Uncle Si":25bclq61 said:
SalishHawkFan":25bclq61 said:
chris98251":25bclq61 said:
First off I am old school and thought it was more then stupid, second I also think it uped the motivation and focus of the Rams, third where I did not play in college I have coached and played the game at WR and CB.
I know if someone pulled that on me when I played I would with for the chance to legally or maybe given a chance take a penalty to make a point or teammates would. Payback can be hell and at his level in the NFL could end a career.
You can't tell me being shown up and taunted doesn't make a defense pissed, and the payback at that level could be a clock on Wilson, that is in addition to all the other bad things listed here that could happen. You take a player like Rodney Harrison, or George Atkinson, Lester Hayes, would have decapitated Tate after a stunt like that. There are guys like John Lynch and Steve Atwater as well. You get a rep and then you become a target. Players will make it a point to send you a message and being on offense you don't get to initiate contact.
This. Taunting like Tate did is the football equivalent of beaning a player. Don't get the other team fired up.
Half the game is 50% mental. Don't provoke the other teams defense into going all mental on your team.
Tate needs to just visualize a maple bar in the end zone and focus on that.
this is based on the premise that the Rams defenders hadnt been saying anything all game.... it seems rather obvious considering Tate was making a mouth gesture with his hands that he was responding...
why is this so hard for peopel. I can respect "old school" mentality, but christ, if you think Tate "fired up" the Rams you have a delusional mindset when it comes to professional athletes.
I think you have lost all sense of what competition is then, talking trash on the field goes on all the time and has in most sports. Showing up someone by a public display like Tate did is rubbing dirt in a wound and it's just not the player it's the team your playing against, players have pride and what Tate did is a purposeful insult to the players and a team and the defense he was playing against.
You think that professional players don't care if they are insulted, showed up, or embarrassed?
A player like Tate that also returns punts can be dealt with, you simply stand him up and hold him up on his next punt return and let another player take a shot. Then you do the wave bye bye as he is taken off the field on a back board. Thats the next step in stuff like this.
Then again young people seem to have little sportmanship or moral code across the board watching how sports have degenerated anyway. All the way back to incidents like Tanya Harding. No respect for competition, the sport your in, just make sure you make a highlight reel or the news to get your 15 minutes of fame.
If you taunt in a baseball game with things like pointing at a pitcher after a hit or a home run, you get one in your ear next at bat, if you go high on a slide you may get one in your ear, dirty and taunting have paybacks in sports. Basketball the response is a return hard foul next possession. Hockey, well they have a standard that has always been drop the gloves and start swinging.
