Brendon Ayanbadejo: The Art Of Working The Officials
Call it a hunch, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that what Ayanbadejo was really saying translates to the following, four or five times in a row:
“My team and I are very worried that we won’t be able to stop the Patriots’ no-huddle hurry-up offense. Therefore, even though it’s perfectly legal to snap the ball on offense once the offense is set at the line and the signal is given by the referee, regardless of whether the defense has “set itself” the way it wants (come on, it’s football…any quarterback who politely waits patiently while the defense sets itself until given a “thumbs up” ready-to-go signal by a LB may be a gentleman, but he’s also a MORON), since that hurts our chances to win I want to try to stop it. So I’ll just comment OVER and OVER hinting at the “illegality” of it, even though it’s not illegal, and hope it has at least some subconscious effect on the way the referees call the game. Hey, it can’t hurt.”
Pretty smart, really. Not very gentlemanly, though. But WTF cares? It’s football, get over it.
-Puppy >.< Yip!