tailgater

I understand Borges bile, but what has BB ever done to Cafardo? Is it because of Drew, Ty & Lawyer?

"Jets players have been commenting on how organized and dynamic Mangini is with his teaching. He's not the motivator Herm Edwards is, but Mangini took a lot from Crennel's practice and camp routine".

"Mangini likes the idea of moving his defensive linemen around, much the way he did in New England".

I guess the Patriots will now collapse with only Belichick left, losing a genius like Mangini.

Pats726

There are some in the media with egos so big that it is more about them then what they are suppose to be doing..like reporting about the team. And since the have a GRUDGE against the team..because they have to actually work to get information and stories, they choose to quietly trash the team they are covering..in larger and smaller ways. They basically do NOT GET IT!! Typical Cafardo garbage!!! A few years ago, he was a better reporter..now..following in Borges's putrid steps.

PromisedLand

Meanwhile, in the same issue of the Boston Globe/Red Sox Investment Club, Dan Shaughnessy maintains that Boston is still a "baseball town", and portrays the typical Pats fan as a 30-50 year old male with a beer gut.

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tailgater

Hey, I resemble that remark!

I hate being a stereotype...

BradyManny

I sort of thought Mangini sucked hard as our coordinator last year - at least for the first half of the season. It'd be easy to blame everything on a Starks & the bad secondary, but Mangina's scheme calling was horribly weak. It wasn't until we played aggressively that things started to come together.

Obviously personell helps, gaining Bruschi and Hobbs, moving Vrabel inside and losing Beisel and Brown, but the fact was, Mangini had our D playing afraid most of the year. When he finally let them loose and stopped worrying about the secondary, we suddenly had one of the best Ds in the league.

SoonerPatriot

I've always felt like Carfardo was a Mangini jock sniff anyway. He's been trumpeting his arrival NY as if someone took some of Lombardi's DNA, let it ferment in a petri dish and bam! instant HOF coach.

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BelichickFan

It's funny because the reports from NE were that Mangini was anything but dynamic - to the point that he didn't have control of the defensive room and needed Belichick to help with that. I doubt he's suddenly a dynamic, charismatic leader of the whole team.

MoLewisrocks

Nick is essentially a baseball guy, an aging version of the curly haired cherub toting Felgers water at the Herald, who was tapped as Wrong Borges backup after Will retired and in transition when Holley and Smith hit the fast track off of Morrisey Blvd. and before Jerome was flown in from Houston.

Nick is a schmuck and a sucker for a sob story. He resents the way certain people get treated by this organization (including the media in general and his cubicle mate Borges in particular). He has no access in Foxboro so he cultivated access by championing the downtrodden like Drew, Ty, Poston...if you have left this organization, battled it valiently within the division or butted heads with it on any level, Nick's software automatically adds your home, office and cell phone numbers to his rolodex and you become one of his valued sources. The fact that you no longer have anything to so with the (multi-championship) team his town is left to grapple with matters naught - because what Nick wants from you is any information or impressions you can share with a sympathetic guy like you who was also just trying to do his job and who is now determined to get the word out that this dynastic juggernaut (along with some big jerks in the NFL and NFLPA) pays little attention to the most important aspect of sports - hugging it's players, their agents, former staff employees, incompetent ownerships and the media.

When I read Nick's Sunday Notes column, even moreso than when Borges pens it, I keep the kleenex box handy to dab the tears generated after I stick hot pokers in my eyes as pennance for even bothering to read this tripe.

BelichickFan

Or this little tidbit :

"Mangini likes the idea of moving his defensive linemen around, much the way he did in New England."

It's a little misleading to give Mangini credit for something that's happened for years when he was DC for just one year.

3 to be 4

Did anyone read Cafardos book about the 2001 season? It made me really question the guys talent as a writer. It read like something a 6th grader would write. Of course, it wasnt as bad a Pete Sheppard essay, but it was close.