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Vince Wilfork Says Patriots Players Don’t Respect The Game

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Patriots Hall of Fame inductee Vince Wilfork recently shared his displeasure for Mac Jones antics on the field. Now he is pointing fingers at the rest of the Patriots players for an uneventful season. Fences clearly unhappy with the way things have changed in recent years.

“It seems like to me, football now is more about what you can do outside of football than the football game now,” Wilfork said. “You have so many football players want to be rappers. They want to have the clothing line. They want to have everything going on besides what really matters. What you get paid to do is play football. That’s the problem. That’s this new generation we’re in.

“These guys don’t respect the game and don’t respect the coaches the way we used to. I’ve never seen anybody talk back to Bill,” Wilfork said. “As a leader and as a captain of course we have conversations on things that we might not like, but that’s behind closed doors and that’s not us challenging Bill. It’s us trying to get a better understanding of what’s going on. But as far as talking back to a coach? Like, no. You don’t do that. But this new era of football, these kids feel entitled.”



“I think a lot has to do with the players, honestly,” Wilfork said. “It’s the quality of players and just understanding how important it is to play as a team with the system. The Patriots made a lot of bonehead plays over the past two years, especially just talking about this past year. Mistakes that they made, normally as a Bill Belichick team they don’t make those mistakes. We used to laugh at teams and we used to put those teams on the video screen and say, ‘Hey, we can’t play like this and we won’t play like this.’ But now all of a sudden, they become that team. So I think that’s a lack of focus honestly, and it starts with the players. Players gotta understand coaches coach, players play. There was a lot of times where I got defensive calls that I didn’t like, but I had to try to execute it to the best of my ability.

“I think it’s too many people that’s individuals instead of being one. Everybody wants to make a play. Your team starts listening to outside of the building and what you need to do, and what they need to do, and individuals take it upon themselves to try to do that. That’s a no-no. So at the end of the day you’ve gotta stick to the course and stick to the plan because 11 is better than one.”



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