Patriots Pregame Thread Patriots @ Seahawks pre-game discussion

[DoubleDeluxe]

They signed two guys better than Diggs.

All the Romeo Doubs non-believers out there, there's still some room on the binky bandwagon, but space is limited.

Who are the non-believers? I haven't been keeping track.

 

[raduray]

One of the interesting tests will be Will Campbell's performance. He played hurt in the Super Bowl and was a turnstile. Healthy and now his second year. His performance will be critical.

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

One of the interesting tests will be Will Campbell's performance. He played hurt in the Super Bowl and was a turnstile. Healthy and now his second year. His performance will be critical.

Yes, the whole Oline will need to be much better.
Campbell was hurt and his play suffered greatly, but Wilson and the rest of line were very bad too.
And it wasn't just pass blocking.
The run game was pitiful.
Our RBs had a combined 13 carries for 42 yds, 3.2 yds a clip.

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

Who are the non-believers? I haven't been keeping track.

On PatsFans mystical groups of posters are commonly imagined. 1 or 2 guys will have a belief and posters balloon those few into a large mob. Or someone suggests an alternative possibility to discuss, and posters assume that anyone who discussed that alternative wholly subscribes to its certainty.

You commonly see this in draft discussions. There are a lot of options in the draft, many trade possibilities, multiple rounds, etc., so some think it is fun to explore different scenarios. But once a scenario is discussed, some posters are forever indignant that the discussion means people are committed to that possibility. For example to this day, posters think there are a bunch of PatsFans who wanted to trade down and select J J McCarthy instead of selecting Maye, all due to the trade down discussion in the draft forum.

Similarly there are very few, if any, Doubs non-believers, although no doubt there are a lot imagined.

 

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[ctpatsfan77]

On PatsFans mystical groups of posters are commonly imagined. 1 or 2 guys will have a belief and posters balloon those few into a large mob. Or someone suggests an alternative possibility to discuss, and posters assume that anyone who discussed that alternative wholly subscribes to its certainty.

I have taught critical thinking lessons in the past, and explicitly cite this as an internet sports phenomenon ("I think X is true, thus X is true", and "I want Y to happen, so Y should happen").

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

 

[Gumby]

Geeze - Goodell and Google are teaming up to create clickbait headlines - this almost gave me a heart attack.

Hyphen, space placement and using enough meaningless filler words in your headline (to get to a~48-52 character limit) are key to generating clicks (from folks who would have never clicked an honest title).