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Thank you for rescuing Mack from the CFL and giving him a chance
My fix on it/Thanks for getting it started
It took me many years to appreciate Parcells' definite ability to motivate, and his contribution to the Patriots. He indeed brought instant credibility, and Belichick teams have inherited and carried on the legacy of focus on the game, the fundamentals and teamwork which has not been duplicated by any other coach/system in the last forty years.
I am happy you were able to enjoy the...resurgence, not the initiation...of good football here locally.
That's quite a stretch..... if you change a couple plays, you can figure out a way to tie the game. If I change a couple plays, it's GB in a rout.
Drew, like Tony Eason, is a very nice person. He simply wasn't that good.
This is so typical of the Parcells apologists. Give Parcells the credit when they win, and blame the players when they lost.
Actually Eason was a good QB who lacked a key ingredient of a GREAT one. He wasn't physically tough. Now understand ANYONE who plays football enough that he can get to the NFL is physically tough by most standards. That should go without saying. But for the better part of the last 50 years the Pats were led by EXTREMELY tough QB's in Grogan, Bledsoe, and Brady.Drew, like Tony Eason, is a very nice person. He simply wasn't that good.
May we please finally, mercifully, permanently debunk and dispose of one of the many great propagated myths in New England Patriots history?
"I will always refer to Gillette Stadium as The House That Drew Built"
WHO
OMG stop it. Stop. Inducting Bledsoe, and others, into the team HOF ahead of Julius Adams is a disgrace.
Drew Bledsoe, like Tony Eason, was a very good college quarterback, drafted in the first round, wore #11, who threw the ball for completions and picks, and got sacked a lot and at crucial moments. He got paid a ton of money, he showed up, tried hard, with no competition (until 2001) and did win some games for us.
While Eason is at most a barely competent NFL backup, Steve Grogan and Doug Flutie are exceptional quarterbacks who do not have Super Bowl rings due to the corruption, ignorance, stupidity and bumbling of officials, coaches and owners through the years.
Just as Bledsoe is at most a capable NFL starter, while Tom Brady is a first ballot Hall of Famer.
A young, unheralded quarterback drafted in the late rounds led a disrespected Patriots team which had lost eleven games in his rookie year to eleven wins in his second season, qualifying for the post season and a divisional round game against the Oakland Raiders. He put New England on the football map and established the Patriots as perennial contenders for the world championship, playing well over a decade longer. TB12? No.
His name, of course, is Steve Grogan.
"The New England Patriots established themselves as perennial contenders for the world championship in the modern era of pro football from their home in Foxborough built by Steve Grogan."
Gillette Stadium - CMGI Field - was built by Robert Kraft with help from Roger Goodell, the lackey Paul "The Patriots Damaged The League" Tagliabue sent here to broker a truce/agreement with the commonwealth legislature, in time for Kraft to back out of the Hartford deal.
Kraft likes to promote delusions like the flying elvis and enemy colored silver helmets and blue jerseys as 'traditional' ['traditionally wrong, stupid, insulting and idiotic'?] and putting Bledsoe in the same class as Ted Williams, Bill Russell and Larry Bird.
Like putting Eason in the same class as Bobby Orr, David Ortiz and John Havlicek.
Patriots record '90-'92:...... 9-39
For some reason, on Patsfans, the success of « how many pro bowlers you drafted » is more important than how many SBs you’ve won.
I didn't know that. Do we know that Holovak was the one to make the decision?
