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Ben Watson - IR Deion Branch - Doubtful Kevin Faulk - Questionable, hasn't practiced I don't need to tell you that these injuries limit the Pats' offensive versatility. Damn!

Are you joking? With Bill "One Game at a Time" Belichick as their head coach? This game may as well be the Super Bowl for the Pats.

Chowder head? I live in New York.

Sure thing. Does this mean I can leave this conversation with the impression that you don't understand the concept of punctuation?

Why'd you phrase it as a question, then?

Assuming this is a question, no.

Hasn't hurt them so far. 2-0. And in the future, don't tell me why I feel the way I do about anything. Okay?

Thanks to the lame competition committee, teams are now afraid to play defense. The NFL just went from a superior product to a step above the arena league. :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: , competition committee!

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Right now, I'd say the Jets are better on offense. Pennington's a little sharper than Brady at the moment, and the Jet's OL gives them a HUGE advantage over the Pats' shaky unit.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. EIGHT SECONDS?! In order to have 8 seconds on every throw, the defense would have to be in a prevent the whole game. No wait, scratch that. A 3-man-rush prevent could get there in 8 seconds. It'd have to be a one-man-rush. Eight seconds?! If that's how muchtime a QB needs to be effective, then he needs to retire, because it is beyond absurd to ask an OL to give a QB even half that much time on every play.

I think the trouble is that people are looking at it as a a very fast, slide that took just about a year (beginning of '03 to beginning of '04). The thing is, that's not the case. Bledsoe has been on the decline (with a few short burst of production here and there) since the middle of '99. He was GREAT in the first half of that year, leading the team to a 6-2 record, and then fell apart in the second half, going 2-6 and finishing with more INTs than TDs. Minus his ridiculous start to '02, he's been bad ever since. The first 6 game of '02 were an abberation. An amazing, incredibly productive abberation, but an abberation nonetheless.

Sapp is one of the biggest !@#$s in sports today, and he's been regressing as a player since 2000. RETIRE ALREADY, YOU JERK!

Of course they are.

Search your feelings...you know it to be true.

Yep. AP: Why not release both the originals and special editions on DVD? Lucas: The special edition, that's the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it. ... I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn't really exist anymore. It's like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I'm sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be. I'm the one who has to take responsibility for it. I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished. All I know is that I think the movies are fun to watch, and that lucas created them and can do whatever he wants with them. None of the changes bother me, and some just plain needed to be made. Changing the TESB Palpatine to the guy who plays him in ROTJ, TPM, AOTC and ROTS was a must. That old lady with monkey eyes was just plain creepy. The only thing that bothers me about the whole thing is Luke's lightsaber on the Falcon in ANH. It starts out green, then truns blueish, then turns white, and looks like crap throughout the whole scene. Wonder why they didn't fix that?

Watched the entire game. I thought you were referring to how long it took before the pressure got there (or would've gotten there). The point is that it was a prevent. You can't use that as a model for saying "this is how much time he should get on every play." If Drew needs the defense to go into a prevent every time he wants to make a proper read and throw, then he shang 'em up right now. The same reason all teams kitty out and go prevent in situations like that - fear of getting burned. It backfired on Oakland, though, since they inexplicably let Evans get behind the safties. Again, I saw the whole thing. Most of the sacks seemed to come on blitzes, and on blitzes, it's the QUATERBACK'S responsibility to recognize it before the play and make necessary adjustments, and then to find the hot read and get him the ball before the blitz gets there. Bledsoe was unable to do that. the sacks were on him.

It was a prevent, with the Raiders rushing three. He had more than four seconds. It was a blown coverage prevent by the Raiders. It was 4th and 18 near the end of the 4th quarter. Why wouldn't they rush three in such a situation? Your OL was blocking four defenders quite nicely during the entire game, and even gave Bledsoe more than enough time on the Raiders' countless blitzes. The OL was CERTAINLY not the problem in that game. So Bledsoe will "carve you up" only if you go into a prevent and then blow your coverage and let a receiver get 10 yeards behind the safeties? Sounds about right.

This is a post of mine, pretty much verbatim, from another message board. Reveal yourself, plagiarist!

This isn't 2002 anymore. Brady has been a "dink and dunk" QB for some time now.

Isn't he only going to be out half the season or so? If so, he'll probably see some time in the second half of the season if the Bills are out of it by then. I'll have to root against him because he's in the division, but Losman seems like an exciting young player with all the tools. Should be interesting to see how he does when he's given the reigns.

Deal. Our waterboy tore his ACL in Arizona and we could use a replacement.

Tough call. Under normal circumstances, I'd say Vick because of the reason MattyT stated. But with Faulk out again, The Pats probably aren't going to run the ball more than 20 or so times, so Brady should have a chance to put up good numbers again.

I thought I was the only one! Berman is a joke.

I didn't notice Traylor at end, as I belive he spent most (if not all) of his time at the nose. In the first half, the base D-line seemed to feature Seymour at RE, Warren at LE, and Traylor and Wilfork splitting time at the nose. In the second half, the Pats played a bit more 4-3, with both Wilfork and Traylor inside, and Seymour and Warren at the ends. Interestingly, when the Pats went to a 3-4 in the second half, Wilfork saw a good deal of time at LE (perhaps this is what you were thinking of when you mentioned Trayloy at end). Wilfork also played LE in the final preseason game against Jacksonville, and looked solid in doing so. As for the 3 DTs comment, while all four of the Pats starting/rotating DL (Seymour, Warren, Traylor, Wilfork) are considered DTs in a conventional 4-3, Seymour and Warren are prototypical 3-4 ends (although both can play the nose fairly well), and Wilfork seems able to as well. In addition, Jarvis Green, who many would consider too small to play DT even in a 4-3, sees time at nose in the Pats' system (usually on 3rd downs). I would say that the traditional DT/DE titles probably do not fit well on the Pats' DL, as they are rotated and switched and used at multiple positions at any given time. I would expect the Pats' three main DL looks to be: Seymour - Traylor/Wilfork - Warren (3-4) Seymour - Traylor - Wilfork - Warren (4-3) Seymour - Traylor - Wilfork (3-4) With various substitutions for sub-packages, obviously. But yes, I see the DL scheme used against Indy as more a base formation that will be used all year long than as a situational thing.