Latest Target Of Bill Belichick’s Anger: Inanimate Objects (And Charlie Casserly)

Wes Welker tore up his knee on a non-contact play Sunday -- he made a cut and it simply gave out. Two torn ligaments right before the playoffs, and the Pats are without arguably their most important offensive weapon (not named Brady). So, naturally, Bill Belichick is going to be unhappy about it, but unlike when Brady’s knee was destroyed, there wasn’t a person to blame for an injury-causing hit. This won’t stop Belichick from blaming something:

↵↵“The turf down there is terrible,’’ Belichick said. “It’s terrible. It’s just inconsistent. It’s all the little trays of grass, and some of them are soft and some of them are firm and they don’t all fit well together, those seams. Some of it feels like a sponge, some of it feels real firm and hard. One step you’re on one, the other step you’re on another. I really think it’s one of the worst fields I’ve seen.’’

↵↵He wasn’t finished ...

↵↵“I think the worst thing for a player is when it’s inconsistent,’’ he said. “When you take one step and you get one feel and then the next step is a different feel, or like you have some of the old Astro Turf fields, all the seams where the zippers would come up and the turf would start to turn over and you’d trip over it or it would give, you think you’re going to plant and it’s going to hold and then it gives, that’s a problem. Or you think it’s going to give and it doesn’t, and then it grabs. And that’s where a lot of non-contact injuries occur. Like, for example, the one we had on Sunday, which was a non-contact injury.’’

↵↵The Pats players, however, didn’t seem to think it was all that bad, which seems like a more reliable assessment seeing as they’re the ones who actually ran around on it.

↵Oh, and as an encore, Belichick also blasted CBS analyst/former GM Charlie Casserly for his report about Brady’s broken ribs, saying that nobody is consistently more wrong than Casserly. At least he found a human target. The grass simply cannot defend itself!