Gwedd

I woke up quite happy this morning. I saw the team that I had hoped would show up, that had the potential many saw but were afraid would be lost in "rookie" mistakes.

This team had a high energy level, and a physicality to it that was just PUSHING the Bengals line back time and time again.

I am so looking forward to watching tonight's game and then our visit to Jersey this weekend.

BlueThunder

Points left on the field and lots to work on with both Offense and Defense.

But, for the first real game of the season, OUTSTANDING.

BB gets to pick apart the weaknesses and players get to work on correcting their mistakes.....great tuneup for the Jets.

Usually have letdowns after a dominating win but with the next game being the J-E-T-S Pats should be pumped.

IllegalContact

in terms of points left on the field, yes. in terms to the playcalling in the 3rd quarter that led to a 3 and out and the bengals putting up 14, yes. with the youth of this defense, the pats offense will need to control the ball better.

the difference in the game was a defensive TD and a special teams TD. things you can't count on on a weekly basis.

the bengals defense was rather poor yesterday. with the weapons tha pats have, they should have produced more on offense

Synovia

You're making the mistake of assuming the game would have completed identically if those things hadn't happened.


BB clearly took the foot off the gas. The Bengals scored, but they took off tons of time doing it.




You also can't count on young DBs dropping 3 or 4 INTs in one game every week.

Patpartizan

Sometimes I forget how lucky Pats fans are to have such a great person as Tom Brady as our QB. It was reinforced yesterday as Brady exited the field and gave handslaps to 10 or 12 miltary people near the tunnel entrance. He stopped and came back to hit the one hand of the guy he missed, total class.

GAC660

Although I don't post that often, I have been reading Patfankens's "idle thoughts" for a long while. Not only are his posts the most informative and sensible it draws informative and sensible responses from other very knowledgeable members of this forum. I watched the game yesterday at Beef O'Brady's here in the Tampa area and I told many Patriot fans about this site and I mentioned Patfanken's posts specifically. I'm hoping the real Pats fans join and contribute, I'm going to make a contribution right now. Keep up the great work all of you knowledgeable posters!

upstater1

I've been to Okie once. The people there are great, very friendly and kind. In fact, too friendly and kind. For you Okie folks, when you see a dark-haired northerner walking to an 8 am interview, and the roosters just crowed for the first time that morning, and he's looking morosely into his coffee with a half-****-eyed look and little granules of sand in his eyes, you do NOT have to say "GOOD MORNING!" in the most lilt-y singsong voice you can muster with a huge smile on your face, and the women with their rather nice-looking big blue eyes opened wide--expecting a return good morning from the grumpy northerner!

This event was repeated about 15 times each morning.

Other things I remember: the dead grass is known as yellow grass. The red soil is filled with iron, and once it gets on your clothes, it just doesn't come off, that's why you see all these little kids running around after school in sweats with big red splotches on them that make you think there's some kind of festival going on, and then there are a lot of McMansions from big oil people far across town from the shotgun shacks, and the bars are huge--like barns--and the town of Stillwater was named not because the water was rather stagnant, but because there was still some water there in that town.-

BradyManny

I noticed that, but I wouldn't worry about it. Brady saw Faulk on that play and chose not to go there - if I had to guess, they treated that play as "practice" and we're specifically working on a certain play. Maybe he just wanted to get it to Welker, thinking each rep he gets is a step forward. Who knows. Either way, the play was utterly meaningless, and the team seemingly treated it as a practice play.

Sicilian

I'll give Gost the miss on the 50+ yarder, but we've come to expect him to get the 40-45 one that he missed. With that, the offense would have scored 27 points, even though they were playing a soft defense that was designed to make the Bengals take 6 or 7 minutes to score in the 2nd half. Also, since ST got the TD to open the half, the offense was potentially robbed of a meaningful drive to add to those numbers. Same thing with the pick-six. Adds a TD to the score, but keeps the offense off the field.

Have we really become so spoiled as a fanbase that an offense that an offense that puts up 24 (should have been 27) points in a blowout overall and only has to punt ONCE is "disappointing"?

Uncle Rico

Funny tweet from Ochocinco:

I remember the hit. Meriweather POPPED him.

Chad Ochocinco (OGOchoCinco) on Twitter

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