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25 Years Ago Today, The Fish Were Squished
Thank god the team doesn't need to hang their hats on that.
However, for those of us who were remember the downswing after Fairbanks left and the Ron Meyer mess, it was a great ride.
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I remember it well -taped the game on a crappy VHS tape that I kept for years afterward (it may still exist but it's probably of an unwatchable quality). Even the late Mosi Tatupu scored in that game.
Beating Miami in Miami felt like beating the Yankees in NY in Game 7.
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Re: 25 Years Ago Today, The Fish Were Squished
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I remember it well -taped the game on a crappy VHS tape that I kept for years afterward (it may still exist but it's probably of an unwatchable quality). Even the late Mosi Tatupu scored in that game.
Beating Miami in Miami felt like beating the Yankees in NY in Game 7.
I didn't have the full appreciation of playoff failure in '76 or '78 as I started following the team in 1981ish when my dad started taking me to games, but later on as a teenager who was wrapped up in all things Boston sports in the 80s, it was just awesome. Just awesome.
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"If a player has talent and doesn't succeed, that means that they either don't want to be successful or I have failed as a coach." - Bill Belichick
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My God, the things I tried to convince myself were harbingers of glory...
The great coach was Ray Berry.
The great QB was Tony Eason.
It is so good to have finally gotten the real thing.
It is interesting to note that Berry is, in my opinion, the 2nd Greatest Coach in Pats history. He's not even in the same Solar System as Belichick, but he's 2nd in winning % amongst those who coached more than 50 games with the Pats (believe it or not, Pete Carroll is actually 2nd in winning % if you don't apply the 50-game minimum). He's 3rd in wins behind Mike Holovak but the difference is only 4 wins and Holovak coached 20 more games. He's the only coach other than Belichick to win at least 3 playoff games, the only other coach to take them to the Super Bowl.
This is not to say that Berry was a great coach...unless you measure him by Jets coaching standards
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- Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr.
"It's not a lie if you believe it"
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Like others, I had a VHS tape of that game. I can remember watching it a few years later during the dark days of the Lisa Olsen/Pats moving to St Louis era. At the end of the tape I found myself in tears. Maybe they were tears of joy but mostly they were tears of how far the Pats had fallen and that my childhood team was about to be no longer.
It hurt. Once you spend time in the valley, the mountaintop is all the sweeter.
God bless you, Mr. Kraft. You made all this joy we're experiencing as patsfans a reality.
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Re: 25 Years Ago Today, The Fish Were Squished
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Originally Posted by BrainTrust66
It is interesting to note that Berry is, in my opinion, the 2nd Greatest Coach in Pats history. He's not even in the same Solar System as Belichick, but he's 2nd in winning % amongst those who coached more than 50 games with the Pats (believe it or not, Pete Carroll is actually 2nd in winning % if you don't apply the 50-game minimum). He's 3rd in wins behind Mike Holovak but the difference is only 4 wins and Holovak coached 20 more games. He's the only coach other than Belichick to win at least 3 playoff games, the only other coach to take them to the Super Bowl.
This is not to say that Berry was a great coach...unless you measure him by Jets coaching standards
I can't speak to Holovak as I wan't born yet so I'll leave him out of the discussion. I have no reason to doubt that he was a great coach.
Berry was an outstanding coach. His downhill slide was due to the fact that Joe Mendes took over for Dick Steinberg as the top personnel guy and their drafts stunk from 86-90.
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25 Years Ago Today, The Fish Were Squished
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