Miami: 10-1/2 Point Dogs at New England

they are basically a touchdown favorite.....home team is always given 3 points

I'll take that bet!! WAAAY too large a spread!! Who do they think we are, the Rams?

I'm surprised its not higher!

We could not stop Sanchez this past week, and he ain't no Brady.

How have we done against Manning, Brees etc... They have tore us apart and the second half.

We need to dig deep in this game, I think we can win but the Pat's QB and WR's scare the heck out of me.

Anyone else thinking that we have something "special" planned with White or Thigpen just for NE?

"DolfanTom wrote:

I'll take that bet!! WAAAY too large a spread!! Who do they think we are, the Rams?

I'll take that bet too. I see a dogfight just like every jest games we won this season.

I don't like to pick a blowout in any division game.

"SICK wrote:

they are basically a touchdown favorite.....home team is always given 3 points

Eh...I don't like automatically spotting the home team a FG advantage when it's a division rival they face. You can almost never predict those games.

Well, I think we play better as the underdog, we were not favored in any of our wins, even the MNF game I think we were either +2 or -2?

10.5...Two TD's?

Rookie Cb's, Belichek is 8-0 coming off of a bye, actually that is not that large a point spread.

Yeah we will definitely see something early on out of the Wildcat we haven't seen so far this season. Bill B is even expecting it as he said on his weekly interview on WEEI.

And Paul P needs to keep up the blitzes and exotic looks after the first half because we are getting torn apart with the vanilla defensive looks.

A TD, basically.
Thats being nice to us, imo.

We always seem to have at least one huge blow out every year.I think this might be it for us before we go on a roll.I am thinking 38-10 pats.I hope I am dead wrong on this one but I just do not like this match up for us.

50/50 toss up. I don't like New England's defense against the Miami running game, but they have an offense that should eat up Miami's D. We'll see; I wouldn't recommend betting this game.

I don't care what they think or say.It's just a number they use to make more money for themselves.
Let's play the damn game and take their lunch money away after we beat them to the turf.

"pumpdogs wrote:

We always seem to have at least one huge blow out every year.I think this might be it for us before we go on a roll.I am thinking 38-10 pats.I hope I am dead wrong on this one but I just do not like this match up for us.

Pats defense isn't good enough to hold us to 10 points.

And I really think our pass rush will give the Pats offense fits.

Hmmm...

The Pats achilles will be OUR passing game....

After we are able to run the ball on them...that...matched with their lack of getting any kind of pressure on the QB...means some big pass plays....

"Mari0k wrote:

A TD, basically.
Thats being nice to us, imo.

Yep. With our defensive backfield and linebackers, I think we are going to wind up giving up a loooot of points this game.

i do believe the PATS will score 35+ points against us, given our defensive play - especially in the 2d half.

i hope Davis learned a lesson yesterday WRT keeping the play in front of you instead of trying for the big play. he 'looked' like he got it on that final drive.

not sure what to say about Smith, he does well on outside routes, but can't seem to do anyting over the middle right now.

no matter what, as hard as he is trying, we need to come up with another option than Bell on the TEs ... doubt we have one though ...

don't have JT fall back in coverage ... he was terrible, and his little chucks did nothing ...

hopefully, Roth can stay on the field longer in this game .... he looked ok yesterday.

It's hard to imagine NE not scoring a lot of points in this one. Unless we can magically sustain an excellent pass rush for four whole quarters. JT will basically have to have the game of his life, probably a long shot at age 35. I mean he is definitely a good candidate to make some plays but it will be tough for him to stay in Brady's face the entire game. We will need an outstanding offensive performance to have a chance in this one.

This is a Pats team who barely beat the Bills and lost to the Jets. They've also blown out two of the worst teams in the league (Bucs, Titans).

They have two things going for them, A) The game is at home and B) They're coming off a bye week.

I think 10.5 points is too high. The Pats have only scored 30+ twice this season, again against two of the worst teams.

"Rick 1966 wrote:

Yep. With our defensive backfield and linebackers, I think we are going to wind up giving up a loooot of points this game.

Depends, will the Jets MNF Oline show up, or will the 2nd half of the Saints and 2nd Jets game Oline show up?

We are supposed to be a ball control offense, the Oline has gotten owned the last game and a half.

I think we did very limited Wildcat against the Jets for a reason

"Lt Dan wrote:

I think we did very limited Wildcat against the Jets for a reason

cause they were destroying it.

"SICK wrote:

cause they were destroying it.

I think it's time to get Pat White more involved in it.

"byroan wrote:

I think it's time to get Pat White more involved in it.

Lol, ive heard that every week.
But it would be ironic if we throw in something completely new vs the pats, only appropriate.