May Day 10

So, who's crap do we need to give them time to clear out now? They traded a 2nd and 5th for Miller just a few months ago

Botterill needs to go. Tired of his 8 year rebuilding plan that never goes anywhere

Best case scenario is the Pats lose, brady goes on his power play, kraft oversteps belichick and gives brady his 2-3 year deal and belichick walks.

I have mixed feelings on the era and glad its coming to a close. Largely, the bills were irrelevant spectators during all these careers until this season. It didnt even feel like the bills were part of the nfl much of the time in the darkest days of jauron, gailey, brandon, and nix.

It is completely out of character for the Patriots of the past 20 years to look past anybody. A few times they have been caught with their pants down, but never in a potentially big spot like this. As much as it has been the Mantra that Brady doesnt need weapons (and now people insist he isnt doing well because he doesnt have weapons), the Patriots have always appeared like a motivated team who do not take opponents lightly. I just think they are highly beatable and their margin for error has disappeared.

Kraft forcing a multi-year deal to Brady and Belichick walking for the Giants would be the coup de grace

Bills over Texans Titans over Pats Bills over Chiefs Titans over Ravens Bills over Titans - Tear down the posts

While Im conditioned to not touch the hot stove, I'm actually not so sure this time. Objectively, I would rate them as the 3rd or 4th weakest playoff team ahead of the Eagles, Bills, and maybe the Vikings and Texans, and they likely wont play any of those. They havent gotten to a Super Bowl in this Brady/Belichick era without a 1st round bye. Their whole formula is based on the bye week for rest and planning (sometimes even being able to lay off the gas in week 17), then hosting a game (where they have some unexplainable home record) against a team they should beat. Followed by hosting another team, or going on the road with a puncher's chance with coaching, Brady, cheating, luck, etc. Then the Super Bowl with 2 weeks planning/coaching, Ernie Adams, etc. Their two most important offensive players, Brady and Edelman are old, beat up, and desperately needed a week or even 2 off. There is no Gronkowski who seemed to be the one to really bail them out of trouble when they needed it the most (like yesterday). Tennessee presents their worst match-up in the AFC outside the Ravens. Even if the Patriots win, it will be a street fight and they will be limping even more to face a rested KC or Baltimore away from Gillette Stadium. If they win that, they will likely face the other one in the AFC Championship Game on the road. That is a lot of ifs to come out in their favor, and that is before facing New Orleans, San Fran, Green Bay, or Seattle in the Super Bowl. It is impossible to overstate how bad this loss was for the Patriots' Superbowl hopes.

I cant find it now, but someone made a long and well thought out post about how being a fan has been eroded, and nobody cares about winning a Division title anymore. Nothing matters until the AFC Championship Game and everyone have been spoiled and now entitled. Back before this, they would kill to have won a Division and host a playoff game, and now it is like the end of the world and people wishing their own owner is jailed.

Apparently they have a group of fans they refer to as "Garoppolites", and they are "coming out of the woodwork"

I got stuck in the worm hole of reading that forum. There are a wide range of reactions ranging from sheer panic, wanting to run brady and belichick out of town, to defending and making excuses for brady, to expecting them to waltz to another super bowl. I think i would be worried if i were a patriots fan. During this 20 year run, they are yet to make a super bowl without a bye and hosting at least a divisional round game. Its part of the formula. Brady is 42 and seems to want big money and there seems to be some sort of divorce coming up. If not, he is 42, starting to break down, and seems to require an all-star cast as well. Edelman is breaking down, and gronk is sipping margaritas somewhere. There is little in the way of an heir apparent at this point. Would it be bridgewater? Newton? Not really too terrifying. They have a lot of aging pieces with a poor 1st round draft pick, no 2nd, and dont forget about the spygate 2 thing which could bring more sanctions. You have an afc east where 2 or 3 of the teams may have their stuff together for the first time in forever. They are not going to catch the bills sleeping any more, and flores looks like the mcdermott bills circa 2017.

Its finally happening!

This has probably cut the patriots' afc championship chances by more than half. Probably increased the likelihood of a brady divorce or something else major too

Im in shock at the patriots' meltdown

I think the titans would probably win. New england desperately needed that bye. They cant score on their defense and henry is going to run for 150 yards

IMO tennessee is a nightmare scenario for the pats.

Botterill is trash. Melon head has had 3 offseasons and they are still worse than they were under bylsma/murray.... and that is with a priming eichel. What a disaster this guy is

I saw the article in TBN right around the Dallas game and he was already angling about the Bills using his likeness and all that. Was a bit annoying. At least contact the team or something and see if you can finagle something out of them. Dunno. Passes, season tickets, a scripted appearance in a new commercial, team merch, or whatever. If he thinks he is positioning himself for a big payout or something, he is just going to humiliate himself and make people dislike him.

its not very disappointing to me they used the video

It just defies logic. A pudgy, unathletic nobody qb out of michigan goes on to this kind of career.... only spectacular because he "watches film" and is prepared? "Guesses" correctly out of the blitz like 95% of the time. 20+ game win streaks, edelman and brady like 42-1 at home (because those 2 are juggernauts i guess). This run of dominance does not make sense. Because they "prepare?" The fact that anyone out of belichick's coaching tree almost instantly becomes a clueless toad. These things that dont pass the smell test, along with all the allegations, and blatant cheating and lying (the slimy way they handled deflating footballs, nfl destroying spygate, etc) really adds skepticism Its because they "pay attention to detail"? No other team pays attention to detail? The patriots have been drafting poorly but dont pay a price? Still 13-3 or whatever.

The worst nightmare is we get a tedy bruschi game part 2

Loved that weird theilen off tackle run

Cousins is really terrible

That intentional grounding needs to be revised in the offseason IMO. Brady is the master at it, but it is really permeating through other QBs. It is pretty clear when a QB is between the tackles and 'turfs' the ball intentionally with no intention of completing a pass.

Fuller is key for them beating the Bills TBH. Without Fuller, the Bills have the upper hand IMO.