Which team scares you the most, if any?

[condon84]

Our pass defense scares me.

If we can tighten that up...............

 

[Kontradiction]

jets, ravens, colts, steelers in afc

saints in nfc

The Saints are playing like crap right now. Why do they scare you? With the way the Giants have played the last two weeks, I'm much more scared of them than the Saints.

 

[PatsDeb]

Right now it's the Ravens, then it will be whomever we play after them. I want us to get a good start in the post-Moss era, so we see headlines like, "The Pats prove you can dump Randy Moss and Still Keep Rolling!" rather than "Did the Pats make the biggest mistake of 2010?"

 

[Kontradiction]

Right now it's the Ravens, then it will be whomever we play after them. I want us to get a good start in the post-Moss era, so we see headlines like, "The Pats prove you can dump Randy Moss and Still Keep Rolling!" rather than "Did the Pats make the biggest mistake of 2010?"

Get ready to see plenty of the latter if we lose to the Ravens. If we end up losing, I'm not viewing the forum for at least a week afterward. It will be Spygate level unbearable around here.

 

[Lansdowne]

Right now, Baltimore.

 

[PatsDeb]

Get ready to see plenty of the latter if we lose to the Ravens. If we end up losing, I'm not viewing the forum for at least a week afterward. It will be Spygate level unbearable around here.

Don't I know it. I usually lay off the forum (and sports talk radio and newspapers) for a few days (or even a week, except to vote in Alamo's contest) if we've lost the week before. Football is my escape, so I can't stand the negative Nellies (yes, I'm an absolute homer, thank you).

I was hoping that Denver would give us a blueprint to beat the Ravens next week. Instead, it looks like they took a page out of our playbook and lost like we did in the playoffs. Here's to hoping Big Vince and Company can contain Ray Rice and our DBs can keep up with their receivers, including (yikes) Anquan Boldin. It should be interesting.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

With Sanchez playing like a seasoned veteran and the additions of Holmes,Pace and Revis returning to an already talented team at 3-1 you have to be afraid of the Jets who are the most important team to worry about because they control the division and are on a roll,the Pats ticket to the playoff may be only via the division...I am most concerned about them.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Right now it's the Ravens, then it will be whomever we play after them. I want us to get a good start in the post-Moss era, so we see headlines like, "The Pats prove you can dump Randy Moss and Still Keep Rolling!" rather than "Did the Pats make the biggest mistake of 2010?"

Moss has played as a Patriot against the Ravens 3 times and was nothing more than a decoy with mediocre stats of 34,50 and 48 yards

I am certain the Ravens defense would contain Moss as usual and the Ravens defense looks BETTER overall than the previous years Moss played against them.

Moss would have had the decoy factor but I hardly think anything more.

 

[PatsDeb]

Moss has played as a Patriot against the Ravens 3 times and was nothing more than a decoy with mediocre stats of 34,50 and 48 yards

I am certain the Ravens defense would contain Moss as usual and the Ravens defense looks BETTER overall than the previous years Moss played against them.

Moss would have had the decoy factor but I hardly think anything more.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting that not having Moss will be the reason we lose, if we do. To me, that will be on either the defense not being able to contain the run, and/or the O-line being unable to keep Brady upright. We're not going to be able to run on Baltimore, so the short passing game (hello TEs) will have to be clicking on all cylinders. While the Baltimore D may be better (not sure about that, but they don't seem any worse), we also did not have our three headed TE monster last year.

But, if we lose, the media will point to getting rid of Moss as the reason, even if people point out these stats as you have. And that, I will not be able to stand reading about, here and elsewhere.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Oh, I wasn't suggesting that not having Moss will be the reason we lose, if we do. To me, that will be on either the defense not being able to contain the run, and/or the O-line being unable to keep Brady upright. We're not going to be able to run on Baltimore, so the short passing game (hello TEs) will have to be clicking on all cylinders. While the Baltimore D may be better (not sure about that, but they don't seem any worse), we also did not have our three headed TE monster last year.

But, if we lose, the media will point to getting rid of Moss as the reason, even if people point out these stats as you have. And that, I will not be able to stand reading about, here and elsewhere.

I understand what you mean and I agree

 

[serifyn]

all of the strong defensive teams. Jets, Ravens, Steelers, Vikings.....you know, the ones who can actually stop us and then run over us.

 

[Modest]

The Ravens. I look for them to kick the absolute dog**** out of us come gameday.

 

[WhiteWesWelker88]

Baltimore Ravens are the best team in the NFL.

The
Ravens scare me....... nobody else

 

[Kontradiction]

The Ravens. I look for them to kick the absolute dog**** out of us come gameday.

Yep. I'm expecting for us to get beaten pretty decisively. Ravens are solid in pretty much all phases of the game. Us? Not so much. But who knows? It certainly wouldn't be the first time that this team has surprised me.

 

[WhiteWesWelker88]

Yep. I'm expecting for us to get beaten pretty decisively. Ravens are solid in pretty much all phases of the game. Us? Not so much. But who knows? It certainly wouldn't be the first time that this team has surprised me.

maybe we will have a sick special teams game like in Miami.....




until that game......... I did not know the Pats had one.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Yep. I'm expecting for us to get beaten pretty decisively. Ravens are solid in pretty much all phases of the game. Us? Not so much. But who knows? It certainly wouldn't be the first time that this team has surprised me.

You never know, Flacco might have another one of those random 4 INT games that he's so fond of. If not, though, I pretty much agree with you. Don't think our defense is good enough to get the stops we need, doubt we can hang with them.

 

[Kontradiction]

You never know, Flacco might have another one of those random 4 INT games that he's so fond of. If not, though, I pretty much agree with you. Don't think our defense is good enough to get the stops we need, doubt we can hang with them.

Yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking of when I said "who knows". It's certainly possible. We have been picking the ball off with a bit more regularity as the weeks have passed. But I'm just not sure. Most quarterbacks have felt a spinach-like effect that Popeye gets when it comes to our secondary.

 

[PatsDeb]

Jeez, guys, have some faith. Did you all pick Miami to win? While this game worries me, I am looking forward to whether the Pats can successfully reinstate the "dink and dunk and 8 minute drive" game plans that made us famous in 2001, 2003 and 2004. We'll have had 2 weeks to prepare for this one when the coaching staff knew Moss wasn't going to be here, and our D and special teams have started to make some plays. I say we squeak out a win in this one. Who's with me?

 

[ausbacker]

No team scares me this year. Not one side is a dominant team through week 5 from what I've seen.

After the Pats go to town on the Ravens this week, their chorus will quieten.

 

[WhiteWesWelker88]

Jeez, guys, have some faith. Did you all pick Miami to win? While this game worries me, I am looking forward to whether the Pats can successfully reinstate the "dink and dunk and 8 minute drive" game plans that made us famous in 2001, 2003 and 2004. We'll have had 2 weeks to prepare for this one when the coaching staff knew Moss wasn't going to be here, and our D and special teams have started to make some plays. I say we squeak out a win in this one. Who's with me?

no...... I just did not expect what had transpired that day......... It was that day I realized we had a S T unit


before that I was like