Don Cherry Drops Another 10-Part Twitter Rant Defending Bill Belichick
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Former Boston Bruins coach Don Cherry has already made it abundantly clear where he stands on Deflategate, tweeting a 10-part defense of the New England Patriots. But with the revelations in ESPN’s latest report, purporting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s Draconian role in Deflategate as a “make-up call” for his bizarre handling of Spygate, the host of Hockey Night in Canada‘s “Coach’s Corner” felt the need to weigh in once more, in another 10-part tweet.
1) ESPN’s big story this week is the New England Boston Patriots cheating other clubs. Last week it was Brady, this week Belichick.
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
2) First, I don’t call what Belichick has done cheating, I call it spying and taking advantage of the other clubs. Patriots are accused of
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
3) having a library full of videos of the other team’s defensive plays. Finding the game plans that should have shredded into the waste
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
4) basket, somebody leaves a book of game plans in a meeting room and somehow it finds its way to the Patriots door. I say, don’t blame the
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
5) guy who finds the book, or game plans in a waste basket. I know I don’t have space to list all the things Belichick is accused of but why
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
6) blame him? Blame the dummies that allow him to find game plans and play books etc. I will admit, if it’s true, some of the things he does
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
7) looks a little shady but all pro teams try to take advantage of other teams. He just takes it a step further. I don’t think I would want
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
8) to play poker with Bill but if I had a team and I wanted to win he would be my coach and admit it, so would you want him as a coach.
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
9) Lets be honest, the game is this… you win you stay… you lose you’re gone. This is not the Marquess of Queensberry rules here,
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
10) Belichick figures life is this way… whatever it takes.
— Don Cherry (@CoachsCornerDC) September 9, 2015
Cherry has a point. Not only is the scramble for a competitive edge in the NFL as cutthroat as it comes, but playing poker with a man who communicates almost exclusively in grunts, snorts and throat-clearing would be a thoroughly miserable experience. Just once, I wish Cherry and Belichick would swap sleeveless hoodies and eight-piece houndstooth suits. Just for an afternoon.
