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Stats don't lie, the Pats haven't beaten anyone with a winning record this year.
People like to bring this stat up, but it is not unique in NFL history, and I don't remember ever hearing about it with two of the other teams that it happened with (there is actually a third, but I cant' remember who it was.):
1974 Superbowl winning Steelers
1999 Supperbowl winning Rams aka The Greatest Show on Turf.
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It bit them in the ass when they were running up the score on the Texans in the last game of the 2009 season and when the Pats* had a comfortable lead
Wow, you might want to have your facts straight, since you are WAY off. "Running up the score" and "comfortable lead"? That injury happened in the first quarter, with no contact, when the Texans where up 7-0, on the Patriot's first drive, and on Welker's first catch.
The fact that those guys were playing is something that can be argued, but Belicheck almost always plays his guys, the chances of an injury are relatively small, they did just play 15 other games without a serious one.
That team just wasn't that good, BB wasn't happy with it, and was still trying to get the team to improve on the way to the playoffs. They ended up losing that game by the way.
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While watching the Pats-Fins game, Brady didn't give the Miami D a chance to sub players, and when they couldn't get off the field he caught them with a couple "too many men on the field" penalties. Then I watched the first half of the Oakland-Denver game and they picked up a flag, and the ref stated that Denver had to give Oakland a chance to sub players. Did anybody else see this or know what it's about?
If the offense subs players they have to give the defense the chance to do the same. New England wasn't changing players so no need to allow the Fins the chance to sub.
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Interesting. I wonder what lawyer or gm dreamed up that arbitrage. Been pretty funny if for some weather related reasons pats ended up playing 4 games in FL that season lol
It's been happening for years: Parcells did it to get Curtis Martin from New England to NYJ (I think this is the case, can't find documentation); Vikings did it to Seattle with Hutchinson; and I assume there have been many more examples over the years.
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So info from Wiki about it, it is from Wiki so take it for what it is. LINK
The advent of the poison pill was first introduced to the public by 49ers President Carmen Policy in 1996. The 49ers intended to sign Giants running back Rodney Hampton to an offer sheet with a poison pill that stated Hampton would be "on the field for 70% of the offensive plays over the next 2 seasons." The Giants had drafted Tyrone Wheatley with their first round pick in 1995 but he was largely ineffective in his first season. Since he played the same position as Hampton, the Giants had planned to ease him into the offense with Hampton on the back end of his career. For the Giants to match the 6 year deal, they would be forced to play Hampton in 70% of the plays, thus making the previous year's draft pick of Wheatley a loss. The 49ers later decided to not include the clause, as they felt the NFL would never approve the terms. Their assumption would be proven incorrect following the 2005 season, with the historic offer sheet Steve Hutchinson signed with the Minnesota Vikings.
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Welker was traded. He was an RFA as well, Dolphins did not want to give him up.
Welker was originally an UDFA with the Chargers in '04, made the team out of training camp, and then was cut after week 1; Then the Fins picked him up. Hard to call an UDFA a bust, but wanted to make sure the record was straight.
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Nyc Make the country Trillions of dollars so stop with the black hole stuff....Yes it is BS how NE and NJJ and NJG get state of the art stadiums. NY State will never let the Bills leave, they will keep refurbing the Ralph. Which is fine with me.
I've got nothing to say about RWS, never been there, but what part does NE play in this situation? Kraft paid for that stadium, no public money was used for it. The state/town did some infrastructure improvements, but no public money is in the stadium.
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This guy seems like the type of player that the Steelers or Patriots would jump on if given the chance.
As a Patriots' fan, I want nothing to due with him.
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We don't have to trade out of the 1st round to get multiple 2nd and 3rd round picks.
We could trade down though.
I would look to New England.
New England gives: (1st round)17th pick overall (from Oakland), (2nd round)33rd pick overall (from Carolina) and (3rd round)74th pick overall.
That is about the only way I see the Bills trading down, unless a team offers multiple years of draft picks.
No thank you; ZERO desire to pick that high, especially at that cost.
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I didn't see this posted anywhere yet so...
Per the NFL network Tom Brady is not practicing because of shoulder\foot\flu. So which one of you put "Tom Brady out for the game" on their christmas list?
Brady hasn't practiced on a Wednesday in over a month because of the shoulder/foot issues; the flu is new, but this far out I doubt it will be a problem; if it turned up Friday I would be more concerned.
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Laurence Maroney...21st overall in 1996 from the Minnesota Golden Gophers!!!!!
Anyone who says that drafting RB's in the first round is stupid.....is.....well.....misinformed and ignorant.
Please stop the madness with all this Spiller hating!!! I can't wait until he blows up, so I can shove it in the face of all you miserable, dried-up, stinky
lickers. Give the kid a chance before you write him off as a "draft blunder."I'm sure that was an honest mistake, but it was the 2006 draft, not the 1996!
There is a slight difference from when New England picked Maroney and Buffalo picking Spiller. NE was in a down year, winning the division with a 10-6 record and a year removed from back-to-back SB wins. It was a pretty solid team that was looking to find a replacement for Dillion. Spiller on the other hand was a high pick that is seen by many to be a luxury pick for a team that already had two better than average RBs on it.
I won't say that drafting a RB in the 1st is stupid, but it is not something that I, as a Patriots' fan, want New England to do. I just believe that there are much more difficult positions on the team to fill, and that for the most part a RB relies on those parts more than those parts rely on a RB.
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I know he had a calf injury that cause San Diego to put him on IR. Is there any article that even says he has recovered at this point?
San Diego could not release him until he passed a physical.
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Bad calls happen a lot MORE to teams that play the Pats*, than to the Pats*. No one is saying that all the bad calls go one way, just that the majority go one way. Also, with the Bills being a bad team with no big name coach, they often get bad calls against them in any game. There is nothing they can do about it except get better players so that they can overcome both the other team and the officials. But the Pats* are a special case. Its almost like playing Shula's Dolphins from the 70s again. The referee body language even shows a kind of nervousness to make sure they call things in favor of the Pats*, like it was in the 70s with the Dolphins.
The only reason I thought it would be nice to get a Shanahan or Cowher was the effect it could have on the refs when the Bills were playing. They might respect the coach enough to be a little nervous about his complaints with bad calls. They obviously don't worry about Gailey at all. Why should they. The NFL is a league that favors the elites and the refs know that. Unfortunately RW is getting a little too old to kick in the officials' door after the game to shout at them like he did in the 70s after an especially badly called game.
That's fine, I just think it is alot about perception. I could go find threads on Pat's boards where people are saying that all the calls go against NE. Of course I hate most of those people, but that is a different story.
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When the Bills tried to pull the pats offsides on 4th and 1.
I thought the Bills called timeout before the play clock expired, but I also thought they had called timeout right before that, which would be a penalty. I saw Bellicheat pissed off after that, and I assume that's what he thought as well. Am I not remembering correctly or did the the Bills catch a break?
I actually read about this somewhere, I'll have to try and dig up a link; but there is no penalty associated with using two timeouts in a row, the ref just isn't supposed to grant the second one. The officials should have just ignored the time out, let the play clock expire, and then thrown the flag on the delay of game.
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How about the onside kick?
They didn't even bother unpiling the players and taking a look before that official ran in and signaled Patriot ball...C'MON MAN!!
If the line judge sees a player initially fall on the ball and gain possession, and then the player is then touched by the other team ending the play, they don't need to wait to pull the players off of the pile. They have to pull all of the players off when then do not see who gets control, the line judge was just in the right place this time.
How about that KO return by Spiller, that was absolutely blocked clean right? Bad calls happen both ways every game, it is just part of the game.
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So they could free kick. Someone did that years ago[i think it was Shula] and got God like strategy praise. But of course they won. Big difference.
Patriots did it in '03 at Denver.
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How is it that the Packers were so easily able to transition from Favre to Rogers while teams like the Bills go 12+ years without a real QB? Are they really so rare of a commodity that even competent QBing is impossible to find? Help me understand how one team could struggle so long at finding the most crucial element of a football team...
or am I just pissing into the wind?
The Packers drafted a falling QB near the end of the first round, and then were able to let him sit and learn behind a future HOF'er. By the time Rodgers made his first start he had something like three years in the system. You guys, not having a solid QB to start with, don't have the luxury so either you would pick up a free agent QB, or draft a rookie and start him early. Further more Rodgers took over a team that was playoff caliber with a stable front office, two things that I think even the most die hard Bills fan would agree you don't have.
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I'm little worried that Jackson might start the season on the P.U.P. list, due to the fact that Lynch may not be ready by the opener but we need additional RBs behind Spiller.
It would stink to have Jackson miss any time, but having him miss 6 weeks as a result of being put on the P.U.P. list out of necessity?
Pretty darn stinky.
FYI -- Jackson cannot be on the PUP list as he has already practiced this year. It is either the 53 or IR.
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I’ve never paid much attention to other teams schedules. Has week 17 always consisted entirely of divisional matchups? I remember the commish stating that there would be more divisional games toward the end of the season to avoid situations such as Indy’s last year. That definitely seems to be the case this year.
The answer to the question is no, and the reason in the second part I bolded. The commish basically dictated to the schedule makers that the last two weeks of the season have as many divisional games as possible, so that it is less likely that a team can get away with coasting through those weeks.
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Tough to single out one player as a "holdout" when 30/31 other 1st rounders remain unsigned.
Well you really don't have to single anyone out, if they aren't there when camp starts they are a hold out.
I looked this up earlier today, last year there were all of 4 1st rounders signed by this point; it seems that everyone is making this a big deal, and it maybe, but at this point 1 signed vs 4 signed isn't that different.
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I'm just sitting here thinking about Tom Brady not being happy with the Pats* and thinking "Hey! Why can't Tom sign with the Bills?" I mean, why not? It could happen.
Now somebody please link this post to the other Bills and Pats boards and wait for PFT to pick it up.
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Can't happen, damn California QBs!
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What would the player do? Go back into the draft? Would there even be a draft next year if there is no season?
I don't know about the rest of the post, but there will be a draft next year, it will be the last thing that happens in the league year.
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A friend of mine is a big New England Patriots fan and he mentioned that Brandon Tate was the NCAA's all-time combined kick return yardage leader. I told him that was odd because I was under the impression that Buffalo's Leodis McKelvin was. He told me that the TV announcers always credit Tate with this during his games. So I checked online but didn't have the google skills to find a list of career total return yardage in the NCAA. What I did find were several instances of Tate being called the career returns leader, even the quasi encyclopedia, Wikipedia, gave the honor to Tate and mentioned nothing of the sort on the McKelvin page. So I decided to look the stats up myself and do some addition:
Leodis McKelvin 3,817 career return yards
Brandon Tate 3,523 career return yards
Go Bills
I don't know where your numbers come from, or where the discrepancy lies, but according to the page 20 of the 2009 NCAA FBS record book, PDF located here, Tate is the career leader.
Honestly it doesn't really matter, they were both good at it on the college level, McKelvin has proven it in the NFL, Tate hasn't had the chance yet.
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I'm not sure I've ever seen a team carry 4 QBs on their roster during the regular season,
FYI -- New England did in '00. Bledsoe as the #1, Brady as the #4; I can't remember who was between them. Basically Bill's answer to why was that the team was so talent deficient at the time that they could get away with it.
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Is there a position in football that isn't important? If a team is weak at any position, that position is important to remedy.
You are right of course, but do you agree that some positions are MORE important than others? Or that some are easier to fill with late round drafties, or street free agents? Guard verses Left Tackle for example.
I don't mean to take you to task.This thread is about supposed experts in the media who really aren't doing their homework and refering to the Bills currently as if Jauron & Co. were still in charge.Understandable, but I didn't comment on that, I was just asking if the previous poster couldn't see any reason why two different teams could make, on the surface, similar moves and get different reactions. Besides media bias, of course.
We're closer to them, talent-wise, than anyone outside of Buffalo knows.Well I would say that 75 - 80 percent of the NFL teams are pretty close in pure talent, the game is really what you do with that talent.
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Tight Ends Starting to Become Available
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Converted tackle, so yes he has the size/ability to block; clueless as a receiver though. Blew his route in Preason game 3 against the Panthers that lead to Brady's pick6.
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