Felger & Mazz: Was Patriots vs Dolphins a competitive game?

The New England Patriots dropped their season opener to the Miami Dolphins 20-7. Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick thought it was a competitive game because the teams were close in yards. On Monday, Felger and Mazz had to disagree with Belichick on that theory.

Felger: That was Belichick in his postgamer last night. Pretty even game Mazz. Two plays sweked it. Otherwise was a pretty even game.

Mazz: Yeah, well nobody can manipulate the facts like Bill Belichick to serve his own agenda.

Jim Murray: He did it at halftime, too. I couldn't believe this.

Felger: Oh, so whjat did I miss?

Jim Murray: Basically, I'm paraphrasing, but it's like, "Oh, we're close. And I've been like one play." He's become a Celtics fan. Everything is puppy dogs and rainbows. There's no bad here.

Felger: It's friggin embarrassing. It's weaselly. Now he's excuse making for his team. Pretty even game. It was only two plays it skewed it. He was back at it again this morning so that was last night after the game. This morning in his opening statement, he won. He was even asked. So he's offering these without being asked these excuses. Get a load of this one.

Belichick Audio: You know, otherwise, it's a pretty competitive game from a yardage standpoint. And in all that, you know, our turnovers are our problem. And again, that's something that we have to do a better job of. And, you know, just in general playing better, better all around football.

Felger: Competitive gam e from a yardage standpoint?

Mazz: Yeah. What happened to points not yards?

Felger: What gives a rat's ass about yards? Who since when are we counting yards? Since when?

Mazz: Well, since they serve his argument.

Jim Murray: Isn't he "Mister stats are for losers" too?

Felger: Especially that one. I mean, if anyone knows how useless yardage stats are, it's Bill. He'd been ahead of the curve on that one for a long time. Take all the yards you want. It's about points. Now he's going to count up the yards to say that we were competitive? And even if I want to give them that, that's kind of scary. Miami is no world beater, man. And that quarterback yesterday was not good. And that's a rookie head coach with kind of a middling kind of roster. Decent, but not great and a pretty average quarterback. And you've got to count up yards to say that you're competitive? You've to go to the yards? You were down 17-0, man. Like, what is up with that? The yardage was competitive game from the yardage standpoint, what a loser comment that is.

Mazz: It is a loser comment. And again, it flies in the face of everything that he's preached for 20 years, which is why it's so fraudulent.