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

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.

that's interesting. also i guess develin the full back played some practice snaps at TE

mesko cut to save a million bucks, pats are now like $13 million under the cap

tebooooooooooow

i have come to wonder if perhaps the primary reason the patriots signed tebow in the first place was not as a player but as a sober buddy, life coach and lifeline for aaron hernandez, who by most accounts they knew was spiraling out of control. it would make a lot of sense. and if that's the case, the murder -- just one week after they signed tebow -- literally left tebow with no role on the team, which would have made the next couple of months mighty awkward, which they may well in fact have been. in that last preseason game, he looked thoroughly unprepared to be the patriots' second- or third-string quarterback, or anyone's second- or third-string quarterback.

and yet i find all the talk about how his nfl career is clearly over to be way premature. he's a competitor, he's got incredible desire, character of course, and some very obvious football skills unrelated to throwing a ball to a human target. he ain't done.

in the nfl? i have to assume he's done as a quarterback.

and speaking of that last preseason game, tom brady appeared to spend the entirety of it gabbing with julian edelman on the sidelines. there's your third-string qb right there if you really need one.

(xp) i ain't no coach but the dude is smart and inspirational and can run the football and could probably be a perfectly good clipboard-holding backup qb for some second division nfl team somewhere. right? right???

fcc it's pretty well-documented that they tried using tebow to get through to hernandez at florida and it didn't accomplish anything

i like the theory but i'm pretty sure it was just belichick seeing if he could work his magic

also it's known that belichick has a persistent boner for urban meyer players so he was probably unable to stem his curiosity

whatever qualities tebow has they are not sufficient for him to contribute in the nfl. there is no role for him except maybe goal line qb for a team that has a shitty qb anyway, or he would be great catching screen passes i bet. so basically the jets was the perfect spot for him and it still didn't work out. go gentle into that good night, timmy.

(xxxp) true but i'm not sure that would stop the patriots from trying. especially after (a) they spent $40 million on the guy and (b) he came to them crying for help (if you can believe the rolling stone story).

Tebow is gonna crush it on the Rough Riders or the Argonauts or something

Actually he would be an interesting arena league guy

i realized today that even if tebow announced his retirement we'd have to deal with "[team x's] qb hurt WILL THEY CALL TEBOW" stories for at least five years

oh we're nowhere near out of the woods

the real question: what does joe namath think about tebow

he wants to kiss him

lol

leon washington release expected but marquice cole? he seemed like at least useful, flexible secondary depth, which was already kinda thin.

cole back. $ i guess

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTfmSafCcAAfF-I.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWKEeWi2tEM

also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN9bDZ4ej_w

o lol, i thought i was on the week 1 thread and we were talking about the denver touchback

well you were half right

vereen breaks out...for a few weeks with a wrist injury

just went to espn to see what all info they published about this and got momentarily distracted by giant ads in the boston section for the DUNKIN DONUTS GRONK CHOMP CHALLENGE. perfect

lol boston

GRONK CHOMP

lol boston

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, September 9, 2013 4:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.gronkchomp.com/desktop/_img/header.gif

i only live here but, damn it, i'm still proud

omg that's almost as good as Stuffy/Eli

http://i.imgur.com/HP2G7ao.jpg

even tho power rankings are the worst shit in sports journalism, this lil tool espn has is pretty cool. this is the afc east alpha by nickname. i totally don't remember miami being a top 5 power 2002/3. i guess that was ricky and a defense.

the great 2011 bills. oh the naivety.

rip vincent lamar, you irreplaceable you ;_;

dammit.

he had been unusually quiet to start this season but not someone i want to go to the playoffs without.

lol @ "LeGarrette Blount's 49-yard touchdown run was the team's longest since LaMont Jordan's 49-yard TD run against the Oakland Raiders on Dec. 14, 2008."

now that is a guy i had completely forgotten about

right?

i still dont remember him

he joined the pats for just a year after some success in the mid-90s with 'this is how we do it'

https://twitter.com/mrs75/status/385082780365094913

he looks fine. might miss the trip to cincinnati but should be good to go next week.

So was it an achilles or not?

yep it was surgery on a torn achilles