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My interest has been waning since Bill Polian got the rules changed for what constitutes DPI. That watered down the game from a competition stand point and brought bad officiating into the spotlight.

Not comparable.... Allen is Allen, his own class. However, Jones is Jones and we can't be sure what that really is based on a small sample size of a rookie year. So far the analysis of him has been pretty accurate, and "if" he makes that second year leap then he's nothing to laugh at. Allen is a superstar, I feel blessed and comfortable that we have him. That said, Jones won't be winning any shoot outs against Allen or taking over with his legs, but that wasn't Brady's game either. They (Allen/Jones) play the same position, but its apples and oranges. (Apples seem soooo much better though! lol)

Lots of cold weather games this and last weekend, didn't see the NFL test a single ball at halftime. They did one game, one time. Seem odd?

Its a long offseason!

A satisfying win, but def not a "beatdown". It was competitive right until our final scoring drive with just minutes left in the 4th qtr. Last year in Foxboro was a beatdown, the two games don't resemble each other. I expect a lot of games like this last one over the next few years. We are established and they managed to successfully rebuild in one frickin year.

Seems pretty even to me. The lost WR2 and WR3. RB2 is out and RB 1 is hobbled. A running team can't run without RBs, and they can't revert to passing with a rookie QB and half their WR's out. They're F'd. If I were them I'd put Stidham in and run the Cam Newton offense. lol

Bro... Harris may be available, but with a hamstring issue he's no where near 100%. Stevenson is now out also, as is Agholor. They are in tough shape, just like us. https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/injuries/_/name/ne

Ya, and their starting RB is hobbled with a hammy and Kendrick Bourne (COVID list) and Nelson Agholor (concussion) have been unable to practice this week. Keep things in context dude.... Everyone has to deal with adversity this time of year and good teams figure it out. We have Diggs and no one, they have no one. lol

You forgot: 4) We get more penalties, some at just the right moment for NE In the end it will be close enough for our Homers to go nuts about how we shoulda won and we're better (too many 'reasons' to even speculate). This game is a 50/50 proposition.

I checked a few sites, nothing about Agholor, Harry was at practice, Bourne remains on the Covid list. Harris was at practice, but is still listed as out with the hamstring issue. Other than their RB1 and defacto WR1, they seem fine. 😁 So they are thin at RB and will start a rookie QB and RB. I expect a lot of screens.

Getting a bit chippy in the lead up to the showdown. lol

As it stands they have 31.5 million in cap space next year, we have 8.9. So that 150 mil we guarantee Allen is the same they laid out over a few years for multiple impact players, and they still have wiggle room. Our guaranteed money got us a superstar QB and pedestrian OL to protect him. I don't see where we won the offseason.

Agreed. I'll take Boston over any other Northeast city any day.... history, culture, food, entertainment, and trafficability. Hate NYC, the density of D-bags per capita is very high there. As far as M*ssholes, I found that if you run in to a few, its them. If that's all you run in to, its you.

My guess is that they run early to set up play action, then its dink and dunk, take a random shot. Josh will need to play lights out and its going to come down to turnovers, penalties, and mistakes. Hopefully its a COVID free affair if nothing else.

The Colts played about as good as they can on Defense, that was their ceiling. Run game was popping and Wentz looked like he pretty much always has. NE made a lot of mistakes, which I don't expect a repeat unless the Bills can bring the same level of intensity as Indy did. Tough game coming.

And Reid won a SB, went to another and has lived in the playoffs since he got to KC. Right now in the Legue, Reid is runner up to the GOAT in resume, and Philly fired that guy. As far as Bills HC's are concerned, McD is the 2nd best in our 60 year history. He has less talent than Levy had, and he's highly successful. Who is out there this off season that we could get that could do a better job???

Conspiracy driven bias is more of a pandemic across all of society than COVID will ever be. Welcome to the cyber age where everyone is an "expert" on a topic, even though they aren't an expert in research and analysis. 🙄

Exactly, we would have heard about it alot more over the last 2 decades if Brady Sr had that kind of coin.

Looking at the Diggs no call and the Evans call, the most obvious thing that sticks out to me is whether the DB had his head turned around. That's MORE obvious than any other issue, which goes a long way to explaining how things unfolded.

The Eagles fired Andy Reid.... People do stupid things every day.

Not buying it.... nope.

And you have to do that for everyone else too then. Its only misleading if you remove it from its original context....

At -4 yds a game net, its tough to make a case that the League is out to get us. We're averaging 6.8 per game, which looks like every other year's average for us: https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/penalties-per-game

It was just a guess. Anyway, we're middle of the pack in penalties: https://www.nflpenalties.com/

If he wins the SB this year, I wouldn't be surprised if he called it quits.