New England Patriots Thread Mod Warning Post #253

eagle eye

If he has an injury then make an agreement to sign him when he gets healthy. It'd be very nice to have him for the playoffs.

me89

Marty B claimed on waivers

TOss Sweep

Good to have him back. Hopefully he gets that shoulder fixed and gets ready for the rest of the season

TOss Sweep

Bennett has a torn rotator cuff and apparently wants to play through it. Yeah going to be fun watching him play through injury. Not going to get excited about him re-signing anymore. Nothing more than the Pats seeing if he can play at this point.

StringerBell

He may be a good addition for the run game and a red zone threat I guess. Use his body to shield the ball but won't be overly excited till I see him on the field and how he does.

eagle eye

Bennett is active tonight. Inactives are

DT Malcom Brown
OT Marcus Cannon
OT Cole Croston
RB Mike Gillislee
WR Chris Hogan
DE Cassius Marsh
CB Eric Rowe

StringerBell

Encouraging start from Bennett I thought, nice to get a big win against them in their house

AbusesToilets

StringerBell wrote: »

Encouraging start from Bennett I thought, nice to get a big win against them in their house

I was surprised at how much they got him involved, good to see. I was quite chuffed at how pumped everyone was for Allen's td catch. He does have hands after all.

j8wk2feszrnpao

Really surprised at how easy a win it was. The Lewis return for a TD set it up early.

After conceding 42, 20, 33, and 33pts in the first 4 games (and ridiculous yardage), it’s good to see the D get back to the middle of the pack (14, 17, 7, 13, and 16pts in the last 5 games).

Great to see Bennett do well (gotta question that shoulder surgery stuff); and hopeful if he and Gronk are there come the playoffs that they’ll be the duo they promised last year.

StringerBell

Can't get away from how poor Denver were of course but its all confidence building, momentum building and another step toward the playoffs.

Billy86

Denver have been awful for a few weeks, still a great win (and nice as I had Pats -7 and was able to go to sleep at half time feeling good ) but Denver's defense looks like it's starting to stop caring a bit/frustration is mounting, on the back of their offense being so poor. Putting Osweiler back in was just the icing on the cake there. Like Jacksonville they're the type of team that absolutely needs the defense going 110% every down and it seems like that's coming undone a bit.

StringerBell

Yeah the pass rush was non existent on their end, special teams really cost them.

My own gripe of the game goes to Butler, who got torched by Sanders! He's good I know, but Butler was terrible, and not for the first time this season.

AbusesToilets

Game against the Steelers is going to be the true litmus test for where our team is this season. Win that and the no.1 seed is likely ours. They seem to have adjusted their defensive scheme this year, with I imagine an eye towards taking on the Pats.

Bills away is going to be a huge game too, they will be going all out to get that wildcard spot. Their running game is no joke. All the prospective NFC SB contenders have powerful run games.

Billy86

I'd reckon the Steelers impotence in the red zone (which is truly amazing) might help there, red zone defense always struck me as a particular strength of NE.

bruschi

solid win. Special teams being the main difference. Good to see Bennett contribute. He left here with good words, so funny to see every team he goes with ends acrimoniously except for the Pats. Injury didnt seem to affect him anyway. Allen had missed a TD catch earlier that he should have snared so good to see him respond well.

The only real negative out of it was how much Sanders dominated. I dont know do you put it down to an exception WR game (which it was) or a really poor CB effort (which it also was). A bit of both, but either way, worrying for Butler in his "pay me" year and more so for the team as he is a liability right now.

Son Of A Vidic

I find it very odd how we've played 3 consecutive years at Mile High . Especially since it's a historically bad location for us, anyway, whatever the reason behind that, it's always good to win in Denver. ST's did a find job of killing any Broncos momentum. Brady continues to spoil us by making his greatness look boringly routine. The biggest negative for me was Butler, he really needs to wake up fast. Great also to have MartysaurusRex back with the team. He's a very smart guy and he did a good job with us last year. Our Redzone offense certainly needed a weapon like him back in the arsenal. The Bills losing again was also nice and now gives us even stronger control of our Division.

Son Of A Vidic

Billy86 wrote: »

I'd reckon the Steelers impotence in the red zone (which is truly amazing) might help there, red zone defense always struck me as a particular strength of NE.

It hasn't been a strength for us this year though and while the Steelers may be worse, we're no great shakes coming in at 18th overall.

Son Of A Vidic

In case ye missed it, Brady broke another record yesterday becoming the QB with the most road wins in NFL history @ 86 wins.:cool:

j8wk2feszrnpao

Son Of A Vidic wrote: »

I find it very odd how we've played 3 consecutive years at Mile High

Broncos played us a number of years in a row as well. It's not good scheduling.

eagle eye

StringerBell wrote:

My own gripe of the game goes to Butler, who got torched by Sanders! He's good I know, but Butler was terrible, and not for the first time this season.

In all fairness Butler was all over him and he was still making catches. Imo he was just having a great night even though he didn't make the end zone.

TOss Sweep

I would agree Butler wasn't terrible Sanders just had his number on occasions. Sanders just played a man possessed and Butler even knows it he hugged him a few time and shook his hand for beating him at times. Sanders is an extremely smart WR and type of guy who would kill with Brady. When is his contract up in Denver

eagle eye

It would be awesome, I'm just imagining Emmanuel and Julian on the same team with Brady and Gronk.

Hazys

Son Of A Vidic wrote: »

I find it very odd how we've played 3 consecutive years at Mile High .

As part of scheduling, you play one other AFC division each year and you rotate through the divisions. So every 3 years we play the AFC West and its setup that we are guaranteed to play in Mile High once in every 6 years and we meet in Gillette every 6 years. Obviously we've played in the Broncos more than once in the last 3 years which comes to second wrinkle in the schedule.

The team that finished first in each AFC division last year plays each other this year. Each team that came second, plays each other, same for 3rd and 4th placed teams. In 5 of the last 6 years, we've both finished 1st in our divisions (Chiefs finished 1st last year, but we're scheduled with the AFC West this year anyway) so that's why for the last 6 years we've played the Broncos every year.

Its just weird scheduling that we've play in Mile High the last 3 years but the 3 years before that we played in Gillette. Its a pity that the one year that the Broncos were actually good, we needed to play them in Gillette, not during the Tebow year.

I feel playing in Mile High in 2015 basically cost us the Super Bowl. If we played in Gillette in the regular season, i feel we would have won giving us home field advantage for the AFC Championship that was won by the slightest margin which home field advantage would have trumped. The Broncos went on to play a Panthers team that were sh1te.

Jolly Red Giant

TOss Sweep wrote: »

When is his contract up in Denver

2020 - and yer not getting him

Hazys

Also i must say it was awesome for the Pats to go into Mile High and silence the crowd and all that was heard was a ton of Pats fans chanting "Brady! Brady! Brady!".

The Pats have crushed so many rivals over the years, its crazy to look back and see all other past rivals become shadows of themselves and we're still top an elite NFL team. The Jets, Colts, Broncos are all terrible now and even the Steelers who are the only consistently good team in the AFC, we have their number every year. Its crazy, what we've witnessed in the past 16 years, will never happen again to any team.

Hazys

TOss Sweep wrote: »

I would agree Butler wasn't terrible Sanders just had his number on occasions. Sanders just played a man possessed and Butler even knows it he hugged him a few time and shook his hand for beating him at times. Sanders is an extremely smart WR and type of guy who would kill with Brady. When is his contract up in Denver

Its a shame that when we tried to claim the Saunders off the Steelers, the Steelers matched the offer and then the next off-season, the Broncos just beat us to his signature and we had to settle for LaFell. Could have been an amazing couple of years with Brady and Saunders on the same team.

TOss Sweep

Bill addressing the Navy Midshipmen before one of their games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ftGS_6i7mM

eagle eye

Simple yet so true.

BizzyC

Another good looking result last night, team seems to be coming together well for the stretch.
Flowers' FF was a great heads up play

j8wk2feszrnpao

Still very little QB pressure though, it’s a worry playing the better teams in the playoffs.

Good win, but Raiders were awful; couldn’t stop us, and made terrible mistakes or drops when they had chances.

A few very good weeks for the D, who still rank last for yards (that’s how bad we were in those first few games)!!