Originally Posted by JoeSixPat

I'm not sure if Easterbrook or MangIdiot can be classified as disappointments. Did any Patsfans expect much from them?

As for Brady, I think his "questionable shoulder" has gone beyond gamesmanship and is now in the realm of superstition.

How successful have the Pats been while he's been questionable? BB knows he's not fooling anyone with that - I think he doesn't want to tempt fate by making a change.

Furthermore I think it would be hilarious if Brady bows out of the Pro Bowl citing his shoulder!

Originally Posted by PatsFaninAZ

His injury-Brady article this year, though, was misguided. Everyone deserves a mulligan, and sportswriters never admit they are wrong, so I don't expect him to. I do, though, think he regrets that column a little. But still, I can't forgive him of it. Like everyone else, he chose to focuse on the negative instead of celebrating a great athlete and a wonderful team.

Originally Posted by primetime

Wilbon also wrote an article about how Sean Taylor deserved to die because he hung out with thugs. His PTI gig has turned him into a sensationalist.

Originally Posted by PatsFaninAZ

I most definitely did not think his Taylor column was sensationalistic. I thought it was the exact opposite, and I don't think your description is fair, although I don't want to hijack the thread to turn this into a debate about that. Ask yourself if you'd be bothered by the column if you weren't angry at Wilbon for his Brady column.

Wilbon for many years has written on the theme of young black americans and athletes having more personal responsibility and using their fame to attempt to accomplish change. I don't want to start a debate about that either, and it's a subject on which I have neither the experience or ability to speak intelligently or to speak at all. My only point is that this has been a consistent and pervasive theme to Michael Wilbon's work, not something that he has landed upon since PTI.

Originally Posted by PatsWickedPissah

I nominate the complete weenies who post here on the gameday threads. Each contested game these wimps totally lost faith in the Pats before halftime. Never have I seen such fainthearted fans. It's as if they had absolutely no clue whatsoever how BB approaches a close game and how Brady is calm, cool and focused in the final drives with everything on the line. I'm not referring to folks making critical obervations of a play, player or a coaching decision, I'm referring to those who every close game abandon hope and ignore history when faced with game adversity.

Originally Posted by JoeSixPat

I was reading Patriots Football Weekly and have to agree wholeheartedly with the columnist who singled out Peter King for his Festivus Award.

Indeed I think most of us would agree with this. The author (Bruce Allen I think? I can't link as its a subscription service) points out King's numerous "misquotes" where Jason Taylor and Wade Philips went out of their way to note that King had botched their interviews and taken comments out of context.

For me the biggest reason for disappointment in King is his hypocrisy on Spy Gate, ignoring comments made by other coaches that what the Patriots did is being done by other teams, and then refusing to drop the issue while admitting he had no additional facts to backup his conspiracy theories that the Commissioner was involved in a cover up...

And then when information comes out about the Jets taping when Belichick clearly states that no permission was given, does he take up the issue with even a fraction of the zeal? Actually I don't think he even mentions it.

So for King - someone I used to enjoy reading and had a lot of respect for - this year marks a serious downturn in the quality of his writing and reporting - and I second his nomination for the 2007 Festivus Award.

Any other nominees?