New England Patriots thread (MOD WARNING - #4503)

Son Of A Vidic

Another dire offensive series and wtf is wrong with McDaniels? Why is Brady throwing another deep ball to another slot WR ffs.

Son Of A Vidic

Hazys wrote: »

Not one pass thrown LaFells way this afternoon.

His Pats career could have ended last Sunday. Of course Bill will keep him around for another two years.

Hazys

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe
Bryan Stork is in at center for Connolly.

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe
Connolly is with Kline on the sideline. Has his helmet in his hand. Doesn't appear to be injury related.

Hazys

Offense going nowhere again :mad:

TO.

Im beginning to get sick and Tired of Bill and Josh with their play calling and team selection and I am getting really tired of this in Bill we trust crap. Right now we look awful. We got lucky with the Vikes losing Peterson and then forcing Cassell to be the game manager and losing control but we still look awful at times.

Our Offense is poor still. Our WR situation is sh1t and not rotating between backs who are relevant is stupid also. LaFell and Amendola have been non existent. Dobson has had a couple of balls thrown his way but Brady has no faith in him yet and once again we are forcing everything to Edelman. Ridley is playing well but we need to have Vereen in there more and to stop putting Bolden in.

I also dont understand why we are not giving Wright more action on passing plays when using our TE. He is in there on run plays on two tight end sets even though his strengths are catching and not run blocking.

Baffling. And dont get me started on our defense still has its issues Vikes Offense making it easy for us.

Son Of A Vidic

This has been my gamepass for the past 5 minutes.....

TO.

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

This has been my gamepass for the past 5 minutes.....

:eek: Madness

Hazys

BS call on Hightower...he was protecting his teammate as the Vikings OLineman wouldnt get off the Pats player

Son Of A Vidic

Oh look..................it's working perfectly for the TV Ads.:mad:

TO.

Hazys wrote: »

BS call on Hightower...he was protecting his teammate as the Vikings OLineman wouldnt get off the Pats player

Still can't throw your hands in someone else's face and these guys know that. Such a waste of yards to give up after an Int.

Hazys

TO. wrote: »

Still can't throw your hands in someone else's face and these guys know that. Such a waste of yards to give up after an Int.

Agree but if a flag was thrown on the Vikings player who wouldn't let the Pats player go, the incident wouldn't have happened.

Hazys

Christopher Price ‏@cpriceNFL

#Patriots have 22 penalties. Took them 4 full games to hit 22-penalty mark last season.

TO.

Hazys wrote: »

Agree but if a flag was thrown on the Vikings player who wouldn't let the Pats player go, the incident wouldn't have happened.

I agree but you know how the old saying goes. Those who retaliate get caught not the ones who start it all off.

Son Of A Vidic

Lads my Gamepass is back up, but I missed a bit. Did Jimmy G take over at QB for a series earlier?

paulie21

Really hard to get a read on this game. Offensive line have protected Brady well only one sack allowed but Vikings have non existent pass rush. Stopped the run well but second choice running back probably would have been different if AP was playing. Secondary has been very good, 4 interceptions, Kept Patterson quite and Jennings zero catches. 15 penalties is way too many have to cut them out

paulie21

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Lads my Gamepass is back up, but I missed a bit. Did Jimmy G take over at QB for a series earlier?

No

BKWDR

Stagnat second half really...hard what to think

Hazys

BKWDR wrote: »

Stagnat second half really...hard what to think

If the offense was playing anyway decent we could have hit 50+ points.

The defense was awesome, with only the opening drive a blemish. Ya the Vikings offense was weak but you can only beat who you are playing.

Oline was waaay better this week, they protected Brady a lot better but they still gave away silly penalty after silly penalty. Strange for a BB team to be so undisciplined (not just the Oline)...BB sort it out.

Brady was only sacked and hit when no receivers could get open and he had to hold onto it. So I think the most troubling part of this team is the receivers. Only for Edelman we'd be screwed. Amendola and LaFell are a waste of space. Fingers crossed Dobson and Gronk can get back to 100% and Wright turns out to be a weapon once he settles in.

Son Of A Vidic

Let's leave White and Thompkins inactive and bring in Bolden and La Fell . I thought the offense was poor with so many wasted series of possession. The O line was better but then they weren't facing the Phins front seven. Ridley had a good day and Edelman is the only decent & reliable target for Brady. Overall our receiving corp is very poor. We lose Edelman and we are totally f****d. Gronk is a long way from being Gronk again.

We bring in a pass catching TE in Wright and he's barely targeted. In fact, our FB Develin had more passes thrown at him than Wright. Why do we keep throwing deep balls to small slot WR's? Does Josh not realise that's what Dobson or even La Fell are for? Tbh, I'm getting tired of McDaniel's stupid play calling.

The defense played better and won the game for us. But they faced a very poor offense. A pity they didn't have Peterson line up today to really test them though. My God the penalties on both sides of the ball are an absolute joke. Nate Solder's hat trick must be a first for a Pats players. I think we gave up over 160 yards in penalties alone. Against better quality opposition and we are buried.

To sum up our roster and our quality right now. Apart from Kelly, not one player released by the Patriots in the roster cut-down from 90 to 53 players. Is now playing on another team’s active roster. Once upon a time teams jumped on players we released, this year nobody signs one. And I think that says a lot about some of the mediocrity that this team seems to be now tolerating.

BKWDR

Hazys wrote: »

If the offense was playing anyway decent we could have hit 50+ points.

The defense was awesome, with only the opening drive a blemish. Ya the Vikings offense was weak but you can only beat who you are playing.

Oline was waaay better this week, they protected Brady a lot better but they still gave away silly penalty after silly penalty. Strange for a BB team to be so undisciplined (not just the Oline)...BB sort it out.

Brady was only sacked and hit when no receivers could get open and he had to hold onto it. So I think the most troubling part of this team is the receivers. Only for Edelman we'd be screwed. Amendola and LaFell are a waste of space. Fingers crossed Dobson and Gronk can get back to 100% and Wright turns out to be a weapon once he settles in.

Much improved on last week. Relieved with the defence

Not gonna sweat on the wr situation, Brady seems to up his game with the hand he dealt the more the season progresses.

they need to work on the soft penalties

eagle eye

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Oh look..................it's working perfectly for the TV Ads.:mad:

Right click on the picture and in settings untick enable hardware acceleration and see if that works for you.

Edit: Sorry, just realised that was an old post. I had visitors, the woman is going to hospital in the morning, baby coming very soon, so I'm all over the place.

Vandango

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Let's leave White and Thompkins inactive and bring in Bolden and La Fell . I thought the offense was poor with so many wasted series of possession. The O line was better but then they weren't facing the Phins front seven. Ridley had a good day and Edelman is the only decent & reliable target for Brady. Overall our receiving corp is very poor. We lose Edelman and we are totally f****d. Gronk is a long way from being Gronk again.

We bring in a pass catching TE in Wright and he's barely targeted. In fact, our FB Develin had more passes thrown at him than Wright. Why do we keep throwing deep balls to small slot WR's? Does Josh not realise that's what Dobson or even La Fell are for? Tbh, I'm getting tired of McDaniel's stupid play calling.

The defense played better and won the game for us. But they faced a very poor offense. A pity they didn't have Peterson line up today to really test them though. My God the penalties on both sides of the ball are an absolute joke. Nate Solder's hat trick must be a first for a Pats players. I think we gave up over 160 yards in penalties alone. Against better quality opposition and we are buried.

To sum up our roster and our quality right now. Apart from Kelly, not one player released by the Patriots in the roster cut-down from 90 to 53 players. Is now playing on another team’s active roster. Once upon a time teams jumped on players we released, this year nobody signs one. And I think that says a lot about some of the mediocrity that this team seems to be now tolerating.

That sums it up for me.





Never knew none of our released players were not signed by anyone else. So much for our famous roster quality and depth.

Son Of A Vidic

eagle eye wrote: »

Right click on the picture and in settings untick enable hardware acceleration and see if that works for you.

Ya I tried that, cheers anyway. I built a brand new kick ass PC back in June, everything is overkill on it, but when GP goes to shyte there's nothing I can do about it.:(

eagle eye wrote: »

I had visitors, the woman is going to hospital in the morning, baby coming very soon, so I'm all over the place.

I hope all goes well for you guys and we'll have a new little Pats fan soon enough.:)

eagle eye

Besides all that, Patriots gave away a lot of penalties but the D looked very good after the opening series.

Offense still needs to be fine tuned a bit but very happy with the performance.

BKWDR

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Oh look..................it's working perfectly for the TV Ads.:mad:

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Son Of A Vidic

Cheers BKWDR. I'm pretty PC tech savy so I do all that as a default anyway. This PC I built is an overclocked beast and GP wouldn't even strain the CPU tbh.

I think the problem I have is on my ISP side. It's a line of sight WiFi network (big antenna on roof cos I'm out in the sticks) and no doubt if I had a fibre optic set up, I'd have better stability.

BKWDR

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Cheers BKWDR. I'm pretty PC tech savy so I do all that as a default anyway. This PC I built is an overclocked beast and GP wouldn't even strain the CPU tbh.

I think the problem I have is on my ISP side. It's a line of sight WiFi network (big antenna on roof cos I'm out in the sticks) and no doubt if I had a fibre optic set up, I'd have better stability.

Ahh line of sight. GamePass is heavy on the juice at best of times on my 50mb line

Ya need Craig Doyle to visit ya! The prick...

Son Of A Vidic

BKWDR wrote: »

Ya need Craig Doyle to visit ya! The prick...

I'll pass on that gobshyte.

bruschi

an easy win, but more so because of the opposition than anything. But in any case, there were positives. IT was a more settled O line, and the defense was much improved. Revis, I'm still so-so on. Jennings caused him issues, and a better QB would have taken more advantage, or a better stutter step from Jennings would have had a TD. Jones was immense. Without watching the game in too much detail, but it seemed we were in more 4-3 than 3-4 after the first series, and more solid.

I dont see the point in having LaFell or even Amendola on the roster on their money if they arent even going to be targeted (bar Amendola once, and a penalty nullifying his catch). At least Dobson got the first throw of the game. Wright too needs to see the ball more, but thats a play calling issue rather than a personnel one.

Ridley did well I thought. He was secure on the ball and made a few long runs. Vereen didnt see enough of it for my liking, and Bolden saw too much of it. Someone pointed out above how he sits behind the line waiting for a hole to be formed, which is spot on, seeing him there with his hand on the a$$ of his lead blocker waiting for others to do the tough work for him. I dont see the value in him and LaFell, and wouldnt bother me to see them cut. Amendola, has ability, but unless he shows it very very soon, then he needs to be traded or let go too.

A win is a win though, Brady looked a lot more composed, maybe a week to reflect, maybe the calf is better, maybe the O line keeping him a lot cleaner or maybe shaving the beard. Whichever, he was better, more accurate and efficient. Gronk didnt look great though, still very rusty.

BKWDR

bruschi wrote: »

Gronk didnt look great though, still very rusty.

Can't help but feel that they aren't targeting him deliberately which i don't particularly mind. I would rather he was used like this until he is healthy later in the season and then make him step up and make some big plays when needed.

But you're right a win is a win.

Lucky that the Raiders game falls next, can't see it being *too* much of a challenge based on how they played against the texans.