Heart heavy, but head high

[NEGoldenAge]

Although dissapointing, the feeling following the Pats missing the playoffs was not nearly so bitter as years past (think face-gaurding/18-1). It was a gutsy team that overcame tremendous diversity, and was playing so well in December that all the playoff teams let out a collective sigh of relief when the Pats were eliminated. Hats off to the players, coaches and owners for a tremendous season.

Don't be so happy to see the rat fired. As much as I loath the little dink, I wish he'd be the Jets HC for the next 3 decades. The guy is clearly inept on gameday, average on game-planning and has such a lack of charisma that you'd be hard pressed to find a single Jet player that respects him. Unfortunately, no matter who the Jets replace him with, they will be a better team afterwards Aw well, at least they kept their crappy GM

One the bright side, if Brady returns healthy next year, this team is going to be effing scary. I wouldn't be surprised if Brady and Moss shattered the records they made a year ago... .this team will be as hungry as they've ever been and I am soooo looking forward to it. The 09 season can't get here soon enough.

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What an ugly way for Favre to go out. TDS 22 INT 22 Might stop him from being first ballot.

It's time for Al Davis to hang it up. He's clearly become a burdeon to his team.

Jerry Jones is both the best thing for the Cowboys, and their worst enemy. He should use his enthusiasm for promoting his team, hire a solid GM and coach and get his hands out of football operations.

As much as I'd like to see McDaniels stay, the shear number of empty HC jobs this season will make the pot so sweet, that I don't think he'll refuse. I just hope he goes to the NFC

Almost as important as a healthy Brady next season would be a new CBA so that 2010 has a salary cap. An uncapped year might destroy what integrity the league has left(which is next to none until Goodell is assassinated).

How could an ice boulder thrown into the stands even compare with to pure malevolence displayed by Welker when he made the snow angel. Goodell has proven his favoritism in not suspending Welker and only fining him 10K. The guy has to go.

 

[Ryan]

Re: Heart heavy, but head high.

The Pats have absolutely NOTHING to be ashamed of. They should be damn proud of the job they did this season. With half the damn team on IR, they STILL went 11-5 and nearly won the division. If anything, the other teams in the AFC East should hang their heads in shame that it took them so long to put the Pats down. Yeah, we missed the playoffs, but we didn't go out without one hell of a fight. I'm so proud of this team and can't wait for them to take back what's theirs in 2009.

 

[NEGoldenAge]

Re: Heart heavy, but head high.

Oh ya, forgot one. Now I realize how aweful it is to be a fan of the Jets. It was an extremely weird pulling for a team that you actually KNOW will choke. You hold out hope and keep cheering at the good plays, but in the end the result is exactly what you knew it would be. I believe everyone in the bar was experiencing it in much the same way I was. I still feel unclean rooting for that team, but in the end, it's given me even more of an appreciation for what our team is, and "gasp" a small amount of empathy for a jets fan.

Which brings me to my next point. As of 2005, Jets has replaced cat as the word that the most English-speaking learn first. However, learning to spell cat is generally followed by learning to spell other words. I know a fair number of Jets fans, and I was shocked at the sheer number of them who wanted the Jets to lose just to spite the Pats. Jealousy is an ugly thing.

 

[pheenix11]

Re: Heart heavy, but head high.

Oh ya, forgot one. Now I realize how aweful it is to be a fan of the Jets. It was an extremely weird pulling for a team that you actually KNOW will choke. You hold out hope and keep cheering at the good plays, but in the end the result is exactly what you knew it would be. I believe everyone in the bar was experiencing it in much the same way I was. I still feel unclean rooting for that team, but in the end, it's given me even more of an appreciation for what our team is, and "gasp" a small amount of empathy for a jets fan.

Which brings me to my next point. As of 2005, Jets has replaced cat as the word that the most English-speaking learn first. However, learning to spell cat is generally followed by learning to spell other words. I know a fair number of Jets fans, and I was shocked at the sheer number of them who wanted the Jets to lose just to spite the Pats. Jealousy is an ugly thing.

I had absolutely no faith that the Jets would win that game. I watched in hopes of a miracle but with Mangina and Favre at the helm, the outlook was bleak.

 

[kcheel67]

I agree with the fact that Mangeneric is an inept coach on gameday, and #4 was toast before he even arrived in the rotten apple...but I do take a bit of consolation in the fact that both of them engineered another tremendous late-season collapse, and that both will likely be gone.

I'm glad Manpiggy got the axe for no other reason than that he's a lousy, back-stabbing, troll...and I am completely tired of hearing all the yapping from the NY media about his greatness...he hid behind BB and got the job because he was part of a great staff...his underhanded behavior put a tarnish on the greatest regular season in league history, and his sleazy courting of Pat assistants and Deion Branch are detestable.

So I'm happy he got canned, and it's even better, because gm's around the league know what he is, and only the Lions may be foolish enough to take a flyer on him in the immediate future...and he'll still have to look at his ever-expanding girth in the mirror every morning and realize he (bleeped) up.

As for favre...good riddance...after his manipulation of the media last summer, and putting the team that made him a star through the wringer, this last, final, inglorious season is a fitting cap to a career for the most intercepted qb in league history.

I'm thrilled with 11-5, disappointed to be left out of the playoffs, but comfortable with the knowledge that we won that many games with a QB no one said could play, and a ton of injuries that were overcome

 

[SoCal Pmen]

Mark my words - the Pats will be one of the teams favored to win the Superbowl next year. I put them in the top 3.

 

[stinkypete]

After 3 straight years of the bitterest playoff disappointments, there is some definite pride to finishing off the year with a win. If I had to choose between yesterday's outcome or making the playoffs only to eventually lose ugly to Pittsburgh, I think I'll stick with missing the playoffs but going out proud.