1985 baby - Holloway-Hannah-Brock-Wooten-Moore
Surprisingly, not undersized by all that much:
Brian Holloway - 6-7 / 294
John Hannah - 6-2 / 265
Pete Brock - 6-5 / 267
Ron Wooten - 6-4 / 274
Steve Moore - 6-4 / 293
Check out the 1985 New England Patriots Roster, Players , Starters and more on Pro-Football-Reference.com.
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The AFCCG>Super Bowl meltdown by Raymond Berry right after the players put him down from carrying him off the Orange Bowl field is one of the all time collapses in sports history.
Just to name a few, he
- Failed to name Grogan the Super Bowl starter the next morning
- Allowed an insanely ridiculous video to be made with and by local Boston media with several players participating, obviously in response to/intended competition with the idiotic Super Bowl Shuffle which is arguably the most embarrassing incident in the history of the franchise
- Devised a primary pass-first offensive strategy against the 4-6, apparently believing Eason was Dan Marino and the game was being played in the Orange Bowl on a Monday night (and we'd be wearing Dolphins uniforms?)
- Ignored most of what made the Patriots successful: Grogan; running the ball, controlling the line of scrimmage and the pace of the game; giving the defense the opportunity to do what they did well: containing the opposition's big playmakers and making big plays themselves, including turnovers: By having Eason in there, the pressure (above & beyond all that is intrinsically already there in any Super Bowl) to make a million turnovers
- Psychologically doing nothing to motivate/inspire/prepare the team for the biggest game of the season, the most challenging game and opponent of the season, the highest pressure environment on the world's biggest stage, playing a team that is better than us and rightfully heavily favored
In this way, Raymond
- Abandoned all the advantages the team enjoyed in their previous three playoff games to get there
- Had complete amnesia regarding his Colts team's attitude and preparation for multiple championship games in which he was a major contributor
Further, Berry and his staff had apparently no knowledge of what made the Bears superior that entire season, and were clueless to devise a game plan with any chance of success.
- Finally, since he didn't come here until 1978 he had no experience of 1976 which he could and should have utilized as motivation and bulletin board material. There were many critical veterans and leaders from that season who needed the opportunity set things right and instill in the team the knowledge that THAT was the determining, primary factor in the event - not some stupid bunch of idiots with a video, a past his prime great running back who even in his prime didn't win games all by himself, a very good pass rush and an inferior quarterback with a loser attitude.
