Anyone else lost interest if Brady's done for year?

[Bertil]

No way. It's FOOTBALL Season, and this is a good football team.

 

[patriotspride]

is that so? im sorry...but which QB beat SD today? which one beat Indy?

and which one ALMOST beat the Jets?


yea...thats what i thought

You know what . thats a great point. i would feel a lot better if we had a back up with some exp.

 

[ManningOverratedHick]

Btw, it's all right if you say I'm not a die-hard, because a die-hard would watch every snap with excitement even if Rex Grossman was the quarterback, but I'm a fan of greatness. I can only imagine what it was like to watch Larry Bird play in his prime. We went 9-7 in 2002 and I still watched and rooted for them. I just like watching Brady play. Since the last Super Bowl win, this team has turned into the post-2001 Yankees. Like Jeter always says, "This isn't the same team." And this is what it would be like if the Yankees lost Jeter, and I hate the Yankees, but I can imagine how Yankee fans would feel. It's bad enough you aren't winning championships, then the key component to a potential championship goes down.

 

[ClevTrev]

How many games in the past 7 years have the Pats squeaked by because of number 12? Sure, we had the nasty defense in 03 and 04, but Brady made plays and throws that no other quarterback could make. Brady was the x-factor. Everyone here minus a few have pointed out that we had an advantage over most other, if not all teams, just having Brady on the field and his ability to make the unthinkable throw. Cassel could be decent, but that's all he'll be. Even if he exceeds expectations, he's not even at Brees/Big Ben/Favre/Peyton level, which is what would be needed, and even then, we're looking at 2 of the biggest postseason chokers of all time in Favre and Peyton. Unless someone makes a flux-capacitor and we kidnap Montana circa 88, it's not the same. It's like drinking Bud Light after having Bass Ale for years.

You sound strikingly like another team's fan who's happy that your team now has an advantage not because it has the skills and strategy to beat the Pats, but because it can now compete with the Pats equally due purely to injury. Most Pats fans hope that all other teams stay healthy, since we want a level playing field and no excuses when the best team wins. Have fun with this post, as you've obviously been waiting for something like this for a long time. You're a fraud, I'm out.

 

[pheenix11]

Don't let the door hit ya in the ass as you jump off the bandwagon. Please take the rest of your fair weather front running friends with you.

You people disgust me. Why don't you go root for the Cowboys, you will fit right in.

 

[IcyPatriot]

Don't get me wrong, I'll watch the games, but we've taken for granted that we have the Joe Montana of the 21st century quarterbacking our team.

speak for yourself ... I root for the uniform and my blood bleeds blue & grey.

 

[Deus Irae]

Btw, it's all right if you say I'm not a die-hard, because a die-hard would watch every snap with excitement even if Rex Grossman was the quarterback, but I'm a fan of greatness. I can only imagine what it was like to watch Larry Bird play in his prime. We went 9-7 in 2002 and I still watched and rooted for them. I just like watching Brady play. Since the last Super Bowl, this team has turned into the post-2001 Yankees. Like Jeter always says, "This isn't the same team." And this is what it would be like if the Yankees lost Jeter, and I hate the Yankees, but I can imagine how Yankee fans would feel. It's bad enough you aren't winning championships, then the key component to a potential championship goes down.

While I can understand what you're feeling, I can't agree with it. Even the 1 win season was worth watching in my eyes. I just looked at it for different things like player development and the like.

 

[fnordcircle]

Hopefully you lose interest in posting here, too.

 

[zippo59]

Yeah. Why bother even playing the games?

 

[ICSB]

Brady would not want you to lose interest. It's about the Patriots in the end and you are Patriots fans.

 

[jeffbiologist]

Well, glad you showed your true colors. This is a time to gather strength in numbers and be glad and appreciative for what we have had. I felt like someone kicked me straight in the family jewels, but by the end of the game I realized not only do we have a good football team, but that this is the exact scenario some of us talked about in measuring a decent season in a post a few days ago. Now for all of you wanting a "perfect season", I hope you now define your perfection a little differently. To make the playoffs, to get a a home win would be so much more meaningful it would be like 01 all over again. And while people outside(not true fans)may measure our success in Super Bowls we(Pats fans) can measure it in character and integrity. What defines success more? Wins or character and integrity? Hemingway defined it best: Grace under pressure.

 

[Patjew]

Absofu(kinglutely not. I'll just be interested in different aspects of the team.

 

[lobster]

O'Connell may turn out to be a very good QB.

 

[ManningOverratedHick]

I'll admit, I'm spoiled. I didn't think like this even after the first Super Bowl, but something happened in 2003. Seeing a "perfect" team, not record-wise, but when everything comes together, great quarterback play, great defense etc., I expected nothing but championships out of the Patriots, and Brady and the defense were the two main reasons. The defense hasn't been the same since Super Bowl 39 and is regressing, but it's still been good enough to get us to the promised land, and Brady just gets better. With a regressing defense and sub-par/mediocre/slightly above average quarterback play, I know the Patriots aren't winning the Super Bowl. Just like Boomer Esiason said before the game "As long as Tom Brady is the quarterback, the Patriots are Super Bowl contenders every year." The NFL isn't like basketball where it takes having 3 hall of famers or future hall of famers (Bird, McHale, Parish...Pierce, Garnett, Allen obviously) to win championships. I suppose you can go the "dumb-luck and tight defense" route i.e. Ravens in 00, Tampa Bay in 02. I wouldn't count on dumb-luck, and this defense isn't that kind of defense or the Pats of 03/04.

 

[Run DMC]

I must watch every game this year regardless of anything. I love this team! I can't help it. If we don't win it all I will take comfort in another Bosox world series and another Celtics banner. I was born into this. There is no escape.

 

[Jangles]

No matter how you want to spin it or what you've done in the past, there's only 1 word for this: bandwagoner...

my thoughts exactly

I didn't even read the thread, just the title

 

[italia44]

I've been following this team since 1960.

good times and bad times.this is the time for champions.We have the best coach in the NFL.

When we win the super bowl,no one will be able to take anything away from us.

We will find a way to win,I really believe this is our kharma.

Don't lose faith.....The pats will adjust.

 

[PatsCanDoIt]

This reminds me of a more severe version of the 1998 Broncos. Elway went down for several games and Bubby Brister held down the fort. Only here Brady seems to be injured for the season. Was Bubby Brister really any good? No. He was merely OK. This is still a very talented football team. As long as the players on the team try their best they will be hard to beat.

 

[pwes]

I'll admit, I'm spoiled. I didn't think like this even after the first Super Bowl, but something happened in 2003. Seeing a "perfect" team, not record-wise, but when everything comes together, great quarterback play, great defense etc., I expected nothing but championships out of the Patriots, and Brady and the defense were the two main reasons. The defense hasn't been the same since Super Bowl 39 and is regressing, but it's still been good enough to get us to the promised land, and Brady just gets better. With a regressing defense and sub-par/mediocre/slightly above average quarterback play, I know the Patriots aren't winning the Super Bowl. Just like Boomer Esiason said before the game "As long as Tom Brady is the quarterback, the Patriots are Super Bowl contenders every year." The NFL isn't like basketball where it takes having 3 hall of famers or future hall of famers (Bird, McHale, Parish...Pierce, Garnett, Allen obviously) to win championships. I suppose you can go the "dumb-luck and tight defense" route i.e. Ravens in 00, Tampa Bay in 02. I wouldn't count on dumb-luck, and this defense isn't that kind of defense or the Pats of 03/04.

I'm sorry but have you forgotten 2001. I can't be the only one seeing parallels to that. I doubt Cassel will become a Brady but Brady wasn't BRADY in 2001 either.

 

[ManningOverratedHick]

I'm sorry but have you forgotten 2001. I can't be the only one seeing parallels to that. I doubt Cassel will become a Brady but Brady wasn't BRADY in 2001 either.

True. Can't argue with that.