Gronk makes season debut tonight for Patriots.
Jacoby Brissett starts at QB. Garoppolo will not dress. Edelman is the backup QB.
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Gronk makes season debut tonight for Patriots.
Jacoby Brissett starts at QB. Garoppolo will not dress. Edelman is the backup QB.
So they didn't pick up a backup QB - gutsy. On the surface it almost seems like they're just mailing this one in, but somehow they're up by 20, Houston and their high priced DL can't stop Blount and Brisset it showing himself capable of making throws when the Texans sell out against the run.
Watt is a non-entity.
SUSPEND HOODY GENIUS FOR LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not even fair to have one guy who's so much better than any coach in the NFL
It's like putting Cam Newton on a high school team.
He goes to AZ w/o his best three offensive players and beats perhaps the top NFC team on the road
After winning another game he goes and is kicking the undefeated Texans around with who at QB...Briscuit....Biscuit....Biscous.....ah...who cares...most of us have never heard of the guy.
And then having the Hoodie OC Genius by his side.......SUSPEND THEM FOR LIFE
As I wrote in my New York Times best-seller, "A BILL Tolls for New England: Inside the Competency and Genius of Bill Belichick," Belichick is a bona fide genius.
Only a fearless genius -bona fide- would go into a game with only a lone QB and a starting WR as backup.
McCarthy and Thompson would never go into a game with only Callahan. Flynn would be signed faster than I last during coition - and the last time I had coition, the evening of Super Bowl 32, I lasted all of 16 seconds.
Btw, I don't see Gronk playing much.
Btw 2, J-Mac is one arrogant motherfucker, but he sure as hell knows offense. This guy will be the Lions HC next season unless some other team offers him the title of King/GM/Coach.
Michael Irvin tweeted out of NE goes into Texans and wins tonight they should call is the Bellichek trophy
Amazing how competent an offense can look when the QB is looking to get the ball out as quickly as possible...rather than wait and wait and wait and run around a little and wait and wait for someone to get open 40 yards downfield, only to throw the ball out of bounds.
I hope Lacy is a-watching this game tonight. Look at Blount. That's how a "big" back's supposed to look.
He said he would re-engrave his.
Michael Irvin @michaelirvin88 Sep 21
If @Patriots beat @HoustonTexans on @NFLTNF w the 3rd QB. I will take off Lombardi & call these The Belichick Trophy
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Pats punter is something else. Just hit a 47 yarder that landed inside the 5, no return.
Pat Chung is still in the league? Still with the Pats?
In a black and white - mostly black - league, it's nice to catch of a glimpse of yellow now and then. :)
NE has a nice defense but you can't turn the ball over on the road like Houston has and expect to win.
I absolutely loathe New England for many reasons, but one thing I have to admit that's become painfully clear is that Belichick can game plan, scheme, and coach circles around Stubby. It never seems to matter who's out for them or which Fuckdoggle players of the week they're using, they always find ways to be competitive and they end up winning a lot of games that on paper they shouldn't.
Don't forget that this is the AFC. And the Texans are objectively terrible. Osweiler is not good and Watt is hurt. Their secondary is worse now than it was when it was the weak link on an otherwise good defense.
The Texans play in the AFC South, which makes everyone seem on the brink of the playoffs so they are consistently considered one or two guys away.
I know pb but he has a history of doing it over and over again...year after year. He just knows how to put a game plan together that plays to the strength of his team regardless of who in the hell he has available to play. It's not just this game by any measure. I've been watching him do this for a long time. They supposedly didn't have any chance when they went to Arizona for the first game either. He's not afraid to change the damn game plan every week if he has to if it gives his team the best chance to be competitive and win. He just doesn't sit there and continue to try to pound a square peg into a round hole no matter how many times it fails like so many other coaches do.
He did make his offense functional. But by the time they took a 20 point lead, the net yards for both teams were nearly equal. At that point it was a field position and special teams game. Which he was also winning.
Which is simply a long way of saying, he doesn't work miracles, but he doesn't leave any stone unturned either. He went through a long stretch where he could not draft to rebuild his D, but he has fixed that in the last couple of years. Its no mistake they got another Lombardi after that happened.
I agree that he makes a lot of GM decisions that leave you scratching your head and I don't think he's necessarily one of the best in that capacity but strictly as a coach, he sure knows how to get the best out of whatever players he has a available and how to change the emphasis of his game plan from week to week depending on who they are playing. (Using Te's heavy, running heavy, short passing game, using backs as receivers, long passing game, etc.) In addition, he's a pretty good defensive minded coach as well. It seems to me that he has a lot of planning input on both sides of the ball.
Another thing he's done a couple of times that has impressed me is use WRs to fill in when he's out of CBs. He did it with Troy Brown, and again with Endleman. How screwed are other teams when they have to press their #4 CB into a starting roll? He goes to the other side of the ball, during a playoff game and find a guy who forces a fumble.
They beat the Texans! Its like beating Iowa!
The thing about Belichick is that he's ruthless as a GM, which mirrors his style as a coach. Players on the roster know they have to perform or they're gone -- no matter who they are. Vets coming to the team via trade or free agency know if they perform they'll not only stick, but play. And Belichick doesn't seem to pay attention to press clippings on particular players. He trusts his own judgement and is willing to take the flack.
Plus, there are certain player-types he's enamored with and he always has them. On defense he likes huge NT's. (He gets rid of Wilfork and acquires Alan Branch and drafts Vincent Valentine). He likes big, athletic LB's and heady DB's. On offense he always has a third down running back ala James White, a quick, sure-handed receiver who makes people miss AND he uses him regularly. He likes WR's ala Julian Edelman -- smallish, quick, smart, hard-nosed, fearless. Then again, he'll break his own rules when the opportunity arises and alter his approach based on the opportunity to get an exceptional talent (Randy Moss, for example).
Definitely one of the best HC's ever.
How bad is the Texans D?
Seven O lineman blocking (that includes a TE), 3 receiver route, couldn't stop them.
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It'll be fun to play the Texans later on. :-)
They beat them 27-0...with a third string QB...and with injuries to other key players too.
The Packers couldn't beat Houston 27-0 with everyone on the roster healthy...and would probably lose 27-0 if we went down to our 3rd string QB.
Belichick is simply way better than Stubby...and his players buy into the system, which seems to be something of an issue in Green Bay after the Sitton debacle.
That's because the coach has lost his offense and possibly his QB. Its not because McCarthy isn't a genius.
Just like the Packers stood to win that game without an inordinate amount of TOs and bad special teams play, the Patriots won going away because they did not turn it over and their special teams were very good.
When teams offenses are relatively equal in yardage gained, points are a result of field position more than any other factor.
'Draft and develop' Packers under Thompson: 1 (fluke) Super Bowl win, 1 (fluke) Super Bowl appearance.
'Draft, Sign Vets of NFL War, Trade Liberally' Patriots under Belichick: 4 Super Bowl wins, 6 Super Bowl appearances.
Yeah, Belichick can't hold Thompson's jockstrap. Seriously, Belichick's Way is way, way, way better than Thompson's Way. Ain't even close. Belichick is without an ounce of doubt the superior GM.
Proof's in the rings.
I think everyone needs to get outside and reorient their relationship to the ground.
McCarthy almost beat the Patriots in Gillette using a QB (Flynn) who was less talented than Charcoal Briquet. That's much more impressive than beating the Texans.
Of course, the W is most important and few ask about the quality of the win. But not everyone can play the AFC East and South every year.
A better question is why were Flynn, Coleman and Harrell on the roster for so long?
I disagree with you here, PB. I really do not believe, for a minute, that MM could be undefeated right now with Joe Callahan slinging the rock, even against the Texans. Oh, and don't forget, Hoody's biggest playmaker outside the QB didn't play in the first game, either.
Do you really think MM could've beaten those teams with the same lack of weapons? Hell, he couldn't even figure out how to get it done without Jordy last year, and with him this year.
I'm not saying he's awful. He's very good as a coach, and if somehow he landed on the street, he'd have a job in five minutes. But he's not as good as Hoody.