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Where will this defense rank?

  • Top 5.

    Votes: 31 18.2%
  • Top 10.

    Votes: 88 51.8%
  • 10-20

    Votes: 41 24.1%
  • 21-32

    Votes: 10 5.9%

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I'll take that as humor since his last post anywhere on this website was November 15th in this thread:

Post#543 - Interception:

"I'm not keen to be right.
Everyone's excuse is always "but our CB was sooooo close to making the play."
Being close isn't any better than not being close of the play is made".

This is the post I saw..

I was just very suspicious of the front 7. Easley was unproven, Brown was a rookie, Chandler Jones didn't look like he was going to have a breakout season, and the depth behind Hightower and Collins looked questionable, especially with Mayo coming off of two IR seasons. That combined with the weakened secondary sounded like a recipe for disasters. But of course, Easley has proven worthy of his draft spot, Jones had a breakout season, and Freeny has been adequate. Glad to be wrong, hope they keep it up in the playoffs.
 
This is the post I saw..

The one you saw was 4 days BEFORE he went back and posted several more, including the one already referenced (#543, his most recent) and this one (Post #541):

"Anyone else ready to admit our secondary blows yet?
Anyone else ready to admit we have no depth behind Hightower and Collins yet?
Getting carved by the ****ing Giants.
This reminds me of 2011. Good enough for the regular season, points allowed stats look great, but everyone knows this secondary can be picked on."

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So, sadly, the answer is no.
 
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And btw, that secondary was fabulous last night. 2nd week in a row Butler dominated a top flight WR. Ryan played great also. never even saw melvin on the field.

They need Coleman back badly, but that secondary put in a yeoman's performance last night.

Buffalo's offense (as opposed to the Patriots) was at full strength.

The OP continued, right up to the end, to post practically the opposite of what has actually occurred on the field this year.
 
Patriots Defense ranks top-5 in
Total yards (3)
Rush yards (2)
Points allowed (1)
1st downs allowed (5)
Sacks (4)
 
If anything OP should be banished before this thread should be closed imho
 
The one you saw was 4 days BEFORE he went back and posted several more, including the one already referenced (#543, his most recent) and this one (Post #541):

"Anyone else ready to admit our secondary blows yet?
Anyone else ready to admit we have no depth behind Hightower and Collins yet?
Getting carved by the ****ing Giants.
This reminds me of 2011. Good enough for the regular season, points allowed stats look great, but everyone knows this secondary can be picked on."

----

So, sadly, the answer is no.


Lol I don't post here much. Sorry if that makes you feel like I don't give you the attention you desire so badly. I cannot argue about football with people every day. I am hear to read articles and a few opinions. Every once in a while, I will say something.

"Anyone else ready to admit we have no depth behind Hightower and Collins yet?"

Did this last game not just prove that we have no depth behind those two?
 
If anything OP should be banished before this thread should be closed imho

"BAN HIM BECAUSE I DONT AGREE WITH HIM!!!"

Should we also deport everyone in America who doesn't have the same views, religion, or ethnicity as you, mein fuhrer?
 
Already said the defense has been playing very well and i'm glad to be wrong, but some of you act like you get turned on to keep trying to argue about it anyway. If someone says they were gladly wrong, why does it tickle your pickle to keep debating like someone is still arguing?

The only thing I will say now is that we have no linebacker depth behind Jamie Collins and Hightower. Look at the last game. Look at the drop off when both are off the field. we have two good linebackers and then a cliff after that. Linebackers get injured often, so it's ridiculous to say two good linebackers is "a lot of depth." Mayo is just a shell of himself and good leadership. Anyone after that is just average at best.
It would be nice if some of you could admit you were wrong about that, but of course you won't.
 
wish somebody had intercepted the sperm that led to Interdouchebag's conception...

I've read your posts for a couple of years. Wish someone would put you down, you're delusional and old. Ridiculous to see someone wish someone's life away because of difference in football opinions, so I have nothing but the same to wish for you. Drop that r from your username, you're a joke.

Maybe your family realized they need to get rid of you and put you in a retirement home. Is that why you have so much time to wish an end to my life due to not agreeing with me on football?
I would have never gone that far but you made this personal and have no respect for life that doesn't agree with you.

If your grandkids aren't calling you, I know why.
 
Yeah, well at this point we're trying to embarrass the OP for assuming that our defense would come up short in statistical categories, which isn't the case at all!

That's one reason why this thread keeps getting "bumped" every time a new metric comes up

Lol i'm not going to get embarrassed about anything on a message board about football but keep trying buddy.

Sounds like posting metrics turns you on a bit, eh?
 
The myriad of replies coming from you to bump this thread topic clearly shows you don't care at all.
 
If you would like a reply to your nonsense, try to leave out personal insults about me just because we do not agree so we can talk about football instead of who is a worse human being.

I have already talked about what I've been wrong about but if it turns you on to post more stats about something no one is arguing against, go for it.

I will not back down from saying we have no linebacker depth. And if you disagree, prove it. Don't see anyone posting any stats about players behind Collins and Hightower and CJ Anderson carved us up without them. So please, instead of "OMG MAYO ND FREENEY R SOOO MUCH DEPTH" show me what any player behind Collins and Hightower brings to the field this year.
 
Already said the defense has been playing very well and i'm glad to be wrong, but some of you act like you get turned on to keep trying to argue about it anyway.

Proceeds to post a half dozen times to resurrect his own buried thread...
 
Oh wow, you always come back to try to make some kind of point whenever the defense struggles..

Good for you. What a life.
 
I can't get it through my head why a supposed fan of the Patriots would prefer the defense was a statistically worse unit than they currently are so his idiotic opinion can be proven correct.
 
 

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