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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Shoulda yelled out, "Wozzy!" and see if he reacted.Speaking of which, I saw Matt Chatham at TC today just walking around in the crowd. It took a long time before someone recognized him, and an old codger at that.
It truly was an incredible season. Just so many amazing wins down the stretch. 9 in a row, but they won in so many different ways. Close wins, blowouts, just every way imaginable.This season was incredible. I vividly remember feeling like I was going to puke in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl when the Rams tied it. SB 36 is still, and always will be, my favorite of the 6.
Just like Tony Eason, Drew Bledsoe could throw the ball, and did, because he was given the chance. First round pick who wore number 11 and was carried to the playoffs and Super Bowl by an excellent team. Losing the Super Bowl also not their fault - Eason never should have started in the first place, and although Martin was a little banged up, he should have got thirty carries. We should have beaten the Packers up on the ground like the cheating Broncos did a year later.2001 AFC Championship Game: Patriots @ Steelers - YouTube
1:01:06 - absolutely filthy hit that knocked out Brady.
Feels like Bledsoe gets hated on too much for this game though. He made some nice throws. Took a big shot on a play that was just like the Mo Lewis hit and got right back up right away pumped up and that fired up everyone especially Brady himself. Did his job and finished his Patriots career like a champ. Yeah he had some rust and he had his moments looking like the guy that drove us nuts over the years. A rusty QB could have have had a whole lot worse outcome. Like the Chiefs game last season.
At the time, he was probably the best QB in our history. Yeah I remember him being Marino-like for a number of years, now when I look back, it was like, meh. It must be how the lions saw Stafford.Bledsoe is interesting to me because it seems like pre-Brady he had a reputation in the press and (mostly) with the fanbase that was better than his on-field performance justified. He was treated as The First Real Quarterback in Team History through the 1990s, when in retrospect he looks like a guy who just put up big volume numbers with mediocre efficiency and then bit it in the postseason.
I think this came down to the team's recent history. Steve Grogan was tough as hell and hung around forever, but he was constantly hurt in the tail end of his career, which is what a lot of people remembered by the early 90s. Eason looked the part on paper but was widely seen as a wimp. Flutie was fun but completely unconventional, and was ultimately a flash in the pan. Otherwise it was a parade of stiffs. Bledsoe looked the part, said the right things, was tough and didn't miss games. After 20 years of Brady it's easy to take that for granted, but it was just a huge relief in the 1990s to finally have a guy who showed up every week , wasn't constantly on IR and could throw it out of the stadium flat footed.
At the time, he was probably the best QB in our history. Yeah I remember him being Marino-like for a number of years, now when I look back, it was like, meh. It must be how the lions saw Stafford.
2001 AFC Championship Game: Patriots @ Steelers - YouTube
1:01:06 - absolutely filthy hit that knocked out Brady.
Feels like Bledsoe gets hated on too much for this game though. He made some nice throws. Took a big shot on a play that was just like the Mo Lewis hit and got right back up right away pumped up and that fired up everyone especially Brady himself. Did his job and finished his Patriots career like a champ. Yeah he had some rust and he had his moments looking like the guy that drove us nuts over the years. A rusty QB could have have had a whole lot worse outcome. Like the Chiefs game last season.
Agreed. I can't fault him for the job he did in that game at all.Bledsoe did his job, period. The throw I see most complain about, the ‘ near pick’ by Jason gildon or whoever the lb was, was hardly a drop like they make it sound like and more of a batted down. Watch the play again, even if the lb had gorilla glue on his hands it’d be a tough grab. At the end of the day, he took over at 7-3, and left it at 24-17. That’s doing your job as the backup
Agreed. I can't fault him for the job he did in that game at all.
And I'd forgotten what an absolute cheap shot that low hit on Brady was. It wasn't even close, the guy straight up kneecapped him with his helmet after the ball was out. That was a dirty play even in the 70s.
I was at the Moe Lewis game. Game 2 vs the Jete. Despite the fact that I saw lots of TFB at Smithfield (between jobs that summer) and seriously thought TB was better than Drew, as Drew left the field I thought about our o-2 start (Drew lost game one to a crap bungles team) forgetting everything I'd seen all summer, I said "Season's over!" Nobody could ever be so wrong.At the time I would have been happy with another five-win season; 3-13 would not have been a surprise.
It had been 15 years since the Celtics won a title, double that for the Bruins, and never in anybody's entire lifetime for the Red Sox. The Patriots were another Boston sports team that would occasionally tease but never win it all.
From where I sat at the time I saw three good players: Willie McGinest, who was somewhat inconsistent the previous couple of seasons; Bledsoe, who was regressing and was now out indefinitely; and Terry Glenn, who was already suspended and now had nobody to throw him the ball.
To say I was not optimistic would be a huge understatement. So happy that I was so incredibly incorrect.
Bledsoe will always be a bada** in my book. He tried to get back in the game vs the Jets but little did he know he was dying.2001 AFC Championship Game: Patriots @ Steelers - YouTube
1:01:06 - absolutely filthy hit that knocked out Brady.
Feels like Bledsoe gets hated on too much for this game though. He made some nice throws. Took a big shot on a play that was just like the Mo Lewis hit and got right back up right away pumped up and that fired up everyone especially Brady himself. Did his job and finished his Patriots career like a champ. Yeah he had some rust and he had his moments looking like the guy that drove us nuts over the years. A rusty QB could have have had a whole lot worse outcome. Like the Chiefs game last season.
That cheap shot on Palmer gave the Steelers playoff run life. They were about to get their a**es kicked.Yup, terrible hit. The Steelers are the only team i know thats knocked 2 starting qbs out of playoff games with low hits, within a few years of each other.
This hit changed it all, the attitude of the team, everything. The Patsies era ended right there, the New England Patriots had arrived. This to me was a moment right up there with Tek shoving his mitt in ARod's face.
Bledsoe will always be a bada** in my book. He tried to get back in the game vs the Jets but little did he know he was dying.
Although he threw his signature pass to the LB (who luckily dropped the ball), he saved the Pats season.