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The New England Patriots topped 50 points for the second time this season in Sunday's 56-10 rout of theBuffalo Bills. The Patriots led 42-10 entering the fourth quarter and could have easily decided to coast in the fourth quarter, but insteadwent hard (harder than Lil Kim in her Hardcore days) and put up 14 more points on the board.
That rubbing-it-in effort sparked up more discussion about the Patriots running up the score and not having respect for the game. Well, yesterday Tom Brady responded toall critics, telling WEEI:
"We're not trying to win 42-28, we're trying to kill people, we're trying to blow them out if we can. Youwant to build momentum for each week, you don't want to be up, 42-7 or 35-7, and all of a sudden you look up and it's 35-21. We don't want to bepart of that, you don't want to go into next week realizing that for the last 18 minutes of the game your team didn't play well, or didn't play upto its capabilities. You gave other teams momentum for the next time they play you, or you gave another team a reason not to beintimidated."
NE cornerback Randall Gay echoed Brady's sentiments in a separate interview:
"It kind of makes me mad when you hear somebody from the other team's defense going, 'They shouldn't have done that; that'sdisrespect.' Do we think it's disrespect when they went and picked up their checks for letting a team score 50 points on them? That should bedisrespect; that you went to your owner and said, 'All right, pay me for that game I just played.'"
That rubbing-it-in effort sparked up more discussion about the Patriots running up the score and not having respect for the game. Well, yesterday Tom Brady responded toall critics, telling WEEI:
"We're not trying to win 42-28, we're trying to kill people, we're trying to blow them out if we can. Youwant to build momentum for each week, you don't want to be up, 42-7 or 35-7, and all of a sudden you look up and it's 35-21. We don't want to bepart of that, you don't want to go into next week realizing that for the last 18 minutes of the game your team didn't play well, or didn't play upto its capabilities. You gave other teams momentum for the next time they play you, or you gave another team a reason not to beintimidated."
NE cornerback Randall Gay echoed Brady's sentiments in a separate interview:
"It kind of makes me mad when you hear somebody from the other team's defense going, 'They shouldn't have done that; that'sdisrespect.' Do we think it's disrespect when they went and picked up their checks for letting a team score 50 points on them? That should bedisrespect; that you went to your owner and said, 'All right, pay me for that game I just played.'"