Great Moments in Shade-Throwing
By Ryan Grigson is the hero of an action movie called EXECUTIVE FORCE that exists only in his mind. pic.twitter.com/Fq3nWtBJkZ
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) January 22, 2017
“We will get Senator Belichick despite the bumbling of my sidekick, Phuck Cagano.”
Seeing the Pats twist the knife into postmaturely deposed GM, crybaby, and future Trump administration Secretary of Defense Ryan Grigson is pretty entertaining:
During a pregame appearance on 98.5 The Sports Hub, Kraft was asked about Grigson’s dismissal and he mentioned the AFC title game two years ago as being the moment when everything started going downhill for the former G.M. in Indianapolis.
“I don’t, you’d have to ask Jim Irsay about it,” Kraft said, via the Boston Herald. “He’d be the one to ask. That game might have been Ryan’s pinnacle, I don’t know. Jimmy can talk about what’s going on with the Colts. We’re fortunately playing football today.”
In addition to being the last time the Colts played a postseason game, that 45-7 Patriots win was also the game that introduced Deflategate to the national lexicon. Grigson sent an email to the league about suspicions regarding the intentional deflation of balls before the game and complained to league officials during the game as well.
One of the amusing things about the Ballghazi farce was the effort some people made, up to and including elaborate junk science, to argue that even in an alternate universe where the NFL could show that the balls were deflated it actually mattered. Of course, if you just say “a rule’s a rule” then there’s no way to justify more than the 5-figure fine the conduct would have merited. Conversely, attempts to argue that marginally deflated footballs were actually material to the outcome of football games collapse from their own silliness. But, sure, the Patriots are going back to the Super Bowl yet again and you can’t beat Brock Osweiler and Bill O’Brien because Jim Irsay just has too much integrity.
It seems obvious that firing Grigson and not Pagano is like only prosecuting one Menendez brother, but hey it’s not as if they have a franchise QB getting beaten up every year to try to start building a team around or anything.