Former Patriot first round pick Kenneth Sims has died

[Roberto71]

I’m sure many here remember him. Drafted in 1982 he spent 7 seasons with the team. His best year was 85 with good sack and tackle stats. But he broke his leg in December and had to sit the SB out.

RIP.

Kenneth Sims, former Patriots first overall draft pick, dead at 65

The first pick in the 1982 NFL Draft, Sims spent eight seasons with the Patriots.

www.patspulpit.com

 

[Patriots44]

I think I best remember him for a vicious leg whip - and wasn't that how he broke his leg ?

RIP

 

[ParanoidPatriot]

He had a mean streak, which what you want in a football player. He was good but never lived up to being the #1 draft pick.
From what I read a good guy off the field.
RIP

 

[Flagg the Wanderer]

I’m sure many here remember him. Drafted in 1982 he spent 7 seasons with the team. His best year was 85 with good sack and tackle stats. But he broke his leg in December and had to sit the SB out.

RIP.

Kenneth Sims, former Patriots first overall draft pick, dead at 65

The first pick in the 1982 NFL Draft, Sims spent eight seasons with the Patriots.

www.patspulpit.com

If he had played in that Superbowl, the Patriots would have almost definitely won.

But RIP.

 

[Roberto71]

If he had played in that Superbowl, the Patriots would have almost definitely won.

But RIP.

That's what I tell everyone.

 

[Flagg the Wanderer]

That's what I tell everyone.

Actually, while that game was a blowout, there's an alternative version of history where it's not. Where the Patriots are up 10 or 14 in the first few minutes and everything changes.

Remember, Payton fumbled, then Dawson (I think...was it Starring?) dropped a sure TD pass that forced them to settle for a FG initially. Then there was a dropped INT on one of the first plays of Chicago's next drive at about the 35, but was potentially a pick 6. If that game starts out
Fumble, TD, INT, TD it would have been hard to pick up the boulder-rolling-downhill momentum that it did, where the Patriots had negative rushing yards at halftime.

 

[TipRoast]

Actually, while that game was a blowout, there's an alternative version of history where it's not. Where the Patriots are up 10 or 14 in the first few minutes and everything changes.

Remember, Payton fumbled, then Dawson (I think...was it Starring?) dropped a sure TD pass that forced them to settle for a FG initially. Then there was a dropped INT on one of the first plays of Chicago's next drive at about the 35, but was potentially a pick 6. If that game starts out
Fumble, TD, INT, TD it would have been hard to pick up the boulder-rolling-downhill momentum that it did, where the Patriots had negative rushing yards at halftime.

I thought it was Stanley Morgan that dropped the TD pass.

 

[Flagg the Wanderer]

I thought it was Stanley Morgan that dropped the TD pass.

Could be. Per PFR there were incomplete passes to Dawson, Morgan, and Starring, in that order, before the FG. Not sure where to answer that question without a game video or the NFL films deep highlights.

Also not sure who dropped the INT. I want to say Lippett, but I don't honestly remember.

 

[TipRoast]

Could be. Per PFR there were incomplete passes to Dawson, Morgan, and Starring, in that order, before the FG. Not sure where to answer that question without a game video or the NFL films deep highlights.

Also not sure who dropped the INT. I want to say Lippett, but I don't honestly remember.

1986 was a very long time ago - almost four decades now.

 

[Flagg the Wanderer]

1986 was a very long time ago - almost four decades now.

Plus, I was 8.

 

[TipRoast]

Plus, I was 8.

I was 8 years old when the Patriots were 3 years old.

 

[ParanoidPatriot]

Actually, while that game was a blowout, there's an alternative version of history where it's not. Where the Patriots are up 10 or 14 in the first few minutes and everything changes.

Remember, Payton fumbled, then Dawson (I think...was it Starring?) dropped a sure TD pass that forced them to settle for a FG initially. Then there was a dropped INT on one of the first plays of Chicago's next drive at about the 35, but was potentially a pick 6. If that game starts out
Fumble, TD, INT, TD it would have been hard to pick up the boulder-rolling-downhill momentum that it did, where the Patriots had negative rushing yards at halftime.

Lin Dawson caught a pass and should have had a TD but blew out his hammie and the Patriots had to settle for a FG.
From then on it was a complete massacre and 3 Ken Sims would not have changed it.

 

[Flagg the Wanderer]

Lin Dawson caught a pass and should have had a TD but blew out his hammie and the Patriots had to settle for a FG.
From then on it was a complete massacre and 3 Ken Sims would not have changed it.

Lippett (I think) dropped what would have been a likely pick-6 on one of McMahon's first pass attempts, too. If they're up 14-0 in the early first quarter, everything changes. Only one team went up significantly on the Bears in the first half, and the Bears couldn't come back from it.

The game was a massacre, but it was a boulder-rolling-downhill. Chicago was the better team for sure. Spot the Patriots 14 points and some confidence, plus planting that doubt in Chicago, and it's an entirely different game from then on.

Maybe.

I was joking about Sims being the difference.

 

[BostonTim]

If he had played in that Superbowl, the Patriots would have almost definitely won.

But RIP.

Yes. But RIP

 

[3 Point Stan]

Plus, I was 8.

Yup. I was 9. Between Super Bowl XX in January and the World Series in October, I felt like I had been married and divorced twice and had fought in two world wars.

Thank God for the Celtics.

 

[Flagg the Wanderer]

Yup. I was 9. Between Super Bowl XX in January and the World Series in October, I felt like I had been married and divorced twice and had fought in two world wars.

Thank God for the Celtics.

We're the young pups on this board, you know...