The Official Patriots vs Dolphins Game Thread

JMC00 said:

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Woooohhhhhooooooo!!!!!!

Keys to the game:

RUN JONES GRAY
as many of us have said elsewhere in this forum Gray should get early reps and should be in there on the goal line where his quicker start is key. Later, Blount Force Trauma.

INTERCEPT TANNEHILL
Guy can be pressured into making bad decisions. Wilfork needs to show Collins he's the better athlete by returning a Pick 6. Make it so.

RESPECT THE CLOCK
As the clock drops under 2 minutes, the biggest difference between the 2014 Pats and the SB winning teams is that these prior teams did not toss gratuitously stupid picks in the last drive before the half. Too many scoring opportunities urinated away. Fix this with some respect.

JMC00 said:

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When both of those guys are fully healthy, I wonder who's playing time will drop the most. Ayers or Ninkovich.

good to see hightower and jones will be out there....wanted to see dennard but oh well

JMC00 said:

Except the way the Dolphins run defense has been the last 3 week not sure about that.

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I want to see plenty of develin leading the way. He is just as good catching the ball as hooman is, and would pose a wrinkle not exploited much this year in play action assuming they try to take Gronk away. Plus he is a beast. If Hooman is out there and no develin...it will be hard to be a polite even tempered host.

JMC00 said:

Except the way the Dolphins run defense has been the last 3 weeks not sure about that.

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just when you think the pats would do the obvious , they will throw it 50 times. pats view of opponent weakness follows a different chart.

goheels22002 said:

Philbin is on the hot seat in Miami and needs this win more than any in his career. A win makes this a non-losing season and keeps the Dolphins playoff hopes alive. More important, it would be the first sweep of the Brady-led Patriots by Miami since 2000.

Ian Eagle, Dan Fouts and Jenny Dell today. CBS doesn't think much of this game.

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I love Dan Fouts so this is fine by me. I'm so sick of Nantz and Simms calling our games.

VrabelJr said:

I love Dan Fouts so this is fine by me. I'm so sick of Nantz and Simms calling our games.

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I hate fouts. He is so anti patriots , its obvious.

VrabelJr said:

I love Dan Fouts so this is fine by me. I'm so sick of Nantz and Simms calling our games.

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Seriously?

I'm not even joking when I say this, but Fouts and Eagle are so f****ing bad I'm thinking of watching the game on mute today.

Nantz and Simms, I can see why people don't like them. But they're tolerable for me only because I associate their voices with "big games" if that makes sense.

SVN said:

I hate fouts. He is so anti patriots , its obvious.

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Simms and Nantz are far bigger Pats haters than Fouts.

The Dolphins have four LBs out including two starters. They also lost their starting FS last week. It looks like a running and Gronk type of day.

I don't care who hates whom, Fouts is just an awful, awful announcer.

VrabelJr said:

Simms and Nantz are far bigger Pats haters than Fouts.

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They are actually very pro pats but they know they are viewed that way and go overboard praising the opposing team. In general every game they seem to talk up the underdog a lot.

SVN said:

just when you think the pats would do the obvious , they will throw it 50 times. pats view of opponent weakness follows a different chart.

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i can imagine JMs train of thought going like this..... they know we should run it, and we know we should run it. Therefore they'll be ready for the running game, so i'll cross them up by throwing it.... we have seen that this in the past.

Fouts hates the pats. Nancy is great. Simms is too punch drunk.

reflexblue said:

i can imagine JMs train of thought going like this..... they know we should run it, and we know we should run it, so they'll be ready for the running game, so i'll cross them up by throwing it.... we have seen that this in the past.

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Yup. Two straight losses to Miami with that mischiges. If that immature schtunk of a kid does that again, I swear I will broke a few laws.

(Sorry, everyone, I was just making some latkas and I have schpilkes in my kischkes)

does anyone know of a site that live streams the game? i don't care if i have to pay.

Can't wait to see NE tear up Miami today.

JMC00 said:

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TBR said:

Seriously?

I'm not even joking when I say this, but Fouts and Eagle are so f****ing bad I'm thinking of watching the game on mute today.

Nantz and Simms, I can see why people don't like them. But they're tolerable for me only because I associate their voices with "big games" if that makes sense.

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Mute the tv and listen to the sports hub broadcast. It doesn't line up with the tv broadcast. They are a little ahead of it. But it is much more peaceful.