Jests Name Mo Lewis as Honorary Captain on Sunday

[Bill Lee]

It does make my heart hurt a little bit though.

I feel sorry he got injured (quite seriously actually) but overall it seems to me he took things as far as his talent could take them. He was in New England for nine seasons and his ceiling was well known by then. The team had given him a new top-of-the-market contract so he was being treated well. The fact he went on to BUF and DAL and didn't set the world on fire confirms that he had gotten about as far as he was ever going to get. According to Drew Bledsoe he took in $78M in cash from his NFL contracts so he was well rewarded for his efforts.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

I was glad when we drafted Drew. He started out with great promise. However after several seasons late in the 90s, my wife was the first to say openly that this guy is not gonna get it done for the Pats. I reluctantly agreed.

Even I saw what BB saw in TFB's 2nd summer camp in Smithfield. Brady looked considerable better than Drew running the O. It was obvious. Going to practices there was an intimate, close up experience. You literally could stand along the sidelines. Had long chats with Pete Carrol there on his dirt bike and several conversations with the Krafts who were wonderful people.

Drew's approach to a game was antithetical to BB's. With the Pats starting 0-2 it was only a matter of time before BB had the season record justifying to Kraft his decision to start Brady instead. It absolutely would have happened. Remember it was a 5-11 team the prior, BB's first, season. He was NOT going to go down with the ship on his second & last HC shot as Drew threw game losing picks to opposing LBs.

Overall, Drew was and is a class act and I welcome very return visit to Foxboro and wish him more of the great post football life he deserves and enjoys.

 

[MitchKumstein]

I liked Drew and give him credit for helping transform the Patriots from a laughingstock into a legitimate franchise. But he didn't stand much of a chance of sticking around after the Pats drafted the GOAT

I loved Drew's speech when he was inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame. "I had a horrible backup, that number 12 guy. He didn't really understand the backup part"

 

[Jackson 2]

I think the Pats honorary captains should be Jastremski and McNally.

I vote for Matt Estrella...

 

[1960Pats]

At the time that the Pats hired Belichick, my friend the Browns fan insisted that BB was here to get rid of Bledsoe. I enjoy telling him now how right he was then, but I don't think he figured that it would it end up the way it has. Who could have?

 

[Zuma]

Drew replaced Grogan as my all-time fav QB back then. IMO he was a big factor in helping the Pats catapult to this level of success for the past 15 years.

 

[SunshineSammy]

Everything is about smack or trolling..

Dumb..

Maybe it has something to do with him being one of their best linebackers ever..

Just a thought..

But of course not.. Their trying to poke at our fragile psyche..

If Mo never hit Drew, Brady would still be his backup today..

SMH.

 

[convertedpatsfan]

Yeah i was thinking maybe they are sending a subtle message that Brady would be nowhere without mo Lewis. I mean mo Lewis is not exactly a jets legend - why else would they make him honorary captain?

The Jets aren't smart enough to do subtle things, you're giving them way too much credit. They just wanted to honour the guy, didn't think about the bigger picture as usual, and just randomly went about their way of usual stupidity. This is typical Jets actually.

I think the Pats honorary captains should be Jastremski and McNally.

Wish they were for the Colts game.

If the jests really wanted to troll the Patriots, they should've had Kensil be their honorary captain

I'm sure he would've loved to have done it

I'm surprised Goodell didn't walk out as their honourary captain for the first game. Maybe he's waiting for the Super Bowl to see who we play, then he can look over to the Patriots sideline and make a cut-throat gesture a la Vince McMahon.

 

[patfanken]

I think that there are a lot of younger Patriot fans (post 2000) who really don't appreciate how good a QB Drew Bledsoe was during his stay in NE. Unfortunately for him he lost his job to the guy who turned out to be the GOAT. No one would fair well when you are being directly compared to the Tom Brady.

Bledsoe was what he was.

1. He was a VERY good QB relative to his peers. He made the pro-bowl several times as well as the playoffs once the team was worthy.

2. He was a super tough football player. He might not have been toughER than Steve Grogan, but he was just as tough. He put up some great stats with some pretty bad OL's, getting the crap beat out hm.

3. He played on some pretty good Pats teams in the 90's all of whom were fatally flawed by a lack of depth and subject to injuries. I think we all understand much better now how important the role of depth and the bottom third of the roster actually is, now that we've been trained so well by BB

4. On the downside, he wasn't the QB to run THIS particular offense for this particular HC. He belonged in an offense like Dallas had at the time of perhaps what the Ravens ran when they were a team that was relevant.

5. While he wasn't lazy or didn't work hard, he wasn't the maniacally driven guy like Brady and BB. He never was the guy who would take that last step to maximize his potential.

BOTTOM LINE - Drew Bledsoe was a very good QB who at this point in time is the 2nd best QB who the Pats ever had. He should be respected as such.

 

[SunshineSammy]

Drew made his Mark on the 2001 team..

He rescued us in the title game when Brady was injured and played great..

I remember and appreciated Drew for this game above all

 

[RabidPatsFan]

Mo Lewis to serve as Jets honorary captain on Sunday

Really odd. Not sure if they are trying to troll us or not.

Very poor trolling on their part. A bit Rex-like, actually.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Just thinking...wouldn't it be great if Belichick could name Bledsoe as Honorary Captain at the last minute for Sunday's game and just spring it on Saturday night? I mean talk about psyching out the Jets and energizing the Patriots.

 

[SunshineSammy]

Just thinking...wouldn't it be great if Belichick could name Bledsoe as Honorary Captain at the last minute for Sunday's game and just spring it on Saturday night? I mean talk about psyching out the Jets and energizing the Patriots.

If all the players were ten years old it might work..

 

[PatsFanSince74]

If all the players were ten years old it might work..

as has been said many times, the NFL is a bunch of grown men playing a kids' game. The ten year old in each of them is just below the surface...

 

[VrabelJr]

Just thinking...wouldn't it be great if Belichick could name Bledsoe as Honorary Captain at the last minute for Sunday's game and just spring it on Saturday night? I mean talk about psyching out the Jets and energizing the Patriots.

And at half time Bledsoe and Mo Lewis sprint down from their respective box suites, eyes locked on each other the entire time, and duke it out midfield WWE style.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

And at half time Bledsoe and Mo Lewis sprint down from their respective box suites, eyes locked on each other the entire time, and duke it out midfield WWE style.

I thought that's what happened, more or less, 14 years ago...and we already know how that movie ended.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

I was glad when we drafted Drew. He started out with great promise. However after several seasons late in the 90s, my wife was the first to say openly that this guy is not gonna get it done for the Pats. I reluctantly agreed.

Even I saw what BB saw in TFB's 2nd summer camp in Smithfield. Brady looked considerable better than Drew running the O. It was obvious. Going to practices there was an intimate, close up experience. You literally could stand along the sidelines. Had long chats with Pete Carrol there on his dirt bike and several conversations with the Krafts who were wonderful people.

Drew's approach to a game was antithetical to BB's. With the Pats starting 0-2 it was only a matter of time before BB had the season record justifying to Kraft his decision to start Brady instead. It absolutely would have happened. Remember it was a 5-11 team the prior, BB's first, season. He was NOT going to go down with the ship on his second & last HC shot as Drew threw game losing picks to opposing LBs.

Overall, Drew was and is a class act and I welcome very return visit to Foxboro and wish him more of the great post football life he deserves and enjoys.

great post. BB has said many times that Brady beat out Bledsoe in training camp in 2001. What's your opinion on why he still went with Drew as starter? I've always thought it had a lot to do with his experience in Cleveland when he benched a popular Bernie Kosar and the fans and media turned against Belichick.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Everything is about smack or trolling..

Dumb..

Maybe it has something to do with him being one of their best linebackers ever..

Just a thought..

But of course not.. Their trying to poke at our fragile psyche..

If Mo never hit Drew, Brady would still be his backup today..

SMH.

over time, with the jets organization, everything has more often been about"incompetence or stupidity.". In this case I think you can take your pick. Seriously, this is like taunting the lion in his cage before you go in to feed it. If they just wanted to honor a good player from their past, there were seven other home games this year, weren't there?

 

[SunshineSammy]

over time, with the jets organization, everything has more often been about"incompetence or stupidity.". In this case I think you can take your pick. Seriously, this is like taunting the lion in his cage before you go in to feed it. If they just wanted to honor a good player from their past, there were seven other home games this year, weren't there?

And?? They aren't honoring him with a ceremony.. He is just a captain which is not unusual..

Is there anybody left from either team besides TB and BB that was involved in that game??

I don't get the correlation as some sort of snub to the Pats..

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

And?? They aren't honoring him with a ceremony.. He is just a captain which is not unusual..

Is there anybody left from either team besides TB and BB that was involved in that game??

I don't get the correlation as some sort of snub to the Pats..

Pats fans see honoring the guy that knocked out Drew and started the Brady era some sort of trolling.

Hate to admit it but I agree with you. Given the comedy trolling and baiting of the Ryan era, this doesn't even rise to the level of being worthy of a blurb on a third rate football website that's server is hosted in the basement of some stoner guy's mom's house.