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2010 Season Pats/NFL Media Predictions Mega-Thread
The board is starting to get clogged up with a separate thread by every columnist who has a prediction on how the Pats will do this season, their record, and how far they advance. How about we post all the links, quotes from those columns, and our comments on those articles here in this thread.
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I didn't want to merge that thread into this one since it's focused on just the local media, but the link will be most helpful for anybody that takes the time to look back on predictions later on this season.
The first category was Best Team That Won't Make The Playoffs. Between the nine writers, the Vikings were the only team mentioned twice. Tim Layden selected the Pats.
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This is a dynasty on the downside. Belichick's defense is mediocre at best. As good as Wes Welker has looked in the preseason, he's still only eight months out from knee reconstruction and now Randy Moss says he's unhappy. Plus the Jets and Dolphins might both be better. troupe to overcome.
Next was Team With The Worst Record; the Bills, Bucs and Rams all got multiple votes. After that the next topic was Star Who has Subpar Season; Donovan McNabb and Brett Favre both got two votes while Damon Hack went with another QB.
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Mark Sanchez, Jets: While we were sleeping, he became the face of the franchise and surpassed Eli Manning as the quarterback of New York. I feel a tough sophomore season coming.
After there was no agreement on the Non-Star Who Will Have A Breakout Season, but there was more agreement on the Coach Who Won't Be back For 2011; both Jon Fox and Jack Del Rio were mentioned three times each. As for the Player Who Won't Be Back For 2011 three of the writers went with Brett Favre while Derrick Mason got two votes.
In the category of The Game I'm Looking Forward To Most, two games got more than one vote: Thursday's Vikings-Saints game, and next week's game between the Pats and the Jets.
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Patriots at Jets, Sept. 19: New England gets its first look at the Jets' new $1.6 billion digs, and its first of two chances to shut up brash-talking Rex and his all-star cast of characters.
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Patriots at Jets, Sept. 19: The big-talk, big-hype Jets might already be 0-1 by the time Tom ("I hate the Jets'') Brady and the fading Patriots come to the New Swamp. That should only intensify the emotions, as the Patriots try to hang onto their past and the Jets try to justify their noisy future.
Peter King has the Pats losing in the playoffs as a wildcard team, and the Steelers winning the Super Bowl over the Packers.
Don Banks also has the Pats losing as a wildcard team; he predicts the Ravens will beat Green bay in the Super Bowl.
Jim Trotter has Miami winning the division, the Pats missing the playoffs, and the Packers beating the Jets in the Super Bowl.
Jerome Bettis picks the Pats to win the division and end up losing to the Chargers in the AFCCG; he has San Diego over Green Bay for the Super Bowl.
Damon Hack has the Pats winning the division and Baltimore over Green Bay in the Super Bowl.
Tim Layden thinks the Pats will miss the playoffs (see his comments in the previous post) and Green Bay over San Diego in the Super Bowl.
Kerry Byrne has the Pats as a wildcard team and the Packers over the Ravens.
Andrew Perloff has the Pats winning the AFCE and New Orleans repeating as SB champs, over San Diego.
Dominic Bonvissuto thinks the Pats will miss the playoffs and the Cowboys will beat the Jets in the Super Bowl.
Overall the predictions for New England are split equally: three have the Pats winning the division, three think the Pats will be a wildcard team, and three believe the Pats will miss the playoffs.
All nine think the Jets will make the playoffs: five as division winners, four as a wildcard.
Only two of the writers think Miami will make the playoffs; one as a division winner, one as a wildcard.
Not much love for the Colts: nobody thinks they will return to the Super Bowl; three think they will lose in the AFCCG.
Five say the Ravens will get at least as far as the conference championship; three have the Chargers going at least that deep, and three have the Jets going at least that far.
In the NFC Green Bay got the most love; seven out of nine have them representing the NFC in the Super Bowl. The most common pick for the NFCCG was the Packers over the Saints.
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Re: 2010 Season Pats/NFL Media Predictions Mega-Thread
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The board is starting to get clogged up with a separate thread by every columnist who has a prediction on how the Pats will do this season, their record, and how far they advance. How about we post all the links, quotes from those columns, and our comments on those articles here in this thread.
Well done,jmt57.....I propose that we rename the Dewey Decimal System after you.
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Well done,jmt57.....I propose that we rename the Dewey Decimal System after you.
We are not worthy.....
Meh, this is easy. The heavy lifting is done by people like you, Box O'Rocks, Metaphors, Urgent, PatsPsycho, PatsNutMe, and many others (apologies in advance to all the many others I did not name) with the deep football analysis. Just tidying things up a little bit to make a little more room for the good stuff.
Yeah, it's power rankings rather than predictions, but since it is before the season starts it's pretty much the same thing.
FoxSports' Adam Caplan ranks the Pats at #12 with this comment:
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Can anyone find a pass rusher for this team? Is Tully Banta-Cain the answer to their pass-rushing woes? It's never a good thing to have a weak pass rush when you have a very young secondary. The good news is Tom Brady looks like he's back to his pre-injury form.
He ranks week one opponent Cincinnati #3, week two opponent NYJ #4, and the Saints #1. The Dolphins are #18 and the Bills #30 on his list. More surprising than the Bengals at #3 is the Seahawks at #31.
Re: 2010 Season Pats/NFL Media Predictions Mega-Thread
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Thanks Deus.
I didn't want to merge that thread into this one since it's focused on just the local media, but the link will be most helpful for anybody that takes the time to look back on predictions later on this season.
Merge away if it works for you. I only made it local because that's the group Ian wants people to lighten up on, so I was keeping it separate.
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