EagleDave {l Wrote}:flyingelvii {l Wrote}:EagleDave {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:cvilleagle {l Wrote}:Yeah, there must have been some sort of a blow-up, because this just doesn't make sense. The Pats need the weapons this year, because they're just going to have to outscore people sometimes. As a Bills fan, I can say that any team that we put up 30 on has some serious defensive deficiencies. (Although 7 of those were on special teams, still...)
The Pats D always gets much better as the year goes on, but yeah, this defense is young and stupid, though potentially dominant down the road. They need to score points.
The Pats defense is not going to get better this year. It's full of morons like Meriweather who are more concerned with SportsCenter than winning.
Trading Randy Moss for a mid round draft pick reeks of the "we're smarter than you!" arrogance that the Pats have been displaying the last 3 years. Same with the Richard Seymour deal. They won't keep either draft pick ultimately as they'll trade down, pick up some back up scrub, and they'll be out of the league in 4 years.
The continued downfall of the Patriots...gotta love it.
This is fucking retarded. They really sucked last year after losing Seymour. He would've made a HUUUUGGGEEE difference in the Ravens playoff game where the LB corps was exposed for the frauds that they are. Just an FYI, they did trade down from 7 to 10. Sadly, that picked only yielded the porous Jerod Mayo. His trades in the draft last year have only yielded a starting CB, the starting punter and placeholder, the team's leading receiver, and a promising MLB. What a piece of shit! He SUCKS!!!
They're getting younger all around. This year is more or less a transition year, especially with all of the injuries on the defensive side of the ball. And they'll still probably make the playoffs. Continued downfall indeed.
Right. Because Jerod Mayo has clearly matched and greatly exceeded that rookie season he had and not regressed right? Further, the Pats drafting has been average AT BEST in the past 5 years. Butler is useless, Brace is a bust, Chung is a special teams player, Wheatley is a bust, and Meriweather is highly overrated. That's 5 of their 7 1st/2nd round draft picks since 2007 (not including rookies, because it's too early to tell, though promising). The won't bother using the Raiders 1st round pick that everyone is so excited about because it doesn't give them "good value", so they'll package it with their own and trade down for 4 mid round picks, maybe 1 of which will work out.
They'll be lucky to make the playoffs this year and going forward.
Since this post, the Patriots have won as many SuperBowls (3) as they had won prior to this post and have been to the playoffs more often (8 years vs 9). There was actually no "downfall" whatsoever.
Since this post:
2010 - Made playoffs
2011 - Made playoffs, lost in SuperBowl
2012 - Made playoffs
2013 - Made Playoffs
2014 - Made playoffs, won SuperBowl
2015 - Made playoffs
2016 - Made playoffs, won SuperBowl
2017 - Made playoffs, lost SuperBowl
2018 - Made Playoffs, won SuperBowl
Great job by BC Guy Brian Flores. Hopefully the team can add a BC guy in the off season.