There are convenient half-truths, little white lies, full-fledged fabrications, and then there is the Cirque du Soleil truth-bending that football coaches engage in when they’re facing a hopelessly overmatched opponent.
Almost all football coaches make said opponent sound as if its being quarterbacked by Joe Montana, coached by Paul Brown, and trotting out the Steel Curtain on defense. Like almost anything football coaches do, Patriots coach Bill Belichick does prevarication better than most.
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OK - the game is now over and it took an interception in the end zone by the Patriots to preserve a one-touchdown victory. What happened? Were the Patriots looking too far ahead?
No this article was obviously ghost written by Shaughnessy.
Good prediction......not!
Is "on any given Sunday" another one of those prevarifications? How 'bout "there's no such thing as a sure thing?" Don't know how old you are, but you should be old enough to know better.
Clearly, Bill Belichick is a better football coach than you are a columnist (or I a commenter, for that matter)--there's a reason he has to present all possibilities, because most of them could actually happen, especially if you get too laisssez faire. Remember, everybody on that Jaguars team is still a better football player than you or I could have ever realistically dreamed to be, and they've earned the right to be proud of their abilities, and more than willing to be able to play David to New England's Goliath.