Peyton can thank the dummy in Foxboro

[mgcolby]

In case you hadn't noticed the entire NFL is extremely competitive and basically a crapshoot since the inception of the salary cap back in 1994. There are at least 6-8 "real" contenders out of the 12 playoff teams every year, and any one of them can win a few games in a row and hoist the Lombardi.

Most of us appreciate the fact that we have a great HC who puts our team in a highly competitive position every year with a chance at going to the SB.

What more can you honestly ask for?

Belichick choose what he deems as the "next" Wes Welker for now and the future. His track record allows him the benefit of the doubt even if he is proven wrong over the course of the next 2 seasons.

Supa you are one of my favorite posters on here but you just wasted a highly thought out post on a mental midget that is incapable of processing a thought with applied logic.

 

[naF staP]

Maybe I missed something but I saw Welker make 8 catches (in reality, one was dropped) for about 60 yards with 2 TDs (one of which anyone on this board could have caught) along with an offsides penalty and a fumble that resulted in a TD for Baltimore. All of this against a very, very, very bad Ravens team.

It was an ok game for Welker....at best.

That you seen. How many other receivers were open because the D was watching Welker.

Seriously, if you don't see the mistake the Pats made letting Welker get away and sign with Denver then you are living in denial. Hey, it's okay to be a fan and question some moves the team makes. BB doesn't always make the right decisions. It was a mistake letting Welker get away, bigger mistake letting him get away to Denver.

Brady is going to have to put up 70+ to beat the Broncos week 12. Don't see this defense stopping that offense.

 

[Fencer]

1. You guys have been trolled.

2. Any long-serving executive who is an idiot for letting a player get away is also a genius for having previously acquired that player in the first place.

3. See #1

 

[Bruins29]

Seriously, if you don't see the mistake the Pats made letting Welker get away and sign with Denver then you are living in denial. .

Wait....It is a mistake because _________________?

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

It's actually, in perspective, a good thing to see this OP/his posts. There are many infrequent posters like myself who post a few times a week, and there many many posters who post much more frequently. That's a lot of posters from both groups who come to this board to, likely, often see posts/posters and think "wrong. Poster X doesn't know what he/she is talking about on this". Yet when a poster like the OP comes around, it puts in perspective what a pretty good group of posters this board overall has. Fortunately conspicuously rank stupidity like this is pretty rare.

Sure the OP also, sadly, confirms how a failing educational system can turn out a nightmarish product. But hey, why not find a positive in everything?

 

[PatsBoy12]

That you seen. How many other receivers were open because the D was watching Welker.

Seriously, if you don't see the mistake the Pats made letting Welker get away and sign with Denver then you are living in denial. Hey, it's okay to be a fan and question some moves the team makes. BB doesn't always make the right decisions. It was a mistake letting Welker get away, bigger mistake letting him get away to Denver.

Brady is going to have to put up 70+ to beat the Broncos week 12. Don't see this defense stopping that offense.

But you've not seen this year's iteration of the defense play yet. I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm just saying none of us knows how the defense or offense will look yet. We have to see them play, and I'm not just talking week 1. We have to watch them for a few weeks, and the same applies to almost every other team in the NFL at this point.

I was sad about losing Welker. No, I was upset. But he's not here anymore. We still have the best QB in the league (bar none). We still have the best coach in the league (bar none). We still have the best O-Line coach with a damn good O-Line group. We should be okay. Maybe we're not as explosive as last year. Maybe we are. We won't know until the team suits up for real games, which has not happened yet as of this very moment. Brady has had way worse receivers than this year's version. I'll take these rookies over the 2006 corp. any day of the week, honestly.

 

[mgcolby]

That you seen. How many other receivers were open because the D was watching Welker.

Seriously, if you don't see the mistake the Pats made letting Welker get away and sign with Denver then you are living in denial. Hey, it's okay to be a fan and question some moves the team makes. BB doesn't always make the right decisions. It was a mistake letting Welker get away, bigger mistake letting him get away to Denver.

Brady is going to have to put up 70+ to beat the Broncos week 12. Don't see this defense stopping that offense.

Did you just watch the same game I did? The Ravens couldn't tackle, have two terrible cover safeties...had a huge communication problem in the secondary, evident by the blown coverage on the Welker rub route for a TD. They will be a good offense but man the 2007 Pats they are not.

 

[PatsBoy12]

1. You guys have been trolled.

2. Any long-serving executive who is an idiot for letting a player get away is also a genius for having previously acquired that player in the first place.

3. See #1

Yup, and I'll add that the long-serving executive who let Welker go for a fourth is the real idiot. If conventional wisdom prevails, Welker is at the stage where we'll begin to see a decline. Amendola (injuries withstanding) is still in his prime.

So, yes, we have been trolled.

 

[supafly]

Supa you are one of my favorite posters on here but you just wasted a highly thought out post on a mental midget that is incapable of processing a thought with applied logic.

Thank you kindly for the compliment. I am coming into the thread late in the game, so apologies for feeding the troll.

 

[PatsBoy12]

please stop insulting all the fine, upstanding idiots on the planet...

Touche. 10 char

 

[YearbookCurfew]

Taking a leaf from 4chan...OP is a bundle of sticks.

 

[Gwedd]

This is what happens when Ron Borges gets his drunk on and decides to surf the Pats forums.

 

[PatsFanJess]

What an ornery group of Belichick suckups. Enjoy another fruitless season that ends on another gut-wrenching postseason loss courtesy of the "genius."

Or as your precious Peyton refers to it "business as usual"

 

[PatsBoy12]

Or as your precious Peyton refers to it "business as usual"

Cold. Thread done!

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Maybe I missed something but I saw Welker make 8 catches (in reality, one was dropped) for about 60 yards with 2 TDs (one of which anyone on this board could have caught) along with an offsides penalty and a fumble that resulted in a TD for Baltimore. All of this against a very, very, very bad Ravens team.

It was an ok game for Welker....at best.

I agree. WW had a pretty good night though the fumble play was a serious negative. Yet Wes is Wes, a damn good receiver.

Expectations: I expected to see WW, a very capable receiver, catching passes from Manning (a very capable QB). I expected to see this QB-WR combination result in many catches. I also expected to see someone (maybe more than one) on this board whine about WW's certain success and segue that into how awful BB is. Expectations met unsurprisingly.

What I didn't expect was to see the Ravens so out of whack. They just looked clueless at times. They may be ultimately a bad team this year, however, I put this one more on the coach. They looked unprepared once Denver started mixing it up. Yet this is game 1. For anyone that gets too worked up/too certain about what the results of game 1 means, a good reality check is to look back some years ago at the Patriots-Bills game that opened the season. That was the game played right after Milloy had been released. The Patriots got destroyed and the season was clearly shaping up as a disaster. It resulted in the Patriot players "hating their coach". Hmmm, I forget what happened later that year in the playoffs?

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

"How many other receivers were open because the D was watching Welker."

Surprise! WW helps the Denver offense.
If seeing WW help the Denver offense immediately gets you peddling the 'BB is an awful and stupid man for letting WW go', you need a drink or a pill or something.

FYI, you were watching the network video feed. You have no idea the breadth of open receivers WW presence was creating. Just because you like WW -- he's a likable guy for sure -- does not mean you should make it up as you go. At least wait for some film breakdown before you start claiming your guesswork is a fact.

 

[pmb116]

Re: Re: Peyton can thank the dummy in Foxboro

it's none of that...here...I'll show in pictorial terms..........

and as you can see...he sure is getting the "wurst" of it in this thread...

What does Honey Boo Boo's mom have to do with this?

 

[YearbookCurfew]

With the added versatility that Welker brings to Denver's offense with Thomas and Decker already on the outside they will be unstoppable. Meanwhile, Brady has the worse (literally 32nd ranked) receiving corps in the NFL.

In Bill We Trust... what a joke! Seriously, Belichick may be the most overrated person in the history of professional sports. The myths of Belichick are too numerous to mention but suffice it to say he's a bum without Brady. Aside from the gigantic win/loss disparity with and without Brady, Belichick's teams have averaged nearly 10 points more per game with Brady at quarterback. That's how Belichick gets away with the endless string of disastrous DB draft picks and an ever worsening defense. If Brady hasn't bailed out Belichick and his choking defenses over the years then the team loses when it counts most. Fact.

 

[thenepatsrule]

 

[RI Patriots fan]

That you seen. How many other receivers were open because the D was watching Welker.

Seriously, if you don't see the mistake the Pats made letting Welker get away and sign with Denver then you are living in denial. Hey, it's okay to be a fan and question some moves the team makes. BB doesn't always make the right decisions. It was a mistake letting Welker get away, bigger mistake letting him get away to Denver.

Brady is going to have to put up 70+ to beat the Broncos week 12. Don't see this defense stopping that offense.

Why are you assuming that Welker helped get other receivers open and not vice versa? Just because he was our best wide receiver last year doesn't mean that he is the best receiver on the Broncos this year. Thomas is better than Welker, hands down.

Amendola will replace Welker. I have no doubt about it.