Everyone Practiced - That's HUGE!

[QB12]

We're healthy, hungry and at home. I smell a HUGE game from our guys on National TV to serve notice that the Patriots are back.

QB12

 

[Brownfan80]

I assume this is the source for this good news:

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/reiss_pieces/

 

[Bella*chick]

Very good news. I am looking forward to a great Sunday of football. There are a few games I am really interested in.

 

[DarrylS]

The Sunday nite games make the day so damned long... these are the days I wished I lived in Honolulu or some place out west.

 

[Lamanai]

So everyone practiced.

What this tells me is that the coaches let each and every player know the importance of this particular game. Guys are practicing and playing hurt.

You can forget about BB's standard line about no game meaning more than any other. They are preparing for this as if it is, as Bruschi would say, a hat game.

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

Time For Payback......

 

[Box_O_Rocks]

Time For Payback......

Nah, time to prove the team can execute the plays, make the tackles, maintain 60 minutes of intensity, and improve to 3-0 in the AFC. This needs to be a good warm up game for the road challenge next weekend.

 

[Patriotic Fervor]

Nah, time to prove the team can execute the plays, make the tackles, maintain 60 minutes of intensity, and improve to 3-0 in the AFC. This needs to be a good warm up game for the road challenge next weekend.

You're being facetious, right, Box?

I mean, even the GD owner was talking about this particular game to reporters last Spring!

And while there is some merit to that take you've proposed, admit it - there's a bit more at stake here.

Remember back in the glory days of Bobby Orr and the Big Bad Bruins? Montreal would come to town, and right out of the box they'd be flying, seeking to establish hegemony over this upstart team. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. But those were great, great games!

This is a football version of that.

Get those brats ready for the grill, stock up on your favorite brew, make sure the VCR/DVD/PVR is ready to go, and except for select friends (i.e., the whole town!), NO VISITORS! NO INTERRUPTIONS! Under pain of death!

That's how it'll be in this household. Even my wife is itching for this game to get underway. God Bless her!

 

[italian pat patriot]

good...i want be 3-0...

 

[Box_O_Rocks]

You're being facetious, right, Box?

I mean, even the GD owner was talking about this particular game to reporters last Spring!

And while there is some merit to that take you've proposed, admit it - there's a bit more at stake here.

Remember back in the glory days of Bobby Orr and the Big Bad Bruins? Montreal would come to town, and right out of the box they'd be flying, seeking to establish hegemony over this upstart team. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. But those were great, great games!

This is a football version of that.

Get those brats ready for the grill, stock up on your favorite brew, make sure the VCR/DVD/PVR is ready to go, and except for select friends (i.e., the whole town!), NO VISITORS! NO INTERRUPTIONS! Under pain of death!

That's how it'll be in this household. Even my wife is itching for this game to get underway. God Bless her!

Oh I'm serious, Shanny is a decent enough coach, but as long as he's got Jake I'm not going to consider him to be an overwhelming threat, especially on the road.

I'm looking for this team to start gelling, time to establish the pattern of consistency we demand from a Belichick team. I have no delusions of payback in a regular season game, other than sending Denver into the bye week 1-2 with a fan driven QB controversy would be a nice start to eliminating them from any playoff hopes.

With Cincinnati and the fish coming up, I'm looking for this team to get the talent harnessed this week, so it can get better and better each subsequent week. The only payback I'll accept is another Vince, but an unbeaten season to soil the Miami memory and sour the pundit's wheaties won't go amiss.

 

[PATSNUTme]

You're being facetious, right, Box?

I mean, even the GD owner was talking about this particular game to reporters last Spring!

And while there is some merit to that take you've proposed, admit it - there's a bit more at stake here.

Remember back in the glory days of Bobby Orr and the Big Bad Bruins? Montreal would come to town, and right out of the box they'd be flying, seeking to establish hegemony over this upstart team. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. But those were great, great games!

This is a football version of that.

Get those brats ready for the grill, stock up on your favorite brew, make sure the VCR/DVD/PVR is ready to go, and except for select friends (i.e., the whole town!), NO VISITORS! NO INTERRUPTIONS! Under pain of death!

That's how it'll be in this household. Even my wife is itching for this game to get underway. God Bless her!

I agree with Box.

This is regular season game #3 of the 2006 season. It will be the toughest test yet for the Patriots. And yes, we need to see if the tackling has improved and if we can get Gabe invovled in the offense.

If we beat them 100- 0 that will not be payback for the playoff loss last year. That will come next January if they are in the playoffs and we play them.:rocker:

 

[Patriotic Fervor]

Oh I'm serious, Shanny is a decent enough coach, but as long as he's got Jake I'm not going to consider him to be an overwhelming threat, especially on the road.

I'm looking for this team to start gelling, time to establish the pattern of consistency we demand from a Belichick team. I have no delusions of payback in a regular season game, other than sending Denver into the bye week 1-2 with a fan driven QB controversy would be a nice start to eliminating them from any playoff hopes.

With Cincinnati and the fish coming up, I'm looking for this team to get the talent harnessed this week, so it can get better and better each subsequent week. The only payback I'll accept is another Vince, but an unbeaten season to soil the Miami memory and sour the pundit's wheaties won't go amiss.

Mmmm....let me ponder this....

 

[Bella*chick]

I just want the team fired up, focused, ready to take care of business...if they need to revisit the playoff debacle from last season to do so, then great!

But it's true, no payback can truly be had until the playoffs. It's the third game....lots of football left to be played, lots of improvement yet to be had.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

So everyone practiced.

What this tells me is that the coaches let each and every player know the importance of this particular game. Guys are practicing and playing hurt.

You can forget about BB's standard line about no game meaning more than any other. They are preparing for this as if it is, as Bruschi would say, a hat game.

I'm surprised that, ahem, a certain other poster didn't chime in . . . but dhasn't Bruschi referred to them as hat and T-SHIRT games?