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Having lived there in the past, I can say that they are not kind when any solid winning team goes from success to losing. So let’s hope the Pats go to 7-10 and all hell will break loose. The media will wig out and social media will want Belicheat and his son gone. 

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3 hours ago, Locomark said:

Having lived there in the past, I can say that they are not kind when any solid winning team goes from success to losing. So let’s hope the Pats go to 7-10 and all hell will break loose. The media will wig out and social media will want Belicheat and his son gone. 


Nah, I want a long drawn out agonizing neverending debate on every sports show asking “Has BB lost it”.

 

Keep twisting that knife.

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Thanks for sharing.  I had seen snippets of this but not the entire story.

 

Bum Phillips used to say that Don Shula could take his guys and beat your guys and also take your guys and beat his guys...I am not sure Belichick is in that category.  He is a brilliant coach and may go down as the greatest in history, particularly on Defense and Special Teams.  However, Tom Brady's work ethic, brains, accuracy and competitiveness/will to win was on equal footing to Belichick's brilliance to what made the Pats so great for so long.

 

Last year, the fact that the Pats made the playoffs, was probably one of his better coaching jobs.  This year, handing the offense to Matt Patricia and Joe Judge without McDaniels there is not a great recipe for success from an outsider's view.  The draft record is not even average.  Still, I wouldn't start shoveling dirt on the coffin just yet.....

 

 

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1 minute ago, Warcodered said:

It is kind of one of those weird feelings where you're like "Is this a mirage or are the Patriots going to be terrible this year?"

 

Looking critically at the last couple decades of Patriots seasons shows us a tendency to be at their worst in the first parts of the season, but to improve and to find some semblance of a winning identity by season's end. 

 

So it's reasonable to expect early struggles and bad losses before they sort some things out and plateau as an "in the hunt" fringe team. 

 

Or maybe they'll just absolutely implode!

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49 minutes ago, stuvian said:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/31/sports/patriots-draft-failures-are-glaring-bill-belichick-deserves-some-blame-not-developing-young-players/

 

it's sounding like a disastrous offseason in Chowderland. I'm not one to doubt BB but losing Brady and now McDaniel combined with a few bad drafts has him looking vulnerable

“A few”?

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There was a point fairly late in last season where it seemed entirely possible, even if not likely, that the Pats would grab the AFCE crown away from the Bills.  The Pats had come to Orchard Park and beaten the Bills physically.  It was only when the Bills pulled it together, went to Foxborough, and beat the Pats that the Bills were able to reassert their dominance.  If things had gone sideways in that game, the Bills might have missed the playoffs altogether.

 

Belichick the GM is a disaster.  Belichick the player developer is a failure.  But Belichick the Xs and Os guy, the motivator, the tactician -- is still brilliant.  

 

Maybe Don Shula could take his team and beat you, or take YOUR team and beat you.  Belichick can take toxic sludge and farts and either beat you or at least scare you.  Of course then there was that playoff shellacking in the frigid cold, when the Pats gave up and kept looking longingly at the sidelines with the parkas and heaters.  I don't care who was lined up against Buffalo that game -- the Bills were unstoppable.  So I don't really want to crucify BB for that one, either.  

 

The best thing Kraft could do as the owner is sit BB down and tell him he can coach as long as he wants, but the team is going to have an actual GM, and BB is going to have to get used to it.  

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37 minutes ago, JoeF said:

Bum Phillips used to say that Don Shula could take his guys and beat your guys and also take your guys and beat his guys...I am not sure Belichick is in that category. 

 

I’m certain that you could replace “guys” with “playbook” and it would probably work out in Bellicheat’s favor. 🤪

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2 minutes ago, Allen2Diggs said:

I won't believe the fall of the Patriots until I see it. They made the playoffs with a rookie qb and have a defensive mastermind as their head coach. I have heard this same story every preseason for the past decade. The Patriots are a threat as long as Bill Belichick is their coach.


Yep, exactly what I was going to say.

 

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2 minutes ago, Allen2Diggs said:

I won't believe the fall of the Patriots until I see it. They made the playoffs with a rookie qb and have a defensive mastermind as their head coach. I have heard this same story every preseason for the past decade. The Patriots are a threat as long as Bill Belichick is their coach.


Wrong.

 

Brady made BB.  everyone wants to hate Brady, but he was 71-79 without him.  You should know the reference.  He is a horrible GM, and does not develop people well.  He is a great tactician. His ego kills him.  If he had a Beane and knew how to play well in the sandbox, he would’ve been fine.

 

He’s his own worst enemy.

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16 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:


Wrong.

 

Brady made BB.  everyone wants to hate Brady, but he was 71-79 without him.  You should know the reference.  He is a horrible GM, and does not develop people well.  He is a great tactician. His ego kills him.  If he had a Beane and knew how to play well in the sandbox, he would’ve been fine.

 

He’s his own worst enemy.

I agree that he is a horrible gm. Another Jerry Jones situation where his ego prevents him from realizing others are better with personnel.

 

The 71-79 record includes when he was head coach of the Browns, who had a bad roster and were in the process of leaving Cleveland. Belichick was still finding his way as a head coach.

 

Bill also managed to have winning records with Matt Cassell and rookie Mac Jones at qb.

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39 minutes ago, Allen2Diggs said:

I won't believe the fall of the Patriots until I see it. They made the playoffs with a rookie qb and have a defensive mastermind as their head coach. I have heard this same story every preseason for the past decade. The Patriots are a threat as long as Bill Belichick is their coach.

Nothing against what he’s done in the past obviously but I wasn’t terribly impressed with belichick last season.  The pats making the playoffs felt a bit flukey imo…they got the browns and titans absolutely ravaged by injuries and the bills in that ridiculous wind storm.  couple that with the afc east having a bunch of easy opponents on the schedule to begin with… NYJ X 2,HOU,ATL,CAR,JAX.  They faded down the stretch against buffalo and two pretty good afc teams that didn’t even qualify for the playoffs (Mia and Ind) and got absolutely smoked in the playoffs. 
 

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28 minutes ago, Allen2Diggs said:

I agree that he is a horrible gm. Another Jerry Jones situation where his ego prevents him from realizing others are better with personnel.

 

The 71-79 record includes when he was head coach of the Browns, who had a bad roster and were in the process of leaving Cleveland. Belichick was still finding his way as a head coach.

 

Bill also managed to have winning records with Matt Cassell and rookie Mac Jones at qb.

Why do people always attach the word ‘rookie’ to qbs like they are guaranteed to improve as they age…lots of guys get off to good starts because defenses haven’t yet picked up on their tendencies then they end up flaming out 

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2 hours ago, stuvian said:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/31/sports/patriots-draft-failures-are-glaring-bill-belichick-deserves-some-blame-not-developing-young-players/

 

it's sounding like a disastrous offseason in Chowderland. I'm not one to doubt BB but losing Brady and now McDaniel combined with a few bad drafts has him looking vulnerable

Vulnerable or like a doddering old man?

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1 hour ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Nothing against what he’s done in the past obviously but I wasn’t terribly impressed with belichick last season.  The pats making the playoffs felt a bit flukey imo…they got the browns and titans absolutely ravaged by injuries and the bills in that ridiculous wind storm.  couple that with the afc east having a bunch of easy opponents on the schedule to begin with… NYJ X 2,HOU,ATL,CAR,JAX.  They faded down the stretch against buffalo and two pretty good afc teams that didn’t even qualify for the playoffs (Mia and Ind) and got absolutely smoked in the playoffs. 
 


After a heartbreaker in OT against Dallas, the Pats got their **** together and went on quite an impressive 7 game win streak in the middle of the season. And they beat some legit contenders like the Chargers, Browns, Titans, and Bills in the wind game. Everything was firing on all cylinders for them and they were looking like a top 5 team until they imploded and lost 3 out of 4 of their last games.
 

I don’t think it was Flukey at all. If Mac Jones somehow improves on last season, they will easily contend for another Wildcard. I never count them out as long as BB is the coach. Obviously, I hope the whole organization implodes, but it’s not likely. 

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3 hours ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Nothing against what he’s done in the past obviously but I wasn’t terribly impressed with belichick last season.  The pats making the playoffs felt a bit flukey imo…they got the browns and titans absolutely ravaged by injuries and the bills in that ridiculous wind storm.  couple that with the afc east having a bunch of easy opponents on the schedule to begin with… NYJ X 2,HOU,ATL,CAR,JAX.  They faded down the stretch against buffalo and two pretty good afc teams that didn’t even qualify for the playoffs (Mia and Ind) and got absolutely smoked in the playoffs. 
 


We faced JAX too. Remind me how that went? 

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18 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:

 

Looking critically at the last couple decades of Patriots seasons shows us a tendency to be at their worst in the first parts of the season, but to improve and to find some semblance of a winning identity by season's end. 

 

So it's reasonable to expect early struggles and bad losses before they sort some things out and plateau as an "in the hunt" fringe team. 

 

Or maybe they'll just absolutely implode!

 

You are correct RN. Except last year, they were trending down long before the infamous thud in Orchard Park. I think the end of the season was more representative of the direction this team is going in (Mac Jones scares no one). And this off-season has done nothing to change that perception.

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5 hours ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Nothing against what he’s done in the past obviously but I wasn’t terribly impressed with belichick last season.  The pats making the playoffs felt a bit flukey imo…they got the browns and titans absolutely ravaged by injuries and the bills in that ridiculous wind storm.  couple that with the afc east having a bunch of easy opponents on the schedule to begin with… NYJ X 2,HOU,ATL,CAR,JAX.  They faded down the stretch against buffalo and two pretty good afc teams that didn’t even qualify for the playoffs (Mia and Ind) and got absolutely smoked in the playoffs. 
 

Hmmm... Bills played all those teams too plus Washington and their terrible QB. Bills played the worst collection of QBs in history last season.  Saints essentially played a fullback at QB.  Belichick made the playoffs with a rookie QB.  

As others have said, he is a terrible Gm, seems like a terrible person, but single game strategy is unequaled in NFL history.  Look no further than their first and last SB wins.  Pats defense stopped the Greatest Show on Turf and then held the newest genius OC to only 260 yards and 3 points.  

While I now believe Brady has moved past Montana.  I would still put Bill Walsh ahead of Belichick.  My top coaches are 1. Walsh 2. Belichick 3. Shula 4. Noll 5. Parcells. Lombardi, Madden, Landry, and Gibbs are just outside of the top 5.  I don't know enough about Paul Brown or many other very early NFL coaches to rank them.  

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6 hours ago, Allen2Diggs said:

I agree that he is a horrible gm. Another Jerry Jones situation where his ego prevents him from realizing others are better with personnel.

 

The 71-79 record includes when he was head coach of the Browns, who had a bad roster and were in the process of leaving Cleveland. Belichick was still finding his way as a head coach.

 

Bill also managed to have winning records with Matt Cassell and rookie Mac Jones at qb.


Ok, I can see that POV from a Pats fan, and I’m not knocking as you’re always respectful.  I think you do count Sal’s assessment of Cleveland’s (and yes I knew his math) record as he was still trying to win, and he made the playoffs once while at Cleveland.  The point is how he coached without Brady, and how much a QB means to a HC’s career.  
 

McBeane’s career is so closely aligned with Allen’s career.  I’m not taking away that BB had a hand in Brady’s success as he called games early in his career by the defense with the first 3 SB wins.  Brady came into his own in year 4 to 5 and beyond.

 

I’ve changed my POV on Brady since he’s been here in Tampa, not that I won’t root against him if he makes it to Miami or makes the SB against us this year.  I don’t see it this year though given how devastated the Bucs line will come up this year.

 

BB will be a HOF coach and deserves those accolades.  I just want to sweep them for as long as he is the HC for NE.  He did nothing to help his team this offseason.  They are in for another 7-10 to 9-8 season missing the playoffs.

 

You are one of the few Pats fans who comes here and is very respectful so thank you.  I never mind fans of other teams who are good to the other teams board like Zero, and Icebowl.  Even Spags is funny at times.  He just likes poking the bear with funny hot takes, so people laugh at him.

 

Havr a good day brother and GO BILLS!

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9 hours ago, Warcodered said:

It is kind of one of those weird feelings where you're like "Is this a mirage or are the Patriots going to be terrible this year?"

 

I think they are legit going to be terrible. Two years ago when everyone was predicting that I was more circumspect because I felt at the time they had a top 5 offensive line and a top 5 secondary. They went 7-9 despite easily the worst QB play in the entire league from the corpse of Cam Newton's career. 

 

That offensive line has now broken down. Their two elite guards are on the Chiefs and the Buccs and they have really struggled in pre-season and camp to run the ball. Their secondary has since lost Stefon Gilmore, JC Jackson and Jason McCourty and Devin McCourty is still pencilled in as a starter at age 35. I think that unit will still end up out performing its on paper talent, but they have nothing at all at corner in terms of established options. 

 

I think they will end up earning a top 5 draft pick for the 2023 Draft. 

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8 hours ago, Allen2Diggs said:

I agree that he is a horrible gm. Another Jerry Jones situation where his ego prevents him from realizing others are better with personnel.

 

The 71-79 record includes when he was head coach of the Browns, who had a bad roster and were in the process of leaving Cleveland. Belichick was still finding his way as a head coach.

 

Bill also managed to have winning records with Matt Cassell and rookie Mac Jones at qb.

I give him more credit for the Mac Jones winning record than Cassel. That team had just went undefeated (minus the super bowl) and was loaded. I think they could have plugged any competent QB in there and won 9 games.

 

Jones was better than I expected him to be last year, but I think hes already near his peak ability. I'm surprised at the lack of quality weapons in NE. Their backs are great, but Aghelor and Jakobi Myers? Even Davante Parker who has been nothing but hype his entire career. Like where are the points coming from? Without McDaniels (who i personally think saw the writing on the wall and got out) I think the Pats* are in for a long year

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The playing field has finally leveled off in New England.  Belichick is a very good coach perhaps the best ever.  However he no longer has Brady at QB, perhaps the best player ever, who they got for a 6th rd pick and never was paid at market value.  Since Brady was "underpaid" they were able to afford other good players who under normal circumstances would have played somewhere else.  Also players wanted to play with Brady and did so for less money.  It was the perfect storm.  Also throw in there the AFC East competition was incredibly incompetent during most of that time.  I know people are starting to doubt Belichick now but not me.  If they get someone who can evaluate talent they could be tough.  Patriots have had poor drafts lately.

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Take the Bills out of the equation for a moment when you look at BB and his 2021 season.

 

BB had the inside track to win the AFCE going into their Bye Week.  In the past when BB's teams would be at their best at the end

of a season and entering the playoffs.  What did they do?

 

The Pats lost 3 of their last 4 games with their only win against JAX.  They backed themselves into the playoffs and proceeded to lose

to the Bills in one of (if not THE worse) playoff loss since BB became HC.  In those 3 regular season games and the playoff loss the "vaunted" NE defense

with BB's famous X's and O's schemes gave up an average of 35 points per game!

During those games their offense averaged less than 20 points per game.

 

BB and the Patriots ended the 2021 season, by far in the worse way, since Bledsoe was QB.  Until he shows me that it was a horrible fluke,

I'm predicting the slow crumbling of the once mighty empire.  The NFL is much more about offense than defense and I don't think BB can

adjust to that change, especially with the secondary he currently has on the roster.

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I think best case for the Patriots this year is Mac Jones takes a big step in year 2 and makes a woefully subpar supporting cast on offense look serviceable and the defense performs up to expectations of a Belichik unit. Worst case could be drastically different.

 

Either way this is one of the toughest teams in the league to accurately forecast this year because they could be anywhere between the 4 win bottom feeder team to a 11+ win division title/SB contender.

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3 hours ago, Rampage said:

His entire career is built off of two players. Tom Brady & Lawerence Taylor. Without them he is a sub .500 coach. It's really that simple.

There are some people on this board that going back even 5-10 year, they said BB was a great D-coordinator and an 'above average' head coach with a great QB/Roster that made him look better.  Even when the Pats were winning SBs I know some posted that and stuck by it.  Looking at his career, the good and the bad, and what is happening now (and what happened Before Brady), I think that assessment is turning out to be the closest to the truth.

 

Add to that the cheating that the NFL admitted to by punishing the team and I think that reinforces the above point even more.

 

Opinions about him are all over the place. But for me, it you are caught cheating AND you spent the greatest part of you career with who some consider the greatest QB of all time....but WITHOUT him you teams (more than one franchise) are average-to-below average, you don't get the nod as the 'greatest coach of all time'.

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16 minutes ago, FilthyBeast said:

I think best case for the Patriots this year is Mac Jones takes a big step in year 2 and makes a woefully subpar supporting cast on offense look serviceable and the defense performs up to expectations of a Belichik unit. Worst case could be drastically different.

 

Either way this is one of the toughest teams in the league to accurately forecast this year because they could be anywhere between the 4 win bottom feeder team to a 11+ win division title/SB contender.

 

Agree a lot of weight will be on Mac Jones's shoulders along with their DBs.

 

In the past teams had to play mistake free football to beat the Pats.  No one wanted to get in a shootout with TB at QB.

BB and TB dictated the play and teams were very intimidated by them.  That's in the past.  MJ is not TB and teams will play them 

more straight up and try to play "their game" and not BB's more than any time in the last 20+ years.  

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All in all a pretty fair assessment. Belichunks has never drafted well and his assistant coaches often don't succeed on other teams. Every now and then they develop a mid to late round guy or an undrafted guy. Can't say the ol Hoodie isn't one of the all time greats but Brady made up for so much on those teams over the years. Allowed Belichunks to always focus more on defense and if things with the offense didn't look so hot on paper they'd just shurg and go "meh we still have Tom" and just roll the dice with whatever they had on offense. 

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47 minutes ago, FilthyBeast said:

I think best case for the Patriots this year is Mac Jones takes a big step in year 2 and makes a woefully subpar supporting cast on offense look serviceable and the defense performs up to expectations of a Belichik unit. Worst case could be drastically different.

 

Either way this is one of the toughest teams in the league to accurately forecast this year because they could be anywhere between the 4 win bottom feeder team to a 11+ win division title/SB contender.


Beast (one of my more likable or XMen), I just can’t see 11 wins.  I know you were speaking to the range, but I just see an avg team that beats mediocre teams, but can’t hold up against playoff caliber teams.

 

I don’t see them beating the Colts, Bengals, Ravens, Packers, the Fish once, and us twice.  They can’t win all the other games.  That’s why put a ceiling at 9-8.

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14 minutes ago, machine gun kelly said:


Beast (one of my more likable or XMen), I just can’t see 11 wins.  I know you were speaking to the range, but I just see an avg team that beats mediocre teams, but can’t hold up against playoff caliber teams.

 

I don’t see them beating the Colts, Bengals, Ravens, Packers, the Fish once, and us twice.  They can’t win all the other games.  That’s why put a ceiling at 9-8.

 

Like I said nothing would surprise me with the Pats this year including being in contention for the #1 overall pick and/or getting back to the SB.

 

What's most puzzling is how they are handling the offense and not adequately replacing Josh McDaniels which may ultimately lead to Belichik's demise. If it works out obviously he'll be praised as a genius yet again.

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4 hours ago, Rampage said:

His entire career is built off of two players. Tom Brady & Lawerence Taylor. Without them he is a sub .500 coach. It's really that simple.

Tom Brady wasn't "Tom Brady" for that first Pats Super Bowl win.  He was the definition of a game managing QB.  That was an amazing coaching job by Belichick - same with his gameplan in Super Bowl XXV.

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2 hours ago, FilthyBeast said:

 

Like I said nothing would surprise me with the Pats this year including being in contention for the #1 overall pick and/or getting back to the SB.

 

What's most puzzling is how they are handling the offense and not adequately replacing Josh McDaniels which may ultimately lead to Belichik's demise. If it works out obviously he'll be praised as a genius yet again.


We don’t always agree, but I respect you’re pov.  I’m not biased as to how much I hate that team.  I just don’t see the talent to do it.  Hey,  bring up my posts in January if wrong as I’ve probably been wrong more than right.  🤩🦬🏋️♂️

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On 9/6/2022 at 6:09 AM, Ethan in Portland said:

Hmmm... Bills played all those teams too plus Washington and their terrible QB. Bills played the worst collection of QBs in history last season.  Saints essentially played a fullback at QB.  Belichick made the playoffs with a rookie QB.  

As others have said, he is a terrible Gm, seems like a terrible person, but single game strategy is unequaled in NFL history.  Look no further than their first and last SB wins.  Pats defense stopped the Greatest Show on Turf and then held the newest genius OC to only 260 yards and 3 points.  

While I now believe Brady has moved past Montana.  I would still put Bill Walsh ahead of Belichick.  My top coaches are 1. Walsh 2. Belichick 3. Shula 4. Noll 5. Parcells. Lombardi, Madden, Landry, and Gibbs are just outside of the top 5.  I don't know enough about Paul Brown or many other very early NFL coaches to rank them.  

Oh yea I’m by no means saying we had an impressive regular season…11 wins against that schedule was pretty disappointing.  Last year was a year where we should’ve been a heavy favorite for the 1 seed and we coughed it up due to a rough stretch in the middle of the season.  
 

I think our win total was a bit of an aberration though as we went 0-5 in one score games…that tends to correct itself in the following season assuming the team in question is at least decent. I don’t think it’s controversial to say that we would have beaten the pats pretty comfortably in slightly less windy conditions though and that really was the difference between them making/missing the playoffs.  

 


 

 

 

 

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On 9/5/2022 at 10:34 PM, stuvian said:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/31/sports/patriots-draft-failures-are-glaring-bill-belichick-deserves-some-blame-not-developing-young-players/

 

it's sounding like a disastrous offseason in Chowderland. I'm not one to doubt BB but losing Brady and now McDaniel combined with a few bad drafts has him looking vulnerable


after so many years of favoritism, cheating they got spoiled 

 

I have no doubt that they will get real ugly 3-5 at almost mid season 

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