Ghost of Leonidas

This is a great, well thought-out post, but Ted Ginn never ran a 4.06, I don't care what website claims he did. That would make him by FAR the fastest football player of all time. I've never heard of anyone beating Deion's time at the Combine 25+ years ago. Also, Donte' Stallworth allegedly ran a 4.18 at his pro day, but we all know how the pro day times are.

Does this mean we'll have a month of brown equipment to go along with that nonsense of pink gloves and shoes during the month of October??

That was a waste of time...

Urbik might be back this week. But along that line of thinking, did we only dress six linemen this Sunday? Is Hairston the back entire-OL??

Now THAT is true. Our line played great against the run. I think that's why Kelsay played most of the game even though he was constantly being dominated by Solder. But that doesn't mean our pass rush was any good, even if it's mostly the same people you're referring to... Yeah, except for that dropped touchdown by Chad Johnson when he was open by a country mile. Or the two Gronkowski touchdowns. Or Welker's five hundred receptions for ten thousand yards.

That presents another question: what exactly does Curtis Modkins do??

Actually, the 4 INT's attest to a) Danny Woodhead wasn't in a good position to make the catch, b) Leodis McKelvin, despite his transgressions, has a ton of talent, c) George Wilson might be a better safety than we all gave him credit for (myself included), and d) even an NFL MVP can hit Marcell Dareus in the face with the football once in a while. The pass rush was terrible and needs to be worked on. Not sure why that's so hard to understand. Brady's life was pretty easy back there. Want to see how to disrupt Brady? Just watch the Patriots/Lions preseason game from this year.

Please stop linking to the Bleacher Report. They don't deserve the hits.

Yes, Brady "dinked and dunked" his way to 387 yards passing. He's a regular Captain Checkdown.

a) There are seemingly endless threads about this. Really needed to start another one? b) Just stop. There was no pressure whatsoever. The pass rush was pathetic, and quite frankly, it's once again a source of weakness for this football team. People are overlooking it or somehow pointing to it because we won, but had we lost it would have been one of the goats (and rightfully so).

He put his arms up, but it hit him in the facemask, so, yeah, it was a lucky break. Sheesh. Yeah, re-watch the play. There was lots of contact - as in Nelson hugging the DB to draw the penalty/try in vain to make his way back to the ball. I watched the entire game over last night, and I just watched the play in question on NFL Live. You're just...wrong. Watch it, then come back to me. It was a terrible call. Tim Hasselbeck (hardly the end-all, be-all of judgement calls, I know) even made a point of how bad of a call it was. It was a gift from some bad zebras.

The Patriots really showed a lack of class at the end. It's one thing to play hard and try and fight through the line to get to the QB, anticipating the kneel. But once the QB is down and once the whistle blows, extra-curriculars are highly unprofessional. FWIW, after the first kneel-down the refs should have been on the whistle MUCH quicker. Horrible job by the zebras, all around.

Don't be too hard on yourself. This was the thing we did worst today, for sure. Our pass rush was pathetic. It's a real cause for concern. The majority of the time we sent four, blitzing occasionally. We have to get SOME pressure sending four, and we very rarely did. Enjoy the victory (I know I did), but this is a major cause for concern going forward. You're kidding, right? Please say you're kidding. PLEASE. Are you honestly comparing the Giants defensive performance from the '08 Super Bowl to our pitiful pass rush today? Seriously? Brady wasn't off his rhythm, dude. He threw four picks, but two of them were tipped, one was a slight underthrow (Wilson's) when there was NOBODY in his face and the other McKelvin just broke in front of Chad Johnson for a nice play. Did you even watch the game???

I was at the game. The officiating was horrible on both sides. The refs missed a hold on K. Williams, a hold on Merriman, and that bull **** penalty against Byrd hitting Welker "helmet-to-helmet" when he was just making a form tackle (and not launching himself a la Dunta Robinson) was just that: bull ****. On the other side of the ball, we got an entire touchdown from officiating to tie the game late: first we got a bull **** 15-yard roughing the passer penalty; then Fitz threw an ill-advised pass into the end-zone that was easily intercepted, but called back due to a bull **** pass interference call. Horrible officiating today. The refs should be drawn and quartered.

I saw that. I'm not one to get upset by national media members disrespecting the Bills since, quite frequently, they deserve it. But Rodney was just being a class-A douchebag on this one. On another note, anyone notice what a !@#$ing queer Mike Reiss is? http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast (FYI, I don't mean "queer" as in an anti-gay way, but as in the South Park way)