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I wish him the best...he helped save the franchise in the 90s..in bad times..and was one of the best QBs they have had..so?? Why all the negativity..he came close..at LEAST he was there in the SB...much better than some of the other teams around..
I don't like to say it.... but.... when people on here are really negative to Bledsoe (im talking about the really really extreme haters) it comes off like they are bandwagon fans.
How can you hate the guy?
Did i miss something that he did?
The people that have a pure hatrid for him come off like they were never fans of this team when they sucked and then drafted him #1 and watched him turn the team around.
Just b/c they didn't win a Superbowl with him starting doesn't mean he wasn't a pats qb.
Great guy, Drew was the kind of guy you'de probably want your daughter to marry to be quite honest. Came here as a package deal with Bob Kraft & Bill Parcells and literally picked this franchise out of the gutter. He gave us hope and pride, and for that, I as a long time Pats fan am very, very grateful. I'll never forget the 94 season when he and Coates lit this league up, it was fun to watch. Our team didn't go to St.Louis, it stayed right where it belonged all along in this great sports town. Thank you Drew, you were 1/2 of the tandem that now has people waiting for season's tickets, Tuna being that other half.
Yet something was missing with Drew. "IT" was missing. That clutch play, the avoidance of the big mistake at the most inopportune time. I'll never forget him carrying the ball like a loaf of bread as he was rolling out to the right at Three Rivers Stadium in the playoff game, in the final drive trying to bring the team back and he had the ball stripped by, of all people our one and only Mike Vrabel, game over, Drew like usual had a horrible sense of knowing what was going on around him and only focused down field (Brady he is not). I'll never, ever forget the Jets game and how he actually took a sack on THE last, 4th down play at Foxboro instead of just throwing the football (it was THE LAST PLAY, time expired). Drew had time to unload the ball to the endzone and he actually made a conscious decision to eat the football instead of unloading it (nothing to lose, everything to gain). Game over (again, Tom Brady, he wasn't). Couldn't utilize the pocket to save himself or his offensive line (ask former Buffalo Bill OLineman what they thought of Drew's lack of awareness in the pocket). This lead to numerous picks and sacks, not to mention some angry offensive lineman, who were made to look bad. (Again, poor pocket-presence, Tom Brady, Drew was not).
The excuses were numerous and so common:
Well if Drew had a better OLine (Actually Drew would make the Raiders line of the 1970's look like a D3 College Oline due to his poor pocket awareness and snail-like mobility in the pocket)
Well if Drew had a legit RB (He had one)
Well if Drew had weapons (He had them, TGlenn, Coates and Curtis Martin I consider to be weapons any QB would love to have)
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I don't like to say it.... but.... when people on here are really negative to Bledsoe (im talking about the really really extreme haters) it comes off like they are bandwagon fans.
How can you hate the guy?
Did i miss something that he did?
The people that have a pure hatrid for him come off like they were never fans of this team when they sucked and then drafted him #1 and watched him turn the team around.
Just b/c they didn't win a Superbowl with him starting doesn't mean he wasn't a pats qb.
Look dude, I love Drew myself, he's been great for this franchise, but I can't sit here and make excuses. His pocket awareness and lack of mobility literally "did-in" that Bills offense so bad the the Olineman couldn't take it any more because he made them look bad. But let's stop with the excuses, that's always been the issues with the Drew people of which I will always be, there was always an excuse instead of recogizing and admitting the hard truth.
When we had Martin Coats and Glenn, we went to the Superbowl. Too bad the head coach quit on them.
And we didn't go to the superbowl, the other years we had them.
and ask Reggie White how great our o-line was back then.
Drew had one of the greatest LT's in Patriot history in Bruce Armstrong, an All Pro Center in Dave Wolabaugh, his line was fine. The RT he had in Max Lane is very comparable to what Brady has always had on the right side.
Buffalo's o-line let Bledsoe's brain get tunned to apple sauce and thats when he started letting them look bad.
Look dude, I love Drew myself, he's been great for this franchise, but I can't sit here and make excuses. His pocket awareness and lack of mobility literally "did-in" that Bills offense so bad that the O-linemen couldn't take it any more because he was making them look bad, they could only hold their blocks for so long. But let's stop with the excuses, that's always been the issues with the Drew people of which I will always be, there was always an excuse instead of recogizing and admitting the hard truth.
I couldn't care less about Drew, one way or the other.
It's a thread about how Drew is doing after football, not his strengths and flaws as an NFL QB...
Doesn't matter. The thread could be "Drew Bledsoe cures cancer" and 2 posts later everyone will be on his strengths and flaws as a QB.
If he'd spent more time in the lab instead of making coffee.......