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

rams signed welker

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he's back

patriots release db floyd raven, sr. from practice squad.

just wanted to let you all know.

Guess they are not serious about competing this year

awesome malcolm butler anecdote in this sports illustrated story about the history of "i'm going do disneyland."

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap3000000578255/Sound-FX-Chandler-Jones

lol hes funny

he's having fun out there. love that sequence with the blocking on the extra points.

Interesting note.

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/belichick-explains-why-he-asks-linemen-wear-knee-braces

I like the idea that Belichick is doing doing rotations on O-line too. If your depth was fairly equal quality wise, I think it would give you a shot. Send in a fresh guard and run the big sweep with a guy with full breath. In theory, I could easily see that working. It would be easier to hide to the other club than changing around some receiver set where you have your returner playing or some not usual TE reporting.

reiss with a great factoid: The Giants are 3-0 against the Patriots since the start of the 2008 calendar year. The Patriots have beaten every other team in the NFL in that time.

edelman broken foot, surgery, maybe back this year, boo

idk what jamie collins was sick with but he was reeeal sick. rehabbing with specialists to regain weight and strength???

yeah i was reading some stuff on that. i think he got sick the day before the washington game and then wasn't able to keep food down for awhile
should be back v soon though

also these guys are adorable
https://www.instagram.com/p/-UxvKWLs3m/

Chandler Jones is such a groupie

lol aw

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap3000000584694/The-Butt-Fumble-I-This-Day-in-NFL-History

any patritos heads have the inside line on whether I should start LaFell or Amendola tomorrow?

gotta think amendolas gonna get most of edlemans usual looks

hard to say where edelman's targets will go but prob start lafell, even if he gets increased looks amendola doesn't really score tds

hmmmm. But he got one against the new york football giants I thought.

oh no he didn't. my bad.

*i dont play fantasy sports

this is my first time playing fantasy football. I am winning the office league, having started 5 patriots in the same week. everyone hates me.

amendola did have 11 targets against NYG, though

I will start LaFell and hover over Roberto's FP button while I watch the game (not really, ty)

one last thing is that amendola also catches almost everything, whereas LaFell has jigglemittens

i would bet on edelman

lol, amendola i mean

they are essential the same guy, belichick is just cloning slot receivers now

ok, at the risk/certainty of going deeper than anyone cares...

amendola will not replace edelman at the patriots' slot receiver because amendola already is the patriots' slot receiver. most likely he will continue to play that role. the outside receivers will be lafell plus either keshawn martin or aaron dobson. belichick and josh mcd apparently like martin a lot, and they don't seem to rate dobson all that high, so martin is prob the first choice if he plays. he is listed as questionable for tonight. if martin plays he'll drop into edelman's z receiver role. if dobson plays he is more of a limited go route type of wr so he will go to x and lafell will switch to z, which is his best spot anyway. so in 2 receiver sets amendola is not necessarily going to be the default 2nd receiver, especially if it is 12 formation with both gronk and chandler on the field too. amendola is not going to be the guy going down the field any more than his in now, and he is still going to be 4th/5th option near the goalline.

so, in conclusion, amendola is going to have a similar role as he has to this point, and already he is getting a lot of the ball so i don't know how much room there is for his numbers to jump, and he is still unlikely to be the guy scoring tds

for fantasy if you have room on your bench martin might be a better speculative pick up

also, lafell was super rusty that first game back but he was really good vs nyg last week

v good point

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1719159/billtoss.gif

touchdown!

https://twitter.com/NFL/status/668969689373020160

that is really wonderfully obnoxious

and people say the patriots aren't fun

Mike Reiss ‏@MikeReiss 2m2 minutes ago
Reminder to self: Go back & watch 6 OPI calls against Rob Gronkowski this season to see if different standard if being applied to Gronkowski

mike reiss rage meter shoots up to "mildly disgruntled" - highest recorded level this calendar year

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14271010/is-rob-gronkowski-being-unfairly-targeted-referees-nfl

interesting review by matt bowen of the gronk OPI thing from a defensive perspective. his conclusion is interesting, i can see that it must be harder to officiate an uncommon player like gronk. doesn't really address why the approach has suddenly changed so much this season though. at a guess someone on another team was complaining about him contacting defenders and they decided to go zero tolerance and beyond. kind of lame that this is how the nfl works but there's probably no squeakier wheel than belichick when you get down to it.

interesting that the nfl has swapped out the officiating crew for the pats/eagles game, a tacit acknowledgement that NE has been murdered by bad calls the last couple of games.

they swapped in the crew that forgot the downs in the cardinals/niners game and has been legendarily bad for years--it was all about pulling that crew off of primetime, the pats just become collateral damage.

oh. great.

it's the crew that called faceguarding in an nfl game iirc

i guard the face i guard the face

major facepalm infraction

the comparison of Gronk to Shaq was a pretty good one

i think its pretty clear the Pats got jobbed this week but they've def been on the other end of that many many times so

it is so funny just how much belichick hates losing. he has been a total asshole to the media all week. it must be powerfully motivating for the players and coaches, wanting to win to not have to deal with him like that. even down to how he doesn't do the patriots all access film review if they lose.

lol

i still find this whole thing a hundred times more insane than OJ

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14292439/aaron-hernandez-moved-segregation-shank-found-cell