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

football is bad just my opinon

to be fair they were very deep at wr before they lost 3 in 2 weeks. defense is going to be fine, altho i hadn't noticed how unexciting the LB corps is past/without hightower.

i wouldn't read a great deal into last night in terms of the full season. combo of pats being outsmarted and outsmarting themselves, playing 4th choice safety as a LB did not work outside of the strip. my abiding memory of the game will be a DE somehow in man coverage on a deep bomb that turned into a 75y td and predictably getting toasted. things like that don't happen when they have their shit together.

i am a little more concerned about the offense, in the short term anyway. with amendola out brady only had hogan and gronk, and maybe lewis, as receiving options he has an established rapport with. kcc bracketed gronk and put peters on hogan and then even tho brady had all the time in the world vs often a 3 man rush he just had no one to pass to. but there were promising signs of life in his relationship with cooks and burkhead and hopefully dola is back soon. and not every team has marcus peters. one thing i noticed is that i don't remember seeing dwayne allen at all after that misfire first play, certainly he ended the game without a catch. i think brady blackballed him even tho it was a horrendous throw and clearly not allen's fault at all.

brissett is going in for indy...

wow why not w/that score

why would anyone continue to employ a HC who thinks starting scott tolzien at qb is a reasonable way to enter a new season?

LOL brissett 1/1 for 50y and leads a TD first drive

why would anyone continue to employ a HC who thinks starting scott tolzien at qb is a reasonable way to enter a new season?

pagano just told press they got their ass kicked by the 49ers. after losing to the rams.

guess this is the end of getting good odds on pagano as first coach fired

patriots defense looks, not great

they looked soft against the run again and as often in recent years were bamboozled by a mobile qb

The players kneeling sparked a strong reaction from former Patriots offensive tackle Matt Light who was part of the franchise's first three Super Bowl championships.

"As a guy that's been there and helped set up the Patriot Way so they can walk in there and do what they do, it's beyond disheartening," Light told the Boston Herald. "It's the first time I've ever been ashamed to be a Patriot. And I promise you I'm not the only one."

Matt Light fought and died for you ungrateful jerks

damien woody not impressed by light's insistence that it wouldn't have happened during his time

Child please! I would like to see u tell another grown man what he could or couldn’t do! U can disagree but you had no authority over anyone

— Damien Woody (@damienwoody) September 25, 2017

FU Matt Light

matt light more like matt dim

reading bill's tepid statement i am 100% sure he asked the pr ppl to figure out the absolute bare minimum he could say in support of the players

Statement from #Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick: pic.twitter.com/WguC8xakkz

— New England Patriots (@Patriots) September 25, 2017

I'm imagining the PR firm taking his first draft of "Soon you will understand the power of the Dark Side *insert Force Choke*" and saying, "Well this is a nice start, Mr. Belichick; why don't you let us workshop this a bit for you?"

lol patritos r bad

i figure unless brady gets killed they'll still win 11/12 games, but not sure what they'll look like going into the playoffs. it'll be interesting to see how they progress. even tho they do have a stack of good contributors on offense, the loss of edelman actually meant they had to completely change how they play on the fly. the difference between brady holding the ball for 2 seconds and 4 seconds is huge and that quick throw isn't reliably there anymore. the offense will continue to be good tho - last night was a TNF aberration. and based on last night it looks like they're also going to change how they play defense because of the secondary problems. i think they will figure that out because the personnel is there. unfortunately they look real soft up the gut and that is definitely a personnel issue, with branch way down on last year and linebackers that look replacement level except for hightower. the pass rush also desperately needs wise to look like he did wk 1-2 and not like last night.

the patritos seem, bad

they r good actually

theyre bad

Who is really good? Even the good teams are really flawed right now.

parity more like parody

https://i.imgur.com/dp1X7c7.png

it's amazing how dynamic the nfl is week to week this season. teams are really all over the place. it feels like there's no way of predicting what'll happen over the next say month, but in terms of getting to and thru the playoffs, there are teams that organizationally know how to be good after thanksgiving and teams that don't, or we don't know yet, or who aren't even looking that far ahead. things will settle down come december.

idg how the steelers can win in kansas city and baltimore and get beaten by chicago and blown out at home by jax

i suppose the answer is that roffles sux now

steelers seem to be in a similar position to the pats in that the pieces appear to be there but they are a ways from quite coming together yet. roethlisberger has looked p off but if it is just a slump and he pulls out of it, pburgh may actually hit the playoffs looking really good. being a breaker up on kcc could wind up being a big deal too.

everyone else in their division is bad, which helps

fyi my kid receives a book every month from PJ Library, which is part of a non-profit organization and sends out children's books with themes based around Judaism. This month's book?

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0509/3401/products/FlyingHighBookFront.jpg?v=1507748955

In 2016 Edelman became one of three Patriots (along with Malcolm Mitchell and Martellus Bennett) to publish a children's book. Edelman's book, Flying High, is about a squirrel named Jules who learns to overcome his physical limitations through hard work and the assistance of a goat named Tom.[71]

you need to burn that in front of him

Not only do the ladies love the moves, so does coach.https://t.co/oYNgsO9pSF

— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) October 21, 2017

Do you have any players that aren’t assholes

thanks for stopping by

pats r good, only in the fog

rip new england pats

According to a league source, Donta Hightower has a torn pectoral muscle and is out for the year. Big loss for the Patriots

— Ben Volin (@BenVolin) October 26, 2017

Ugh

if the patriots offense can raise its play to the level of the defense they could make a real run at a championship

i will only believe in this patriots team if they acquire megatron

texans generously getting beaten on the same play action deep balls over and over to keep this interesting

jimmy g to SF for what will presumably be pick #33 or 34. timing is weird for what is a pretty fair deal, would've thought they might have been able to squeeze a bit more out a desperate team. pats a lil short behind brady now...

hopefully will draft someone a little better than ras-i dowling

wonder if they might be looking to move that pick for a linebacker or someone

yeah the timing would make sense if they are gathering resources for some other moves. but also wouldn't be surprised if they didn't bring anyone in, bb often does the opposite of what you'd expect

why does SF make this deal?

i support this fever dream

I’m totally 100 million billion katrillion percent all-in on getting Kaepernick as the Pats backup QB.

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) October 31, 2017

SF desperately needs a QB. realistic options were, in likely order of attractiveness: cousins in the summer, jimmy g now, brissett (??) in the summer, the bad looking 2018 qb class. cousins is going to be a bidding war and will get way overpaid. he's more of a sure thing but jimmy has a higher ceiling for sure and starts next season with 10 months w/ kyle shan under his belt.

ok ty. was not aware of weak draft class

qb controversy

Lynch says, “ok if Garoppolo is off-limits would you trade us Brady?” Belichick to paraphrase (replied) “hold on, did you REALLY just ask me if I would trade Tom Brady?” Lynch persisted and an amused Belichick kept asking “did you really just ask that?”

would like to believe any of this was true