TrinidadDolfan
1st Team All-Pro
Ok Guys, since Spygate has reared it's head again, and the league seems to be intent on sweeping it under the rug without REALLY hurting the damn Patriots......do you remember?
Do you remember 1997?
I do.
I remember the Pats laughing at us on the field, DURING the game. Why? Because they knew our calls! They knew it, we knew it, Jimmy Johnson and the coaching staff knew it.
The Patriots should be nailed to the cross with no draft picks for 2 years. Spread the word Dolphin fans...who knows, maybe it will reach the right ears!!!
Here is the link: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E0DA1431F93AA15751C1A961958260
and here is an excerpt:
PRO FOOTBALL; Patriots Get Good Laugh At Expense Of Dolphins
By GERALD ESKENAZI
Published: December 29, 1997
The Patriots were laughing at Dan Marino today. Wave after wave of red-white-and-blue-clad Patriots assailed the great Dolphin quarterback, or suddenly dropped into formations that took away his passing lanes in ways that few teams have the nerve or inclination to try.
So the resurgent Patriots, who were on the verge of watching their season collapse last month, produced a 17-3 victory in the American Football Conference's wild-card round. They advance to the division playoffs at Pittsburgh next Saturday and could be building the sort of confident aura that helped them make it to the Super Bowl last season, although they are doing it for a different coach, the fuzzier Pete Carroll rather than the hard-edged Bill Parcells.
Carroll said that playing the Dolphins three times this year, including twice in a seven-day span, helped his team. Dolphins Coach Jimmy Johnson agreed. ''The Patriots knew our audibles,'' Johnson said. ''They were laughing at our plays.'' That was because the Patriots had become familiar with them in the course of defeating the Dolphins three times since Nov. 23. Johnson said there was little he could do to fool the heady Patriot defenders. ''We tried changing the audibles during the season,'' he said, but that ended up confusing his own players.
And another excerpt:
"They did not miss this one. Clay had countered Marino's audible with one of his own, and that positioned Collins to become the first Patriot to return an interception for a playoff touchdown."
Do you remember 1997?
I do.
I remember the Pats laughing at us on the field, DURING the game. Why? Because they knew our calls! They knew it, we knew it, Jimmy Johnson and the coaching staff knew it.
The Patriots should be nailed to the cross with no draft picks for 2 years. Spread the word Dolphin fans...who knows, maybe it will reach the right ears!!!
Here is the link: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E0DA1431F93AA15751C1A961958260
and here is an excerpt:
PRO FOOTBALL; Patriots Get Good Laugh At Expense Of Dolphins
By GERALD ESKENAZI
Published: December 29, 1997
The Patriots were laughing at Dan Marino today. Wave after wave of red-white-and-blue-clad Patriots assailed the great Dolphin quarterback, or suddenly dropped into formations that took away his passing lanes in ways that few teams have the nerve or inclination to try.
So the resurgent Patriots, who were on the verge of watching their season collapse last month, produced a 17-3 victory in the American Football Conference's wild-card round. They advance to the division playoffs at Pittsburgh next Saturday and could be building the sort of confident aura that helped them make it to the Super Bowl last season, although they are doing it for a different coach, the fuzzier Pete Carroll rather than the hard-edged Bill Parcells.
Carroll said that playing the Dolphins three times this year, including twice in a seven-day span, helped his team. Dolphins Coach Jimmy Johnson agreed. ''The Patriots knew our audibles,'' Johnson said. ''They were laughing at our plays.'' That was because the Patriots had become familiar with them in the course of defeating the Dolphins three times since Nov. 23. Johnson said there was little he could do to fool the heady Patriot defenders. ''We tried changing the audibles during the season,'' he said, but that ended up confusing his own players.
And another excerpt:
"They did not miss this one. Clay had countered Marino's audible with one of his own, and that positioned Collins to become the first Patriot to return an interception for a playoff touchdown."
