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You got me on the literal meaning of turning it off! Accurately that actually meant when the game broadcast ended.

It’s been decades since we had a team capable of totally destroying an opponent’s spirit. It was clear against Miami that they suffered a defensive collapse. There were a lot of minutes in the second half where you could even sense their WRs hoping the ball went elsewhere in a no win situation. There were at least 3 other games this year where I turned the game off feeling the same way. What games did you all feel we had that same domination where the other side said “No Mas”?

Seems like McDermott has looked at CB2 and beyond as a place where we can coach up cheap talent versus taking away $ from other areas of need. Putting an experienced player on the field who is likely to influence the game momentum- one way or the other- is almost a proclamation that the strategy isn’t panning out as imagined. Won’t be surprising to see some low round draft spend this year on a real 2. I know you’re imagining just how much better this D would be with even an average #2 CB.

Without reservation Josh deserves all the applause he’s getting for working hard and smart to improve, but for me the contributions of Diggs, the WR room and Chad Hall share a sizable chunk of credit for the outcome . In 2020 we ended fielding a passive WR corps waiting for balls to land in their laps and instead our most important receivers are following Digg’s lead to treat every ball as catchable and fight to get to them. It didn’t all happen just in 2020 but Diggs walks the walk and set the standard for everyone on our team. This helps everywhere including on the stat sheets/ the rating agencies/Josh's confidence/etc. Josh has absolutely improved and his targets have absolutely improved their performance. In my mind it’s about a 50/50 contribution from each side.

Additionally Stefan is better at his craft than a guy whose primary schtick is to get a pre-snap position that allows him to grab his opponents jersey out of view of the zebras, almost always near the elbow, and just mess up the timing/ direction enough on the receiver’s route to get the QB throwing a different direction. Stefan>Stephon. Better name. Better player. Better taste in teammates.

I never felt we were losing ground on the physical front in the Steelers game but the beginning in SFO definitely spooked me. They came out hammering helmets and playing like they meant it but our guys broke them by not showing any signs of being bothered by it. Doesn't appear we can be intimidated.

Rare as it is for the wildly overmatched to reference an Olde English literary figure as their parting shot, I'd guess maybe William Tell or Robin Hood would have been more likely choices? That dude pulled off the Triple Lindy of all tailtucks I've ever seen on a sports message board!

Poyer is so awesome I had to laugh at the PFF “rankings” they put up to start the game. He’s tough, durable, smart and athletic. He’s top 5 or 6. Odd(?) how we need to move 5 guys to the line to be as effective against the run as we were with Star and 3............

I heard Simon was stirring up the pot and since the greatest post ever on this Board was in response to his literary skills I figured I might take a look. How are the Bills doing? 😏 Hope things are going good with you and the balance.

Playing the long game, Tomlin sees an advantage to a playoff matchup against us this postseason if his players are focused on being more physical. Leader of our D isn’t a physical guy. Surprising how many game day analysts including Sunday night have called Tremaine physical. That’s hardly his game. He’s long and laterally fast, but I don’t recall him ever knocking the snot out of a running back. Not too many years ago we had a couple LBs with different games. Tremaine is much more London Fletcher than he is Takeo Spikes. He isn’t getting in the runners grill to knock him out, he’s instead trying to bring him down without a big collision. I love his skills but it’s poor homework to call him physical. Was the team more physical Sunday than Pitt? Maybe, but not by a large margin IMO. My guess is Tomlin looking at the likelihood of seeing us again and shaming his guys a bit for the rematch.

Josh continues throwing to targets who have let him down in games. He does not seem to have any of the “punish receivers who drop passes” reaction that’s not uncommon in this league among passers, even the better passers. Last night he continued feeding Gabriel Davis and Dawson Knox after they’d let passes go that should have been brought down. The flip side of the coin is Diggs who preaches to all of them to catch the ball before doing anything else. Not that Diggs doesn’t have a couple drops this season but he’s exponentially more reliable than Knox. Glad he was successful lobbying for the ball at halftime last night!

It’s like the calculation on STs of whether to send your KO out of the end zone to avoid a return but sacrifice the chance of a turnover or penalty. I’m not suggesting they’ll leave the field wide open for him but I‘ll be surprised if they don’t make it look like there’s room to run when possible. A spy or defender can stack himself and hide from view for periods of time on most plays.

Of those elements of Allen’s game where there have not been improvement this season, ball protection in the pocket and on the run are the most pronounced. I have no doubt Pats* practices this week included a large dose of showing lanes on passing downs to entice Allen to run and then having 11 players going for the strip. He’s the easiest QB to strip on the run that I can ever recall in our uni. Josh just doesn’t have the awareness running backs get trained in because he has too many other things to work on in practice and the offseason and that’s exacerbated by his unwillingness to slide. I’d like to see him leave the running Sunday to our RBs. Belichick will also have them working for strips on every Singletary touch. That could be to our benefit if Devin turns that into a lot of broken tackles. Belichick will bet the other side of that proposition. Also our changeup in Moss could really have a big game for the same reason. He’s a tough tackle anyway and if they don’t focus 100% on bringing him right down he could burn them for some big gains. I like our chances a lot if turnovers don’t kill us.

While there were some cringeworthy decisions to throw the ball yesterday this play was the other end of the scale for me. We've spent decades watching notable opponent QBs throwing that ball and drawing flags while our own QBs would have looked to go to someone who didn't have a defender draped on his chest. Without the throw there's no PI flag. We've had that flag thrown on us over and over during the drought and costing us plenty of games- thanks Josh for proceeding with the play the elite at your position are comfortable throwing and expectant of the reward you earned.

Brady can’t play anywhere else where they will feed him the defensive play call through his helmet receiver and Belichick can’t afford to bring any new QB into that system without fear of exposure for all these years of exploiting Roger's incompetence. Stakes are too high for both of them. Brady isn’t going anywhere.

It's a tale of questionable decisionmaking that goes on even after he's done the honorable thing by hanging himself. I noticed in episode 3 the service for him was held at Fagass Funeral Home. Seems like someone might have considered other options?

Apparently these are learned behaviors in Boston*! More Boston* Sports Cheating

My guess is if he plays ball in the 2020 season it's in NE* or nowhere. There clearly continues to be a signal stealing program in place in NE* and Brady has been an insider on that from the beginning. He is the recipient, however they are relaying info during the game, of the data they're obtaining in contravention of league rules. I doubt that Bellichick wants to risk corrupting an additional QB so it leaves Brady just the one place to play with that obvious advantage and Bellichick to modify at least the data delivery system if Brady moves on. It might be worth arguing one other option but I get the idea he doesn't want to follow McDaniels and it will of course take years for McDaniels to assemble to type of data theft program/library and delivery system the Pats* use. That timeline won't work for Brady. The other thing I see is that Brady doesn't really want to play football anymore- he just wants to throw passes and avoid any type of contact. Jim Everett must be losing it over the haranguing he took for one collapse in the pocket while there must be a highlight reel of 2019 Brady swoons to avoid football contact. I may have seen 6 of their games this year and I'd bet there are at least 10 times he went Marcia in those. I'm surprised I haven't seen a compilation of those embarrassments to manhood and the many tough guys who played the position over the years.

Mo Sanu was catching over 83% of passes thrown his direction and gaining 7.45 yards per target with Ryan throwing him the ball the first 7 games of the season. With Tommie Boy his numbers fell to a 51.9% catch rate and only 4.19 yards per target. It's difficult for me to blame that plunge over the falls on the receiver.

Had a year in Houston back in the Oiler days. While the Astrodome was a piss-poor sports theater they had competitive teams and all the fame rituals that we associate with regional stars applied. No one bigger than Earl Campbell who kept asking me to play racquetball with him- I had never played it in my life and his thighs were bigger around than my chest so I figured that was a bad call. Tough bringing in another franchise when you had a loved one preceding it. I had some great times with Earl and his FB Tim Wilson. We finish the Texans season tomorrow, not the Oilers!

I so appreciate you using words that come easy for your kind! I fixed the balance for you since math is clearly not your strength! When we add in Gilmore* grabbing Parker's collar as Parker launches for another of the passes we have- by your own math- 5 of the passes your disappointing overpriced FA had no chance at the ball at all because he just doesn't have those kind of ball skills against good receivers. The other passes you don't reference, so you are clearly conceding the fact that Gilmore* wasn't anywhere near an "INT opp". So I'll wait (forever!) for you to provide a list of : Passes to Parker on 29DEC2019 that Clutch Gilmore* would in your words "get picked Or inc because they are under thrown or to far" (nice English skills too Baked Bean!) I'll wait for your list. Looking forward to total number of tosses to Parker that would “3 out of 4" times normally have been picked off! As for your Boston Love, I was at Schaefer Stadium in 1981 and I met all 12 Patriots fans who attended the game. Maybe you know Duncan or Red? Maybe Muffy? FYI there were at least 500 Bills fans! Your fan base is one of the weakest in the league and will recoil to its filthy, tiny, base of apologist cheating faeces, if my watch is correct, in about 2 weeks. That will end up "Beating" in real time the arraignment of your disgusting owner for paying for sex with ugly ancient nail trimmers. Shower time!

That's simply nonsense. Since you're a Pats* fan you probably haven't been watching football for long but no life-long fan of the game watching the domination of Parker over Gilmore* yesterday would suggest anything so silly and so provably false. Parker whips on Gilmore all day long 29 Dec 2019 The funniest thing is that "Clutch" Gilmore*, the nickname he earned from clutching receivers jerseys, really only "stops" one pass yesterday. Its on a 3rd and 5. And how does he "make the play"? He grabs Parker's collar and literally pulls him down away from the ball! The announcers didn't catch it but anyone can see from the clip there's no way Parker's body reverses course after he leaps without the "assist" from Grabby Gilmore*! Gilmore*'s a decent CB coached up to grab jerseys and accept that the zebra's won't throw a flag his way more than once or at most twice a game. Parker did a fine job keeping Gilmore* from clutching him early in his routes and except that outrageous missed PI on the 3rd down play Parker's numbers against Gilmore* were 7 catches on 8 targets. And on the other incomplete pass that looks from the network film like it sailed over Parker's head I'm willing to bet that once we see the film from the other side of the field we'll all be able to clearly see Clutch with a handful of Parker's jersey keeping him from blowing past Gilmore*. So take your laughable "Gilmore was there..." (He was nowhere near any but two or arguably three of the balls to Parker) and "half of those get picked" (you can't pick off anything if you're nowhere near the ball) and focus on some sport that people from New England have watched for generations and might know something about. Hockey or Basketball would be good places to start- everyone knows no one born near Boston knows anything about Baseball!

Something else Baldinger could have added is that after forcing the checkdown Oliver turns downfield to improve his angle and force a new perimeter for the receiver. He doesn’t lose his discpline and go straight to the ball but instead helps to secure a best case/more limited field for our D on the RAC.

Dave Mondillo 18 Year Long Employee of Patriots*/Kraft Mondillo, the "suspended" (or maybe not) producer of the signal stealing video in Cleveland, is not an independent contractor. In fact, contrary to the statements made by Belichick and the Pats* he has been the producer of Belichick's weekly segment working directly with him. Mondillo according to this source is one of the voices in the clip Glazer released. It does not appear there is any even provable lie that Belichick and the Pats* don't think they can feed the media. The damage done by this organization to good coaches in football across the country who teach integrity and respect of the rules is massive. The narrative pushed by the Pats* that "everyone does it" is a libel on every decent coach at every level of the game who teach honest play. It is fitting that Belichick's press conference included his snark about how they "don't push it as far as they used to". Someone might want to remind him that he and his team have been penalized and fined historic amounts for the way they "pushed it", or in other words cheated and corrupted the game of football.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/security-had-to-save-brittany-matthews-patrick-mahomes-girlfriend-from-patriots-fans/ Decades of empty stadiums following the declaration of Rosie Ruiz that "Boston doesn't care how you win". Nice job Boston!