http://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/article/2016/05/01/gronk-party-ship-cruise
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 May 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link
“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
― arts and crafts THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 03:35 (eight years ago) link
love gronk content
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 03:57 (eight years ago) link
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
― arts and crafts THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/aubxTjI.jpg
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
otm
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
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
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKthXa0j1hp/
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 25 September 2016 02:58 (eight years ago) link
Posting here because it's a bit too conspiracy theory-ish for the main NFL thread.
I'm not convinced the Pats came into this game with a strong desire to win. I could easily imagine their main goal is to stay healthy and have the strongest team possible ready for next week.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 2 October 2016 18:34 (eight years ago) link
it's a bit far fetched, and very un-belichick. they have got things together a bit better on defense now they've been able to adjust and on offense nothing can paper over the fact that they're starting an injured rookie at qb.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 2 October 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nfl.com/belichickletters
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 3 October 2016 18:44 (eight years ago) link
i guess going 3-1 without brady means it is hagiography time but this does have some great nuggets: http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/17703210/new-england-patriots-coach-bill-belichick-greatest-enigma-sports
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 17:14 (eight years ago) link
zolak is really drunk on 5th quarter
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 16 October 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
this is v good on gostkowski
http://insidethepylon.com/nfl/teams-nfl/afc-east/new-england-patriots/2016/10/21/stephen-gostkowski-fixable/
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 24 October 2016 01:48 (eight years ago) link
ftr the writer of that kicked in college and knows what he's talking about, good stuff
― call all destroyer, Monday, 24 October 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link
gonna give this one a rating of: wtf
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 31 October 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
giving away maybe best player on defense for literally nothing
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 31 October 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
pretty hard to see how this makes any sense at all, are they trying to free up some salary to fill some other position?
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 31 October 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
from what i have read so far his contract is up and he wants way too much money and he has been playing below par, possibly related. was taken out a bunch vs buffalo.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 31 October 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
classic bb
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 October 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
that's easy to say but this one is particularly egregious when you add it all up. the timing in particular is unbelievable. this is a different planet than letting chandler jones go at the start of off season, or getting a 1st for richard seymour. i guess it is kind of similar to lawyer milloy, altho even then they weren't midseason and 6-1 at the time.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 31 October 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Ethan_Booker/status/793131744014794753
Pretty much sums up my feelings about these moves
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 31 October 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
that's easy to say but this one is particularly egregious when you add it all up.
that's kind of what i mean, though. they always seem egregious, some more than others, and this is pretty damn high on that scale. he's probably traded an entire starting defense's worth of all-pro players for 6th and 7th round draft picks or worse at this point. it's like he doesn't want his defensive coordinators to get too comfortable: "good morning, matt. guess what i did today? have a good one!"
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 October 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
from mike reiss:
The Patriots get a third-round pick in return. Had Collins departed as a free agent after the season, the club probably would have received a third-round compensatory pick in 2018.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 31 October 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
i'm way past being surprised by the patriots internal evaluations
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 October 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
they effectively just cut him tho. the evaluation is that the team is better with him off the roster than on it. you can't manage this elite athlete to contribute better than a scrub you pick up halfway thru the season?
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 31 October 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
if there's more film of him breaking contain and giving up 28-yard runs then maybe!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 October 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwB11mnW8AAG3Vb.jpg
― FREE BRADY (daria-g), Monday, 31 October 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
linebackers coach says it was a surprise, one of better plays in the group, criticisms inaccurate. must be an interesting place to work
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
the amount of commentary coming from within the team on this one is weirdly un-patriot-ic
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link
http://bos.gl/uoCp8zW
― i've watched a lot of cats do weird and interesting things (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
fake
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 04:19 (eight years ago) link
did bill put out a statement? I know brady has refuted the voting claim publicly
― i've watched a lot of cats do weird and interesting things (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
no statement - a pats beat writer asked the team and they didn't have any statement.. some other reporter got belichick on the phone & he said he'd get back to him and hung up
it seems kind of bogus to me
https://twitter.com/ESQPolitics/status/795829791417106432
― FREE BRADY (daria-g), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 05:36 (eight years ago) link
i definitely took beichick to be a curt schilling type, i'd be really heartened if he was more a gregg popovich dude
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 8 November 2016 06:12 (eight years ago) link
i've heard in the past bill has quietly supported dem politicians and causes
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link
hard to find anything on record other than that he's stated he was a D in the past
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 13:34 (eight years ago) link
here's gisele's response via instagram comments fwiw https://twitter.com/feitsbarstool/status/795823202312318976
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
Report: Bill did write that letter! :-0
http://deadspin.com/report-bill-belichick-did-write-that-letter-to-donald-1788696859
― brownie, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:16 (eight years ago) link
here's the thing: this is only surprising bc of how blatant it was. you'd think he'd just donate some money and not say a word, given his taciturn approach to all things non-football. otherwise it's not particularly shocking that a dude like bill belichick isn't liberal.
― i've watched a lot of cats do weird and interesting things (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link
so early next week is brady's weekly radio appearance on some boston sports show & he's promised them to reveal which candidate he voted for. preparing for change to BAN BRADY once he starts talking about making america great again
― FREE BRADY (daria-g), Sunday, 13 November 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/jets/jets-week-12-matchup-with-patriots-moved-off-sunday-night-football-1.12616078
“Who knows?” said Flood, who was at a lunch in Manhattan to promote NBC’s coverage of the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” package. “We had the Butt Fumble Game on Thanksgiving [of 2012] that didn’t draw a big audience because it was over by the end of the first quarter.”
important anniversary coming up you guys
― FREE BRADY (daria-g), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:23 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0AacJIUQAA-Ye9.jpg
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 19 December 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
8 consecutive division titles is a new nfl record, 7 consecutive 1st round byes is a new record. astounding really.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 19 December 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
really crazylast non-playoff yr was the 11-win season w cassel
― johnny crunch, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
It does kinda help having Miami, the Jets and Bills as the rest of the division. Still you got to play well in the other 10 games.
― earlnash, Monday, 19 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
how did 2011 pats wind up in the SB with that defense(checks wikipedia.. oh right played divisional round vs tebow and beat a ravens team that really should've won)
― FREE BRADY (daria-g), Thursday, 29 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link