***OFFICIAL NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS SEASON THREAD*** (13-4) - Patriots @ Broncos - Sun 3:05PM EST - Bra

tough for me not to get riled up. still my team, regardless of a couple boneheaded decisions or not
 
ya, i hear you = i just can't fake caring as much as i used to
yesterday, i felt like i was just watching people's reactions in disbelief (at the bar i was at)
 
i mean i think it's one thing to be upset we lost but realize that the result is not all too surprising at the end of the day. we were a skeleton crew in the AFC champ game. sure, every team has injuries, but not to so many impact players.

i think anyone who is absolutely crushed and destroyed by this loss really didn't have a good sense of how much this team overachieved this year. we were a flawed team ALL year long and got by thanks to a great coach and QB, and a weak conference. sooner or later, we would run into an opponent that would really expose our flaws. some of those flaws continue to be an issue every year it seems (pass rush and coverage in the secondary). some are new due to circumstances out of our control (the fact that we have no legitimate outside WR threat or TE that can be a pass catching threat). offensive line held up better than i imagined but is wearing thin. it's amazing how much a good coach and QB can cover up though, and for how long. but at the same time, the margin of error is so small. one missed 50 yard pass can kill your chances offensively. that's ridiculous that the only real shot you get comes once in the first half and is a 50 yard throw. similarly on defense, the exit of one player turns a somewhat sound secondary into a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. i'm starting to rant, so i'll stop :lol:
 
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Dear Coach,

Hope the disappointment of our AFC Championship Game loss has softened a bit, although by the sound of your comments on Monday, there's a fat chance of that, huh?

You are a fierce competitor, a perfectionist, and I'm sure you are feeling the same way I am: frustrated, drained, and well, kinda beat up.

I'm just not sure why you are taking it out on Welker. I knew you and Wes clashed, but geez, Coach, let it go. You embarrassed yourself -- and us -- with your suggestion that Wes deliberately tried to take out Aqib Talib. It smacked of sour grapes, and made you look like the person you've instructed us NEVER to be: the guy who makes excuses when we come up short.

Did you ever stop to think what kind of position you put me in by saying all that stuff? Of course everyone was going to ask me about it. You are my coach and I have the highest regard for you. We are in this together, forever intertwined whether we like it or not, and I know you work as hard as I do at this, maybe even harder.

I will always have your back, but you attacked my close friend, my former teammate, one of my favorite receivers of all time. I don't believe for a minute Wes intentionally tried to take anyone out. He is one crushing collision away from ending his own career because of all the hits he's absorbed in this game -- many of them on your watch, Coach. I know you hate to lose. Me too. I take responsibility for my shortcomings in that loss to Denver. I'm still banging my helmet over that long ball to Julian Edelman. I should have made that throw. It was only 3-0 at the time. If we score there, who knows what happens?

Then again, maybe we do know. I'll never say it publicly, but it was pretty obvious to me the Denver Broncos are a better football team than we are. They have more weapons than we do.

Hell, everyone does!!

I'm not going to lie to you: It gnaws at me when I see Peyton Manning step to the line and survey the plethora of targets in front of him. He has multiple deep threats, receivers that thrive in coverage underneath. His running back had more than 500 receiving yards. He had four guys who caught 10 touchdowns or more (including Wes).

We have none. I have a gutsy, undersized slot receiver we'll probably let walk in free agency. I was throwing balls to a recycled Colts veteran who we cut two days after Christmas. We've got a guy Josh McDaniels swore would fit perfectly in our system, but he couldn't stay healthy to establish any kind of rhythm. We had a rookie who shows some promise, but only after I had to undress the kid and his fellow first-year sidekick, because neither one of them seemed able to run the proper routes for the first third of the season.

Coach, you gotta get me some weapons. I know the "Patriot Way" doesn't include going the extra mile financially for skill positions, but we've come up short for nine seasons in a row now. I'm 36 years old and I'm not getting any younger. You aren't, either, by the way.

I've done everything you and Mr. Kraft have asked. I've completely submerged my ego and my personality to the point where I want to nod off during my own news conferences. I restructured my contract to provide extra cap flexibility for the team. I was hopeful you'd use some of that cash to re-sign Welker, but you never had any intention of doing that. You were so convinced he was a "system receiver'' that you could plug in anyone and turn him into someone as tough and as reliable.

Julian fit that bill, and I certainly hope you plan to reward him. He was the best thing about this season, but I wouldn't blame him if he walked. When he came looking for a contract last season, he was given just $715,000 with a couple hundred thousand more in difficult incentives because he hadn't proved he could stay healthy. Fair enough, but then why did we throw five years and $31 million at Amendola, who has missed 24 games over the past three seasons?

Listen, Coach, we both know Aaron Hernandez isn't walking through that door. And let's be honest: There's a real chance that Rob Gronkowski might never be the same. The big lug is a game changer, but he's had more work done on him the past two years than Joan Rivers. We'll be lucky to have Gronk back by November of next season, and even when he does return, we have no idea what kind of physical toll this latest setback has caused him.

So find me a tight end, a big, strong, durable pass-catching target. I know we can't shoot for the moon (although I have fantasized about what free agent Jimmy Graham could do for us). I know you probably can't afford Dennis Pitta, but let's trade up in the draft so we can grab the kid from Washington (Austin Seferian-Jenkins), or Eric Ebron of North Carolina, or Jace Amaro of Texas Tech. No more Zach Sudfelds off the street, please.

Even more critical, we need to bring in a receiver who can stretch the field. Randy Moss has been gone so long his tenure here feels like a mirage. Did it really happen? I feel like I haven't thrown a deep ball since Super Bowl XLVI.

Here's what you need to do, Coach. Sign Eric Decker. He's a free agent, and he made $1.3 million this season (I looked it up). I'm not sure how much he will cost, but overpay if you have to. This would be a win-win: You'd get me a reliable target to balance the field and you take one away from Peyton and the Broncos.

I'm proud of what our team did this season. We lost one guy after another and we kept on trucking. But you can't ask me to keep pace with Peyton when he's cruising along in a Cadillac and I'm clunking after him in a lemon.

Give me some juice. Give me a chance.

After all we've been through together, I think I've earned it.

Sincerely,
TB12
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so true though
 
Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe 31s
Dante Scarnecchia is retiring from the Patriots coaching staff. A legend walks away from the game after 30 years with the Pats.
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this hurts...HUGE loss for the pats
 
the thought of amaro lining up in the slot with gronk on the line has me dying for the draft and training camp to start....

but i know we need to actually draft the guy first :lol:
 
Prez T said:
Amaro or Ebron . i want Ebron badly though (pause)
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yeah to be honest...i would be happy with either of those two or even ASF. the huskies focused a lot more on running this season with sankey which is why we didn't see ASF show out that much. dude is the goods though and a HUGE target. i've heard he's got serious ups, too...but the combine will tell us a lot. just grab one of these guys, please.

also, i wouldn't hate it if they took two TE's in this draft. that dude CJ Federowicz


ChampCruThik said:
Nick Caserio:
http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-...4758169/sharing-thoughts-on-caserio-interview
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good read. thanks for sharing, bro
 
DeadsetAce said:
rumors have started of the pats potentially cutting danny amendola....
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wouldnt care if we cut him , we dont need both him and edelman

i will say though that if we cut Amendola , we NEED to pick up an outside threat
 
eric decker is a name being thrown around. doesn't wow me, but he would be our best pure receiver :x
 
if by any chance we draft colt lyerla .....then not even mad lmao....6th or 7th round though ....or thats a wasted pick
 
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DeadsetAce said:
eric decker is a name being thrown around. doesn't wow me, but he would be our best pure receiver :x
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Don't overpay for Deck. The interest from the G-Men, Jets, etc. will inflate his price. He's a #2 receiver, not a #1. Yet he'll get paid like a lead receiver.


CASH MONEY 1999 said:
if by any chance we draft colt lyerla .....then not even mad lmao....6th or 7th round though ....or thats a wasted pick
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Bill is one of the few men with a strong enough locker room to keep Colt in check. There's a New England expectation. The Pats change you, you don't change the Pats.
 
EDIT: N/M he restructured with Arizona 
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