“It smells like…victory.”
Early on it wasn’t pretty, but at the end of the day, Brady’s home debut ended how we thought it would: with a W. Staying in the AFC North on a road date with the Big Ben less Steelers this weekend, let’s throwback to the fallout after last season before we get into this weeks’ links.
I don’t know about you, but the thought of Mike Tomlin on the sideline hemorrhaging while Gronk is spiking a touchdown and ‘Zo is screaming with whatever voice he has left God knows what in his ear will absolutely never get old. For a “no-nonsense” team that prides themselves on not making excuses, all Pittsburgh seems to do is just that. Last season, it was league prepped headphones that cost them the game. This season? Well, Pittsburgh’s defensive coordinator Keith Butler has built in reasoning for the imminent embarrassment his unit very well could put forth tomorrow. In Kevin Duffy’s (Masslive) piece, the coach was quoted as saying:
“I don’t think they’re doing anything special. I think they do things outside the box sometimes, you know, that might be on the edge of being legal or not legal. They’ve done a couple of things in the past — putting an offensive tackle out as ineligible but he’s not really. Sometimes the emphasis by the NFL in terms of what they call and what they don’t call, (the Patriots) use that a little bit. They’ve been accused of doing a lot of things. But the thing we’ve got to do is ignore that and play.”
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