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  1. In a week 17 game last season, the Buccaneers had a 21-7 lead on the Saints. If the Bucs win, they pass the 1st pick to Tennessee...so Lovie Smith benched his star players and allowed the Saints to come back and win. When asked about the blatant tank job, Lovie claimed that he was "evaluating the whole roster", so he needed to see the backups play in this situation.

     

    It's funny that Colts fans catch flak for "Suck for Luck", but the Buccaneers don't even have this mentioned on that page.

     

    The Colts whole team was built around Peyton Manning in 2011, and the years before that. Polian built a lousy offensive line, because Manning had such a quick release. Polian built a defense full of undersized players with quickness, decent when holding a lead but lousy against the run. While we had a great stable of pass catchers (Wayne, Garcon, Collie, Clark, etc) our quarterbacks couldn't get them the ball consistently. Collins was bad, Painter was worse, and Orlovsky pulled off a couple nailbiters that were the only thing keeping us from matching Detroit's 0-16 mark. 

     

    For years people said "Without Peyton Manning, the Colts would be lucky to win one game." And without Peyton Manning...we were lucky enough to win two. Then those same people act surprised after the fact, how in the world could they only win two games that year? Look at the talent around them, look at how the team was built.

    This might give AMfootball a heart attack but before the 09 superbowl Brushi said the Colts would wither to dust without Peyton, which was shown to be true as only four players are still around that played with him, as well as maybe one coach.

     

    Meanwhile to build upon the Bucs game last season....they did not score in the second half of the game and gave up 16 points in the 4th quarter to lose by 3.

     

    Colts won in week 16 against the Texans, and if it wasnt for MJD rushing for 170 and giving them four field goals in addition to their one TD (we even scored a TD in the 4th to get close) they would have lost in week 17 and ended up with RG3 lol they almost blew the whole thing. Dan Orlovsky looked like he was in the 3rd year of a hangover, Curtis Painter blew perfection and Collins was old and injured. Colts are not like the Patriots or Giants that tries to draft backups and instead use the picks on players that can help today.

  2. It wont be for a year I can guarantee that. To the NFL and a lot of people in general, the Pats are like the Yankees of the NFL. Which means they'll get special consideration, more attention, and made out to be this be unstoppable force. They'll get away with more too. It'll be a game or 3 and nothing more. There are 4 teams in sports that I hate to their core. They are the New England Patriots, New York Yankees, New York Mets, and Duke Blue Devils. But I hate New England and everything about them more so than any of those other teams. Tom Brady looks like a 40year old Justin Bieber, and all he does is whine and complain. I can see him now whining about the suspension with that little baby mad face and his 15 year old boy scream. This is a great day even if it does only end up being for 2 games.

    Alex Rodriguez initially got 211 games which was reduced to a full year and technically did nothing worse than others who get 50 games.

  3. https://m.soundcloud.com/maddogsportsradio

    This should be heard. Mad Dog's takes on both the Brushi/Woody exchange, as well as the "sophomoric Boston fan" defending him.

    There are a few rants but I would start with "Another Mad Dog Deflategate..." And also listen to his take on Boston fans.

    https://m.soundcloud.com/maddogsportsradio/another-mad-dog-deflategate-rant-the-destruction-of-tedy-bruschi

    https://m.soundcloud.com/maddogsportsradio/5-8-15-dog-segment-pats-fans-sound-cloud

  4. Yep. That info another poster put out yesterday on fumble stats for the 'law firm' was pretty eye opening.

    And that's just one example.

     

    I wonder what Blount's fumble rate was for the Steelers last year.

    Heck, now I'm wondering if the whole Blount to the Pats thing sparked this issue.

    Way back in January I had a statistic that compared Law Firm, Welker, Amendola, Lafell, Blount, and Woodhead during their careers as Pats vs elsewhere and the touch to fumble ratio severely is more advantageous as a member of the Pats.

  5. I guess that is your take but I am just as horrified at those outside of NE that are comparing this to Nixon and Lance Armstrong. As with everything, the extremes run wild and are a sad commentary on the human condition.

    It's basically the same in some aspect for each. Nixon did his business in an election he would have won, just like Brady would have against the colts (although you can say if he's done it before - like the week before - it could have been a loss). Armstrong had a lot of titles that are now tainted, like Tom Brady's.

     

    A-Rod lied and lied and eventually came clean and served his ridiculously long sentence for something many players do. Brady is still lying after getting caught doing something illegal only he has been orchestrating habitually. We will know the full truth one day whether Brady admits it or not. McNally hasn't gone to espn.......yet.

     

    You here sticking up for him over 40 pages is a sad commentary on human condition, you should join the mass legion of logic-less fans all over twitter and barstool sports or new england's forum so you can try to ignore facts to poke more holes in "the report" before telling us how sad we are for comparing very comparable tragic figures.

  6. BTW, Don Yee has been everywhere this week - CNN, Mike and Mike, Dan Patrick and he was just on our local afternoon show. It is clear that he and Brady believe this report is bogus and will fight any league discipline.

    Why can't Brady speak instead of having his daddy, his agent, his owner, his 0 IQ tight end speak.

    "Daddy I got in trouble can you please go to the principal's office for me??"

     

    Yee realizes that this isn't a courtroom right? Probable is plenty in a private company.

     

    Players have done a ton of time for much less.

  7. It doesn't bother me that we played the first half with the deflated footballs. It bothers me that McNally stole the balls, sneaked into the bathroom with them, let air out of them, and then took them out to the field. It bothers me that he evidently did this in cooperation with Jastremski, likely on multiple occasions. And it bothers me that he likely did this at the behest of Tom Brady. That's it. The blame is easily contained in this situation, and it falls directly on those three. Not the league. Not the refs. Certainly not the Colts. 

     

    I am pretty ticked the game was never fair from the start. We still would get killed but the fact Grigson told them and the refs knew to look out for it....I get there is no time to delay and re-pump the balls. It's not that much to expect a fair game and despite our warnings and NFL's warnings it still didn't happen. I know the refs followed correct protocol and did their jobs but it still happened despite warnings.

     

    We got cheated against in a championship game. A game we fight tooth and nail to get into and have been to a few times in my lifetime. The Jets are fined 100K because the Patriots accuse them of tampering when Woody says he wants to get an old player back, yet we are the ones that won't be made whole in this situation since we had to suffer from both the NFL's knowing and still failing to catch it and the Patriot's red-handed cheating in such a high profile game.

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