Joey Porter is one of the biggest loudmouths in the NFL. Turns out, he's also one of the poorest losers. And delusional. And bitter. And judging by his performance in his chance at revenge against the Patriots, his supremely emotional style of play is quite overstated, and maybe he should just relax.
From his appearance on NFL Sunday Countdown with Keyshawn Johnson, courtesy of ProFootballTalk:
Keyshawn Johnson: Let’s switch to the New England Patriots game. Is there a big difference in that rivalry of the Miami Dolphins, New England, and Pittsburgh-New England?
Joey Porter: Yeah, it’s a big difference . . . but I still got hate from when I was at Pittsburgh.
Keyshawn: Why?
Porter: Because I got cheated.
Keyshawn: Cheated in what?
Porter: In both of them AFC championship games.
Keyshawn: What did they do?
Porter: Come on, man. They’ve been videotaping for years, man. You cannot sit up there and honestly tell me if it wasn’t working, why was he doing it so much? You’re not going to sit up there and tell me if I’m a quarterback in my headset I know where the blitz is coming. I know where my hots and stuff is at before it happens. I know what play you’re running on defense. All you got to do is be in the right position . . . just catch the ball.
Keyshawn: So you feel they were cheating. You don’t feel they were just the better team?
Porter: What? No, no, no, no. Two times we could have blown them people out easily. They say, oh, he’s so smart. This is the best brainstorming coach. Yeah, because he’s cheating. He got caught. . . . If it wasn’t so bad, why did you destroy the tape so fast? . . . We want to see the tapes. When you get rid of evidence like that, there was something in it they didn’t want everybody to see.
Keyshawn: So you take it personally?
Porter: Man. . . . That’s my dynasty. You know what I mean? I could be sitting up here with three rings. This is the way I look at it. I played three AFC Championships — won one, lost two. . . . Yeah, to me just like they want to put an asterisk on everything else, yeah, I don’t care what they say. They have an asterisk on them. . . . At the same time, people that played against them on the field, we know. Who they got on that team beside Tom Brady? It’s not like they’ve got a gang of dogs over there. . . . They have a bunch of all right guys. You know what I mean? Not no just real dogs. They’ve got some beasts on the D line and stuff like that but . . . .
Keyshawn: You can’t possibly think, three Super Bowls. . . . You think they cheated in every single one of them games?
Porter: Man, I’m going to tell you, I’m taking that to the grave, man. I don’t care what nobody say. . . .
Keyshawn: What about last year? . . . All the glamor, glitz and glamor, 16-0. You think they were cheating then?
Porter: I don’t know. You know, I don’t know. . . . Maybe he found a new way to do it or not to tell you the truth. The boy cold, man. He showed us, he’s cold. The boy cold, man. Hey, the boy cold, man. He showed us man, he cold. . . . I don’t trust him.
Porter is sadly off-base here. I'm obviously biased, as a Patriots fan, but the fact remains that the games still have to be played on the field. He can bitch about those two losses all he wants, but whether or not the Patriots used any of the video tapes to help them win the game, the Steelers failed to execute.
How did the videotapes affect the Steelers so much that they were only able to score 17 in the AFC Championship game after the 2001 season? How did the videotapes make the Patriots intercept 3 Ben Roethlisberger passes 3 years later?Regardless, it's a bit pathetic that Porter would still be so jealous and bitter about it this long after the fact. The worst part about Spygate was that it gave every pathetic loudmouthed loser like Porter something to point at as an excuse for his team's lack of execution, instead of looking in the mirror and placing the blame where it belongs.
Am I being a bit harsh on Porter? Maybe. Might he have a point, somewhere in there? Maybe. But once he started questioning last year, after all eyes were on the Patriots, he lost all credibility, and morphed into just another loser whining about his own failure.
The Patriots didn't need videotapes to beat Porter's Dolphins yesterday, showing why Bill Belichick (even without videotapes) is one of the best in the game at making adjustments and finding a way to beat a team, even if they lost to them earlier in the year.
It's time for Joey Porter to just shut up. He was wrong about Michael Vick, and he's wrong about this. Joey, if you want a dynasty, work on it in Miami. Until then, stick to what you're good at... which is clearly anything BUT public speaking.
Porter Goes Off On Patriots [ProFootballTalk]
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