2010 regular season: Your top 5 moments

[goheels22002]

1. Branch 55-yard TD against the Bears in the snow

2. Moss' post-game implosion press conference

3. Sanders interception to seal the win over the Colts

4. Tate 103-yard kickoff TD against Miami in October

5. Welker TD against Cincinatti in game 1 on wobbly knee

5A. Gronkowski dragging Ram's James Laurinaitis into end zone in preseason - whoa!

This was fun.

 

[jmt57]

Not a 'top five moments', but I wanted to list a few NFL milestones the Patriots achieved this year.

• Pats won 14 games in the regular season for the third time in franchise history. Fourteen wins is the second most in team history, tying the number of wins by the 2003 and 2004 team teams.
  
  
• The 14 wins were the most in the NFL this year. This is the third time the Pats have led the NFL in most wins, with 2003 and 2007 being the other times.
  
  
• With their win over the Bills two weeks ago the Pats became the 16th team in NFL history to amass 400 wins. They also passed Denver for total club wins and now trail only Oakland in number of wins by an old AFL franchise. Of teams that started operations in 1960 or later only the Cowboys, Raiders and Vikings have more victories.
  
  
• This will be the 18th time New England has made it to the playoffs, pushing them ahead of the Chargers, Broncos and Bills for 16th most years in the post season.
  
  
• Bill Belichick won his 162nd regular season game in the NFL. This year he passed the career totals of Bill Cowher, Steve Owen, Joe Gibbs, Bud Grant and Mike Holmgren and now ranks 11th all time in career victories. Belichick passed Curly Lambeau in all time winning percentage this season; his .633 mark is 8th among all NFL coaches with at least 100 wins. He also moved from 14th to 10th in games over .500 (wins minus losses), passing Cowher, Bibbs, Grant and Lombardi this year. And with the 14-2 record he became the first head coach in NFL history to win 14 or more games in a season four times.
  
  
• Tom Brady moved into 19th place all time in yards passing (34,744), 10th in touchdown passes (261), 5th in passer rating (95.2), and 15th in passes completed (2,996). Brady also set a record by throwing two or more touchdowns while also throwing no picks in nine straight games, which broke a record set by Don Merideth had with six back in 1965-66. He also became just the sixth quarterback in NFL history to throw at least one touchdown pass in all sixteen games of the season.
  
  
• Wes Welker caught his 500th NFL pass and now ranks 98th all time with 528 receptions. Randy Moss passed Art Monk and Andre Reed and now ranks 8th with 954 receptions. Other active Patriot players, past and present, include Joey Galloway (#32, 701); Deion Branch (#141, 451); Kevin Faulk (#159, 424); Jabar Gaffney (#217, 375); and Alge Crumpler (#218, 373).
  
  
• Patriots set an NFL record for least turnovers in a season with 10, breaking the record of 13 set by the Dolphins and Giants two years ago. The Pats also tied a record for fewest interceptions in a year with five, which was last accomplished by the 1990 Giants and Chiefs as well as the 1966 Packers and 1960 Browns. Tom Brady set a record for most consecutive passes without an interception with 335, breaking Bernie Kosar's mark of 308. The Patriots offense also scored 30 or more points in eight straight games, tying an NFL record originally set by the 2000 Rams which was equalled by the 2007 Pats.

And below are some milestones specific to the Patriots team in their franchise history.

• In just his first year as a starter BenJarvus Green-Ellis moved into the top twenty in career rushing yardage in Pats franchise history with 1397 yards. Laurence Maroney finished his career ranked 13th with 2430 yards. BJGE is already 10th in team history with 18 career rushing touchdowns; Maroney is 8th with 21, Faulk is 13th with 16, and Morris is 20th with 12. For the 14th time in team history a player ran for over 1000 yards; BJGE became the 11th player to reach that mark with 1,0008 yards rushing.
  
  
• Welker passed Faulk for 4th place in Pats franchise history for receptions, with 432. Deion Branch now ranks 10th with 261, and Randy Moss is 12th with 259. Others in the top 100 include Sammy Morris (#66 with 49); #73 Aaron Hernandez, 45; #74 Julian Edelman, 44; #77 Rob Gronkowski, 42; #79 Laurence Maroney, 40; and #83 Danny Woodhead, 34.
  
  
• For career receiving yardage as a Patriot Welker now ranks 8th with 4536 yards, followed by Moss with 3904, Faulk with 3667, and Branch with 3450. Hernandez is #61 with 563 yards, Gronkowski is #62 with 546, Morris #70 with 453, Edelman #72 with 445, Tate #77 with 432, Maroney #82 with 409, and Woodhead is #87 with 379.
  
  
• Moss finished his career as a Patriot tied with Ben Coates for second most touchdown receptions with 50. Wes Welker is tied with Terry Glenn for 11th with 22; Deion Branch is 15th with 19; Kevin Faulk is 21st with 15; and Rob Gronkowski is already 33rd with 10. Gronk set a team record for most touchdown catches by a rookie, breaking the old record of nine held by Jim Colclough from 1960 and Randy Vataha in 1971. He's also just the fourth Patriot to have ten or more touchdown receptions in a season, joining Randy Moss, Stanley Morgan and Colclough in that group.
  
  
• Julian Edelman became just the seventh different player to return a punt for a touchdown in Pats history, and Brandon Tate is one of just seven different players to have returned two or more kickoffs for a touchdown as a Patriot. The 94-yard punt return is the longest in team history, breaking a record that had stood for 34 years by Mike Haynes with his 89-yard return in 1976. In addition it was the ninth non-offensive touchdown of the season for the Pats, which ties a team record set in their second year of existence in 1961.
  
  
• The Patriots set a team record with a turnover differential of plus-28, blowing away the old record of plus-17 from 2003. That was the second-highest turnover differential in the NFL since the merger forty years ago.

 

[NovaScotiaPatsFan]

1. The Entire Second Half against the Jets, culminating with the now famous BB huddle. I was smiling all the next day and humming the MNF theme for like 2 weeks after that.

2. I can't remember who it was against, but Hernandez doing his prance step into the end zone.

3. Moss' 1 handed catch against Revis.

4. Seyton's INT to seal it.

5. Brady's fire on the sidelines against the Steelers. I'd follow that man to Hell and back.