Foxboro Mike

Hackett = Gilbride?

Anchorman is a GREAT movie. Saw it 3x in the theatre - I missed many punchlines because you couldn't hear the dialogue over people laughing. A must-have DVD.

You're 100% correct in your Patriot analysis. There's not one area you can point to and say, "Do this, and they can't beat you." That was the case, even pre-Dillon. Now's it even more pronounced. The Jets decided last week that Dillon wasn't going to beat them, and made Brady do it. I'm really impressed with what Mularkey has done with the Bills. He's really established an identity for Buffalo quickly, and that's not easy to do.

If that were to happen, that would have to go down as maybe the best SB run ever... even better than the '85 Pats (won @NYJ, @LARaiders, @MIA).

Which in turn is trumped only by your beligerence. What's your problem, meat? We're having a football discussion. I'm not allowed to disagree, meat? Thought you were better than that.

Just as I'd take Russell over Chamberlain and Emmitt over Barry, I'll take Brady over Manning. Of course, I'm more biased than a Kennedy at a Democratic Convention, but I don't worry when I see Tin Manning under center against the Patriots. He'll make the big mistake when it counts.

Smart ones would.

I've never denigrated Jim Kelly. Kelly was Favre before Favre was Favre. Did that make sense?

Kelly put his team in position to win one, the problem was, he didn't have Adam Vinatieri.

Thank you for understanding my point. Pats fans wouldn't ever, ever, ever trade Brady for Manning.

The Lions zone-blocked for Sanders, letting him pick/choose openings. The Cowboys ran more set plays, pulled guards, tackles, trapped, etc. Sanders was a homerun hitter who strikes out 200 times (Dave Kingman). Emmitt Smith was a batting champion who could also hit for power (Albert Pujols, Manny Ramirez). Just because you don't win it all doesn't mean you aren't a good player at whatever you do. I'd just rather have a guy that wins, not just puts up gaudy stats. It's the old Bill Russell/Wilt Chamberlain argument. Put it this way: Would you have traded Kelly for Marino, straight up?

I think most Patriot fans see a lot of a young Bledsoe in Manning. That's all. I may be wrong. Manning always seems to spit the bit when it matters, although he's gotten better each year. We'll see.

Well said, but I disagree with you. The reason why Marino never succeeded was that his team became too dependent on him throwing the ball to succeed. They always helped out Marino, providing him with weapons, but always to the detriment of a running game (Mark Higgs, Sammie Smith, Bernie Parmalee, etc) and the defense. At least Manning HAS the running game, but the Colts don't choose to exercise that dimension often. I will go to my grave claiming Emmitt was better than Barry. Emmitt scored TDs, moved the chains, was always moving forward, and didn't put his team in 2nd-long, 3rd-long a lot by losing big yardage. Barry was great, don't misunderstand me, but I'd take Emmitt every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Au contraire, LA. As a matter of fact, Doza, Thurman's Helmet, and myself came back over to TBD last Monday night/Tuesday morning so we could take our lumps. THAT'S something you should respect. Not one of us ran and hid after a tough loss, unlike some of your especially thin-skinned brethren on this board.

It's going to be entertaining watching this board turn on Tin Manning when the Bills face the Colts in round one.

That was in the late 90s after the State of Mass. wouldn't let the Pats build a stadium in South Boston on the waterfront (and the Pats were already owned by Kraft). With the threat of Kraft building outside Massachusetts (they also looked to build in Providence), a compromise was reached between Kraft and the Mass. Legislature to build CMGI Field (nee Gillette Stadium) behind the old Foxboro Stadium. In 1993, a St. Louis native named James Busch Orthwein owned the Patriots, buying them from (shudder) Victor Kiam. Orthwein bought the team with the intention of moving to St. Louis or selling to the highest bidder. When Orthwein tried to move the team to St. Louis, Bob Kraft - who owned Foxboro Stadium at the time - wouldn't let Orthwein move the team, as he held an ironclad lease for where the Pats would play until late in the '00 decade. Orthwein wound up selling the team to Kraft (a Boston native), and the rest, as they say, is history.

I've said this previously, but I think it applies again here: If losing in Miami works out as well as the whole 31-0 debacle, then my team will be THE SINGLE MOST DYNASTIC TEAM IN THE SALARY CAP ERA!!

If the Bills and Pats were to meet for the AFC title, we would probably be in need of a restraining order to keep us from being at each other's throats. The media would have a field-day with the storylines. Hopefully Richard Seymour will be healthy by then!!!

I feel like I should say something, but as usual, I have nothing to add.

I'm leaving for the day and won't have 'net access until very late tonight/early tomorrow. FYI. Mike

Well, who's doing it?

What administrator is doing this search for the PM?

I was away from the computer. I'm back, and not backing down. Let's access the old board if we can. You're on, scumbag.

A chickenshit scumbag move. If there's a God in heaven, the Mods can get a hold of those posts.