Bad Morty
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11 hours ago, Scott Pennock said:
Solder (Oline), Lewis (RB) and Amendola (WR) are all free agents and would boost our talent as well.
Solder is probably going to retire...he was contemplating it this past offseason. Amendola is going to be 33, the Pats like him, and he's been taking team friendly deals to stay the past couple of years because he likes it here. Lewis...lol...there is no way the Pats let him go.
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The Saints and their fans trolled the Falcons pretty hard this year over the SB loss last year. Looks to me like the Falcons have some revenge ammo now.
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31 minutes ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Fire Tomlin now damn it, fire him now I says
I wonder if Pitt fans are like that.
They should be...that was a horribly coached game even by Tomlin's standards. Even a jamoke like me knows without even thinking about it that when you are down 10 with no timeouts and you complete a pass to the opponent's 10 yard line with 45 seconds left, you kick the field goal and give yourself a chance to get the onside kick and score the tying TD. Instead, they killed the remaining 45 seconds putting it into the end zone for a meaningless TD and never gave themselves a chance...that is embarrassing and Tomlin should be fired.
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1 hour ago, horseshoecrabs said:
It's funny i remember Peyton use to due that early on, Bill called that, "Manning doing trickery instead of playing football".
I'd love to see a link to that quote...it doesn't sound like something Bill would say. I seem to recall him always having a great deal of respect for Peyton.
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Brady could play 10 more years and not be as bad as probably 8 of the other 11 QB's in this year's playoffs. That is one of the worst football games I've ever seen.
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2 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
I want to see Buffalo play the Pats again with McCoy healthy because it is such a huge divisional rivalry. Those teams and fanbases hate each other.
Pats fans don't hate Buffalo. We definitely hate Jets fans, and I would say Dolphins fans are 2nd on the list. Bills fans are ok though. They are definitely hardcore. How do you hate the Bills, really? They kind of have that Cubs thing going for them.
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11 minutes ago, Chrisaaron1023 said:
KC looked so good Early I was looking forward to seeing them in NE again. Oh well. I'd rather the bills play the pats instead of the Titans. 3-0 is tough to do in a season
they don't have to go 3-0 though...they just have to win one game....that's my statistics-nerd pet peeve. People always say that.."it's hard to win 3 games vs the same team"...yeah, statistically it IS hard...before any games have been played. But after one team has already won 2 of those games, the odds of it happening are exactly the same as the odds of a team winning one game.
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I will say this...more than any other year, I saw Brady catch teams by getting a quick snap off as their 12th guy was loafing to the sidelines. It seems like they got a lot of "too many men" penalties that resulted in first downs this year.
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Is this story even remotely controversial if he signed with some other team? I doubt it. The reality is that he got released by the Steelers...they didn't have to do that...and then he signed with the only team that offered him a deal after his release. The Martellus Bennet situation was definitely shady and controversial. This is nothing of the sort. The Steelers had it completely in their power to keep this guy on the roster for a few more weeks if for no other reason than to prevent him from landing on the roster of a team they might face in the playoffs. They chose not to do that. That's a move that says "we don't fear this guy coming back to haunt us", so good for them. Yet all of their words after he signed here tell a completely different story. And the guy looked like he has some game yesterday.
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3 hours ago, Gramz said:
I have seen this statement on several sites. Do you agree ~ or disagree...??
The rule was interpreted correctly, but the rule is bad. There are plenty of problems with the NFL right now, but many of them are either intractable or downright unfixable. The catch rule is not one of them. The NFL has to fix it, and that might require a totally radical sort of solution.
I would have no problem if the rule were changed so that a play like that one is considered a catch. I think the NFL strives to eliminate as much subjectivity from the rules as they can. They don't want the officiating to be like that of the NBA, where a "foul" is purely subjective and changes from ref to ref. There's good and bad to that. This is a classic example...here we all are basically agreeing that the play was called exactly as the rule is written. The ball was moving as he went to the ground. Yet most people visually watching it believe he completed the catch and then scored.
That said, you know damn well that if they change the rules this offseason, the odds are that the Pats will end up winning a game as the beneficiary of that new interpretation!
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8 hours ago, dgambill said:
Tom looked fine from what I saw...he looked tons better than last week....but that’s because Pitts never gets pressure on Tom.
I think that having #87 on the field played a pretty significant role as well. The defense is really hurting them these past couple of weeks. The Pats offense only had 3 possessions in the first half yesterday because the defense couldn't get off the field. Buffalo actually started this trend a few weeks back and frankly, it's the best way to beat this team...slow, patient drives down the field that kill the clock and result in points.
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1 minute ago, dgambill said:
Probably not true because it wouldn’t have been scrutinized as it was. These TD reviews have gone too far and it isn’t really just this call but it’s like they look for ways to overturn things and ruin the flow of games. I agree the call was right according to the rule....but I think he controlled the ball....just because it moved slightly doesn’t mean he didn’t clearly catch it....but that is the rule it can’t move so that’s the right call...it’s just a bad rule interpretation. Pitts deserved to lose...they should have picked it off on that last drive and they ran a horrible Seattle goal line play AGAIN how many times will teams try that against NE. The team that executed down the stretch won and that was NE as usual.
well the onus would have been on the Pats to challenge it on the 50 (whereas the review is automatic on scoring plays)...however, assuming the play happened at midfield AND the Pats threw the red flag, it gets turned over for the same reason. It's not that the ball was moving a little...it's that it touched the ground while he was trying to reestablish control.
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Just now, Jules said:
And here we go.........
The "it was the right call!!!!" parade right on cue.
but...it was. If he had established himself as a runner and then fell across the plane and juggled, it's a TD. He hit the ground juggling in the process of completing the catch. People probably don't like that they consider the "lunge forward" to be considered part of "completing the catch"...I don't necessarily disagree with that. But they call that every time.
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47 minutes ago, buffalo34 said:
I thought as long as you break the plane you're good. The ball came out AFTER he broke the plane, he controlled it getting it across the plane.
That'd a TD.
That was as cut and dry a call as they get...you have to control the ball through the ground on a catch whether your are breaking the plane or not. That wouldn't have been a catch if he caught it the 50 yard line...the goal line is irrelevant on that play.
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8 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Yeah it was actually 38-7 going into the 4th but you guys still added another TD and were passing the ball up 45-7 midway through the 4th. I guess it is what it is. Pats do that to everyone anyway. Belichick is real fortunate that Brady has never got injured in garbage time doing this. Remember when Belichick played Wes Welker in the last game of the season which was a meaningless game, I think it was in 2009 and Welker got injured. Then the Ravens blasted the Pats in Round 1 at Foxboro.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201501180nwe.htm#all_pbp
The Pats had the ball to start the 4th, up 38-7. Given that we just saw a 25 point lead erased in 18 minutes, you certainly can't believe that a 31 point lead with 15 minutes left is safe enough that the winning team should run into the line 3 times and punt? The drive that resulted in the final TD started with 15 minutes to go. It was a 9 play drive that took 5 minutes off the clock and ended up with a LeGarret Blount 3 yard TD run off tackle. 4 of the 9 plays were passes, 1 of which was incomplete. So there were 3 completed passes on that drive, one for 6 yards and two for 8 yards. The other 5 plays were runs. The Pats then ran a total of 6 plays on their remaining 2 drives (both of which were 3 an outs). There were 5 runs and 1 incomplete pass.
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13 hours ago, 2006Coltsbestever said:
Everyone loses to the Pats. That is why when we lost 45-7 in the Championship Game in 2014 I wasn't really hard on the team. They ran up the score as well in that game. It was only 17-7 at Half. Pats always demolish Ben and Pitt and now stomped Carr 33-8.
We're just coming off a superbowl in which a 28-3 lead with 3 minutes left in the 3rd qrtr was overcome. The Patriots scored a TD with 3 minutes to go in the 3rd quarter of the 2015 AFC Championship game to take a 31-7 lead. So that game was virtually identical in terms of score/time left in the game. A minute later, on the Colts ensuing drive, Revis picked off Luck and returned it to the 13, setting up the TD that would put the Pats ahead 38-7. The Colts were then forced to punt on their first possession in the 4th, the Pats then scored on their first possession of the 4th to make it 45-7...that was it on scoring. The Pats had 2 more drives and punted on both of them.
So I don't accept that they "ran up the score" in that game. Not even close.
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2 minutes ago, buffalo34 said:
Patriots from the 5 yard line get into borderline FG range with 30 seconds left.
Watch Gotstowski blast this right down the pipe.
What do you mean "borderline"???
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4 hours ago, southwest1 said:
Part of me wonders why BB did this move? San Fran must have really offered Kraft & company a really sweet deal.
Does this mean when Brady's done playing the Grey Hoodie will ride off into the NFL sunset too now?
I'm just stunned by this trade because usually I dismiss whatever Skip Bayless says, but his theory that Bill wanted to prove to the world that he could win a ring without Brady made sense. Plus, Bill's son works for the franchise too.
If Brady gets hurt now, they are so screwed. No insurance policy at all. Zip, zilch, nada baby.
If Brady gets hurt, they're as screwed now as they were yesterday. I wish Garoppolo well - he's earned the right to go play. But I think it's naive to think there wouldn't be a MAJOR drop-off from Brady to pretty much anyone. Jimmy G played an ok game vs AZ last year, then had an amazing one quarter of football vs Miami before getting injured. That's just not enough for me to say "that's a guy who can win a Super Bowl". We've all seen too many cases where short term success ends up being a mirage. Brock Osweiler is the most recent, high profile example of it, but the NFL is littered with these stories.
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Just now, Jules said:
Brady is like the monster in the horror movie who never dies but keeps coming back. I guess you can take this as a compliment too.
lol...yeah he's one of the most competitive athletes I've ever seen. Whether you love or hate the guy, consider that he's 40 years old, he's got 5 rings, and he's married to a super model who is worth more than even he is. How many of us would be as fanatically driven to continue making the necessary sarifices to continue to play this game in those circumstances?
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23 minutes ago, Jules said:
So now Hoyer is coming back? Interesting.
What is really odd to me is I always thought NE was VERY high on Jimmy G.
I wonder if behind the scenes Brady didn't like him breathing down his neck.
Bill would never make a trade based on something like that. In fact, it's common knowledge that he drafted Jimmy G initially to light a fire under Brady, who had had a couple of so-so years (by his standards) leading up to that draft pick.
All I can figure is that Bill must be convinced that Brady can give him 2-3 more years at a level that is good enough that they could keep winning. He may not be a top 3 QB for that duration, but based on what he looks like now it's hard to imagine him dropping out of the top 10 in 3 years, and you should be able to win with a top 10 QB. So there was just no way they could keep Garoppolo, and his value drops at the end of the year when he's a free agent. They got what will likely be the first pick of the 2nd round...so not a bad return.
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I guess when you consider that the niner's 2nd round pick this year is effectively a late 1st rounder plus they are getting Hoyer back (I'm hearing that's a lock), this makes sense. Brady doesn't look like he'll be a guy you can't win with in 3-4 years, so...good luck Jimmy.
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21 minutes ago, 21isSuperman said:
Who is the backup QB for the Pats now?
I think I am.
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50 minutes ago, WoolMagnet said:
I havent looked closely, but the whole TB12 thing with diet, etc just has an odd feeling to it. Almost cultish.
who knows, hard yo accuse with no facts.
probably some miracle plant from the amazon rain forest he found while practicing his dancing skills in south america with Giselle:
then again, most substances on the ban list weren't at som point: i have a chemist friend that says you'd be surprised what can be "cooked up."
in no way am i accusing Tom, i need proof on these types of allegations.
EVEN for Tommy.
I'm a major Brady fan...but I have a feeling he is going to be an annoying weirdo with this stuff as soon as he retires.
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47 minutes ago, NannyMcafee said:
Like I said, I wasn't comparing the 2. We are talking about a very QB friendly system. Which is great, I don't hate the patriots for that, in fact, I would love to see the Colts have a QB friendly system. My point is, that the system is only helping Brady in his older age, perform at a high level.
Brady, as much as I hate him, is obviously a lot better than Leaf ever was. But again, I'm not comparing the 2. I repeat, I am not, comparing the 2. This is about a system.
If that is the case, why then wouldn't the Pats have traded him 10 years ago for a boatload of draft picks, inserted some young, cheap QB in, and used the cap savings to go load up elsewhere? They've spent a ton of cap money and wasted the opportunity to improve elsewhere by hanging on to somebody who's just a system guy.
I wonder if Pitt fans are like that.
Jacksonville (+7.5) at New England (1-21-18)
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It actually started at the end of the first half. The Pats got the TD to make it 14-10...Jags then got the ball back on their own 25 with 55 seconds left and all their timeouts....and they took a knee. 55 seconds with timeouts is an eternity. I would guess that Brady puts points up 90% of the time in that situation. I can't believe they forfeited that drive.