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Patriot Games, Poe, Bad Boys Gone Good and Ward's Block Party
Published: 11/6/2007 7:40 PM
Last Modified: 11/6/2007 7:40 PM

Random thoughts and opinions about the NFL:
--Former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula, who guided the only unbeaten Super Bowl championship team, says the New England Patriots should get an asterisk if they go through the season unbeaten. Why? Because of the Patriots' "spygate" scandal. Amen, Mr. Shula.
--Baltimore Ravens fans should pool their money and hire a lawyer to sue whoever is in charge of the offense for malpractice. How many years can your offense smell like a skunk without someone being held accountable? It doesn't matter who the quarterback is. The miserable offense stays the same. Edgar Allen Poe never scripted anything as disturbing as a Ravens' game plan.
--Since the media is the first to scald Randy Moss and Terrell Owens any time they step out of line, it's time to give the fellows props for good citizenship. Both are A-plus contributors to Super Bowl-contending teams this season. Tom Brady is a heck of a quarterback, but Moss makes him better.
--I'm tired of receivers who draw attention to themselves (example: Chad Johnson) trying to fool the rest of us into thinking that attention equates to greatness.
Want attention? Get it the way Hines Ward does. He doesn't pull out a Sharpie or a cell phone after a touchdown catch. He just blocks so hard that he knocks guys into next week. Just ask Ravens defensive back Ed Reed, who virtually got decapitated by Ward on Monday night. Every time cameras show Ward, he's smiling. I would rather watch him than any other NFL player.




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BA (5 years ago)
Amen on the Hines Ward notation. He is a throwback football player who plays hard and is not out for personal glory (ahem...T.O.)

As for the Patriots and an asterisk...give me a break. They had the camera for 1 quarter of the first game this season and it didn't matter in that game anyway. I have contended for the past 20 years that the 1985 Bears were the best team in NFL history...until this Patriots team. That Bears team had the best defense I've ever witnessed and enough offensive weapons to put teams away early. Now while this Patriots defense is not as stingy as that Bears "D", but it is versatile and the coaching is the best ever in terms of adjustments and schemes (look at what they did to Peyton Manning in the 4th quarter this week)...and the offense may be the best ever with superstars and stars alike and the organization can take those previously labeled lockerroom pariahs and turn them into the consummate team players. Don Shula, a coach I previously respected, needs to keep his yap shut on the subject. He is out of touch with todays NFL and I suspect he would struggle coaching in today's game.
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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