Who figured Pats would be 5-2, with all their injuries?

[Patjew]

Look for things to start to come together after the buy...
Have been of the opinion that roster and team management has been geared to come together then... and as usural a few speed bumps have occured...

I sure hope you're right, Broseph.........

 

[crew1954]

To ellipses....or not ellipses...THAT is the question...

Will you be the one who eclipses the record for ellipses?

 

[Tunescribe]

Look for things to start to come together after the buy...

What are they purchasing?

 

[IcyPatriot]

that the Pats would be better than 5-2 after week 7 before the first game of the season....that the Pats would have beat the Jets minus their best DL,best LB,best CB, not to mention kelly being out and Vereen...

Yet beaching and crying are the predominent oppinions...

There is still a very good chance: they could finish 12-4....
that this team could very well be healthyst at the end of the season for the first time in a while...
the team will be peaking at the end of the season...

Sooo Flame on.....Many can't apreciate anything no matter what you give them. they want more....

PS: plus no Gronk or Amendola....what a ****ing joke the cryers have become unreasonable

the best one was when Belichick got rid of Lawyer Milloy and then we got blown out vs Buffalo ... this forum came darn close to a nuclear meltdown that week ... surprised Ian's server survived the week :mad2: might have thought we were going to be 4-12 that season :wacko: because ... well ... Belichick is an idiot

 

[Bruins29]

What are they purchasing?

Yeah, I was wondering that too. Maybe a couple of referees??

 

[Deus Irae]

mmmmmmm.......okra

That brings something to mind. I haven't made gumbo in over a year. Time to change that.

 

[supafly]

I think it's just too early to get much of a read on this team at the moment.

They could win their next 2 games prior to the bye, and go into the off week at 7-2 with some of their key players coming back from injury. That could lead them to a nice shot at a 12-4 record (assuming that we'd go 5-2 down the stretch in the last seven games) and a potential first round bye with the #2 seed.

The offense may start to show better signs of life with the return of Gronk, Amendola, + more of a commitment to running the ball with Ridley.

OR

They may end up continuing their horrid rush defense which is currently ranked 31st in the NFL, and is giving up 127 yds per game on the ground. Even worse, the numbers are around 150 yds per game since Wilfork left, and now that Mayo is gone too (and even Talib's future may be in doubt until after the bye week) the defense may be much closer to how we've looked in the last 2 games, where we've given up an average of 29 pts per game.

The offense may continue to go through their bad spell too, where we are currently on pace to punt almost 100 times this season. In comparison, the record for any Pats team is 103, and that year we went 2-14.

This would lead one to believe that they'd be much closer to a 10-6 (give or take a game) team, than one who has much of a shot in the postseason.




I think we'll know a lot more in the next 2 games in my opinion. It'd be huge to go into that bye week at 7-2 with some of the key injured players due to come back. We'd also have 4 of the 6 divisional games out of the way, and would stand firm with a 3-1 divisional record through the first 4 matchups.

If Miami wins this week however, it's really going to tighten up an already very tight division. If that is the case, anything is possible through the second half of the season and a 5-3 record would simply be one game above .500, so we'd be feeling the sting of all of these injuries and off-season problems. It would show that they're likely a LONG way off from being nearly the competitor that we as fans, thought that the team would be this year.

 

[Gronkandez]

FORGET THE RECORD!!! WHAT...FORGET THE RECORD???

What Some people will do to skew the facts is amazing....

FORGET THE RECORD.....

Easy there Stephen A Smith. So you think the Chiefs are the best team in the league? Alex Smith is going to take them all the way??

Fans are complaining because of the poor chemistry between Brady and his receivers, among other things, and how this issue will affect their success in the playoffs.
A team's regular season record doesn't determine how they will fare once they make the playoffs. Everyone on this boards know the Pats will make the playoffs.

 

[dannydyn]

Put me down in the beaching camp!

 

[brdmaverick]

The Super Bowl and ONLY the Super Bowl can you be satisfied strictly with the result, for all other games of course we are concerned with Wins and Losses, but we are also concerned with how we look?

Sure, style points for Wins don't matter...a win is a win, right? Well, yes, but we look at the manner in which the team won in order to predict our ability to win more games.

At 5-2 yes we've been winning, but the manner in which these games have been played is concerning. The offense is severly inconsistent (dropped passes, bad pass protection, injuries to Amendola, Vereen, Gronk). The defense has played well but has suffered some big time losses at every level of the defense. Mayo and Wilfork are done for the year. If you are an opposing team (such as the Broncos), you love your chances against us more now than you did before.

So just to summarize, it's not the record we have a problem with, it's our projected ability to maintain such a good record given how many concerns we have across both the offense and defense.

 

[mgteich]

No, Belichick is not an idiot. However, the cutting of Milloy was probably the worst personnel move of his career in New England. He followed it up with the cutting of James Sanders. One might even add drafting Tavon Wilson with the expectation that he would start at safety in a year or two.

There seems to be a trend. Obviously, the acquisition of Harrison is the counterexample of Belichick and his acquisition of safeties, much as the acquisition of Moss and Welker were the counterexample to Belichick's inability to develop/secure wide receivers.

the best one was when Belichick got rid of Lawyer Milloy and then we got blown out vs Buffalo ... this forum came darn close to a nuclear meltdown that week ... surprised Ian's server survived the week :mad2: might have thought we were going to be 4-12 that season :wacko: because ... well ... Belichick is an idiot