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but isn’t that something you should save for PatsPulpit?

The UGG thing…I guess Brady must have gotten an anvil hit on the head…like in those Looney Tunes cartoons; eh.

No way we could keep pace w/ the Patriots offense having Flynn at QB. Even if our D held NE to 20, we couldn’t beat them.

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I think we’ll hang in there

I would say I want both teams to do well. Wins or losses wouldn’t surprise me. And I have no idea what I’d do in the event of a tie game…

Its clear now where his loyalties lie now. The mans pulled a Brent on us.

Holes on defense-They are super young. 3 rookie starters, 4 2nd year players (some who never played that many snaps last yr). Tend to play prevent defense in the 4th qtr if the Pats have a big lead…thus the other teams get easy yards and our defense gets ranked no .31 in pass d.
Also….we barely have any pass rush but our team is ranked no 2. in the NFL in Turnover margin (no. 1 in the AFC).

man…its hard to pin down our offensive struggles….so i would say sometimes we go 3& out when we need our team to move the chains (like the Colts and Chargers game). Pass blocking sometimes-our LT Matt Light is far from his prime and often gets beat.

The biggest hole I can think of is lack of depth due to injuries. A lot of the role players (Spikes, Wright, Pryor, Wilhite) have been out with injuries or, if you’re Spikes, a suspension. Then, there’s a lot of players (Arrington, McCourty, Chung, Brace, Warren) who are pretty dinged up. This team should be fine, but a couple injuries can really hurt this team.

As for offensive struggles, the team seems to be doing well. They had been struggling on passes where the ball travels 20+ yards down the field, but Brady’s picked up his performance as of late. I’d say the offensive line might be struggling a bit in protection, but that only affects Brady when he’s targeting down field.

So where are the holes in the NE defense?

CB. It’s young (starters are a rookie and a second-year who only played 8 games as a rookie special teamer), and thin – two of them are hurt at the moment, although how badly is unknown.

Otherwise, sealing the edge can sometimes be an issue against pass-catching RBs, but you guys are a little thin there. TEs can be a matchup issue sometimes, but again, you’re a bit thin lately. Otherwise trying to confuse and wrong-foot a young secondary, and get the LBs tired by moving them side-to-side chasing underneath WRs.

What offensive struggles do they have?

A bull-rush up the A gaps can work, because the C, Koppen, is ageing and can struggle in physical matchups. The RG, Connolly, was playing LG until a few weeks ago, so he might get wrong-footed if he’s forced to react instinctively. Urlacher got a sack up the middle last game, and Suh got a similar one going through the Guards in the Lions game, so that gives you a general idea based on your Div.

I’d imagine your outside pass-rushers could beat the OTs (especially Light) in single-matchups, but Belichick will know this, too, and put 2TE sets out a lot of the time. I’d expect Alge Crumpler to shadow Clay Matthews at all times.

Strengths – they can beat you in a bunch of different ways. If they need to run it, they’ll put up their big TEs in a 2 or 3 TE set and punch it through you. If they need to pass into zone coverage, they can throw to a 6’7, 260lb, deceptively quick Gronkowski. If the Packers break out man-coverage, they’ll likely split TE/WR Aaron Hernandez into the slot and get him to beat up on nickelbacks one-on-one. Welker and/or Branch are quick and shifty, and one or both of them always seem to be open with Brady throwing. They both have a psychic link to Brady – Branch had 8 receptions for 151 yards and a TD, Welker had 8 receptions for 115 yards against the Bears, which says a lot.

Woodhead’s a wildcard – he’s a 5’7, 200lb scatback who can play slot WR pretty well. He’s a matchup issue because he runs a 4.3 40 – he’s very quick. Take your eyes off him, and he’s gone. He took a shovel-pass (more like a forward RB toss) 50 yards against his old employers, the Jets, on MNF two weeks ago.

Best part of all – Tom Brady. Someone’s open, somewhere, and Tom knows where it is. He hasn’t thrown a pick for his last 260 attempts or something ridiculous, and he’s thrown 20 TDs in the meantime. Oh, and his last interception was a Hail Mary at the end of regulation against the Ravens as it is, so it didn’t mean a lot at the time.

acc to espn.com

He’s spent all season trying to get them to play 60 minutes of football.

I can see him saying 35 minutes is good enough today guys, let them win.

If the Packers win, they’ll deserve to. No question about that.

They didn’t ease up last year even after they’d more-or-less sealed a playoff berth, and it actually bit them on he butt – Wes Welker went down on IR the last regular season game. However, I doubt that’s enough to convince him to break the habit of a lifetime.

Belichick’s mantra is ‘do your job’. The players get it drilled into them, and it comes out as second-nature – they repeat it like their life depends on it. Their jobs certainly do – Moss’s week 5 trade proved that. I suspect that holds no matter what, and the starters’ job is to start, not rest in week 17 or whenever. He might rest players if they’re ahead and fairly safe, but he won’t mess with starters or with the overall chemistry of the team.

And what is the best way to slow Brady?

Press coverage to disrupt timing (NE passing scheme is timing-oriented), a good 3- or 4-man pass-rush (any blitz, Brady will eat you by passing to a small guy where the pass-rusher should be), and LBs covering the underneath checkdowns very well. You basically need all three to win – 2007 Super Bowl was the best example.

(I let my English slip there a little bit…..)

1) Brady
2) No.
3) More than the Colts.

4) every much so

5) I liked Favre till he decided to be a drama queen in 2008 and 2009 and 2010

we should bring some garlic just in case
a lot
absolutely not
I hate him until he retires

Tough call. Rodgers is UGLY with facial hair, pure and simple. When he’s clean cut, he looks amazing.
No
Almost as much as I hate Michigan, and that’s intense if you know me…
Not at all.
I think revenge has been thwarted, and if I have to see Favre clutching his arm after one more idiotic throw into coverage, I may join Daily Norseman and start an all-out flame war. It would be a glorious banishment, I’m sure…

.. and yay! I can post. Now others can regret my presence…

1. Tom, but only with Gisele
2. Could be, but he’d be a Twilight vampire that sparkles in daylight.. so I’m going no because those vampires suck.. not blood.. just suck.
3. Hate isn’t a strong enough word
4. Can he clean toilets at Gillette? If not, no.
5. I’m annoyed by Brett Favre. In my world, he’s alot like the dancing weird Six Flags guy. He’s always there.. he’s weird…. and he appears old.

Hair powers are known to be more powerful than vegan powers(reference!!!) after all. ;)

1) Hmmm. Brady’s hair demands more of my attention.

2) Oh yes. He gazes at defenders, and they fall asleep. Pretty useful for a QB. ;)

3) I hope they burn in the fires of the numa numa’s a**hole.

4) I’d rather have the gum under my shoe.

5) He's a true warrior. Deserves every place in our hearts. Even if he texted pictures of his penis to a girl...

I present you exhibit A:

The “Chester A. Arthur.” I’d like to see brady pull that off!

If you come by, beware. Our thread may be stolen, and we’ll end up talking about movies, pokemon, or making fun of someone. Also there will be several posts of facebook fails, and images from fail blog(courtesy of Ninja).

… BEWARE!!!!!

But yeah, wouldn’t mind stopping by. :)

…and the Patriots just gave him an extension a couple weeks ago. He’s basically everything the Patriots want.

The guy had it rough. He’d been a Jet (ouch) and was picked up to replace Kevin Faulk, who’s as good as Tom Brady’s personal pocket security guard and bouncer as he is as a RB or pass-catching back.

At first, it was “can he receive”, but then he scampered in for a 30-something TD reception when lined up in the slot. Then it was “can he run” but then he scored a TD or two and run the shoes off some opposition D players. Then it was “can he pass-protect like Faulk”, and he popped Ray Lewis in the mouth and sat him on his butt in an A-gap blitz.

After that, he was gold. Unsurprisingly, the Pats have signed him to a contract extension already – signed through 2012:

He’s slated to earn $550,000 in 2011 and $700,000 in 2012, along with play-time incentives worth a possible $575,000 next year and a possible $600,000 in 2012.

Although it is SILENT here…..

but part of that is the geriatric QB, batshit (ex-)coach, and whole they-might-take-our-team-away thing.

Speaking of which – what do you guys make of the possibility of the Vikings moving away?

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers trys out the new sliding technique coached to him by Head Coach Mike McCarthy.

and the clay matthews one
Now now Brett, you know I cant let you get to that phone on the sideline.

I think that’s a great idea and if anyone can start that up here at APC I’d be all for it. I didn’t have good enough ideas to win, so i didn’t post. Some of those are funny though and i gave a few rec’s.

I love Picture #1. Rodgers just looks so beastly in that photo!!!!

Hmm.. this work?

I’d hate for Rodgers to miss significant time just because he rushed back a week early.

The defense will have to literally be the offense on Sunday night. A couple of Chuck-6’s may be in order ;)

I think that travesty from this past weekend would have been averted ;-)

Just by trying to blow it all off due to ESPN’s reluctance to let employees date professional athletes. I’m happy for him.