Patriots: chickens..t?

The game is hopelessly out of hand and you keep your starters in to run up the score? This is one reason people hate Bellycheck and the Putriots. Bush league.:bs:

 

I don't think it's bush league, I think it's stupid. Why risk your starters if you are blowing a team out late in the game?

 

Not to mention that they expose more of their playbook than they need to. This is an arrogant, stupid football team.

 

Exactly TTF. Imagine if Marsha got hurt late in the game.

 

I actually don't mind running up the score. ESPECIALLY against a team I despise and also SUPER ESPECIALLY against BA! But I'm the only Pats fan on this board so I know I'm alone in my sentiment. LOL.

 

The Pats leave players in too long. They always have under Belichick but this one isn't as bad as it seems according to Peter King.

Of New England, Gronk and the Belichick substitution rules. Gronkowski suffered his broken forearm Sunday in the 59-24 win over the Colts -- and the internet was abuzz Sunday night with news that the injury apparently occurred on the 59th point of the game, the extra point after the final garbage touchdown of the game. Why keep a valuable player in the game at that stage, some asked; others wondered why the increasingly valuable Gronkowski should be risking injury on any special teams unit.
The words "Belichick'' and "karma'' kept coming back from the ether, and I cannot argue. I've always thought the capriciousness of Belichick's early- and mid-fourth-quarter lineups in Patriot routs were his only weak points as a coach. It's bizarre to me that with a 28-point lead and 7:37 left in the fourth quarter Tom Brady was in the game -- and throwing twice -- to stretch the lead to 35. With a 31-point lead midway through the fourth quarter against the Rams in Week 8, backup Ryan Mallett entered the game. Good for him, and good for the Patriots long-term, to get the raw backup some playing time. So you'd think, then, that I'd view Gronkowski's injury in that same critical light. I don't.
Coaches have 45 active players each game. They don't have a "second team'' of the point-after-try unit. The PAT is one of the most risk-free plays in football. Rodney Harrison, the former Patriots safety now in the NBC studio with me on Sunday nights, didn't get taken off the kickoff team in routs. And Tony Dungy, who coached the Colts and Bucs, told me: "Jeff Saturday was my right guard on the PAT team, and I'd never think of taking him off. All my years in football, I never heard anyone, never heard Chuck Noll saying, 'Well, we better get Jack Ham off the PAT team.' It's not something I'd question."
Whatever, the Patriots lose Gronkowski for an important stretch (at Jets, at Dolphins, Houston, San Francisco), and from the looks of it, even if they do appear to be the best team in football right now, it's going to be tough to move past Baltimore and Houston and get a first-round playoff bye in the AFC.


Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_king/11/19/week-11/index.html#ixzz2Cn0u1LlF
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So BB left Gronkowski in "because that is the way everyone does it"? Sorry, that is the dumbest explanation I've ever heard.