Hollywood Donahoe

OMFG!!!1!! PATS FANZ ARE TEH BANDWAGONERZ AND TEH TROLLZ!!!1!!!

I know how you feel. I wish the Pats were playing a televised scrimmage. I've got to wait a week until their first preseason game.

What a dope. Even I know that you guys have been going nuts over this scrimmage for weeks.

If you guys could get Simon for Reed and a 3rd or lower, that would be a steal of monumental proportions. Hope this rumor is BS.

Going out on a limb again? "One of 31 teams that AREN'T the Patriots is going to win the Super Bowl this year." Didn't that limb break last year when you GUARANTEED that the Colts would beat the Pats in the playoffs, and then you GUARANTEED that the Steelers would beat the Pats in the playoffs?

I haven't watched a full episode in a while, so maybe it's changed. I must be passing by it only during the left-slanted bits.

True, but the left gives Stewart plenty of ammunition. He just never chooses to use it.

My question was directed to all readers of the thread. To NG, that could be. Johnson hasn't been Pro Bowl-caliber since the late '90s, though.

It was more of a general comment directed to anyone who can answer it. I guess that's why I jumped on this "article." If you're going to bash a team, at least get your facts straight!

Okay, I do have a serious question about the article. Who are the three defensive Pro Bowlers the Pats lost? I count one (Bruschi), and two if you want to count Law (even though he was out for most of the year).

Only to those with a high tolerance for hearing the same joke delivered over and over ad nauseam. Stewart rags on everyone...as long as their surnames are Bush, Cheney or Rove. He's a left-wing mouthpiece at this point.

That reads like a composite of every Pete Prisco article over the last two years. "The Patriots are 34-4 over the last two years, but...but...but..." It gets a little old, I guess.

The Daily Show. No, not really.

To be an upgrade, all he'll really have to be able to do is sidestep left and sidestep right.

Tough to say, since I've hardly seen his replacement play at all. I certainly will miss facing Bledsoe twice a year, though.

The Patriots play 14 games each year against teams that aren't the Bills. Just because you think the Bills' defense can better handle a 2 TE set than a spread formation doesn't mean that the Pats' 2 TE base won't better match up against the other 14 teams' defenses. You've incredibly over-simplified this issue.

Is that you, Coach Mularkey?

Here's one thing I can pretty confidently state - the formation the Bills would like to see the Patriots run LEAST is the one that the Patriots are going to run MOST.

Well, I've lost track of what you were arguing. You insinuated that Belichick wasn't making use of the 2 TEs he drafted in the 1st round, and I pointed out that both were starters in the base set last year before Watson got hurt, and that both will be starters in the base set this year. You then transformed that into the idea that the Pats will exclusively run a 2 TE set next year, when they, in your opinion, should never leave the spread offense. Did I miss anything?

Do teams generally use only one offensive formation per game?

Are you serious? the only person a 2 TE base set keeps off the field is Patrick Pass. Branch and Givens will start as they did in the more conventional FB set. And Bethel Johnson typically keeps himself off the field. It's a base formation, not the only formation they'll use. Enough with the hyperbole.

Penis-y?

Now there's a mental image I wish I didn't have.

I remember knowing of the rule (but not its name) while they reviewed the play. While watching the replays, I was looking for whether or not Brady brought the ball into his body. So I must have seen it somewhere to know about it. Look, the REAL point is that if the refs wanted to help the Pats, they wouldn't have called up some obscure rule that simply gave the offense another down to work with; they would've THROWN THE FLAG ON WOODSON'S HEADSLAP AND GIVE THE PATS 15 YARDS AND A 1ST DOWN. Sorry to yell, but that's a very important point.