Favorite/Least favorite team in Brady/BB era?

[TB12TheGoat]

What is it for you guys? For me it's


Favorite
2007 Patriots
The best team in NFL history IMO. The 315 PD will never be broken in our lifetime. Beat a ton of playoff teams that year, and it took refs, O-line sucking, horrible luck, a questionable coaching choice (Ghost not kicking the FG) for them to lose.


Least favorite
2009 Patriots
No heart. It seems that BB disliked this team as well. You would figure a team that had Brady, Moss, Welker would be a lot better, but this year was just odd. Amazingly, if I remember correctly, the team did not have a 40+ yard play until week 6 (correct me if I'm wrong)



PS does anyone have a link to the thread that asked people to rank each team in the Brady/BB era?

 

[Rusty Griswold]

Favorite team may be 2001 or 2014. I think it may be 2014 considering hog tough and gutty they were in the face of yet another witch hunt.

I feel like they won that one for themselves, the fans and the distracted 2007 team that Goodell sabotaged like the scum he is.

Least favorite was 2009. Once BB dealt Vrabel and then Seymour, I knew it was a transition year, especially with a rusty Brady returning and lots of JAGS as starters. It was what it was.

I think Brady going down compromised the idea BB was all in for 2008 to exact revenge for the SB 42 loss, but they obviously changed.

 

[RobertWeathers]

01 team favorite. Kinda like your 1st serious GF. Euphoric.

09 was not fun. Too many clubhouse rumblings.

 

[Kdo5]

Worst was 2009. Favorite teams was probably 2004.

 

[pazrul72]

Lots of good choices for favorites 2010 was a seriously fun reg season cheering for what is my opinion Brady's best year ever. That TD:INT ratio was insane! Sadly post season counts and that loss was inexcusable. 2003 was another fun year but far too many heart attacks. Seemed like every week they needed some miracle to win by 3. 2007 with all the records being broken and the airbradymoss show was up there but the pressure and expectations took a great deal of my enjoyment away from it. 2004 was probably the most balanced well rounded team ever that could beat you with Brady branch and givens or pound you with clock killin Corey Dillon. That defense was still nasty at every level too. However my favorite has to be 2001. It was just magical watching an over achieving group of blue collar guys come to work every Sunday and beat teams that were better then them over and over again. That super bowl came from out of no where and unexpected awesomeness is the best kind.

Worst is easy has to be 09. That team just played unpatriotic football week in and week out. Something was just....off all season long.

 

[DarrylS]

Gotta go with 2001, have been a fan since 1970 and during all those terrible years on and off the field never expected the Pats to reach that pinnacle..

 

[AzorianPats]

I loved the 03 team. That defense was dominant on all fronts.

The 02 team was frustrating as hell. They got gashed on the ground every week

 

[BradyFTW!]

Favorite: 2014. Being written off early, crushing it down the stretch, demoralizing Baltimore and Indy so hard that they had to start a witch hunt to (unsuccessfully) try to bring us down, then winning the SB after Deflategate, it was all awesome. Hindsight mars it a little bit, just knowing what came after as Deflategate fallout, but at the time it even looked like the organization was willing to fight for its reputation.

Least favorite: 2009. It was great to see Brady back, but he wasn't all the way back until 2010. Seymour and Vrabel were gone, which really drove home the point that the SB-era defense was a thing of the past. Lots of locker room issues, plus veterans like Joey Galloway, Shawn Springs, and Derrick Burgess clearly being bad fits and hurting the locker room culture. Then at the end of the regular season Welker blows out his knee in a meaningless regular season game. ****ty way to end the regular season.

It was the only time in the Belichick/Brady era that it felt like the team quit, and we got humiliated at home by the Ravens in the wildcard round. Seeing Kevin Faulk on the sidelines screaming at his teammates, trying to convince them to care half as much as he did, was a pretty bitter way to end the season.

 

[PatsBoy12]

Lots of good choices for favorites 2010 was a seriously fun reg season cheering for what is my opinion Brady's best year ever. That TD:INT ratio was insane! Sadly post season counts and that loss was inexcusable. 2003 was another fun year but far too many heart attacks. Seemed like every week they needed some miracle to win by 3. 2007 with all the records being broken and the airbradymoss show was up there but the pressure and expectations took a great deal of my enjoyment away from it. 2004 was probably the most balanced well rounded team ever that could beat you with Brady branch and givens or pound you with clock killin Corey Dillon. That defense was still nasty at every level too. However my favorite has to be 2001. It was just magical watching an over achieving group of blue collar guys come to work every Sunday and beat teams that were better then them over and over again. That super bowl came from out of no where and unexpected awesomeness is the best kind.

Worst is easy has to be 09. That team just played unpatriotic football week in and week out. Something was just....off all season long.

Respect. I believe 2014 was his best. He did things that season that he had never done before, all while being four years older. With that said, I could also probably say that last season easily ranks among the top two to three simply because of what he endured and somehow managing the throw for the second least INT's of his career.

Fave: 2004

Least (probably for everyone): 2009

 

[Joey007]

09 is definitely the worst.

Remember on BB's "a football life" which was focused on BB throughout the whole season? I remember at the end of the game where the Saints just schlacked us, Bill and Tom were at a loss watching from the sideline. BB just went "I just can't get these guys to play the way I want them to play."

Adalius Thomas
Big Bang Clock
Maroney
A disgruntled Moss
No more Seymour, Teddy, or Rodney
And a bunch of washups like Burgess, Springs and Galloway

It just was not a very good roster or lockeroom by any means. Only BB and TB could've turned that team into 10-6, because any other coach and QB would have gone 6-10 with that roster and lockeroom.

 

[Joey007]

2004 had to be my favorite, because no team in NFL history was more badass then New England was in the playoffs that year. I could say that the AFC championship game where we went on the road and handled a 15-1 Pittsburgh team was possibly the most impressive win of the BB era.

 

[james87654]

2004 had to be my favorite, because no team in NFL history was more badass then New England was in the playoffs that year. I could say that the AFC championship game where we went on the road and handled a 15-1 Pittsburgh team was possibly the most impressive win of the BB era.

agreed

that year was awesome, dude

 

[PatsBoy12]

2004 had to be my favorite, because no team in NFL history was more badass then New England was in the playoffs that year. I could say that the AFC championship game where we went on the road and handled a 15-1 Pittsburgh team was possibly the most impressive win of the BB era.

Don't forget the Colts Divisional game. That team was a juggernaut that season and we walked in with Gay at one CB spot with Brown, a WR, playing nickel. Bruschi, and I'm paraphrasing, yelled at the cameras while running off the field something like 'We held them to three points. Are you kidding me!' I love it.

 

[Kdo5]

2004 had to be my favorite, because no team in NFL history was more badass then New England was in the playoffs that year. I could say that the AFC championship game where we went on the road and handled a 15-1 Pittsburgh team was possibly the most impressive win of the BB era.

Rodney Harrison's pick six of Roethlisberger is one of my all time favorite plays.

 

[PF_SU]

Don't forget the Colts Divisional game. That team was a juggernaut that season and we walked in with Gay at one CB spot with Brown, a WR, playing nickel. Bruschi, and I'm paraphrasing, yelled at the cameras while running off the field something like 'We held them to three points. Are you kidding me!' I love it.

Wasn't that the game where Bruschi ripped the ball out of Dominic Rhodes' hands and then on the sidelines showed the ball and shouted "They ain't got it! They ain't got it!"?

 

[PatsBoy12]

Wasn't that the game where Bruschi ripped the ball out of Dominic Rhodes' hands and then on the sidelines showed the ball and shouted "They ain't got it! They ain't got it!"?

YUP!

 

[NG Pats Fan]

2012 was difficult to watch. That team just lacked something. Embarrassing loss to Ravens at home in afc championship. 2013 was not fun to watch with the anemic WR corps we put out there.

 

[jah]

Best is 2004 and worst is 2009. Neither is negotiable.

 

[AtomicDawg]

I loved 2004. Everybody was hyped up to face the Pats like it was their Super Bowl. Kind of like now only it was real since they had won before. It was a veteran, battle-tested squad that understood the importance of the task in front of them: to repeat as Super Bowl champions. And even still, they kicked major arse.

I hated 2010. Because of the sick, gut-wrenching way it ended. Probably worse than the SB losses for me (crazy as it sounds). God damn I hate the Jets and that season made it even worse for me living in NY. I had to hear it from mouthbreathing Jest fans for months on end, even if they didn't do anything after beating us. That 2010 team was on a major roll too after that Bears game. I really regret feeling confident then getting my hopes dashed.

 

[Family]

Best 2014!

I'll change up a little on the worst. 2008. I know the team fought, but the season was over before it started. Not making the playoffs and letting the Dolphins win the division. Might be Bill's best job of coaching, but the uncertainty whether GOAT was ever going to be the same meant the era could be over. This hollow feeling carried through me the whole season At least 2009 gave us the AFC East and TB hope.