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Brady and Faulk are the only current Patriots who were there in 2001.
Matt Light, too. Rookie year.
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Matt Light, too. Rookie year.
It might be my imagination, but Big Vince seems to have stepped it up this year as a leader and spokeman.
Apart from Brady, who is in a class of his own, Big Vince is my favorite player (and my son's as well). He is paying alot more downs with all the injuries it seems like and doing a great job.
I LOVE it when a runner is headed east, and Big Vince is headed west, and they collide. I swear, Newton would have to revise one or two of his laws of physics.... A body in motion will stay in motion unless an opposite force is applied, and when that opposite force is wearing a #75 Patriots jersey, the body in motion suddenly is propelled backwards at a greater force than that body's initial velocity.
It might be my imagination, but Big Vince seems to have stepped it up this year as a leader and spokeman.
Apart from Brady, who is in a class of his own, Big Vince is my favorite player (and my son's as well). He is paying alot more downs with all the injuries it seems like and doing a great job.
The way both Wilfork and Brady have stepped up the leadership is really something. That type of presence was missing last year, even with these two on the team. I'm thinking that's because of Wilfork's uncertain contract status; and Brady's being away for most of a year before returning to a changed locker room. We'll probably never know what role, if any, they played behind the scenes getting the bad influences out of the locker room. But it's clear that they both saw it as their role to be THE leaders this year, and they have been. It started with Brady's "we need to listen to our coach" and has carried on from there.
The best compliment to Matt Katula is that nobody knows him.Without looking, trying to see if I can memorize the 17 that did win (and it's assuming that guys on IR don't count) :
1. Tom Brady
2. Fred Taylor
3. Sammy Morris
4. Deion Branch
5. Wes Welker
6. Alge Crumpler
7. Matt Light
8. Logan Mankins
9. Dan Koppen
10. Dan Connolly
11. Vince Wilfork
12. Mike Wright
13. Tully Banta-Cain
14. Brandon Meriweather
15. James Sanders
16. ?????
17. ?????
Got stuck on the last two. Looked it up and they are Matt Katula and Tracy White. No wonder those names escaped me.