neuronet

I'm not talking about the content, but the design.

First, go to:
http://www.patriots.com

Excited for some good content? Too bad: your eyeballs are slapped with a bunch of ads, and you are invited to 'Jump to the Patriots.com homepage.' What the hell is up with that.

Then, once you are at the damned page:
http://www.patriots.com/homepage/

You are treated to a browser halting flash-heavy page with an ad that creeps over half the page if you accidentally put your mouse cursor over it. It takes so much of your processor that it takes three hours to switch to a new tab in your browser. If you click on half the links they bring you to a new page, rather than staying on that page. The video player isn't particularly reliable. If you accidentally go over a menu item the menu pops up and doesn't go away unless you stop the video. Then when you do click a menu item you often have to work through a labyrinthe of links to get to the content you actually want.

All around a huge steamy pile of horse dung.

The Dolphins have a better site. The DOLPHINS. Yes, the same crappy flash (they all use this awful format probably NFL hired one company and they used the same crappy-design infrastructure for all of them). But the video is better, no creeping black plague ads.

Example of a great Pats-related site other than this one? The all things Bill Belichick site:
http://www.allthingsbillbelichick.com/
Now THAT guy knows how to make a web site.

A weekend without a game...here is something that has been stuck in my craw for a long time now.

Suggestions: switch to anything else. Drupal, Ruby, basic CSS. At least make it W3C compliant! Take out the stupid flesh-eating ad. Make patriots.com the home page. Nobody is going to patriots.com to get a link to the Pats home page: they want to get to the dam home page!!! Make the menu system more intuitive.

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The difference is that Brady calmly calls audibles while Manning flaps like a chicken, barks 11 code words, and makes sure every camera in the stadium has documented his once-in-a-generation (and patented, I believe) ability to see a defensive formation and change the play. Both have the same effect, but Manning transcends measurable human intellect while Brady merely chooses a different play.

Nitro

loads in 2 seconds and works fine for me

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DarrylS

I have no issues, gets the info I need when I want it..

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RayClay

I agree. I avoid going there unless absolutely necessary.

I wrote them an email about how much worse the site was and they wrote me back. My complaint was there was no link to presser transcripts. They wrote the convoluted method of finding them but avoided the question of the layout just sucking.

Write them an email, the address is on the page. Maybe enough emails and they'll rethink.

NFL.com has turened a great site into a chore with bogus stat categories (no ypc for RBs?) crappy adobe movies andlinks that bring you to crap other than what it said on the link.

Patriots.com is worse, though.

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patsfanofNC12

Yea I have been expierencing these same problems too.

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Wax Frog

It also sucks and bites!

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JR4

There is a Solution - for any website that has excessive ads or
just images you don't want to see.

Get Firefox browser and get the add on Add Bock Plus from
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/recommended

Then add to the block filter list: http://ads.thekraftgroup.com

Works great - no ads just the good stuff.

if you see other images you wish to block ... no problem.

alamo

Yes, I have problems with the homepage also. Just yesterday I wanted to check the roster and after my browser grinding to a halt (i.e. wait 30 seconds and looking at the graph of CPU load in the task manager it's pegged at 100%) I gave up. I then went in through NFL.com directly to the roster and it was fine.

I am using Firefox, maybe that's a problem. It's not the flash, I have a flash blocking extension and none of it was running.

RayClay

Ad Block is a godsend, but the design still sucks. Why do you need blank blue screens instead of attractive pagees with links to clips.

Plus none of the clips will work until you disable adblock.....

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apricissimus

Me too, but I have a fairly newer computer (about 1.5 years old) and I take care of it like it was my baby. (I'm using Firefox, btw)

I do agree that the website blows though. It's pretty poorly designed for all the reasons the OP mentioned. And really if a lot of people are have a hard time loading it, then it unnecessarily complex. It ought to be simpler so that ALL computers can view it easily.