How Cheap Was It?

In his season ending press conference this morning Bill Belichick came to the podium and with out being asked a question brought up the hit Wes Welker placed on Aqib Talib. Now, before we get into comments lets review what happened.

The injury happened during the 2nd quarter when Wes Welker was running a crossing route and collided with Talib causing him to miss the rest of the game with a knee injury. After the game quotes began to come out regarding the injury and the play.

"It was one of those plays where it's kind of a rough play and I was trying to get him to go over the top and I think he was thinking the same thing and wanted to come underneath and we just kind of collided," Welker said. "It wasn't a deal where I was trying to hit him or anything like that. I hope he's OK. He's a great player and a big part of their defense."

Talib doesn't even fully recall what happened on the play to cause that injury. If he was able to go back out there he would of and he said it was very painful to have to continue to watch his team play.

Fast Forward to this morning and we get this:

“One of the worst plays I’ve seen,” Belichick said (Via Mike Reiss) about the hit on Talib at his season-ending press conference. ”The way that play turned out, I went back and watched it, which I didn’t have a chance to yesterday.  It was a deliberate play by the receiver to take out Aqib. No attempt to get open". “I’ll let the league handle the discipline on that play, whatever they decide. It’s one of the worst plays I’ve seen. … That’s all I’ll say about that.”

The Patriots ran the exact same pick plays during the game and on one play there is evidence of Edelman leaving his feet to make a block on a defenseless defender crossing the field. If Welker learned how to make these pick blocks from anyone it was from the team who has done it the best for years. If Belichick doesn't like it he needs to look in the mirror on how he teaches his offense and his wide receivers.