensive coaches giving signals.
Brown said that despite Cundiff missing the kick, the Ravens were still supporting each other. “The unity which we have, it’s really hard to describe it,” Brown said. “Very similar to that unity we had in Philadelphia (in 2004) when we went to the Super Bowl.” He also added that the players know they may not have even been in that game if not for Cundiff. “If it wasn’t for Billy Cundiff, and Ray Lewis, Joe Flacco, different times during the year, we wouldn’t have won 12 games,” Brown said.
Hold one one second I need to clean the puke off my keyboard.... Ok we're good. It's been a couple of years since the Patriots were successful in the playoffs so I forgot how every team bitches and whines about the Patriots winning. I kinda missed it but if I had to rank the excuses of "Why we lost to the Patriots in the playoffs" over the years this is by far the worst. If this guy on the Ravens thinks for one second that Bill Belichick even knows the scoreboard operators name he's fucking crazy. The only time Bill ever talks to the scoreboard operator is when he's yelling at him for not playing enough Bon Jovi.
I don't know what kind of scoreboard operators they have in Baltimore but the one in Foxboro sucks. He's gotta be some combination of drunk and high during every game. I went to the Vikings game in 2010 and he had the scoreboard and Jumbotron so messed up they ended up accidentally playing 10 seconds of "There's Something About Mary". It's not like you need to go to Harvard and get a masters degree in scoreboard operation to get that job. The application probably looks something like this:
- Can you read?
- Do you have functioning fingers?
- Can you count to 50?
If you answered yes to all of these questions you have the job! (Pending an eye exam.)
Why can't anyone lose with class? When the Patriots lost to the Jets last year, you didn't hear them bitching that the Jets cheated or the refs blew the game like every other team that gets knocked out of the playoffs.
PS: To all the cunts out there that say the Patriots haven't won anything since "Spy-gate" go fuck yourself. The reason that Pats haven't won a Super Bowl since '04 isn't because they haven't been taping signs, it's because Peyton Manning and the Colts bitched so much when the Pats beat them in the playoffs that they completely changed the rules of the game so Peyton could get his ring.
PPS: What the fuck is a kicking consultant? How is it different from a kicking coach?
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