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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.New York Jets head coach & players have a get away free card from former Jet employee Roger "The Clown" Goodell. When the Jets transgress (Inez sex scandle, Ryan's repeated rhetoric) he simply issues a memo to all 32 teams warning them not to do what the Jets are doing. Classic.
UPDATE: A league source says that NFL VP of football operations Ray Anderson has contacted teams this week to remind players that any trash talk is to "remain outside the white lines." If any illegal physical acts take place, the source said, comments will be taken into account in evaluating disciplinary action.
That's some pretty bad grammar, punctuation, typing, and capitalization, teach.People know their Xs and Os though. Almost no one knows grammar.
I teach English Lit. in college, I can vouch for that second sentence (I'm talking about instructors, not students). If I asked a colleague what an ablative absolute was, they would look at my like I had two heads.
I buy PatinVa's argument that Scott failed at punning.
A point from the Globe:
X's and O's are a helluva lot more complex than grammar becase X's and O's are constantly change while grammar doesn't change nearly as often.
Maybe I'm missing something but the mandate is directing players to keep trash talk outside the white lines. By white lines I am assuming he means the football out of bounds lines. My interpretation is that he is encouraging trash talk in the media but not on the field.
I am pretty sure the interpretation is meant to say that the league is ok with banter, However, once you start threatening a player's well-being, you've crossed the line.
It's my estimation that even the league felt that Scott's comments were a threat on Welker's well-being.
That's some pretty bad grammar, punctuation, typing, and capitalization, teach.
I wish players were mike'd up for this game. The trash talk is going to be beyond normal NFL game levels.
The funny thing is if you go to the Jets boards, many of them feel that Welker crossed some line that no player has ever crossed before and Cromartie's and Scott's responses are justified.
To many other Jets fans credits, they have condemned what Scott and Cromartie have said.
if Bart does take any dirty shots that are clearly dirty.....
that's when you send in a backup to dive at the back of his knees.
And fellas, before you say it, i don't give a **** if you think my comment is inappropriate.
To spell it out for those who are missing the double-entendre:
Wes Welker could stop wearing his uniform if he has a season-ending injury.
Wes Welker could also stop wearing his uniform if the Patriots lose Sunday.
Bart's playing the same plausible deniability game as Wes was, but with a more sinister subtext.
In Wes' case, the two possibilities (in each instance) were:
1) Heh heh. Foot. Heh heh, and
2) Figures of speech related to Pats' own performance.
In Scott's case, the two possibilities were:
1) Heh heh, Wes will wear street clothes because he will be golfing when the Pats lose, see what I did there? or
2) I will cripple Wes Welker.
This definitely qualifies as upping the ante. It's also thug-funny because he has exactly the same out that Welker does (How do you get that from what I said?)
And of course, it's not funny to the other team's fans, but what else is new?