10-17-2016, 11:07 PM
(10-17-2016, 10:42 PM)kacymcbryant18 Wrote: Man, it has never been more obvious than right now that Burfict has lost all benefit of the doubt. Its like its a witch hunt out for this guy. Anything that is remotely close to "suspect" he's automatically accused of wrongdoing.
There is no evidence whatsoever from that shot that he was stepping on his legs. Go back and watch the game tape. After Blount scores the TD, Shawn Williams is trying to rip the ball out of his hands. Blount is pushing Shawn in his facemask. Burfict sees this and is "stepping on his legs" or "stepping over people" to get to Blount. I guess it depends on what you want to see. After he stands up, Burfict is right on his back so he pushes him down on the ground.
Like I said, he has dissolved all benefit of the doubt so he's going to have to live with it but this is LaGarrette Blount we're talking about here, who has a history himself.
Exactly on all counts. Burfict blocked me on Twitter after I tweeted that he was putting a target on his back last year. Even if he's a choirboy on the field people are going to make stuff up because they don't want to face him.
I posted on the other thread about this, because God knows we need multiple threads about this, that this video is more of the same. You can't see if he's stepping on anything and you certainly can't read his mind to know whether it's deliberate.
The interesting thing about this clip is that it's coaches film posted by an ESPN beat reporter on Monday afternoon. Makes me wonder whether the Patriots organization fed it to him to help beat this anti-Burfict drum.
