Tom Casale Quits PFW, burns all his bridges on way out
e. phil smeck
wronged him. it's petty journalism and lacking proof in his most
incendiary charges, but whatever. it's not like he'll see many of these
people again. or will he?
reading his responses to angry fans is comical.
and the belichick sex tape: very "not want"
judge for yourself.
Today I walked out of Gillette Stadium for the final time. While I had a
great time working for the Patriots and did things I will remember
forever, I'm also extremely excited about the opportunity I have with
Pregame. I honestly believe with the people RJ has assembled, the sky is
the limit for this company in the coming years. I'm honored to be a part
of the Pregame team and foaming at the mouth to finally get at it in a
couple of weeks.
Now that my time with the Patriots is over, I'm sure some of you would
be interested in info from a guy who worked on the inside of an NFL
Dynasty. Before I give out that info, I want to make it clear that
nobody in that organization did wrong by me. Bill Belichick never yelled
at me and the players were more than accommodating 99 percent of the
time. I have no axes to grind with anyone. The things I write below are
simply the truth from information I've obtained and observations I've
made over the years.
--Tedy Bruschi is much more popular with the fans than he is with his
teammates. He isn't the team leader people think he is. Actually,
Bruschi rarely talks to any of his teammates. He and Mike Vrabel used to
be close but they rarely interact anymore either. Bruschi is just an
unlikable person in general and I think his teammates know what's what
and get sick of his act. He created an image that he presents to the
public but his teammates know better. The real leaders of the Patriots
are Tom Brady, Matt Light, Richard Seymour and the top guy, Rodney
Harrison. Harrison is actually one of the nicest guys you would ever
want to meet off the field, which is a total contrast to his sometimes
dirty play on it.
--Corey Dillon is about the most miserable piece of shit you would ever
want to encounter. You should see the looks and gestures he would give
fans when we went on the road. Sometimes an athlete's reputation is
blown up by the media but that wasn't the case with Dillon. There is no
doubt in my mind that he will end up in jail at some point. You don't
have to be a good guy to be a star in the NFL and no one is a better
example of that than Dillon.
--Randy Moss is the best player I've ever seen with my own eyes. The guy
is a freak and it was an honor to watch him close up the past two years.
I don't know what Moss was like in Minnesota and Oakland because I
didn't cover him then. However, he's been nothing but a class act since
coming to the Patriots. He's actually one of the nicest guys I've come
across. He's extremely popular in the locker room and even jokes around
and bullshits with practice squad players. Moss was nothing like I
thought he would be when he came to New England.
--Hold on for this one: I heard from someone who is close to the case
that there is a sex tape of Bill Belichick banging the married woman he
had an affair with. I shit you not. The husband who is suing that woman
for being unfaithful to him has a tape of his wife and Belichick
screwing while the two of them were still married. Belichick is a very
powerful man so I imagine he's doing everything in his power to squash
this from getting out but it could only be a matter of time. A part of
me doesn't want to see it but another part of me can't help but be
intrigued.
--Belichick is the best, most well prepared coach on the planet. If you
are a Patriots fan, you should love him regardless. However, he's a
miserable person. I wish I could say otherwise but I can't. I've seen
him on the road, I've flown on planes with him, I've stayed in the same
hotels with him and I've seen him interact with others on numerous
occasions. He's just miserable. There's no other way to put it. I don't
even think most of his players like him, they just put up with him and
do everything he says because he's such a great coach and they respect
him. The guy may not be a great human being but there is no one else I
would want coaching my football team. It doesn't surprise me that Jimmy
Johnson and Belichick are close friends. I always trusted Johnson
because I knew he would probably kill his mother to win a football game.
Belichick is the same way, which makes him a great coach.
--Most of the players and coaches I've met in New England are great.
Like any team, there are exceptions. A list of assholes would be
Bruschi, Dillon, Willie McGinest, Pierre Woods, Mike Vrabel, Dan Koppen
and Stephen Gostkowski. Yes, the kicker. Bruschi is by far the biggest
and that seems to be a universal opinion. Sorry but it's true.
The list of good guys is much longer but my personal favorites were
Harrison, Moss, Light, Jarvis Green, Deion Branch, David Givens, Ty
Warren, Troy Brown, Vince Wilfork, Larry Izzo, Kelley Washington,
Donte' Stallworth (A really funny bastard), Jabar Gaffney, Wes Welker
and Rosevelt Colvin. I'm sure I left a few guys off that slipped my mind
but the above players were always a class act during my time in New
England.
That's the straight dope from my years with the Pats. I know some
Patriots fans may not like what I had to say, especially about Bruschi
and Belichick. But I swear on my life that everything I wrote is the
truth and I didn't make anything up to degrade a particular person. As I
stated before, no player or coach ever disrespected me in any way. I
would have no reason to say things that are untrue. I don't benefit from
that in any way. As Bill Belichick would say, "It is what it is." I just
call 'em like I see 'em.
I hope you enjoyed a peak inside of one of the greatest NFL teams to
ever take the field. I had one hell of a ride and I will never forget my
time with the Patriots.
mr dude@harvarduniversity.edu
> --Hold on for this one: I heard from someone who is close to the case
> that there is a sex tape of Bill Belichick banging the married woman he
> had an affair with. I shit you not.
Belichick is a classless prick????
This is not news!!!
Ask Jason Whitberg, the poor child with cancer that Belichick screamed
at!!!
mr dude
MZ
news:VLqdna5_7ICP1QzV...@giganews.com...
> tom casale writes an opinion piece where he vents on people who've
> wronged him. it's petty journalism and lacking proof in his most
> incendiary charges, but whatever. it's not like he'll see many of these
> people again. or will he?
>
> reading his responses to angry fans is comical.
>
> and the belichick sex tape: very "not want"
>
> judge for yourself.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5jw2n9
How do we know this is for real?
mark trankert
"e. phil smeck" <laug...@younotwith.you> wrote:
> reading his responses to angry fans is comical.
>
> and the belichick sex tape: very "not want"
>
> judge for yourself.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5jw2n9
None of this is news. The Patriots are a lot of things, but classy isn't
one of them.
mr dude@harvarduniversity.edu
>
> How do we know this is for real?
There is only one poster here that makes up fake news stories so this
MUST be true!
I can't remember the posters name though.
mr dude
mr dude@harvarduniversity.edu
>
> How do we know this is for real?
There is only one poster here that makes up fake news stories so this
MZ
news:62c35048-d7fc-4c93...@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>There is only one poster here that makes up fake news stories so this
>MUST be true!
>
>I can't remember the posters name though.
I don't remember either. I think it's Dick-something.
MZ
news:-8mdnWCtpst-SgzV...@comcast.com...
> MZ <ma...@nospam.void> wrote:
>> How do we know this is for real?
>
> the writing style is 100% him and that's his blog for his new job.
>
> They removed his stuff about spygate & welker, it seemed pretty much
> a pretty lame attempt at pulling hits on to his new site (howard
> stern style: pats fans went there because they were mad, anti-pats
> types love him for "spilling the beans").
>
> I always thought he was funny in a crude way but a terrible writer
> and full of himself. I didn't mind his article at all (outside of the
> 'sex tape' foolishness and the spygate/welker stuff it was nothing
> he hadn't opined on the show before) but it did indirectly lead me to
> lose all respect for him - apparently he ahd a run in w/ Mrs B on
> patsfans.com a while back, he was creating aliases and chewing her
> out due to jealousy on her superior training camp reports.
>
> The guy they have doing their blog now (scalavino) is a *much* better
> writer.
I don't follow him. What's the Welker thing?
mr dude@harvarduniversity.edu
> >I can't remember the posters name though.
>
> I don't remember either. I think it's Dick-something.
I think his name rhymes with "Bark Farella" it my memory serves me
right.
mr dude
FullTilt_FullTime
>
> None of this is news. The Patriots are a lot of things, but classy isn't
> one of them.
Who fucking cares? They are a lot things...a lot of things that are
important to football fans: winning, winning, and winning. They
aren't classy. Who fucking cares? Do you watch football because you
like to watch class? Are you really that nieve?
Sri Krsna
>In his original post he apparently claimed that Welker's seriously hurt
>and the Pats are trying to hide it right now, I've not seen a copy
>of that blurb though, just what he said about Spygate (something about
>being "80% sure" that the walkthrough stuff happened, and rambling about
>a big coverup)
>
>
This was the hottest thread on Patsfans yesterday and it ran a course of
something like 23 pages with a guy who writes for PFW also having chimed
in on the issue. I never read the article or even clicked on the link
and just made a few wise ass cracks. To me that's all it was worth.
Also, the fine Pats beat reporter from Projo wrote in the above
mentioned thread on Patsfans that Casale was the most disliked guy
within the pool of Pats reporters and even his former colleagues at PFW
were happy to see him go according to her conversations with them.