New England Patriots: Tedy Bruschi's Unnecessary Criticism of Chad Ochocinco

Someone in New England needs to throw a penalty flag. 

Someone in Boston needs to take out a yellow hanky and toss it at former New England Patriots LB Tedy Bruschi. 

Someone needs to hit Bruschi squarely in his stubborn block head with some yellow football laundry.

Yes, someone needs to penalize the ESPN football analyst 15 yards for unnecessary roughness—or, rather, unnecessary commentary—for overreacting to new Patriot WR Chad Ochocinco's innocuous tweet.

Ochocinco acknowledged New England quarterback Tom Brady's spectacular performance on Monday Night Football—517 yards, 4 TDs—by tweeting, "Just waking up after a late arrival, I've never seen a machine operate like that n person, to see video game numbers put up n person was WOW."

Bruschi, a good player for great Patriots teams, is only a marginal sports analyst.

Why take a series of cheap shots at a grateful Ochocinco, happy to be emancipated from a struggling franchise in Cincinnati and eager to fit into one of the elite football teams in the NFL?

Ochocinco caught only one pass for 14 yards, but never once questioned why he hadn't seen more passes from Brady.

Bruschi's remarks on Boston's WEEI Radio reflected an angst unwarranted in his new role as a supposedly objective broadcaster.

His harsh criticism of Ochocinco provided fodder for sports talk show dialogue across the country and outed the former inside linebacker's penchant to pile it on as an NFL analyst.

Two weeks earlier, Bruschi angrily responded to Houston Texan RB Arian Foster's tweet about his hamstring MRI. Bruschi called Foster "incredibly dumb and incredibly stupid."

Sure does appear as if we're seeing a pattern here.  

Someone at ESPN or WEEI Radio needs to toss that yellow flag at Bruschi for being "incredibly reckless" with his unnecessary remarks and march him back 15 yards...right out of the broadcast booth. 

Straight talk. No static.

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