Jeff Howe: Patriots Using DeflateGate As Rallying Cry
BOSTON (CBS) - Boston Herald Patriots beat writer Jeff Howe joined 98.5 The Sports Hub's Mike Felger and Tony Massarotti on Radio Row Monday afternoon.
Former Patriots fullback and current NFL analyst Heath Evans told Adam Jones last week that this DeflateGate mess won't be a distraction for the Patriots, and it'll be something the team uses to their advantage as motivation.
Howe wholeheartedly agrees.
"I absolutely do [think it'll be a rallying cry]. This team does it as well, and probably better than any team in the league, and it's done it for a decade and a half," Howe told Felger & Mazz.
But Felger thinks these circumstances are a little different.
These accusations aren't fans and media questioning the team's talent or anything like that.
What's being called into question about the Patriots is their integrity, and if they are in fact cheaters.
"Yeah, [it's different], but they have two weeks to sort of let all this hate sort of marinate. I think they're very ticked off. Some of them are probably ticked off at the media, some of them are probably ticked off at the league, the Colts, the Ravens or whoever, and they're all going to let it out against the Seahawks, which is what they'll need against the most physically dominant team in the NFL," said Howe.
"In a lot of ways this is going to be a street fight, and they'll have two weeks of anger to unleash."
Listen below for the full discussion:
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