Tuesday, November 08, 2005

THE STUPIDITY OF THE BOSTON SPORTS MEDIA

At about 3:03 AM EDT the morning after the Patriots 40-21 loss to the Colts, Ron Borges came onto WBCN's post-game show. When at home, I prefer listening to WEEI's Real Post-Game Show but I don't have a membership with WEEI and the NFL lets me listen to WBCN's broadcasts so I listen to BCN's. Anyway, Ron came on and the first thing he complained about was? A) The secondary. B) the rushing offense. C) The pass rush. D) The rush defense. E) Coaching decisions. F) Injuries G) Officiating. All of these answers are wrong. Borges, who has never beena big Brady supporter to begin with, ripped Tom for having a short press conference. He ripped Belichick a bit but ripped Brady even more. This depsite the fact that Brady had about the best game you could want from a QB. 265 yards, 3 TDs, 0 INTs. He had no run support (34 total rushing yards) and his defense allowed 40 points. I guess he deserved criticism for not feeding the vultures of the media generic answers for 20 minutes at 1:00 AM with a divisional road game to play on Sunday. Borges asserted that we learned about Tom Brady's true nature by his not fully participating in a press conference after a brutal loss. Is Ron Borges trying to one-up his Globe colleague Shaughnessey by trying to run Brady out of town? I wouldn't be shocked.

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