Mr. Shaughnessy,

There really was no need to offer up such potent bulletin board material at this time to the Patriots' next rivals. And I totally disagree this is a cakewalk, especially given the return of the Texans' LB and the TE and given that Gronk is not really 100% back.

I respect and read your articles and TV commentaries with great interest, but have to say you completely misrepresented (unofficially of course as you are not a Patriots spokesperson) the Patriots Nation this time around.

http://blog.chron.com/ultimatetexans/2013/01/arian-foster-reacts-to-boston-globe-column/

lsulifer

Shaughnessy does not work for the Patriots. His job is not to help the team. His job is to write columns that people read. Clearly he's doing a good job as you're bringing up his column

I don't see any harm. he's telling the truth.

In response to lsulifer86's comment:

If the Texans thinks this comes from the Pats and its worth bulletin board material then they are even more delusional than when they wore letterman jackets. They should take this game seriously and focus on their opponent, not some stupid media talking head.

Foster is starting to peev me and I hope Spikes or Wilfork light him up. At least JJ Watt shows class and respect, very much a BB/Patriots type player.

One way or another Houston will be FIRED up. THis is no game to be taken lightly.

I really think his job is to sabotage the Patriots.  Has he ever written a pro Patriots column?

I hated when I read that article, it's us versus the world rally arguement, but as Kansas said it is the truth.

foster put a part of that article as his profile picture on his twitter page....

Hate him, never forgot his POS "article" when Peyton was about to choke to the Saints in the Superbowl. 

Shanks Shaughnessy a.k.a. the curly headed boyfriend, is typical of most of our lame Boston sportswriters. He usually writes nonsense just for the shock value and to get folks talking ala Felger.

In response to Quagmire3's comment:

ROFL, I just heard his interview with a Hou sports station, via 98.5, and it was the funniest thing ever. He completely blew up any billboard material that Hou could have pulled from it. Seriously, he came off being a goofy and not knowing anything about football. Even if a Hou player had the article hanging up in his locker after hearing the interview they'd just take it down and say "well damn that boy doesn't know anything anyways".

Well played Shaughnessy

Ugh, Foster, please don't be awkward.  Putting this lame article from an absolute jamoke up as your twitter picture for motivation, is nothing short of embarrassing.

This is equivalent to high schoolers when they talk trash and put it on Facebook to gain attention.  Ugh.  What a dink.

     Shaughnessy did the Pats no favors with this article. Houston is going to be sky high. The Pats must be ready to meet their intensity, head on.

In response to TexasPat's comment:

The Texans know they need any bit of motivation they can get.  It won't be easy to come to F'boro in January and win.  Whatever edge they think are getting by using a CHB article, good for them.  The Texans need to prove that what CHB wrote is wrong, but the Pats are in their way.     

This is Shaughnessy hedging his bets. If the Pats destroy the Texans, he looks smart. And if the Texans beat the Pats, his next Pats/Belichick/Brady bashing article is already being written.

People still read Shaughnessy?

Curiouser and curiouser.

I don't understand the concept of getting bulletins board material from the media. The media dismisses teams every week, bulletin board material must come from players.

If the Texans have to rely on a story by a hack writer who doesn't even cover football to get themselves riled up they're in trouble.

As for Shaughnessy himself....He probably did this on purpose to try to make himself relevent. His only job these days seems to be to crap on Red Sox players. Nobody's paid attention to him for years.

What is sad is if Foster has to rely on a reporter's column/statement to give his team motivation to win a game!  This is a hack reporter who wrote this!  If anything, each team can simply look at the media for bulletin board materials.  Look how often we are hearing the Texans don't have much of a chance Sunday when you listen to the talking heads on NFL Network and ESPN. 

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In response to agcsbill's comment:

Shaughnessy's worst night happened with the Sox won in 03' it took away the curse he invented and all the right to tee shirts and hats that went with it!