13-0: Opponents

[scout]

Just read Chad Finn's Touching All The Bases. He states; Consider, they've defeated two teams that have already locked up their division (Dallas, Indy), clobbered two teams that current lead their division (San Diego, Pittsburgh) and beat a second place team (Cleveland) that deserves nothing but respect.
The combined record of those five teams minus the losses to the Patriots: 48-12.
Some pretty good stuff.

http://touchingallthebases.blogspot.com/

 

[richpats]

That blog had a great note about Chris Long coming to NE. Living in VA I get to watch him most games and he is a beast. He's Howie's son, why wouldn't he be? The Vrabel comparison is a valid one. My only concern is paying a guy like that. Could we trade down? Where's he at on most of the draft boards?

EDIT: I don't think Miami would snatch Long from us - Matt Ryan at #1 is a no-brainer, then again this is the Dolphins.

 

[chris_in_sunnyvale]

Just read Chad Finn's Touching All The Bases. He states; Consider, they've defeated two teams that have already locked up their division (Dallas, Indy), clobbered two teams that current lead their division (San Diego, Pittsburgh) and beat a second place team (Cleveland) that deserves nothing but respect.
The combined record of those five teams minus the losses to the Patriots: 48-12.
Some pretty good stuff.

http://touchingallthebases.blogspot.com/

From that article, but off-topic to your post...

8. I've always appreciated the work Gil Santos and Gino Cappelletti do on the Patriots' broadcast. They're the voices of autumn in these parts, as familiar and comfortable as an old flannel shirt, and considering how Jonathan Kraft always comes across as an arrogant snot whenever he's interviewed (not to mention that he's responsible for the shrieking abomination that is Andy Gresh) I have no faith that he'll find worthy replacements for them when the time comes. Sad to say, I fear the time is coming. It's not an exaggeration to say it's a surprise at this point when they properly identify a pass catcher on the first try, and it was hardly unexpected that they bungled the two biggest plays of the past two weeks: Gaffney's winning catch at Baltimore (Gil originally called it incomplete, then said he couldn't see it), and the Brady-to-Moss-to-Brady-to-Gaffney flea-flicker Sunday (Gil told us Donte' Stallworth caught the TD). Maybe what they need is a competent spotter to help them quickly with player IDs and such, but right now it feels like the game has become too fast for them to keep up at a sufficient level of competence.

When ESPN did their radio call highlights last night, they saved the bolded play for last and used Pittsburgh's announcers for the call. My initial reaction was, "Why not Gil's call?", but then I immediately thought, "I bet he effed it up, that's why." I had to chuckle reading the above.

Regards,
Chris

 

[ALP]

look, i love having more amazing olb, but thats not wut we need, we need ilb's...
we have enough for the outside, we need to cover the inside