here's a pats thread for everyone to talk about patritos shit because nobody else cares

he was apparently told in the form of a limerick

Gronkowski, who did not have a cast on his surgically repaired arm, said he was in "great spirits" Thursday while promoting his book "Growing up Gronk," but he had less to say when NFL.com's Albert Breer asked him about the league's crime problems.

"Ask Roger Goodell," Gronkowski said.

As for Dennard and Hernandez, Gronkowski said, "I don't have any comment on that."

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is now the subject of a grand jury looking into the shooting death of two men in July 2012, reports the Boston Globe.

Hernandez is already behind bars and pleaded not guilty to the execution-style murder of 27-year old Odin Lloyd and is being held without bail at Bristol County House of Correction in Massachusetts. He is due in Attleboro District Court on Wednesday for a probable cause hearing.

The investigation of the killing of two Cape Verdean immigrants is now in the grand jury’s hands and it seems to be focused on Hernandez, the Globe reported. Investigators believe Hernandez drove Lloyd to an industrial park, then shot him because he was worried Lloyd had information about the South End double homicide and might talk.

Safiro Furtado and Daniel Abreu were shot early on July 16, 2012, in the South End when someone in a sport utility vehicle with Rhode Island license plates pulled up next to their car and began firing.

“The case against Hernandez appears to be strengthening,” one of the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the case.

this ain't ethnic but I'm still gonna tell it

What's red and bubbly and scratches at the window?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 8 October 2004 05:44 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A baby in the microwave

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 8 October 2004 05:44 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not gonna lie, I had a flashback to that AaronHz as well

FOXBOROUGH, Mass -- Forensic officers were today seen removing a series of kitchen appliances from the home of the disgraced tight end [....]

positive notes coming out of the joint practices. reiss &co seem cautiously excited about some of the young WRs. amendola mostly looking the part. brady killing it. LB group strong and deep. sounds like it will be the secondary that kills the team again, tho on a brighter note, pat chung looks even worse as an eagle apparently.

is a terrible secondary like a patriots tradition now

asante samuel was the patritos' bambino

http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/9568132/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-leaves-practice-vs-tampa-bay-buccaneers

you guys, "Tim Tebow, Patriots starting QB" is on the verge of happening

oh I see you've already mentioned this in the offseason thread

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 21m
Not sure if my ears are deceiving me, but thought I just heard a "Tebow, Tebow, Tebow" chant here at Ford Field.

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 9m
Section of crowd chants, "We want Tebow!" Now boos when Ryan Mallett comes back into the game.

like detroit lions fans have the right to troll anybody

seriously who the fuck actually smokes angel dust

[Rolling Stone] also asserts that Patriots coach Bill Belichick had become so infuriated with Hernandez missing practices and demonstrating other thuggish behavior that he “was one misstep from being cut.”

that's one hell of a "misstep", murdering someone for talking about how you murdered someone else

from: http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2013/08/27/rolling-stone-aaron-hernandez-was-heavy-user-angel-dust/dpFqwzasVCN8mErA7rXg0I/story.html

he made the last one count i guess

insane

my friend said that the only bit of advice her former 60s rogue chemist / acid casualty absentee father ever gave her was 'don't do dust'

this anecdote was from 2005 or so lest someone notices parallels with tv shows

Ras-I Dowling released. i think we are ok to conclude now that that draft pick was as terrible as everyone said it was at the time

As Ross Tucker mentioned today, the Patriots have a horrible record when it comes to drafting CBs and WRs.

i think bill just drafts cbs who can tackle and wrs who can run block

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/play-index/tiny.cgi?id=Nk1fi

r.i.p. big ras

nothing confirmed but i heard a rumour he dislocated his shoulder cleaning out his locker

what the hell is this sentence in the RS hernandez article

But Beli-chick, the winner of three Super Bowl titles and grand wizard of the greatest show on turf, had decided long before he got to New England that such niceties were beneath him.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-gangster-in-the-huddle#ixzz2dN0Abbfd
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all the way thru the article i was thinking wow, this is chock full of bullshit. then i saw yday ppl were saying this was the kind of low-grade fare typical of the borges guy, who i guess is on the globe but i have never even heard of him

yeah 'he'd drive away from the games smoking 3 or 4 blunts', ok uh

Also, Mike Martz would probably be surprised to learn that Belichick was secretly coaching the Rams way back when.

oh fuck they got ron borges to write it??

ron borges got run out of the boston globe for plagiarism and is well-known for having a grudge against belichick that defies all logic and reason. even by sportwriter standards he's an incredibly shitty person.

good to know. i am glad to have avoided him thus far

yeah 'he'd drive away from the games smoking 3 or 4 blunts', ok uh

― johnny crunch, Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:59 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hold on i believe this!

rs--you'll appreciate that the rumored origin of borges's insanity is that when he was a beat writer in the late 90s/early 00s his big source in the pats locker room was drew bledsoe. when drew got benched he never got over it.

this is much more irresponsible of rolling stone than the glammy marathon bomber cover.

lol that is great

beat hack's bledsoe gravy train derailed by surly browns flop: full story page 17

xxp i dont nec disbelieve it, it's just a weird picture to paint, obv not for road games...idk, i feel like maybe that happened once or something

our tight end is crazy
he always smokes dust
commutes away to his killing sprees
with 3 or 4 blunts

always smoking so many angel dust cigarettes

fwiw i think borges was more a glorified researcher for the piece its credited as BY PAUL SOLOTAROFF WITH RON BORGES

solotaroff came out 2day in some radio interview saying he thinks hernandez will be back on an nfl team in ~4 yrs

that's cool that you can be on an NFL team while in jail

looks like tebow might have done just enough to leapfrog brady on the depth chart tonight

2 tds, 1 int, 4 sacks - with tebow you always know what you're getting.

That RS article is fantastic / awful, and this piece goes a way in explaining which parts were which: http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/2013/08/plagiarist-ruins-perfectly-good-rolling-stone-feature

And is "Beli-chick" a typo or just weird toothless dig that Borges employs when he's talking about Belichick?

Bill Jellyprick has lost his edge.

Fells and Ballard released. so week 1 TE group looks to be Sudfeld and Hoomanawanui. here's hoping Sudfeld is actually as good as he has looked at times.

i assume gronk is coming back soon then?

i knew ballard was gone when he wasn't finishing his routes late in the game last night.

yeah i heard about that. i also wondered if this was an indication that they'll keep gronk off the reg season PUP

trying to go 6 weeks with 2 tight ends would be insane even by patriots standards. tho i guess there's a rumbling that they might re-sign fells after week 1 for less money.