Saints fans need to relax.
They lost the game, there were calls on the Nickell Robey-Coleman’s play that should have gone against them.
Death threats are never cool.
Bleacher Report has a brilliant interview with NRC.
Amid the beautiful chaos, the 27-year-old slot cornerback decided mid-flight to turn on his Wi-Fi, and…hello.
Notifications tripped over themselves by the dozens. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. All of his accounts were blowing up with messages on a continuous loop and, no, they were not all congratulatory. There was a Saints fan promising to burn his house down. Another vowing to “f–k you up” at the airport. Another telling him he better leave the city ASAP or he “might not see tomorrow.” There were countless death threats from what he presumed to be fake names.
How did NRC respond?
“Wolves,” he says, “don’t concern themselves with the opinions of sheep.”
“We outplayed them. We out-schemed them. And we outcoached them. … The Saints need to hold themselves accountable. They did not play championship football. Their numbers were low. Michael Thomas had 36 yards receiving. They had 50 yards rushing. They didn’t capitalize on the turnovers we made early. We capitalized on the breaks we got at the end.”
Not about anyone still bemoaning the hit itself. “I put his ass on a Waffle House frying pan! It was football! If you don’t know the sport, well, then, news flash: We hit people. It’s the NFL. And sometimes, we’d rather take a flag and hit somebody than somebody catch and score on us.”
NRC a former Bill also had some thoughts for the Patriots.
The Rams will be the Italian mobsters at the bar, the Patriots will be the visiting biker gang, and Robey-Coleman will play the role of “Sonny,” Chazz Palminteri’s character. The neighborhood kingpin.
“We kick ’em out of the bar, beat ’em up—and the one thing he said, he looked down at a guy and said, ‘I did this to you.’ That’s how I want to feel: I did this to you. I did this to you.”
“I’ve got Buffalo blood running through my veins, so you know I hate these guys,” Robey-Coleman says. “I naturally hate them. I never liked New England.”
t’s the little things, he explains. The “arrogance.” The fact that Bill Belichick is going to go for it on 4th-and-3 when he’s leading 17-0 in the fourth quarter. The Patriots love “antagonizing” teams, Robey-Coleman says.
“S–t like that. Little s–t to look down upon a team,” he adds. “Little assh–e stuff like that. That’s what makes you not like New England.”
His thoughts on Tom Brady while accurate, will of course will be blown up into a big thing, when most people with eyes can see he is telling the truth.
“Yes. Yes. Age has definitely taken a toll. For him to still be doing it, that’s a great compliment for him. But I think that he’s definitely not the same quarterback he was,” Robey-Coleman says. “Movement. Speed. Velocity. Arm strength. He still can sling it, but he’s not slinging it as much. Whatever he was doing—because of his age and all that—he’s not doing as much of that anymore. He’s still doing the same things; he’s just not doing as much of it. And sometimes, it’s not the sharpest. But it still gets done.”
I am sure he can’t wait for media day.
Flip the page for the calls that Saints got away with.