AndyJohnson

While there is this tremndous need from some to say the Pats had a bad off-season, with AV, Branch, Givens, McG leaving, we have already reached the point where the judgment on the off-season is a fact.
It was SUCCESSFUL.
We improved. We won 2 more regular season games, and are already a round deeper into the playoffs.

Of course the LEVEL of success is still to be determined. (We still judge success by rings)

But, the sum total of additions and subtraction has made the Patriots better in 06 than they were in 05, and it is indisputable.

Thanks, Mr. Belichick and Mr. Pioli.
(hopefully those that villified your indiviudal decisions will thank you as well for a good job of improving the team with the TOTALITY of those decisions)

zippo59

And we still have yet to cash in on our nifty extra first round draft pick.

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AndyJohnson

True.
I just found it interesting that so many people were lining up to criticize the off-season moves, and I have yet to see anyone recognize that the off-season moves made us a better team.

MrBigglesWorth

It's ironic considering Rodney was out for half the season.

Also Maroney's addition has helped Dillon and the Pats have a legit running attack this year vs last year.

Ty Warren has had a break out season.

The secondary has been solidified even when Hobbs entered the starting lineup last year.

And the O-line is healthy and gelling.

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mgcolby

Yeah, I miss those "Brady's prime is being wasted", SP and BB "have lost it", "The season is over" etc..threads. They seem to have fallen by the wayside. And fortunately for us as a group some of the biggest culprits of those threads don't feel the need to stop by anymore.

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arrellbee

Outstanding point made, Andy.

I wish I thought that one more example of the success of Belichick and Pioli's approach (if you are paying attention) would silence all of the preseason judgments that they have really blown it 'this' year and the Patriots are doomed. Unfortunately, I don't hold out much hope. We are already seeing threads before the season is even over from folks who think we HAVE to sign certain players no matter what the cost - or, as you can easily guess, the Patriots are 'doomed' next year. Geeeeesh.

[Did you mean 2006 -2007 season ? (Or do you count offseason as part of 2005 maybe?)]

PatsFanInVa

Jumping on this bandwagon too. Well put, Andy, but it's a mere two weeks and a day until the Super Bowl... and whether we get there or not, whether we win it or not, you can predict with certainty an increasing influx of posters who say BB/SP have "gone too far," "jumped the shark," etc.

But another ring will go a long way toward keeping down the white noise.

PFnV

spacecrime

I was watching the Brown-Sehorn-George show the other night, and Eddie George said the biggest surprise to him was that teh patriots were still in it. Seems like they came out of nowhere.

I thought, wow, first you guys say the Pats dynasty is gone because they lost players, and then when it's shown the dynasty is alive and strong, rather than say, OOPS, GUESS WE ALL WERE WRONG, you say the Pats came from nowhere.

The Pats never left, Eddie and Jason. Just becasue you just thought they were doomed doesn't mean they were.

And the most absolute amazing thing to me is not only are we a better team, WE HAVE TWO FIRST ROUND PICKS FOR NEXT YEAR!

PatsFanInVa

I don't think we were ever "favored" except possibly smack in the middle of "the streak," although I think someone else had been annointed during that season too.

It's uncanny, the ability the Pats have to "come out of nowhere" and still never be considered a dynasty in a given year. It's like Clememceau said about America, that we'd gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization. The Pats went from aberration to declining dynasty without actually being a dynasty in these peoples' minds, except in retrospect.

Screw these guys. I for one am happy to be "that team that just won't go away." Embrace the dark side.

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patpatriot

Yes Andy you could justifiably say the BB/Pioli guessed right this time. Still I would feel a *whole* lot better if AV were still here instead of on the opposing sideline in a big game and that they had found some way of getting Javon Walker to get on that plane out of Denver.