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

it was a great play for sure, regardless of the circumstances that is always going to be one of the best couple plays of any game, no more than that maybe but certainly no less. the defense diagnosed a tendency and the player made a terrific physical play on it.

butler's pass breakup on kearse earlier in that drive was textbook as well, idk if we'll ever hear from him again but he certainly seems to get how to play the position

i remember he was hyped in the offseason and then had a couple missed plays in the few times he showed up in the regular season that cooled things off. he has got to be worth having around for a while, he offers something different as CB depth vs the other guys, as demonstrated in the big game there. still not sure what i think of logan ryan and i know belichick loves arrington but he is super limited and can only be used in certain spots imo.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9A7RchIQAEAt-1.jpg

you can see the parade fatigue etched on his face

on parade strike

Oh man, Legarette

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xYf_-LAb--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/lze1jvuvntqcjx0rkzkc.jpg

That's just rude. (Those two were playing at Oregon and Cal at the same time, though, right? Bad blood is old.)

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

xp it's tru pac-12 rivalries are sirrious business

Inside the Effort to Brand Tom Brady

dont want to click... and yet i am powerless

Branded

prob 3 too many things going on here

http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/test-width/tom-brady-logo-hed-2015.png

comments are funny, and makes sense that the article is really about promoting some PR douche because tombo ratcheting up the brand is not news for anyone in Feb 2015

the logo is amazing, going for some kind of 70s world cup look

such a bad logo, wouldn't think it would be so hard to do something with tb12

looks like a logo for a defunct hockey team

it has so many overlaping characters in it its impossible to perceive them all at once

if u look at the vertical and horizontal lines as an L then it is actually my govt initials. i am totally stealing this.

u cn see the whole universe in there m/l

more inscrutable than jIIm manziel thing

Pretty sick that Tom Brady is gonna star in the new Terminator 2 remake

made a better logo

TOM BRADY NUMBER 12

http://theawesomeboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tom-brady-terminator-537x450.jpg

it looks like a brainstorming whiteboard after every single thing anyone blurted out has been written down and nothing has been erased yet.

tom i have a concept for a new logo, it is a jumble wherein you can find 'tom' 'brady' '12' 'qb' 'nfl' 'newenglandpatriots' and many other relevant brady buzzwords, call me

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/extra_points/2015/02/vince_wilfork_is_tough_to.html

dude deserves the lifetime of humiliation that he has just embarked upon tbf

"I think really Mike, nobody has done it better than you have. Having good people around you, having good assistants; our coordinators Coach [Josh] McDaniels and Coach [Matt] Patricia, Scott O’Brien on special teams, Nick Caserio, who runs our personnel department, those guys really do a great job," Belichick said. "They know what we want; we talk about it. Of course the game evolves a little bit from year to year, your team changes from year to year, but we kind of put together what we feel like gives us the best opportunity to work towards that end.

"I try to manage that and not screw it up, but those guys do a great job of pulling it together and we’ve been together for a long time and that continuity has really enabled me, given me confidence to give them more decision-making ability, more responsibility, and that’s probably benefited the overall organization quite a bit.”

“I’m not caught up as much in some of the details or micromanaging, maybe, that I did earlier in my career," Belichick said. "I have people that can probably do that a lot better than I can anyway, and I turn that over to them and they’ve done a great job with it. So it’s definitely an evolution and, of course, the game is changing all the time. I mean, five years ago in the NFL we weren’t even talking about read-options and reading defensive ends and stuff like that. We were reading safeties. You’ve got to be able to progress along with the schemes and the players that you’re working with as well, so that’s been a big part of it, too."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-F6L8vIYAECPfG.jpg

just looking at this picture of bill hanging out with indiana hoops and realized for the first time that i guess mike lombardi has a super bowl ring now.

butler parade is p awesome

http://mmqb.si.com/2015/02/24/malcolm-butler-new-england-patriots-nfl-vicksburg-mississippi-hometown-parade/

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

loyalty

oh stop it

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Let’s welcome Ndamukong Suh to the AFC East. D:

plz dont step on brady face

i was always curious how much of suh's bs was actually suh vs a lions culture that transparently encouraged unsportsmanlike play, sadly i don't think miami is the place where i'm going to get any answers.

mccourty 9m+/yr is mind blowing, i figured he was gone. guess that means no revis. the way cbs have been getting paid he is going to get insane money

wow. really surprising considering bb's long history of letting good defensive backs walk away. i still hope they make a serious play to retain revis, and at this point nothing would surprise me.

i love revis island

i think there's still room to get revis in too. i could have gone either way on this deal but if you're going to take care of a player with a contract like that mccourty is not a bad choice at all.

yeah mccourty is a pretty safe place to stack those chips. i think they are up against or over the cap already so i assumed they could only take one of the two but i guess never discount contract numbers magic. still, i will be surprised, it does look like crazy money is out there for revis if he wants it.

i think there's still room to get revis in too. i could have gone either way on this deal but if you're going to take care of a player with a contract like that mccourty is not a bad choice at all.

I hope so. I just spent an hour trying to make this work, but I realized I don’t understand the NFL cap. At all.

yeah as i understand it it's a matter of being freed up from a couple other commitments (mayo, wilfork, etc.) plus the fact that mccourty's new contract is very likely backloaded and may carry only a 4-5 million hit this year.

i'm normally under the impression that teams can finagle the cap at any point to get any player they want (i.e. the saints being way over the cap last season but somehow signing jairus byrd to the richest contract ever for a safety), it's more of a case of if they want to potentially fuck themselves down the road

right

which is a very un-pats approach but maybe they are going all in for 1-2 season last blowout, tb and bb hit the cigars, peace out mothefuckers