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Bingo. It's not as if the Patri*ts won their SB in blowout fashion. They beat every team by 3 points, with it coming down to the last series of the game each time. Any advantage, even a "slight" one (as if anyone can really quantify an advantage like this), would lead to those SB wins, or even wins in the playoffs to get to those SB's.

Yeah, I saw "the greatest QB ever" lead his team to 14 points in a SB that should have been a blowout win for him. Proving once and for all that "defense wins championships."

If you were being serious, which I hope you weren't, that's like saying Barry Bonds, despite the 'roids, is one of the greatest baseball players ever.

Again, arrested and/or suspended relates to character. Injury can happen to anyone. More on that below. Limited to straight line speed? He was among the top WR's in agility tests, comparing favorably to guys who were half a foot shorter and 40# lighter. And he didn't have a problem with injuries in college. Why he should be more prone to them than any other rookie WR is curious. As for execution, yes he needs to run better routes. So do most of the rookies. He also needs to get stronger.

I'll take the risk, on-field versus off-field, on a guy who is 6'5" and 220#, runs a 4.45 40-yard, has good hands, good agility, and caught 36 TD's in 36 games, and who has room to improve his game, versus a domestic disturbance, in light of a lousy upbringing. The kid has issues he needs to work through no doubt, but he's far from Charles Manson. Looks like you covered all your bases. Out of that list, I can see #6 happening, since I think his knees will be the target of a lot of defenders, given his height. Next would be #5, since he'll be catching jump balls in the endzone and leaving his ribs exposed. What that has to do with his character problems is anyone's guess. But I'll create a "Dwight Drane was right" thread if any one from #1-3 happens, which are character issues. The number of passes he catches has less to do with him than the design of the offense and is a tall order for most rookie WR's (only 3 rookie WR's eclipsed 40 catches last year, with 2 of them by 7-8 catches).

LOL! You mean the offense led by Tom Brady, who guffawed at Plaxico Burress' suggestion prior to the SB that the Patri*ts were "only going to score 17 points ( )?" The highest scoring offense in history somehow couldn't manage more than 2 TD's against a defense they shredded for 38 points 5 weeks earlier, on the road?

Where did you/she see this picture? Speaking of which, did YOU actually see it, or are you telling us what she told you?

He said reports were exaggerated, which is basically denying everything, except that there was a situation that put a negative light on himself and the team, for which he apologized. We don't know what happened, but given that his father is a far more violent and dangerous man than he is, most would be willing to side with junior on this one. Is it unfortunate? You bet. But maybe this will send a message to his father to leave him the frick alone, like he did for most of his formative years. I'd even go so far as to suggest a restraining order.

I wouldn't. Grape Kool-Aid stains, not Cherry.

He's not alone. Most Patri*ts fans think that the absence of a walkthrough tape, even though Walsh was present at it and feeding information to Belichick during it, absolves them of all wrongdoing. It's amazing.

Well, in the statistical category of "embarrassing incidents," it's Hardy 1 and Sweed 0.

Stroud should call Rodney Harrison and hook him up with some HGH. Prior to that, Rodney WAS on the downside, but suddenly/miraculously came back to begin delivering his patented cheap shots anew.

You're kidding, right?

Yes and OJ and Barry Bonds are innocent.

Why worry? It's not like you can change time, past, present, or future, or even predict the future.

The latest excuses I've heard are "well the players still have to execute the illegally obtained information," which now makes me realize that Bonds truly isn't guilty, since he had to hit the ball, and "well, teams should have changed their signals after the games," which now gives me the right to rob my neighbor after making a copy of his front door key, because he didn't change his lock. What is this country coming to?

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. Or more precisely, made you. In addition to the cheating, that is.

He still has anger issues. However it seems confined to family members and not the general public.

I have yet to read a credible account that Junior pulled a gun on his father. All I think I know is that Junior had a gun on him, the gun was legally registered, and it was unconcealed. I believe he was letting his father (again a guy who had done 9 years in prison for drug dealing) know that he shouldn't mess with him. Had Junior actually pointed it at someone without a shady past, I'd be concerned. But I think that Junior should get counselling and get out of Indiana permanently. Or get a restraining order against his dad.

If Hardy's father weren't a deadbeat, drug-dealing (likely) gold-digger, I'd probably be mortified at what Junior did. That is, assuming he ever DID pull out a gun +/- pointed it at his father.

Where did you read that Hardy was putting the gun down so that it wouldn't go off? This situation is unfortunate. Not because Hardy allegedly pulled a gun on his deadbeat, drug-dealing, hanging-on father, but because he has elements like this in his life which will make it difficult for him, and keep "pulling him back in." Hopefully he can leave it all behind.

No, he wasn't. Donnie Avery (who?!) was. And then Devin Thomas. Then Jordy Nelson. Then Hardy.

Nope.

Nope.