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For those who like watching Three Games to Glory and other Pats-related DVD's, I found some old 49er season vids on Hulu in the same mold, of their 1981 and 1984 seasons. It's got lots of great interviews, locker room speeches, and game clips from those seasons. 1981, 49ers over Bengals...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4908848 Wow, by the time his next contract expires the NFL will be playing flag football. The NY Jets may have a few rings too, from his biased help.

CB Porter, the guy who picked off Peyton for the pick-six (and also Favre two weeks before), talks about how film study resulted in the big play. I won't go into it too much here, but I'll just throw it out there that tendencies, 'tells', and predictability may apply to other teams beside...

Once again showing why he's no Tom Brady, Peyton Manning defended himself on the 3rd and 1 call in the 2nd quarter by saying it wasn't him who called the play, saying it was Caldwell. So who hasn't Peyton thrown under the bus yet? He's already blamed the O-line, receivers, defense, and kickers...

Time to bring the band back together? http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4898382

It appeared that for most of the night, Greg Williams used only a 4 or 3-man pass rush (with an occasional 5-man rush) after Peyton Manning, and played a ton of nickel and dime packages. He took away any deep threats, for the most part, and had his DB's and linebackers hit the receivers with...

Belichick is the best HC of his era. He is elite when he can focus full-time 15hrs/day as a head coach, with a competent GM, OC, and DC working for him. There is no precedent of success for what he's attempting this upcoming season, with no listed GM, OC, or DC; all in the same year. He had no...

There was a part about who was better, Warner or Favre. Help me out here, I read it a few times, it makes no sense what Simmons is saying. From about the middle of his article: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100205&sportCat=nfl

. nevermind, duplicate thread

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4855900 Many new names added to replenish players who will not play in the Pro Bowl due to having to play the Superbowl. The most interesting name to me was Vince Young on the list. Made the Pro Bowl with 1800 yds, 10TD's, 7int.

With the decade over I thought it'd be an interesting exercise to look up Tom Brady's first 9 playoff games and compare them with his most recent 9 playoff games. Brady has played a total of 18 playoff games. I found the numbers, then put them in an excel sheet, and tabulated a few figures for...

The Patriots talent is there on both sides of the ball, but the coaching is not up to par. This 2009 team is just as if not more overall talented than the 2001 or 2003 Patriots teams (which were not only less talented but overcame all kinds of injuries and adversity). The NFL salary cap...

Moss stole the ball away from 3 defenders, knocked Terrence McGee out of the game after going for the same ball, and saved Brady from his 2nd interception of the day. It looked like a sure interception. Moss is also sprinting deep a lot, catching balls out of the slot, and doing a fine job...

No doubt Moss had a bad game. It happens to any player, to have a few bad games during the year. You can't expect any player to dominate every week of a season. I believe Moss is getting unfair media lashings because of his past. He certainly gets disproportionately bad criticism whenever...

Here are post-game notes on the team’s offense, defense, and special teams. Bear in mind this is only game 3; there is a long view still in perspective, and negatives from this game will likely be corrected by December. That said, in this snap shot in the season (defense and special teams to...

During the game Jaworski mostly, but others too, kept talking about how Brady's knee was affecting his play and technique. Brady was 39 for 53 (74% passing), which is as good as it gets. If there's one positive to take from the game, it's that Brady is as good as he's ever been.

This is a companion thread to Oswlek's thread about Maroney facing more defenders in the box, because he almost always runs when he is in the game. Some solutions to counter this can be using Maroney in play-action (the middle of the field should be open), or using him more in the passing game...

Consider the roster changes since last December. Is it possible that Belichick is moving to an exclusive 4-3? Did he decide on this switch even before the draft? It makes sense that he would switch to a 4-3, since disciples McDaniels, Mangini, Pioli have all switched to a 3-4 defense and...