We’re doomed!

[signbabybrady]

The odds of successfully navigating this pandemic are 3,720 to 1

BB: Never tell me the odds!

 

[neuronet]

Great time for some of the practice squad people, rookies, undrafted free agents to shine and show their grit and strengths. Should be interesting!

 

[PScottman]

I will be realistic with my expectations.

WHAT!? Realistic in expectations? We don't allow that round these parts!

HYPERBOLE! EXAGGERATION! OUTLANDISH PROPHECY! We are either all going to crater in a fiery Hellscape of zero wins, all picks wasted, no free agents, and negativity...orrrrrr we are going 19-0, the greatest team to have ever been assembled, every UDFA and free agent will play here for free for eternity, and nothing will ever go wrong.

That is what we do here. The pendulum just stays locked at either apex never actually transitioning across its arc.

 

[Uptown]

Slightly OT:

Just noticed that since 2012, anytime HE
(Hightower + Edelman) plays in the SB we win it..

 

[PatriotsReign]

He could always bring in the QB from Foxboro High like he threatened to do to TFB.. It might mess up the kid's NCAA eligibility but if there was ever a year that will show BB's coaching acumen, this is it....Replacing ( hate that word in this case) the GOAT at QB, and nearly half your defensive snaps......IF and that is a big word, they play the entire season, I think 8-8 is a success....Anything more is gravy...
There is the annual UDFA who makes the team and with no preseason games, it was going to be less likely this year. However with the opt outs, I think we'll see a few who shine in camp and make the team like Malcolm Butler and J C Jackson in years past.......Next man up ....

It’s not like anyone expected the Pats would dominate this year anyway. But long term, we’ll be fine. Brady is the GOAT but he would have been worse this year than last...and even worse next year.

If there’s no season, the last laugh will be Belichick’s not Brady’s

 

[BobDigital]

All this opt outs are like the anti-Brady effect. We always said Brady was a draw here and talked about the Brady effect. How it caused players to take a little less to play here, buy in a bit more, ect... I think right now we are seeing this team not only without the Brady effect but with a negative rebound to it. The fact that Brady has left has caused people to kind of check out in a way they wouldn't have if he wasn't here in the first place.

 

[luuked]

All this opt outs are like the anti-Brady effect. We always said Brady was a draw here and talked about the Brady effect. How it caused players to take a little less to play here, buy in a bit more, ect... I think right now we are seeing this team not only without the Brady effect but with a negative rebound to it. The fact that Brady has left has caused people to kind of check out in a way they wouldn't have if he wasn't here in the first place.

That is pretty much the same take that Curran had to apologize to Chung and Hightower for and then did another 3min segment on his podcast explaining to the audience why after thinking it through it was dumb to write it.

 

[TheRainMaker]

We're doomed if Stidum is the QB. Hard to have confidence in a guy who couldn't even complete basic throws up 30-7 in the 4th Q until getting yanked after throwing it to the other team for a TD.

 

[BobDigital]

That is pretty much the same take that Curran had to apologize to Chung and Hightower for and then did another 3min segment on his podcast explaining to the audience why after thinking it through it was dumb to write it.

I don't really care about that. The fact is the Pats have more players opting out than any other team. So many more that there has to be some reason for it. This is what I believe the reason to be. Curran has things he won't say or will backtrack on to stay in the inner circle. I don't have that issue. I think it is likely there is a connection here. If not Brady than why? What do you think the reason is?

 

[luuked]

I don't really care about that. The fact is the Pats have more players opting out than any other team. So many more that there has to be some reason for it. This is what I believe the reason to be. Curran has things he won't say or will backtrack on to stay in the inner circle. I don't have that issue. I think it is likely there is a connection here. If not Brady than why? What do you think the reason is?

We are one of the most veteran teams which means many players are more likely to be married and in a situation where they will soon have a child or recently had one.

What reason do Cannon, Chung or Hightower who have won it all multiple times and have more money they will be ever able to spend in their lifetime to play football during a global health crisis with children on their way ?

Suggesting that they all just might have been fine risking their own future health and that of their family just because Brady was here is insulting.

If you apply Occam's razor to the situation I think it is pretty clear that the driving force here is health concerns. In the light of whats going on who gives crap about money or titles ?

 

[HetfieldFogerty]

Honestly, I’ll be pleasantly surprised if this team wins more than five games. I was thinking that the OL depth needed to be addressed early in the draft, bc the OL was going to become dangerously bad with just two injuries - and now they’re already down Cannon. He wasn’t great, but I don’t see Cajuste or Cunningham as even serviceable. Couple that with one of the worst receiving corps in the league, and the D is going to have play lights out to win anything. But the LB corps has become a huge liability. This year is going to be hard to watch...

 

[DarrylS]

I don't really care about that. The fact is the Pats have more players opting out than any other team. So many more that there has to be some reason for it. This is what I believe the reason to be. Curran has things he won't say or will backtrack on to stay in the inner circle. I don't have that issue. I think it is likely there is a connection here. If not Brady than why? What do you think the reason is?

The reason could be quite simple BB did not pressure them not to opt out and told them to put their families first.. they also some from an area that seems to be aware of the consequences of COVID-19. Cannon has had his immune system compromised due to his previous cancer.. Hightower just had a baby and has earned over 44 million + in his career, Chung 34 million made..

If I were an NFL player having made all that money would that motivate me to get the crap beat out of me for another season??

Talk Show radio loves to feed this type of controversy and all the talk about tanking for #1 is just noise.. no way BB will tank and IMO all of this is moot as there probably will not be a season..

 

[libra957]

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I see at least 6 wins after we sweep the fish, the airplane, and that soon to be extinct bison species.

 

[captain stone]

I see at least 6 wins after we sweep the fish, the airplane, and that soon to be extinct bison species.

Yeah we're not sweeping anybody...well maybe da JETE...

 

[doctahwhodat]

Someone had to say it #theolddays

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We’re doomed!

Indeed

 

[Patsgofor4]

When the Pats go 9-7, or better, this year, I expect the negative, doubting members of the Fellowship of the Miserable here to take their medicine like real men and women.

A simple "I was a world-class dumbass for doubting Bill" would suffice.

If they finish with a losing record I will post "I was a world-class dumbass for not recognizing that it was more Brady than Bill."

I ain't nervous.

 

[doctahwhodat]

When the Pats go 9-7, or better, this year, I expect the negative, doubting members of the Fellowship of the Miserable here to take their medicine like real men and women.

A simple "I was a world-class dumbass for doubting Bill" would suffice.

If they finish with a losing record I will post "I was a world-class dumbass for not recognizing that it was more Brady than Bill."

I ain't nervous. View attachment 28093

 

[HetfieldFogerty]

I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong, and happily so. But, I’ve never been pessimistic about the team in recent years. I just don’t see much going for the team this year, besides a really good secondary and 80% of a good starting OL. Yeah, a deep but unspectacular DL, if I’m being generous. A lot will have to go right for them to contend with the Bills...

 

[Kasmir]

I don’t see Cajuste or Cunningham as even serviceable.

What's your basis for already giving up on Cajuste? He's a 3rd round pick who was touted as a 1st or 2nd before his injury. What is your special source of knowledge that leads you to proclaim him
"[not]even serviceable"?