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

colorado has not yet legalized a rivalry with the patriots

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Patriots Nation may have forgotten -- or at least is trying to forget -- Aaron Hernandez, but the tight-end-turned-convicted-murderer hasn't forgotten Patriots Nation.
In a letter to a prison pen pal obtained by TMZ, the incarcerated Hernandez says he watches the Pats games from a TV in a cell and "still [roots] for my squad and still [loves] all the ones I loved."

But he no longer loves one of the ones he loved, describing owner Robert Kraft as "fake ass [and] non loyal," saying Kraft "told me he loved me every time he seen me but obviously shows his word ain't [crap]."

Kraft testified against Hernandez in the trial in which the ex-Patriot was convicted of murdering his former friend, Oden Lloyd.

But he has good words for others, like . . .

Tom Brady: "The closest I was with was probably Brady and whom I love to death and always will and only hope the best for them.”

Rob Gronkowski: “The BEST TE ever to walk on a football field”

Julian Edelman and Deion Branch: "[Was] cool with Julez, Branch (I [bleeped] with and got mad love for)"

Hernandez started the letter by blasting his pen pal -- a woman named Rachel -- for criticizing him and went on to suggest ways she could kill herself:

-- “Tie a cinderblock to your ankles and jump in a deep body of water,” Hernandez writes.

-- “Buy the most powerful firecracker in the world that’s possible to buy, tie it to your face with duct tape, light it and wait for your head to explode.”

But he ends by saying he hopes she "had the best of holidays" . . . though the letter is dated Dec. 15, 10 days before Christmas.

This Charming Man just popped into my head

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaZ5FzUUkAE2dr4.jpg

I just had an idea for a great new sitcom

please let that cat be the pats' new offensive line coach.

he gives better belichick face than belichick himself.

Have you never encountered Grumpy Cat before? She is possibly a bigger celebrity than Gronk.

i use the internet enough that i believe i have seen grumpy cat one or two or maybe seven trillion times. but all cats sort of look alike to me and i confess it did not register with me that that was she. i can be a dolt sometimes.

and i still would like her to be the offensive line coach.

wait til you catch hat cat he used to be big

jerod mayo retiring. i guess there was no prospect of him getting back to 100% maybe. anyway, he will always be fondly remembered for being the only remotely competent player the pats drafted across 3 drafts, a beacon of hope.

https://twitter.com/ESPNMichele/status/700851686697381888

lol!

that's pretty standard for celeb/speciality cruises afaik

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/rob-gronkowski-offers-couple-10k-bang-cruise-ship-article-1.2539223

exactly what you would expect of a gronk cruise tbf

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mea culpa from espn public editor about deflategate coverage and pats coverage in general; cops to being a "rabid jets fan"
http://espn.go.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/624/on-deflategate-espn-air-balls-on-transparency

But sometimes, paranoia is a fair reaction to seemingly inexplicable actions. And to me, Deflategate is one of those examples because this lack of trust emanates from what has been a mismanaged affair by ESPN.

seem to have been countless "you know, this was kinda bullshit. about those draft picks..." articles recently but no chance of anything being done about it. rest of the league not losing sleep over it i am sure.

wow. Patriots Trade Chandler Jones to Cardinals

sad about jones, it has been a while since they had someone who could really get after the qb and it was fun to watch. i guess i get it tho. not especially excited about chris long but they will get something out of him situationally at least

pats pick up donald brown, hugely unexciting addition, but that's their third 1st round player in 2 days. sending a message to the nfl.

martellus bennett to pats!

this guy w/gronk should be hella entertaining

he used to have the best blog

Martellus Bennett, Cowboys Insider

now shea mcclellin from chicago makes 4 1st rounders. but of course another guy trending towards bust so far in nfl.

i'm pretty excited about marty b playing in new england

also i guess the pats needed someone to watch cartoons with gronk after they traded his best friend to arizona

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/September-2015/Martellus-Bennett/

did you all see the launch of instagronk

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDi2la1DeMG/

it has been a main story on the local news for 2 days running

big news, everyone! I'm dumping my entire wardrobe and investing my life savings in a full line of KiD RiD jumpsuits!

http://www.patriots.com/news/2016/04/13/rob-gronkowski-danny-amendola-model-jumpsuits-drakes-backyard

don't waste time - only 100 made in each colour!!

ODB looks like a hazmat worker from the barbarella universe and danny's tracksuit is the sartorial equivalent of being on the sex offender register. meanwhile gronk is dressed in his regular clothes.

easley released suddenly. hoping he didn't kill anyone.

lol

Roger!!

performance art now.

kinda disappointed by the lack of juicy rageposts here

just when you thought nothing could be more relentlessly tedious than the deflategate proceedings, here comes good ol' slothroprhymes

NFL off to a good start this season

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/article/2016/05/01/gronk-party-ship-cruise

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/may/10/tom-brady-cookbook-200-dollars-tb12-nutrition-manual

No coffee. No caffeine. No fungus. No dairy. The kids eat fruit. Tom, not so much.

“You know what's awesome?” he says to Mojo, searching for the right way to express it. “I like wearing no shirt, but you have jeans on the bottom. It's cool but it's not. It feels good. It actually feels awesome.”

Talk turns to the election. And Gronk and Mojo are trying to figure out when it is. Rob thinks it's in the fall. But Mojo wants to know, then, why people are voting the following week. The question seems to trouble Gronk, but he moves on.

http://www.gq.com/story/rob-gronkowski-gq-cover-story

love gronk content

The Buddha talked about something called The Monkey Mind—the chattering, distracted, agitated, perplexed state of us normal, unenlightened people. Gronk seems to have been born without that.

pete carroll could never

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otm

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17532827/with-jimmy-garoppolo-replacing-tom-brady-qb-new-england-patriots-change-thing-offense-nfl-2016-week-1

never heard of that guy but i'm really glad someone wrote a piece that confirmed what i saw. even the local writers are claiming they ran different stuff on offense.

matt bowen is great. ex pro safety who used to write a lot for mike lombardi's website, whatever the hell that was called. he's usually behind the espn paywall now.