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Randy Cross was in regular season form last night...

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This offseason, it's almost like Belichick is saying, "I'm never going to let that happen again."

Mike Reiss 7/19/12

PatsBoy12

Yeah, I said the same exact thing. I think it's the fact that so many young Gators are on the team. They brought him back to his Gator days.

Mike the Brit

"Sky air live games at 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. every Sunday night through the 2010 NFL season, as well as providing coverage of the Saturday and Thursday night games that take place during the final seven weeks of the season. From early January 2011, Sky will show all the live postseason action, followed by Super Bowl XLV live from Dallas on Sunday February 6th. Sky will also have coverage of the Pro Bowl on Sunday January 31st. In addition to their coverage of live NFL fixtures, Sky will broadcast NFL Network programming, including NFL Total Access, the NFL Network's flagship news program which keeps fans up-to-date with all the latest news from around the league.

ESPN's live coverage of Monday Night Football games kicks off at the start of the regular-season. Before kick-off of every Monday Night game you can review all the action from the previous weekend on Monday Night Countdown. ESPN will also air NFL Sunday Countdown every Sunday on ESPN America from 4-6pm.


The BBC is a terrestrial partner of the NFL in the UK, and will show highlights of the NFL International Series game on Sunday October 31st, as well as live coverage of Super Bowl XLV from Dallas, Texas on Sunday February 6th, 2011.

NFL fans with high-speed internet access can sign up to use NFL Game Pass HD service, which allows you to follow your team through the season."

Well, that's what it says on NFLUK.com. No Five = no Mike Carlson. If I were in the U.K., I'd be getting out my credit card and upgrading my router ...

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They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Well, Pats fans should be invincible by now. [Fitzy, 16 November 2009]

Still here to learn

pencilneckgeek

A few impressions that haven't been hit upon much here:

Loved Mayo starting things off by standing up the runner in the hole. Looks like he's ready to step it up this year. Spikes will make that a lot easier for him.

Loved the push from the 1st and sometimes 2nd-string DTs on passing downs. OLBs have to be world-class to get the job done when the QB has the freedom to step up. TBC, Murrell, Nikovich, and Cunningham will look a lot better than last year's group, if the DTs shrink the pocket.

Butler's illegal contact penalty has gotten lots of negative press, but what I like about it is that it's a simple thing to correct. He has a simple choice: give the guy a cushion or jam him at the line. His mistake was to jam him 7 yards downfield. Maybe he thought he was about to get beat, but it didn't look that way from the comfort of my couch.

Didn't like what I saw from on the touchdown from Bush. Thought it was Wright failing to set the edge, but looking at the replays, it looks like a coaching or audible error by Mayo. Hard to set the edge from a 3-technique, and only Sanders and Butler were on that side with him. Still the 1st-string DLine looked good overall, even without Ty Warren. If he comes back, things are looking up. Still, I'll have to watch a couple more games before I decide how I feel about the line when they're rotating in multiple players. Pryor got worked, and Wright is too small to hold-up against bigger OL over the course of a full game, even with plays off.

Wilhite looked like a rookie out there, overplaying his position, and alternately getting beat and making a big play. That's about as unacceptable as it comes for a 3rd-year player. Wheatley had some good plays, but there were a couple plays where he wa on the outside of the pile looking in or backing off the play, and just looks small. Edit: I worried about his tackling when watching the game, but I see he led the team in tackles, so maybe I need to go check myself. Regardless, run support won't be a major responsibility of the 4th CB, especially with our group of safeties. This will be an interesting spot to watch. I had thought we'd keep six, but there are too many good developmental players (e.g., Welch, Price) who wouldn't make it through waivers, and with four solid safeties who can cover, this could be the spot to give-up a slot relative to last year.

Edit: A non-analytical note: I loved the play where Spikes was in the backfiled almost on the snap and blew-up the off-back, who unfortunately for Spikes, was not a lead blocker on the play, which left Spikes sheepishly following the runner back to the point of attack having missed out entirely on the nice defensive stop by the rest of the front seven. Kid is fast to the ball. Reminds me of Seau that way. Wonder which of them would win in a sprint.

TX_Patriot

Up: The pseudo coordinators
O'Brien looked more confident with his tools and seemed more committed to the run (Big +)
If Patricia is the reason the D looked more aggressive last night, I like it. The Pats D will at least be more fun to watch that the last 3 years of the Pees bend don't break.

Down: Potential over confidence in the o-line. I think Connolly looked ok, but he's no Mankins. I just don't know how good Dan will be playing the full season at LG.

Edit: Oops, posted in the wrong thread...but I guess it still applies here too.

makoute

Hey I saw a couple of runs to the outside, I don't think they tried that since Dillon left here.

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JR4

yeah he should look like Peyton Manning , the intimidator

yuval

I completely agree. Although there were number of positive signs yesterday, it's still very early and it's still preseason.

PatsfanGlo

I think most of my reactions were covered pretty well by most posters. One thing that did come to me was 'if we had Schobel in sub package, that defense would be real bad *****'....of course that thought is more based on want, not need. I thought pass defense(4 DL) was adequate. Nothing to be jumping up and down about but against team like Saints, they were good enough. Run D on the other hand.....Spikes is going to be a beast...and we get other Warren back, that group is going to be stud and strength of Pats D once again.

Keyser Söze

Kraft sounded wasted during that halftime introduction.

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