Jason Cole Calls Drew Brees Classless

http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/34060839

He says Brees’ record is “tainted”. Hacks…..all of them.

(I posted a fanshot on it)

in the intellectual sense, I understand their argument, and I feel it was a bit risky to have Drew Breeeees!! still in the game and firing away that late, but it was important to get the record cleared up and out of the way to keep the offense from thinking about it for another week and then starting off the game with that coloring the game plan and mindset of the team.

But, I don’t feel like it was a terrible move that’s going to cause the Football Gods to reign a karmic dose of unparalleled despair on the Saints.

And, if the roles were reversed, I might be a bit annoyed if someone did it to the Saints, but my bottom line would be that I’d be more upset at the defense for not putting an end to it with their play…

the Saints instead run the clock out and Drew doesn’t get the record. Then in practice this week he gets hurt and can’t play. You give up the chance of a lifetime because your opponent can’t do their job? I don’t think so. If a coach having more loyalty to his own players than the opposing team’s players is classless, I think people need to reexamine their definition of the word.

1) He has a very small pee pee.
2) Santa didn’t get him the bicycle he asked for.
3) His real name is Crissy Gates.

Any which way (but loose) his bitter ramblings mean very little to me.

Left turn Clyde.

Oh, and happy holidays to all at CSC.

and much personal attacking going on here, and I’ve gone on the record with how I feel about that.

Is this just in regard to this particular instance here, or is there more that I’m perhaps missing?

The Saints are mad as hell this season for 2 reasons. The embarrassing loss to the Seahawks last season. They started off pretty well this season, then Bam! The Rams trap game woke them up. And now they are like a swarm of hornets who dare to get in their way. Don’t want to piss off the Saints, and you don’t want to piss off Payton and Brees

You shouldn’t worry about what guys like Jason Cole or Dave Choate think. Drew Brees has the single season record for passing yards and he’s going to the Hall of Fame as a Saint. No one can take that away from you, and it’s a truly remarkable accomplishment.

I said much the same thing after the Super Bowl win: Don’t give a rat’s ass about what anyone else is saying. It’s yours.

Small note, Dave: I don’t think Mike Smith said anything about Brees that wasn’t positive. Not really his style.

I think the Falcons may be trying to manufacture some outrage to help them play better and get an edge for the next game.

Maybe playing the Saints on MNF with a shot at the division title in late December wasn’t enough for them to bring their “A” game, or maybe that was their “A” game and we won’t have much to worry about in playing them for the 3rd time this season in the playoffs.

I’m just going to let it go and focus on the Panters and giving the Rams my energy for an upset!!

stop them

If the Falcons would have punted in that situation, then Drew would had more field to work with and once the record was broken taken a knee.
Any way, I think I’m pissed more at people saying how the record should have an asterik. They are claiming what Marino did was more impressive. Throwing out nonsense to support their theory. There is no way to compare the two feats, so you can’t diminish one feat with out diminishing the other. They are both impressive feats.

Mr Cole said some mean things about DREW BREEEES and I went all eye for an eye
with him. I reckon he probably cares as much about my thoughts as I should about
his.
I’m guessing the front page posting of this report was aimed at getting some kind of
reaction and if I took it too far then , again, I apologise.
Most reaction from Falcon fans and players and coach wree , on the whole , pretty classy so none of my comments were aimed in that direction

A story where there is no story.

1) If I were a Falcons fan, I’d spend my time being pissed that my team was kicking field goals while the other guys were scoring touchdowns;

2) The record may have been broken late in the 4th quarter, but the scenario was set up by the Falcons pass defense in the first half to allow Brees to be within sight of it getting the ball back inside the 35 late in the game;

3) Maybe its me but I recall the Saints trying to run the ball a lot in the fourth quarter, without a whole lot of success. If the Falcons didn’t want Brees to start throwing, maybe they should have gone easy on our run game (snarky, I admit, giggle, snort)

4) would anyone including Jason Cole be talking about this if it had simply been 35 passing yards to break the record on a drive starting from our own 20, and ending at the Falcon 45? isn’t it really a function of the last pass being a TD, with the rsult dictated by the field position which the Saints got by holding the Falcons on 4th down?

If Atlanta really needs to find motivation and can’t find it with the division title on the line, against their big rival, on MNF, then what are the chances they really find motivation from this?

Running up the score against the Falcons is a no-brainer… if this fool knows his football he knows that things can turn around by the blink of an eye… he’s jealous because Drew gets to wear the real Jersey and he has the replica he got from his girlfriend who asks him to wear it when they have sex….

when they broke the record so late in the game, but it would have been a big distraction for the team to have the record roll over to next week. Best for the team and Drew to do it now and get it out of the way.

I understand Falcon fans frustration since it was a night long Drew Brees love fest (even beyond what it usually is when John Gruden is involved). I can remember many nights watching the Saints square off against the 49ers and having the announcers talking constantly about Montana/Young while barely mentioning the Saints. It sucks to be second class citizens…

Just one.

I think with Brees being so close a few years ago there was no way SP was going to let that happen again

He got the record out of the way and now our team can focus on winning at Carolina and then the playoffs! I live in ATL and was listening to a local broadcast last night. I don’t know who the commentator was but he appluaded Peyton for making sure that all this hoopla was over with! Look how Green Bay responded after losing their first game. If you don’t want em to do it to you then stop em! Games are won by the team that scores the most points. I remember a few years ago when the last playoff spots came down to who scored the most points and Mike Ditka’s Saints were getting blasted because the team needed the points to get in. Kudos and Congrats to the Saints….Bless you boys!

First, I enjoyed sitting in my living room with my children and friends, getting the opportunity to watch Drew Brees break this record. If this had not been Monday Night Football, my viewing choices would have been:
a. San Diego or Oakland, whoever is doing worse,
b. Dallas, NY Giants, or some combination of the two involving games with teams 3,000-miles away, or
c. Info-mercials.

So my thanks to SP for pushing on to this record so I could watch it. Because next Sunday, we’ll get to see (a) Giants/Cowboys, (b) Chargers/Raiders, or © the miraculous Shark vacuum cleaner.

As for Jason Cole, I will say that he sometimes covers the Saints in his stories, and usually favorably, which is more than I’ll say for any other bloggers outside the NOLA broadcasting area. But his approach on this story was a poor one, and insensitive to the many Saints fans in other parts of the country.

Hollywood Saint said it right. This is not high school football. The Falcons are a pro team that will be in the playoffs, so there is no running up the score issue. If your Pro team can’t do better, maybe you shouldn’t even be in the playoffs. Obviously Cole doesn’t like Brees, but too bad because Brees is the #1 QB throughout the league and his Mr. Rodgers is #3 behind Brady. Rodgers MVP, yeah right.

But is this football or womens college bowling? We played against our most hated enemy. They’re a bunch of grown men, not teenage girls, so why let up? Screw being nice and ethical, you can do that off of the turf. Whats next? The losing team gets points added to the board so their feelings arent hurt?

Football? More like Bitchball.

If you have, you know that Jason Cole is as much of an anti-Saints fan as there is out there.

Congrats to Brees on the record. And the point of the article was to score page views, as you mentioned. In fact, all articles on Yahoo are more or less written to score page views. They tease their articles waaaay too much. Anyways, not looking forward to seeing you guys in the playoffs… My consolation is that it’s in Lambeau, not NO. I have serious, serious doubts that any team in the NFL can win in NO. But yeah, gratz Brees.

I’m thinking that’s why he wrote such a crappy article.

First thing I thought when I saw that on the Yahoo front page was how much of a fool Jason Cole always seems to be.

the record breaking yard was just inches from the goal line.

Payton, “Ok, Sproles, if you catch it just fall down.”

Sproles, “Your Juicy Fruit is spoiled.”

How can you take this guy seriously anyway? He works for Yahoo!, who sensationalizes every story for the sake of having headlines. The paunchy-headed toad couldn’t work for a network or anything because nobody wants to look at his ugly face. Bottom line Atlanta should have stopped that drive if they didn’t want the record broken.

Suzjo brought up the last game of the 2008 season where the Panters stopped Drew BREEESSS!!! a few yards short of breaking the record, and also won the game. The Falcons should have done that. Or suffered the consequences.

If the Falcons are angry about the record. Good. If they are angry about losing the division title, good. If/when the Falcons and Saints meet in the playoffs, I expect a better game out of them.

the opportunity, the end of the game, and the right amount of yards needed. If the Falcons had showed up and played a tight game, he would have broken it earlier. If it was held over til next wk, a couple plays into the 1st Q. play would stop to acknowledge the record etc. it wouldn’t have the same meaning to the fans, and the game would be far from being decided. The ending was perfect and classy…child pleeze.

I don’t remember hearing a damn peep from anyone on the Colts when the Saints beat the ever-loving-crap out of them 62-7 earlier this season. Not a word, and that was a much more embarrassing loss. They just took their lickin’, accepted their fate and moved on with their life.

But the Falcons…

I see your Jason Cole and raise you a Les Carpenter:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=lc-carpenter_drew_brees_falcons_saints_record122711

We will be sure to take a knee when we are again spankin’ dat ass by 40 points in the playoffs.
And so Atlanta doesn’t get their feelings hurt again next year, perhaps the competition committee will consider implementing a mercy rule when they convene this off season.