Careful: New England still dangerous even without Gronk

I don't think you'll be laughing at the end of the game Sunday so get your shots and giggles in now. You can bet that Miami will also be taking a different approach to this game than they did back on October 27th. I don't think the Dolphins will let your team off the hook this time. No big second half comeback and last second victory this week for the Patriots. The Dolphins will play 60 minutes and the team that has been average on the road all year and has yet to beat a team with a winning record away from Gillette is going to come up short again.

 

Just wanted to say thanks for proving me right you two losers. YOU ARE CONSUMED with the Dolphins this week. You`ve spent several hours in a Miami Dolphins forum. I`ll say it again. IF YOU DIDNT FEAR THIS GAME YOU WOULDNT BE HERE !!!!!!!

 

I find it funny how a Patriot fan cannot believe that the Dolphins could have a good chance winning this game at home considering that the Dolphins were pretty much winning the first contest on the road till several questionable calls brought the Patriots back in the game.

Not making excuses, the Dolphins played ****ty in the second half of that game still the Patriots were favored by the outcome of several calls.

 

I have a feeling the coaches are going to want to keep Ryan in the pocket most of the first half and in the second let him loose and follow a Colin Kaepernick/RGIII style of game plan with constant read-options, roll-outs, designed runs, to the point where he may get between 50 and 100 yards on the ground.... I think that'll catch Belichick a little off guard.

 

Remove a scarily injury prone player in Gronk and a good player in Jones and Vareen and What???? Am I supposed to be scared....lol..

 

When you win a title without cheating?

 

Except it wasn't proven wrong at all. The person who attempted to disprove that only used QB rating to do so. A single stat is not the sole determinant. Also, he claimed that McCown has been the best QB over the past 5 games. Given that McCown didn't even play a full game 5 games ago, it would be pretty stupid to use a game in which he came off the bench as part of the sample. But I expect that kind of ignorance, given than most of you have probably never taken a stats course beyond intro stats.

 

Filming Chargers cheerleaders on the sidelines is why we won 3 titles?

 

In your opinion did your franchise devise ways to gain advantages in competition thru illegal practices?

 

No. The filming occurred from locations where signals were still visible. Many teams were doing what the Pats were doing. Jimmy Johnson even stated that he was aware of this going on while he was still coaching and said that there was no advantage to be gained from it. I will trust a HOF coach with inside knowledge of the situation over random people online any day.

 

You mean like Don Shula

 

Enough said.

 

He'd been doing it the whole time???? I was not aware of that...

Bad boy..

 

Not sure. Impossible to say they won because of the cheating. What we do know is they did cheat when they won their titles.

 

Why would they do it, if it did not provide an advantage?

 

If many other teams were also doing this, it wasn't exactly an advantage.

 

Well, thats a pretty big if.

Either way, you said that there was no advantage to be gained. Then why exactly did they do it? Did they just get off on breaking the rules? Why is it against the rules?

 

the patriots win because of phantom interference calls (last week) and phantom illegal ball batting calls (us a few weeks ago) there is very rarely a patriots win that isn't bogged down in questionable calls from officials. the entire dynasty was started when the officials added a rule to the rule book in Oakland to give them a win. the commissioner burned the spygate tapes to cover for his boy kraft. but there is no fountain of youth, and brady is getting older and it's showing. a new posterboy will come up and replace him for the nfl, and I doubt it's gonna be mallet.... and then, back to the cellar for the pats for years to come, and it will be glorious.

 

wow. insulting on all levels. I was always told to be wary of people who self promote and make themselves to be better than others, they usually are compensating for shortcomings and are willing to do just about anything to draw attention away from them. hmmm. as for stats I would think that using the partial game as a whole game would dilute Mcowns stats and potentially lessen his level, stat wise of course. but the fact that he was statistically better except for over all yards, with less time to me speaks volumes. and clearly is getting your panties in a bunch. why don't you run back to your own message board where you can all stroke your selves into fantasy land. you aren't proving anything here to us except that your brand of homer is clueless and has no humility. regardless of the outcome of this game Miami is going to punch New England right square in the mouth...and it's gonna hurt.

 

Karma is a ***** Pats fans...god I hope we get in to the playoffs..and face these guys again.

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I hope the same thing too.

 

Also, you can't simply take the QB rating over those 5 games, add them up and then divide by 5 to come up with an average. That would mean absolutely nothing. To come up with a QB rating over a span of 5 games, you need to take the totals of the variables used in the formula (yards, TDs, INT, etc.) over those 5 games and input them into that formula.

 

funny, I thought that was how QBR was figured...

 

tom brady is good, but only when he isn't picking himself off the turf from being hit... that's what the stats are showing, and the pats fans are ignoring.

the other fact, if you wanna look past "stats" and just play the eyeball game, is my eyeballs see whenever tom is picking himself off the turf, there is a yellow flag next to him. the refs know he's the golden child, and the refs know he sucks when he's getting hit, so they protect him more than any other QB in the league. put those two points together, and you can see why it's hard to rattle him.

 

Not even making the post season in..how long?

We won the divison on 2008. But you were probably still in pre school then..so..might not remember.


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I think you've confused us with the Bills.

I mean, how can a Patriots fan forget about 2008?!?!

 

When you were winning championships, you had a championship defense. You haven't in a while, thus, you haven't won a championship in a while.

 

Patriots are the Bills of the 2010's. Get to the big game and choke it away. Maybe you should talk after you haven't lost 3 Superbowls. Your a lot like Ohio State, get to the big game through gifts and get exposed.