Recent content by thomas144

I didn't like Episode 4 because they failed to explain that stealing signals isn't cheating - it was the use of video cameras that was the rule violation, which is obviously a stupid rule. I think Belichick did allude to that. The whole bit about Ernie Adams going to his grave with something...

Door-to-door salesmen. The Fuller brush man.

Me too. I resisted Apple products for many years until about 18 or 19 years ago I got a refurbished 20GB ipod when I signed up for Audible. It stopped working so I went to the Apple store in Burlington and they gave me a new one just for asking for help. That made an enormously positive...

I think we are going to see a fairly massive PR campaign blaming Mac Jones for the team‘s ills. Belichick will be back. They need him to get the new QB excited about being a Patriot.

Why did the poll close? I actually find myself rooting against them mostly because I want to see changes. At the same time I do want them to win. It’s a pretty weird watching experience, but I am still enjoying the games and look forward to them.

Yesterday's game reminded me in some ways of the Patriots' loss against the Rams in Foxboro in 2001: https://www.footballdb.com/games/boxscore/st-louis-rams-vs-new-england-patriots-2001111814 One of the things I remember about that game was Mike Martz saying afterwards that the Patriots were a...

Remember when Ernie Zampese was going to really get Drew Bledsoe over the hump? That's what this thread reminds me of.

I have come to the conclusion that Kraft won't have the guts to get rid of Belichick and therefore the Patriots will be mired in mediocrity until Belichick dies or otherwise walks away from the job. It's interesting to observe Patriots fans in this situation. I guess I hope I am wrong and...

There are two extremely obvious positions that aren’t even listed in this poll. One is the quarterback, as has been noted.

yes, I was thinking that. doesn't make a lot of sense. the GW game I thought they had just gotten full of themselves but these recent losses at home are kind of bizarre. Maybe having Rob Williams on the court is confusing their sense of scale, which might explain why their shots are falling...

must have been 1972, I met a guy who was a student at Penn State. I jokingly asked if he knew Lydell Mitchell, who was the famous Penn State player then. He said no, but I know Franco Harris. I was very impressed. Followed his career from that moment on. A year or so later I remember someone...

Last year when they got Derick White it seemed like everything clicked and they became a good team. This year I don’t know what happened but they seemed to have flipped a switch and become a bad team.

I’ve actually come around to blaming Meyers more than the playcall having recalled the last play of the Atlanta Super Bowl and realizing that they were probably basically playing for an intermediate gain with a defensive penalty allowing for a field goal with no time left. Hawg’s remarks about...

Yes I think that is the strategy: hope for a defensive penalty after gaining enough yards for a field goal. They should probably teach the players that.

Something that I have been thinking about today: the last play in regulation in the Superbowl against the Falcons. The Patriots ran a fake kneel-down, direct snap (I think) to Dion Lewis, who gained a few yards and went out-of-bounds, injuring himself on the play. At the time it just seemed...