On Sunday night, after the Jets beat the Patriots in the playoffs 28-21, the veteran linebacker had a whole lot more to say.
For one, he was upset with the media for painting the Patriots and Bill Belichick as a great team.
"You guys talk about how great their defense is playing — last I checked, they were 25th in the league, and we were third," Scott said. "And we were the ones that got disrespected for not being able to put pressure on the quarterback, for not being able to get off the field, and we were ranked 22 spots ahead of 'em. And that's how [the media's] perception isn't reality all the time. You guys perceived that they were playing well and we were playing so bad, but I guess the cream rises to the top."
Scott, who said he loves Rex Ryan so much that he "would die for that man," wasn't overly impressed with the Patriots' failed fake punt at the end of the second quarter — a miscue that led to a Jets touchdown.
"I guess you guys got the guru on the other side, you know what I mean?" Scott said of Belichick's praise in the media. "You guys talk about how great he is, [but] maybe you guys will start giving our coach some credit for being able to know what he's doing."
Scott also credited his teammates for disrupting the Patriots during the week. The Jets talk trash so often that it really doesn't become a distraction, but Scott said the Patriots got caught in the Jets' trap.
"I'm a boxing guy," Scott explained. "Just like when you saw "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler acting out of character and trying to dance in the ring with "Sugar" Ray Leonard, when that was [Leonard's] thing. I think [the Patriots] bought into our game — and we're good at our game. We can talk and play. I don't think they can."
Not just a boxing guy, Scott showed an unexpected appreciation of chess.
"I think they were a little bit cocky, thinking they could come in with the same game plan," Scott said. "We showed them that we can make adjustments. We did it the first game. Check. In the second game, they came in and beat us. Check. We came in when it counted the most. Check — checkmate."
Though few expected the Jets to even keep things close on Sunday, Scott was far from surprised.
"If you go down board for board, and look at our roster and look at their rosters, we got better players all across the field. All across the field," he said. "Did you check the numbers of the playoff experience of their roster? Did you notice that one of the guys is Danny Woodhead, [and] his experience was being on our sidelines? So we were the experienced group going into it.
"Last I checked, Tedy Bruschi and Rod Harrison and Richard Seymour — those guys aren't on their sidelines. You guys fear 'em, [but] we don't fear anybody. We believe that we can match up against anybody. That's all we try to establish and say at the beginning, no matter how cocky or arrogant we may sound."
