Brandon Spikes is Giving the Patriots No Bulletin Board Fodder and I Could Not Be More Disappointed
NESN – Brandon Spikes and the New England Patriots didn’t go through the most amicable break-up. Time apparently heals all wounds. Spikes, who made some pointed comments about the Patriots after signing with the Buffalo Bills this offseason, indicated Wednesday that he’s more focused on guiding his new team to victory Sunday than exacting revenge on the organization that supposedly wronged him. The Bills linebacker also was taken aback by Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s comment earlier in the day. “Yeah, we know him. I don’t think he’s changed much,” Belichick said Wednesday at Gillette Stadium when asked how Spikes has looked this season. “Hair might be a little longer. He’s about the same.”… “Really? What a pleasant surprise,” Spikes said of Belichick’s comment. “I don’t know. … I expected him. … You guys know how it all ended. I don’t think he held a grudge…” Spikes guaranteed two wins over the Patriots amid his offseason drama but was reserved Wednesday while discussing this weekend’s clash, focusing more on the team than any personal vendettas. “I mean, what do you expect me to say? You know, I’m on a new team, and they’re a big team in this division,” Spikes told reporters… “I’m not going to say it’s personal, but it’s big for this organization, it’s big for Buffalo.”
What the hell, Brandon Spikes? This is it? This is all we get? From the minute the NFL schedule was released I figuratively circled the two Buffalo games on my mental blogging calendar gearing up for some good old fashioned bulletin board fodder and I get… him playing nice? Is this the best you can do? Is this all you can conjure, Saruman? Where’s the bad blood, huh? Where’s the hatred? Hell, it was just a few months ago he was calling his time with the Pats “Four years a slave.” So where the the hell is Django Spikes now that he’s got Belichick’s Calvin Candie right where he wants him? Instead of giving us some good, solid inflammatory quotes like we need, he’s frigging playing nice. He’s taking the high road. Spikes had a hard enough time keeping the screw cap down tight on his bottle of Crazy while he was here. But Buffalo is like the Wild West. A remote outpost with no quality coach to act as sheriff. No rule of law. Where outlaws like Travis Henry and Stevie Johnson run wild. In a million years I never thought Spikes would be able to keep his mouth shut once he signed with the Bills.
Obviously I was hoping for more this week. Not to pump my own tires (like I ever would), but I was in on the ground floor of Brandon Spikes. Before the 2010 Draft I said that he’d be a perfect fit for the Pats in the event he fell to them. Well he did. And he was. And sure, there were little disappointments along the way. He really couldn’t cover anybody. He struggled to stay on the field. That sex tape really could have had more action in it. He was the only player who didn’t work out with the rest of the team in his last offseason. Then of course there was the last straw, him skipping practice because he couldn’t (wouldn’t) get out of his driveway in the kind of snow “storm” where most of us wouldn’t brush the car off:
… But never has Spikes ever disappointed me the way he has this week, going all mature on us, holding no hard feelings, harboring no ill will and letting bygones be bygones. It’s going to take some of the fun out of the Pats going up there and beating them like they’ve done 25 times out of 28 games in the Belichick Era. Oh, well. I guess we can always tool on this douche bag:
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