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Cry Me A River

Our friend over at StampedeBlue has called out Larry Foote for his response to an Indianapolis coach's comments regarding the Steelers-Colts playoff game.

What's mystifying, though, is that BigBlue whines and moans about Larry Foote talking smack back to the coach, going so far as to call him a cry-baby, but nary a word about the Colts coach's remarks.

Memo to BigBlue: where's the hatorade for your coach that made the chicken-shit cheap remarks that started this mess? Who's the big baby here? The hot-shot player who says, "F that coach. We won."? Or the coach who didn't have the class or sack to step up and say, "They won. They beat us."

This is the same kind of cry-baby whininess that we saw from Matt Leinart when he said that the best team didn't win the Rose Bowl. Whether he thinks that or not, to say it publicly would be disgraceful, if it weren't so comical.

Let's just say this: if a Steeler coach whined about how some team didn't beat the Steelers, I'd shake my head in disgust. And I wouldn't blink when the opponent who beat us smacked back at the coach for being such a whining revisionist.

Pittsburgh not only won that game, they outcoached the Colts and, save for a few fortuitous breaks in the Colts scramble to get back in it, dominated the game. The Steelers came out gunning, marched down the field, put up the points they needed, then protected the lead. They nearly blew that lead, but they won the game, and deservedly so. They whipped the Colts in every facet of the game, and that includes Calls The Officials Choked On.

I'm beginning to think that there's something going on in Indianapolis. Call it the Peyton Manning Syndrome. Does anyone think, with comments like that coming from coaches, and a quarterback that's never won a big game, that this team's winning a Super Bowl anytime soon? The number of Indy folks - players and fans - with inferiority complexes - grows by the day.

Now that's something to cry about.

--PB--

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I didn't quite get it
The Colts beat the Colts.... so he's saying his team choked? I thought we had already established that from their long history of beating the Colts in the playoffs.

This reminds me of the Carson Palmer crap. Scared and unfocused.  I like being a Steelers fan right about now.

by schnifin on Aug 16, 2006 3:16 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Yes
He is saying his o-line unit choked. He's saying he choked. Here's the article where Mudd was quoted: http://www.stampedeblue.com/story/2006/8/15/105911/392
Indianapolis Colts Blogger for SB Nation: Stampede Blue

by BigBlueShoe on Aug 16, 2006 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

oh yeah
Foote's comment is classic! I love it.

by schnifin on Aug 16, 2006 3:17 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

bravo...
well said.  I'd be embarassed if my coaches were saying crap like that.  that's sad.  I don't think Tony Dungy would be caught dead saying 'we beat ourselves, we didn't get beat.'

And for BigBlueShoe to crticize Foote for responding is equally weak.

This is sour grapes from a sad franchise.  Inferiority complexes abound from both the fans and the organization.

And yes, it is good to be a Steelers fan right now.

by Michael Bean (Blitz) on Aug 16, 2006 3:29 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Actually
If you'd like to red the article where Mudd was quoted, check it out here:

http://www.stampedeblue.com/story/2006/8/15/105911/392

Indianapolis Colts Blogger for SB Nation: Stampede Blue

by BigBlueShoe on Aug 16, 2006 4:35 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Distinctions with no differences
Outcoaches, outplayed, beaten, defeated by your own team or the other team, these are all just descriptions of the same thing. If a line coach admits that he couldn't get his team prepared for the game, and that his unit stunk, than that should be included in his measure as a coach. Thus, in that particular aspect, the Colts were outcoached.

Regardless of how costly the Colts' internal mistakes were, a loser requires someone to lose to, and this instance that team was the Steelers. When a team beats you, as a result of your own errors or theirs, it is proper form to recognize that they beat them. Prefacing the exact opposite sentiment with "but I respect them" doesn't change the substance of your message one bit. The coach straight up said that the Steelers failed to defeat the Colts. That's historically inaccurate.

As for what the player said, he's a player. Fans could reasonably hold coaches to different standards than players. In any event, nothing Foote said is remarkably offensive, but what Mudd said is slightly confused. "Let's go play again. Right now."? Where is the "respectful" tone?

"The Pittsburgh Steelers did not beat the Colts." Again, in what sense is this respectful just because it is prefaced by the blatant lie "I have respect for the Steelers"? If the Steelers did not beat the Colts, than they were miraculously the first team in NFL history to win the Superbowl without beating all their opponents.

There's a world of difference between saying "We could've played better" and saying "The other team did not play well enough to beat us." The former is a neutral yet evaluative statement about your own team, the latter is an insult to someone else. That's how I would take it.

And anyways, the Colts line collapsed by their own admission in the most important game of their season last year. The Pittsburgh Steelers did not experience a similar meltdown, or at least one that resulted in a loss. So didn't the Steelers beat the Colts in virtue of the fact that they didn't choke? Shouldn't we use a team's proclivity for choking at least in part when measuring that team relative to its opponents?

by Skin Patrol on Aug 16, 2006 5:16 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

There's a reason...
that this Mudd guy's an O-Line coach and not an offensive coordinator or head coach, and it probably has something to do with how he handles himself.  

by Michael Bean (Blitz) on Aug 16, 2006 5:21 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

well said
much better than i could have

by schnifin on Aug 16, 2006 5:25 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Indeed...
Get your ass to law school already Skin Patrol.  I'm assuming that's where you're headed by the way you write, no?

by Michael Bean (Blitz) on Aug 16, 2006 5:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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