Bob Sanders on running up the scores

[Clove]

For NE. Win, and if you're killing a team, just pull your starters and get out of their healthy. Don't try and prove a point to the world, cause eventually some scrub team is going to go after your stars with dirty intent. Just win, no more!

 

[Dallas]

I know, you won't get this.

Ya think ?

 

[peplaw06]

If they had any pride, and were tough they won't be in a position to get it run up.

Like the Colts never put a boatload of points up - lol

Like I said, I doubt he's expecting the Pats to be in that position. But it's a topic of much discussion these days, some reporter asked him about it, and he spoke his mind.

Honestly I'm sure others have thought it. I know the old school players would have already handled it.

 

[Rampage]

Points has very little to do with "running it up."

I know, you won't get this.

is he a patriot* fan or what?

 

[MDIZZLE]

I am a Bob Sanders fan from this point forward.

 

[Idgit]

Yeah - you keep on believing this nonsense. :laugh2:


You are actually kinda twisted your ownself. I actually want my son to grow up w/ the understanding of what Sportsmanship really is. It's not running up the score to embarrass the other team which is what the Pats are just out to do to teams.

Gotta love that legacy. Not only can you say they are a bunch of cheaters but you can say that there is not a sportsman among them.

"Son, it's ok for someone to be better than you. But not *too* much better than you. If they're too much better than you, it's disrespectful and bad sportsmanship. In that case, you should intentionally try to hurt them after the whistle." Gotcha. You'll be a great dad someday.

 

[Idgit]

You can't keep everyone from Brady. If Bob Sanders says this, probably means that others are thinking it.

And this is football. It's a rough sport. If you don't want others taking cheap shots at you, then be respectful. I know I definitely wouldn't go around making my players targets for the sake of showing off.

You act like the Pats don't share in any blame for this sentiment.

Again, doing what you're supposed to do is not disrespect. Not doing what you're supposed to do because you don't want to make me look bad is disrespect. Isn't that obvious?

And it's not lost on me that the Pats' attitude is responsible for the sentiment. Just because the sentiment exists doesn't mean that it's ok to act on it. I have lots of legitimate impulses I don't indulge, and the world's a better place for it. I don't recognize any causal relationship between one team scoring and another team intentionally and illegally hurting opposing players as a result. The Pats are scumbags for many reasons, but scoring on the field is not one of them.

 

[Q_the_man]

Brady better start watching out if he throws a pick, someone will be looking for him

 

[Nors]

Trying to intentionally hurt an opponent is about as low an act as there is.

Right up there with getting your *** handed to you and then whining about it.

Sanders is going to get completely drilled Sunday - book it.

 

[Idgit]

Brady better start watching out if he throws a pick, someone will be looking for him

Now this is realistic, and perfectly ok in my book.

When Warren Sapp took out that GB lineman on an interception a few years back, I was shocked at the amount of flack he took for a clean hit on a player who wasn't paying enough attention to the game.

 

[fanfromvirginia]

I don't. Bill and the Pats are not going to go out and be scared. If the Colts don't want to get blown out then go out and play the game better than the Pats. The rest of this is a bunch of non-sense and as I mention if Sanders is serious then the Colts may want to pull Manning as well because you cheap shot Brady and knock him out what is to stop the Pats from doing the same to Manning?

If it's late in the game, then the Colts would obviously pull Manning.

 

[fanfromvirginia]

Or perhaps Belichik should simply observe the unspoken forms and standards of the NFL. Every league has its own unwritten code of behavior.

It's amazing how this simple fact has been systematically ignored from the beginning on this issue by many in here and elsewhere.

 

[fanfromvirginia]

This place is the opposite of a sanity check. It's where I come to learn that dog fighting is okay, running up the score is good sportsmanship, and, presumably, up is down.

Keem 'em coming...

 

[Rack]

Points has very little to do with "running it up."

I know, you won't get this.

Ya think ?

I concur.

 

[Idgit]

It's amazing how this simple fact has been systematically ignored from the beginning on this issue by many in here and elsewhere.

Perhaps it's ignored because it's irrelevant. The real rules are written; there is no other kind of rule. What you're talking about is social pressure.

Dog fighting is not ok.

There's no such thing as running up the score. There is only scoring. What you're complaining about has to do with the assumptions you make about one team's intentions when they are scoring. Some people here rightly realize that assumptions about intentions aren't relevant to the game.

 

[Nors]

4,6,14,6

Number of games per season 5-8 205 Sanders has played. He probably would have been wiser to make that statement after he had beaten Pats.

 

[Rack]

Nors is getting all worked up cuz Bob Sanders is talking trash about his team.


Settle down, Nors. If you need to, go ahead and pop open your 2004 Belicheat swimsuit calender. That should help calm you down.

 

[Nors]

Nors is getting all worked up cuz Bob Sanders is talking trash about his team.


Settle down, Nors. If you need to, go ahead and pop open your 2004 Belicheat swimsuit calender. That should help calm you down.

Nope - just calling it classless a player threatens to hurt a QB, and that he has a bullseye on his back Sunday. Really stupid comment to make going into this game.

To start is an undersized safety that can't play a full season in NFL and now he is going to be hellaciously beaten all game long by Pats. Before, during and slightly after whistle.

I'd hope the Cowboys would do the same if an opposing teams player said they were going to try and hurt Romo.

 

[peplaw06]

Again, doing what you're supposed to do is not disrespect. Not doing what you're supposed to do because you don't want to make me look bad is disrespect. Isn't that obvious?

No it's not obvious. If it was so obvious, why does literally every professional team sport with a clock have the same unwritten rule of etiquette -- that you don't run up the score when the game has been decided? That would tend to show that the opposite is actually the obvious.

And it's not lost on me that the Pats' attitude is responsible for the sentiment. Just because the sentiment exists doesn't mean that it's ok to act on it. I have lots of legitimate impulses I don't indulge, and the world's a better place for it. I don't recognize any causal relationship between one team scoring and another team intentionally and illegally hurting opposing players as a result. The Pats are scumbags for many reasons, but scoring on the field is not one of them.

Yeah I'm sure you never act out when you feel disrespected.

If the Pats continue to be scumbags, why does the rest of the league have to sit back and take it?

And who said Sanders was going to hit Brady illegally?

Now this is realistic, and perfectly ok in my book.

When Warren Sapp took out that GB lineman on an interception a few years back, I was shocked at the amount of flack he took for a clean hit on a player who wasn't paying enough attention to the game.

So you can blindside a guy yards away from the play because he's not paying enough attention, but you can't hit a guy who touches the ball every offensive play? Makes sense.

Perhaps it's ignored because it's irrelevant. The real rules are written; there is no other kind of rule.

What a simple way of looking at things... and completely naive.

There's no such thing as running up the score. There is only scoring. What you're complaining about has to do with the assumptions you make about one team's intentions when they are scoring. Some people here rightly realize that assumptions about intentions aren't relevant to the game.

Classic. There's no such thing as running up the score?? Then what the hell are all these people talking about? Maybe you should go on a campaign to educate the entire league. I'm sure they'd find you a highly credible source.

Oh and another thing. How do you determine what someone's intentions are? Do they usually tell you? If Belicheck were intending to run up the score, do you think he'd come out and say it?

Of course not.

Instead, you have to judge a person's/team's intent by their actions. And there's not a doubt in my mind that Belicheck intended to run up the score. I determined that after one play (the pass to Moss), and the others confirmed it.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Showing off in the endzone has caused more fights in the NFL

I haven't seen it

Right now the Pat players are reading how Sanders is going to cheap shot their QB you don't think they are saying Manning is a dead man?

he's not saying that, he's saying if Brady and Co choose to run up the score, they are going to get hit, most notably Brady