Projo Pats Blog

On the Wednesday before each game during the regular season, New England media have conference calls with the head coach and one player from that week's opponent. This week, Joey Porter was requested, for obvious reasons: he likes to talk, and not all of it is PC.

We just wrapped the call with Porter, and while he tried to hold his tongue (he said that if reporters were fishing for him to say something bad, we could go to Florida and have a real fishing trip down there instead), in the end he just couldn't help himself.

Asked about his feelings toward the Patriots, he said New England doesn't like him "and I don't like them. It's not like a divorce; we were never married."

He said his dislike of the Pats goes back to the days when Porter was with Pittsburgh, and how they beat the Steelers in a couple of AFC title games. He learned later, Porter said, how New England won those games, and they cost him Super Bowl rings.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about," he said.

But in case you don't know what Porter is taking about, here's some of what he said about New England to ESPN's Keyshawn Johnson last November:

"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 ...."

After the war of words leading up to last week's game with the Jets (fueled mostly by New York, to be fair), Porter & Co. were likely told to tone it down. Like I said, Porter tried, but he couldn't help himself.

 Tags  Joey Porter

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