NFL 2018-19 2.0

[Cheeks]

McVay crapped his pants.

Being in the stands, it was like 80% Pats fans.  Felt like a home game.  Awful game, worse halftime show, nice stadium

[Cheeks]

Edelman starts the year with a four game suspension for doping and ends the year and SB MVP and everyone loves him.

It is amazing how everyone gets truly outraged at doping in baseball, and all the secondary sports (track, cycling, etc) and seriously does not care about doping in Football.

He was booed roundly by the neutral and Rams fans whenever he was shown on the screen

[MU82]

Brady's stats were unimpressive, but that's the kind of game it was -- defense-oriented, play for fiend position, try to run the ball, etc.

When it came to nut-cutting time, though, he threw three absolutely perfect passes -- as pretty as any pass can be thrown.

If I didn't already believe Brady was the best ever, I guess I could try to make my case that he did nothing special in this game.

But because I do believe Brady is the best ever, his intelligent handling of the game and his brilliance when his team needed him most helped demonstrate why he has won 6 Super Bowls and played in 9 of them.

Kind-of-related note ...

Interesting to me that in this super-low-scoring game of field position and defense, it was the most lopsided Super Bowl win the Patriots have had ... a margin of 10 whole points!

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Being in the stands, it was like 80% Pats fans.  Felt like a home game.  Awful game, worse halftime show, nice stadium

The halftime show was terrible.

You give Belichick two weeks to prepare for a young quarterback and he's going to figure him out.  And unlike Philly last year, they never had a counter. Too bad the Saints didn't make it because Brees would have been much more capable.

[Not A Serious Person]

Everyone loves the Patriots Super Bowl MVP? Lol good God do you go a long way to making yourself look foolish for a tiny bit of shock value attention man.

Whew .. as long as you call me stupid I know I'm on the right track.

FYI - MLB bans dopers from post-season.



Patriots 5 - 4 in nine super bowls and along the way ...

Spygate - Bust for videoing the opposing team

Walkthroughgate (2002) In 2008, the local Boston tabloid, The Boston Herald reported -- citing an unnamed and unverified source -- that the New England Patriots had videotaped the St. Louis Rams' February 2002 walkthrough practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.

IRgate in 2013 -  put false information about them on official injury reports. Brandon Spikes and Aqib Talib have both said since leaving New England in free agency that when they were on the Patriots last year, the team gave them injury designations that weren’t accurate.

Deflategate (2015), Brady suspended

Employed a murderer at tight-end, who was killed in prison.

Now has a doper as Superbowl MVP  In fact here are the other dopers since 2007

S Rodney Harrison (2007)
LB Brandon Spikes (2010)
DE Jermaine Cunningham (2012)
RB Brandon Boldin (2012)
DE Rob Ninkovich (2016)

This is a small sample of the cheating

https://yourteamcheats.com/NE

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The Patriots are like John Calipari ... love them when they win and this is "quirky anecdotes."  But, when they start to lose, they become Rick Pitino.

[MU82]

Too bad the Saints didn't make it because Brees would have been much more capable.

Maybe. Even probably.

Then again, the most accurate QB in history did throw an INT in OT of the NFC title game, a pick that helped make the no-call seem even worse than it was.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Whew .. as long as you call me stupid I know I'm on the right track.

FYI - MLB bans dopers from post-season.



Patriots 5 - 4 in nine super bowls and along the way ...

Spygate - Bust for videoing the opposing team

Walkthroughgate (2002) In 2008, the local Boston tabloid, The Boston Herald reported -- citing an unnamed and unverified source -- that the New England Patriots had videotaped the St. Louis Rams' February 2002 walkthrough practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.

IRgate in 2013 -  put false information about them on official injury reports. Brandon Spikes and Aqib Talib have both said since leaving New England in free agency that when they were on the Patriots last year, the team gave them injury designations that weren’t accurate.

Deflategate (2015), Brady suspended

Employed a murderer at tight-end, who was killed in prison.

Now has a doper as Superbowl MVP  In fact here are the other dopers since 2007

S Rodney Harrison (2007)
LB Brandon Spikes (2010)
DE Jermaine Cunningham (2012)
RB Brandon Boldin (2012)
DE Rob Ninkovich (2016)

This is a small sample of the cheating

https://yourteamcheats.com/NE

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The Patriots are like John Calipari ... love them when they win and this is "quirky anecdotes."  But, when they start to lose, they become Rick Pitino.

???  Who "loves" the Patriots outside of Boston?

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Maybe. Even probably.

Then again, the most accurate QB in history did throw an INT in OT of the NFC title game, a pick that helped make the no-call seem even worse than it was.

Well his arm was hit but yeah I get your point.

[mu_hilltopper]

???  Who "loves" the Patriots outside of Boston?

I've been mortified by the number of bandwagoneers that I've met through the years.   People like to associate with winners.

Me .. when you are born, that's your team.  Ok, yes, you get to choose from teams around you (Jets/Giants, Sox/Cubs.) 

The *only* exception is that you can marry into a team.

[StillAWarrior]

Whew .. as long as you call me stupid I know I'm on the right track.

FYI - MLB bans dopers from post-season.



Patriots 5 - 4 in nine super bowls and along the way ...

Spygate - Bust for videoing the opposing team

Walkthroughgate (2002) In 2008, the local Boston tabloid, The Boston Herald reported -- citing an unnamed and unverified source -- that the New England Patriots had videotaped the St. Louis Rams' February 2002 walkthrough practice prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.

IRgate in 2013 -  put false information about them on official injury reports. Brandon Spikes and Aqib Talib have both said since leaving New England in free agency that when they were on the Patriots last year, the team gave them injury designations that weren’t accurate.

Deflategate (2015), Brady suspended

Employed a murderer at tight-end, who was killed in prison.

Now has a doper as Superbowl MVP  In fact here are the other dopers since 2007

S Rodney Harrison (2007)
LB Brandon Spikes (2010)
DE Jermaine Cunningham (2012)
RB Brandon Boldin (2012)
DE Rob Ninkovich (2016)

This is a small sample of the cheating

https://yourteamcheats.com/NE

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The Patriots are like John Calipari ... love them when they win and this is "quirky anecdotes."  But, when they start to lose, they become Rick Pitino.

When I read your initial post, I was confused about who you were referring to when you said, "everyone."  Based upon this follow-up, I guess that by "everyone" you meant the NFL and/or Pats fans?

[Not A Serious Person]

???  Who "loves" the Patriots outside of Boston?

No one outside of Boston before the game.  Lots now that they won.

And the same applies to Edelman.  He is being praised all over the place.  Way more than the few cynics that point out he is a busted doper that used Brady's personal trainer Alex Gerrero.

[Jockey]

The halftime show was terrible.

Apparently, Nickleback and Creed weren't available.

[Jay Bee]

nh?

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Edelman starts the year with a four game suspension for doping and ends the year and SB MVP and everyone loves him.

It is amazing how everyone gets truly outraged at doping in baseball, and all the secondary sports (track, cycling, etc) and seriously does not care about doping in Football.

Edelman looked high AF on GMA this morning.  Couldn't even open one of his eyes.

Not dogging the guy, I'd be high AF if I won the super bowl.

[forgetful]

Edelman looked high AF on GMA this morning.  Couldn't even open one of his eyes.

Not dogging the guy, I'd be high AF if I won the super bowl.

Probably withdrawal effects of all the PEDs they be pumping through their veins.

[CTWarrior]

???  Who "loves" the Patriots outside of Boston?

It's a phenomenon that has gone on for ages.  There are a lot of people my age in CT who are Cowboys, Steelers or Raiders fans.  In CT you have three local teams (Jets, Giants and Patriots although where I live it is really NY fandom) to choose from, but there are still a lot of people who picked their team based on who was successful when they were kids.  That's OK with me if you stick with it when the local teams get good.  I was dumb enough to select the Jets as my favorite team as a kid, and I won't change, but I'd have been a lot happier if I picked the Giants or the Patriots, I suppose.

I watched the game alone yesterday, and I was so bored I fell asleep in the fourth quarter.  When I fell asleep it was 3-3 and when I woke up New England was kicking off ahead 13-3.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

The worst part about the game is that it wasn't even an intense defensive struggle wit the defenses making spectacular plays, everyone was just completely inept.

Sure there were some nice pass breakups down field, but none of those were anything game changing. Plus the two turnovers were just god awful throws.

[MU B2002]

2018.

Think you misunderstood his phrasing.  Vikings were (to quote Jay Bee) consensus division favorite last year.

[MU82]

It's a phenomenon that has gone on for ages.  There are a lot of people my age in CT who are Cowboys, Steelers or Raiders fans.  In CT you have three local teams (Jets, Giants and Patriots although where I live it is really NY fandom) to choose from, but there are still a lot of people who picked their team based on who was successful when they were kids.  That's OK with me if you stick with it when the local teams get good.  I was dumb enough to select the Jets as my favorite team as a kid, and I won't change, but I'd have been a lot happier if I picked the Giants or the Patriots, I suppose.

I watched the game alone yesterday, and I was so bored I fell asleep in the fourth quarter.  When I fell asleep it was 3-3 and when I woke up New England was kicking off ahead 13-3.

I grew up in Connecticut and when I started to get into football, the Giants, Jets and Patriots all sucked and the Dolphins were big winners. And I loved Csonka. So I became a huge Dolphins fan. Stayed with them for many, many years. They were the last pro team in any sport I kept rooting for, but I dumped them when they forced out Shula.

I had no favorite team till I moved to Charlotte in 2010, when I thought it would be fun to be a fan again and I adopted the Panthers. It certainly wasn't me jumping on a winner's bandwagon -- that first year, with John Fox a lame-duck coach and Jimmy Clausen as the QB, the Panthers went 2-14.

Otherwise, I rooted for all NY teams as a kid -- Knicks, Yankees, Rangers. I stopped rooting for all pro teams (except the Dolphins) not long after I began my career. Then, eventually, the only teams I rooted for were Marquette and the teams my kids played on.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Think you misunderstood his phrasing.  Vikings were (to quote Jay Bee) consensus division favorite last year.

In my consensus opinion, the Bears were the favorites.   

[wadesworld]

In my consensus opinion, the Bears were the favorites.   

I guess when you're a Bears fan you have to make up fake preseason favorites.

[Cheeks]

Murray to pursue football over baseball.  I met the young man in Atlanta for the Super Bowl.  He is smaller than I thought, but decision made.  Best of luck to him, following his passion and likely more money because of the position he plays.

[DegenerateDish]

Bears/Lions
Dolphins/Cowboys

Thanksgiving games.

[Bocephys]

Murray to pursue football over baseball.  I met the young man in Atlanta for the Super Bowl.  He is smaller than I thought, but decision made.  Best of luck to him, following his passion and likely more money because of the position he plays.

Baseball will be there if football doesn't work.  The opposite is likely not true.

[MU82]

Very happy the Panthers just signed safety Eric Reid to a 3-year contract.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article226093645.html?#emlnl=Breaking_Newsletter&id=bWlrZW5hZGVsQHNiY2dsb2JhbC5uZXQ=

He played very well for them after they signed him last season, the coaches and players say he's a great teammate, and he's still only 27 years old -- many good years ahead. And the Panthers already had some work to do shoring up their D without losing a guy who is very good at what he does.

Hats off to our new(ish) owner David Tepper, who agreed to the Reid signing last year despite some public backlash because Reid is an anthem-kneeler.

The Panthers desperately need a good backup QB and I wouldn't mind seeing Kaepernick at least get a chance to show he can still play. He'd have to be better than the backups the Panthers have had the last couple of years, and Newton is coming off shoulder surgery.