"Vrabel is a punk"---Tobeck

[Night Hawk]

Yesterday after the game, which I listened to on KIRO radio after muting the morons that Fox uses for announcers on TV, I heard Tobeck interviewed. He was asked what was going on with Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel. Tobeck said "He's a punk. He spit in my face" and several other things.

Jerremy Stevens and Darrell Jackson were interviewed, seperately, before him and said that the Patriots were constantly holding and grabbing face masks coming off the line. Stevens said he knew how it sounds, a team losing and then saying they were grabbing receivers all the time, but it happened. He said "why would they stop it if the refs are letting them get away with it". Both went on to say, again interviewed seperately, that the refs gave New England a lot of leeway in calls, that the Patriots DB's were always "whining and crying" to the refs after plays, Stevens pointed out Rodney Harrison in particular ("number 37" is how he referred to him). I saw Harrison whining after Robinson's catch and then complaining after Koren spun the ball, and the ref then calls the "taunting".

[GoSquawks37]

I agree with all of them. Especially about Rodney Harrison. He whined about everything... and then the refs threw a flag! What's up with that??

And for having a "point of emphasis" on illegal contact and such, they sure let the Pats get away with a lot of stuff yesterday.


EDIT: Got my Harrisons mixed up ;)

[Night Hawk]

You mean Rodney Harrison? I turned on the tv sound on the "taunting" call, and those jerks Aikman and Collinsworth were berating Robinson about the call, then one, Aikman or a third guy (Stockton?) said they didn't understand the call, that it wasn't taunting and maybe someone was on the ground and maybe Koren "spiked" it at him, they couldn't see in that one replay. Then the replay was shown again, from farther away, of course no one on the ground, but the first replay you could see Harrison crying "What is that?" when Koren spun it, and he's not even looking at a player, and the ref throws the flag. What a tool.

[GoSquawks37]

Err, yes, Rodney. Pardon. :P

[ToeKnee9699]

I agree, I also noticed how dirty Rodney Harrison was playing along with all his crying and whining. What a bitch. He was hitting people at their knees as the went out of bounds, hitting people late, etc yet he would whine about nothing to get some calls and the idiotic refs bit on it and gave him what he wanted. It is sad he has to resort to that kind of play.

[Simmons The Chocolate Freak]

so much for that no contact rule

[NashDT]

I'm not a Rams fan, but thats how N.E. won in that super bowl against them.

The Colts were victimized by the holding also.

I think for some reason, with the name of "Patriots", they were the darlings after 911(forgive me for refering to that) and were cut major slack.

Rodney Harrison was also the guy that rolled into Trent Green's knees in a PRE SEASON game.

[PaytonPaw]

Harrison has a history of such things. Ask anyone on the previous teams he played for. I think his style rubs off on other DBs for the Pats, and thus it has become a team issue.