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Patriots running the ball down Miami’s throat called ‘disrespectful’ by Dolphins 12.07.12 at 2:21 pm ET
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Stevan Ridley was huge as the Patriots put together a game-clinching drive. (AP)

Here comes another story about the Patriots “disrespecting” their opponents, only with a twist.

This complaint from the other team didn’t even come in a blowout and had nothing to do with the Patriots running up the score. It had to do with the Patriots running out the clock.

With the Patriots up just seven points and the outcome still very much in doubt, Tom Brady marched the Patriots down the field 77 yards toward the game-clinching field goal, putting them up, 23-13, with just 70 seconds left in the game.

But the star of the drive wasn’t Brady but rather running back Stevan Ridley, who ran the ball 10 times of the 16 plays on the drive. He ran for 46 yards and essentially shoved the ball right down Miami’s throat. That didn’t sit well with Miami defensive tackle Tony McDaniel.

“It really [ticked] me off,” McDaniel told Palm Beach Post reporter Brian Biggane. “It was disrespectful to us to run the same play over and over and be successful. Normally, when somebody’s driving down the field you just think, ‘Well, they just had a good run there,’ but you run the same play over and over, as a competitor that [ticks] me off.”

Another Dolphins defensive lineman, Randy Starks, also used the “D” word but thought it was silly to think the Patriots would do something other than what worked for them.

“It is disrespectful, but you’ve got to stop it,” Starks said. “We never stopped it, so I’d keep running the same play, too.”

Starks and McDaniel might want to pay closer attention to the film, because while Ridley did run it 10 times, the Patriots were nice enough to vary the runs.

Ridley ran four times off left guard, twice up the middle, twice off right end, once off right tackle and once off left tackle. Shane Vereen ran once of left guard.

Maybe the Dolphins were shocked with the ease the Patriots ran the ball in the second half, considering they attempted just seven runs for 11 yards in the first half.

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  • Devil’s Advocate

    Um, running out the clock is how you WIN THE GAME at a time when the outcome is still very much in doubt. What wouldn’t be disrespectful them? Tom Brady underthrowing a pick 6 to tie the game with about 7 minutes left?

  • http://twitter.com/mikey_c Mikey C.

    Waaah

  • Choflo36

    A couple of sub fives on the wonderlik test. Ten representing someone who is literate.

  • Anonymous

    That’s RESERVE Miami defensive tackle Tony McDaniel.  So now maintaining drives and using techniques and plays that give you success is disrespectful.  Lord help me.  That word – respect – is thrown around too much in the NFL.  McDaniel should shut his food hole and work on learning how to stop the run.

  • Anonymous

    Play defense bro..

  • Millionaire111

    Please stop crying Play FOOTBALL

  • MJL360

    Sounds like the Miami Obamas there………………booo hooo hooo

  • King_messier

    Sooooooo….I guess TB should have lit up the secondary for 2 more TDs?  What a clown.  Can’t make everyone happy.  Starks and McDaniel can pound salt…

  • Anonymous

     your an idiot

  • Tomtheequipmentguy

    Just when I thought the Pats would escape 1 week without hearing from whine-bag nation, the clown chimes in.

  • ohoyoudidnt1

    The Dolphins can suck my dick!! If you knew that they were running the same play, they should be able to stop it. Why would we wanna throw a pick 6 or any pick and ruin the game because the game was close!!

  • ohoyoudidnt1

    thats a perfect way to put it!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/scott.c.day Scott C. Day

    They had better send that guy to the quiet room. He may be concussed.

  • Choflo36

    I hope the ball tickled their tonsils just like Romney’s got tickled.

  • Anonymous

    What a whiner.  It’s professional football man up or get out.

  • http://twitter.com/fnafilms zahra

    This is disrespect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0r2i9KNaFY and nobody ever complained. 

  • Ed Murray56

    What a bunch of crybabies! I thought you were football players.  If you knew they were going to keep running the ball…STOP them. That is your job. 

  • Anonymous

    i hope that the pats keep being successfully disrespectful!

  • Roger Christie

    Good lord!! Now we see why the Pats look for players that actually exhibit measuable IQs!!!

  • Will

    I was starting to have some respect for Miami a an emerging team.  Guess not.  If I ran that team, this comment would compel me to fire this dunce immediately.  This is one of the most ignorant comments I have heard in ages.

  • Margotjd

    Actually it’s the Miami Teabaggers. Collecting a paycheck w/o doing their job.

  • Ty

    I’d say you’re a complete waste, but who am I to judge? Hope you find some meaning in your life one day, “tom”.

  • pete

    The Celtics are an embarrassment to Boston no heart no desire and they could care less win or lose.
    Pierce is the worst Celtic ever 15 years for nothing with success only one year. He does not belong in the same class as all the other greats. ownership should of traded him after 2008 because he has suck ever since

  • Rich

    Anyone can score on Pierce because he sucks

  • PPfan

    Pete, get a grip. Go back to Orlando, where you came from. Pierce is the best and a couple of injuries here and there and Celtics would have had the championship in 2010 and scared the bleep out of Miami last year.

  • Kenny Powers

    Funny how some of these pathetic Knicks fans grab a few playoff victories, their first in years, and proceed to defecate all over the moment with no class. I guess you’re just used to how fleeting these moments are for you. Boston, like Arnold, will be back. Afraid I can’t say the same for Carmelo and company.

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