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Actually Bledsoe was 26-20 under Carrol and had an overall losing record of 37-40 under Parcells and Belichick. (Plus 12-10 more under the Tuna in Dallas)the injury filled and bad drafting pete carroll, era did not help bledsoe, and brady is just a freak
I'll always credit Bledsoe, Coates, Jefferson, and the like for being the reasons why I root for the Pats. They might not have been the best team, but I'll always look back on them with a certain fondness.
Cheers to that. I was 9 when the Pats went to their first SB and absolutely fell in love with that team. I was a huge Curtis Martin fan and was convinced that Bledsoe was infallible. That team got me hooked on football and I haven't looked back.
Its weird to say now, but we were so bad for most of the 20 years before Bledsoe (in 25 years before drafting Bledsoe we had 10 winning seasons, 11 doubledigit loss seasons, 3 playoff wins, a combined 57 games under .500) there was no doubt a consolation prize in at least having a QB who could put up some numbers while we sucked, and it made it a fun time to root for the Patriots.
I wasn't around or watching football in those days. However, the first game I saw was when we were playing the Dolphins (can't remember what year off the top of my head) when Bledsoe was having one of his good games and he and Marino were trading touchdowns. That was the first football game I ever watched, I believe. After that, I was hooked.
Were you actually unborn when we went to our 1st (1985) and 9 when we went to our 2nd, with Bledsoe at QB?
I was born in 1987, so I didn't see the first SB. I was in 4th grade when they played the Packers in SB XXXI.
Edit: I'm dumb. I knew the Pats went to the SB in 86 and got destroyed by the Bears. I just phrased that poorly.
I was a huge Grogan fan ... he got so much better after getting the snot knocked out of him.
First 2 memories that come to mind on Grogan are the 56-3 whooping of the Jets and the game vs Houston when the Pats were driving for the win, and Grogan scrambled, got hit in the head, knocked almost unconscious and was so out of it he couldn't get his hands to form a time out sign and time expired. He was literally waving his hands trying to get them to touch and the clock ran out. I think that play led to changing the rule that only the captain could call timeout.