How do you feel about last year NOW?

[alvinnf]

Yeah it was something to me that will take a while to get over....but I am soo looking forward to 3 weeks from now and the real schedule kicking off....

I too am pumped that football is back, I just don't see it as something you get over, more like learn to deal with.

 

[NJPatsfan26]

I too am pumped that football is back, I just don't see it as something you get over, more like learn to deal with.

As am I!! Cannot wait to kick some arse!!

 

[PatsFanSince74]

I agree with those who say that the past is the past. But, nothing will make me feel "good" or "better" about not winning the SB and I'd rather not dwell on it. An NFL Season is an awfully hard and high mountain to climb and the last two seasons were missed opportunities if our hope is to write this as the greatest NFL team, Coach and QB ever. It's time to move on, but I can't pretend that I feel otherwise.

 

[Patjew]

I try not to think about last year. The way it ended still hurts very much.

 

[Sivy]

The 2007 Pats were the culmination of everything the Belichick-era Patriots stood to defeat. The record-breaking, "unbeatable" teams like the Colts, Rams or Chargers. After 8 seasons of winning with an aggressive, physical style of play, the Patriots ultimately fell to an aggressive, physical team not unlike the '01 Pats.

the patriots ultimately fell to a fluke.

 

[ausbacker]

Of course we fell to a series of flukes, some poor adjustments and some of the most dynamic pass rushing ever seen. I am more frustrated with what could have been. An undefeated season is something very very special.. across all sports.

For example, Edwin Moses went 10 years and some 100 plus races without being beaten in the 400 metres hurdles. That's simply astonishing.

 

[Sivy]

Of course we fell to a series of flukes, some poor adjustments and some of the most dynamic pass rushing ever seen. I am more frustrated with what could have been. An undefeated season is something very very special.. across all sports.

For example, Edwin Moses went 10 years and some 100 plus races without being beaten in the 400 metres hurdles. That's simply astonishing.

I've never lost a game of monopoly.

 

[Joker]

I will never forget what that reprehensible moron, Jet/Rat-dell, did to screw the Patriots...NEVER...and NOW the Rat "commisioner of OVERT felonies" Dell is overseeing Rat collusion with a blind eye, as ANY former employee and spoiled little rich kid using Daddy's Rat box seats his whole life would do for HIS lifelong favorite team, the NY Rats.

 

[Disco Volante]

Woah, stilll way too soon for a 2007 retrospect topic.

As of today the last official football game we all saw was still the Super Bowl. My feelings are just about the same.

 

[reflexblue]

I've never lost a game of monopoly.

Just curious have you ever played a game of monotony...monopoly?

 

[Sivy]

Just curious have you ever played a game of monotony?

you're a towel.

 

[reflexblue]

you're a towel.

If thats good, I'm it. :rocker:

 

[richpats]

the patriots ultimately fell to a fluke.

I don't know if you're referring to Tyree's catch, the last drive, Eli's postseason performance or to the Giants in general - but they all prove that if you hang in there and put yourself in a position to succeed then you can do just that.

 

[PromisedLand]

I don't know if you're referring to Tyree's catch, the last drive, Eli's postseason performance or to the Giants in general - but they all prove that if you hang in there and put yourself in a position to succeed then you can do just that.

I think it just proves that in order to win you not only have to be good, you need to be lucky AND good. The best team (over the course of a season) doesn't always win - the team which is playing the best on "any given Sunday", and which has good fortune on that particular day, wins.

Of course, if their is a huge disparity between the teams the better team wins 99.99% of the time, whereas if there is a smaller disparity the better team may only win 70% of the time. That's the luck factor. I believe that if the Patriots and the Giants of the end of last season had played each other 10 times the Pats would have won 7 or 8 out of 10. But the dice didn't roll their way on the particular Sunday in question.

 

[Sivy]

I don't know if you're referring to Tyree's catch, the last drive, Eli's postseason performance or to the Giants in general - but they all prove that if you hang in there and put yourself in a position to succeed then you can do just that.

I dont think the Tyree catch was the fluke, its not that hard to catch a football (cough, assante, cough) I just think the entire Giants run was a fluke.

 

[Sivy]

If thats good, I'm it. :rocker:

south park.

Publisher: we cant publish this book.

Towlie: why?

Publisher: Because you're a towel

Towlie: You're a towel.

 

[Sicilian]

I will never forget what that reprehensible moron, Jet/Rat-dell, did to screw the Patriots...NEVER...and NOW the Rat "commisioner of OVERT felonies" Dell is overseeing Rat collusion with a blind eye, as ANY former employee and spoiled little rich kid using Daddy's Rat box seats his whole life would do for HIS lifelong favorite team, the NY Rats.

This is the most irrelevant statement in this thread (and yes, I'm including, "You're a towel." )

What Goodell did was asanine, but it has nothing to do with losing the Super Bowl. In fact, you could argue that Goodell's mishandling of the spygate situation sparked us to our 18-0 run.

If you want to blame someone for the SUPER BOWL loss, and you're really convinced that it was someone outside the organization, blame Specter or Tomase. Goodell really didn't have his hands in it until after the game.

 

[godef]

I had a nightmare the other night, that the Pats had become the Bills of the 21st century, but with a twist: they kept having undefeated regular seasons and then lost in the Super Bowl.

Nonetheless, I hope they take another shot at it, what with this year's weak schedule. I look at what happened last year and I think, hey, we paid back on the surprise SB victory we sprung on the Greatest Show on Turf back in '01. Not that we weren't deserving, but that team was not as good as the '03 and '04 SB teams, nor were we as talented as the Rams, and neither were the Giants better than the Pats in SB XLII. In both cases, the Rams in XXXVI and the Pats in XLII didn't take the opponent seriously enough, regardless of who their coaches were. If we get to 18-0 again this year, I think the team would be well aware of what happened the year before and be able to approach the game with the fear of God and this time win it, barring any year end injuries, etc.

 

[Joker]

Nothing about Jet/Rat-dell is irrelevant when it comes to the NE Patriots

 

[Sicilian]

Nothing about Jet/Rat-dell is irrelevant when it comes to the NE Patriots

Don't forget to wear a bit of quilted fabric underneath your tinfoil hat... otherwise it might chafe