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MattM

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  1. You, sir, are a joke. Haven't you read ANY of this thread? "Nothing of substance to attack"? Is that a f-ing joke? Being caught red-handed cheating (after being warned only two months earlier by the League of the EXACT SAME THING YOU GOT CAUGHT DOING) is more than a little "substance", don't you think? We don't even have to go into any of the shady officiating in your games (and believe me, that's one you don't want to start on this board or, frankly, any other in the League as a Pats* fan) or the fact that you've had a bunch of well past their prime players suddenly regain a step well into their 30s in New England and, oh yeah, a guy who got caught using HGH in the only way possible the League could catch you, since they don't test for it. Being dumb enough to use your own name in ordering the stuff. It's also funny that many of those guys who people suspect of using it (Seau, Vrabel and Bruschi all come to mind) all have melons that are so large that they have their own gravitational fields (another sign called the "bloat" of HGF and steroid use, BTW). You really do live in your own Bizarro World alternate universe, don't you. I've also got some news for you that if you think it's just "jealous Bills fans" that have this view of "your team", and I use that loosely, I challenge you to go to other team's boards, where you'll find the fans all hold you in about the same opinion that folks in this thread do...
  2. Your reference to him not stopping cheating reminds me of a great post from one of our resident Pats* trolls a couple weeks back posting a link from right before the 2007 season that he was trying to use to support his position that everyone cheats, but which actually said that the potential for cheating via videocamera had gotten so bad due to suspicions that New England was doing it that the League had sent teams a warning memo about it. This was in July 2007. It hit me then how arrogant someone must be to be warned about cheating so publicly and specifically and still having no problem going ahead and actually doing it anyways. My suspicions are that someone who's as one-track minded as that would do much worse than videotaping. I honestly believe that in 20 years or so we'll finally find out the full extent of what the Pats* did under BB and it will be pretty scandalous, but of course, he'll be dead or senile by then, as will most of the others involved, which is why I expect the full truth to take a while to come out, but that's just me.
  3. Really, who was it before 2001? The 'Pokes? Maybe the Giants? We all know for sure it wasn't the Pats* you rooted for before they began winning. That's the part I "love" the best about the New England fanbase--how almost none of them were there in 1992 when they sold 19,000 season tickets. That's right, 19,000, in a city 5 times the size of Buffalo. The Bills could go 0-16 and still sell twice that many. Pat*hetic if you ask me, but that best sums up their "fanbase". You go on a Pats* board and see all these posters from all over the country and you just know that they are almost all bandwagonistas, with a slight sprinkling of real Boston fans (who I can commiserate with and respect.) I also remember the absolutely hysterical threads last fall when Bills fans were winning shot bets in bars with Pats* "fans" about Pats* trivia that these "fans" couldn't get about their own team, yet anyone with any football knowledge would get. Like "fans" who literally didn't realize that the Pats* had lost two SB before they'd won any (funny, AFCEastFan isn't it, that your team doesn't actually have a winning record in the big game, unlike, say, the Steelers or Colts or Niners) or who couldn't name their starting QB in that Bears loss, yet Bills fans knew the answers to all those questions. Pat*hetic......
  4. I've got a deal for you, pal--you can go back to being a Cowboys fan, no questions asked, once the Pats*' winning seasons end (I'd estimate about 1-2 more years) and I'll go back to watching for the umpteenth time the Giants absolutely hammer your team in the SB last year--I especially love the parts where Brady gets planted on his arse by a rookie D-lineman at the end and BB goes crying off the field......
  5. Gotta go with the "No" and "Yes"-es above, that is, unless Bob Kraft's check to the NFL Official's retirement fund bounces. Interestingly, I read somewhere that Mike Pereira is retiring this year as head of the officials, which I'm hoping is a good thing. If you've ever seen him interviewed, he looks kind of like a combo of Frank DeFord (just pure physical appearance) and Al Davis, with gobs of ungainly jewelry thrown in. While I know well enough that one can't judge a book by its cover, there's something unseemly to me about the head of officiating of the League looking like a snake oil salesman. I'd prefer my head of officiating to look like one of those bean counters the Oscars rolls out every year to show that their results are counted correctly by a major auditing firm, but that may just be me. As for Kraft, while his company is private and therefore doesn't need to report its earnings publicly, it is, after all, basically a paper company (think Dunder Mifflin) and in this modern world, between newspapers folding and people just reading things more on screen (everywhere from the Kindle to getting their news from the net) his business has got to be feeling a major pinch. Why, my company just started to go to two-sided printing this year, which basically will cut our paper use in half. Throw in the fact that he self-financed the new Patriette Place* with non-permanent financing--good luck rolling that in these credit markets--and I personally suspect that he's worth a whole lot less than he was recently. That check may just bounce yet, one of these days......
  6. The owners benefit from the continued popularity of their League, that would have been destroyed had further evidence of cheating been publicly disclosed. I also strongly suspect that (and the fact that Kraft had a major hand in selecting him--remember that Big Bob was on the selection committee and was one of the initial League mouthpieces introducing Goodell) was the reason Goodell destroyed the tapes before letting anyone see what was on them. Remember that? I also strongly suspect that if you go look up Matt Walsh in a year or three you'll find that he's living in a $2 million house on a local golf pro's salary--just a hunch....
  7. Funny how that journeyman ran for about 130 yards against your mighty D last year in December when you knew he was coming and couldn't do anything to stop him. What does that say about your D? We lost that game, but it certainly had nothing to do with Fred Jackson's running.....
  8. Sorry, but I can't let the bandwagonistas think they've won this argument, especially when they don't even acknowledge opposing points of view and more importantly, facts.....
  9. Funny how you, like a typical Pats* bandwagoneer, complete disregard the rest of the article I quoted--you know, the part where NFL executives basically say that the Pats* have been accused of a ton more than Spygate and how they are really the main/only team that other folks complain to the competition committee about. But then again, I guess that goes against your "everyone does it" theory, no? Or how about the HBO Inside Sports report last spring which literally quoted an unnamed "former offensive star" on those Pats* teams as saying "Of course it helped us immensely--we knew exactly what was coming"? That was about literally the quote--I watched it 3 times on TIVO to make sure. How that didn't get taken and run with by the mainstream media just shows how in the pocket of the League (and the League, of course, is in the pocket of the Pats* and Kraft, as some columnists, like Dr. Z, have stated (although in not so many words, Dr. Z being a polite man)) is. When Marshawn said he was going to get suspended this year, I turned to my wife and said, I'll bet you $1000 that the Bills open the season with the Pats* (and this was well before rumors of such a game leaked) and sure enough...... It's enough to make one sick, it really is.
  10. Those of you who think this will help us are delusional. I'm sure that this will not increase our budget by a single penny. What this WILL do, is let teams like the Pats* and Skins, who are close to the cap and who are owned by owners who basically have Goodell in their pocket, will now be able to spend more on the remaining FA's left. That will be the result here, mark my words.....
  11. Seems like both an intelligent and decent guy, particularly considering he just turned 21 in April. More importantly, did you see the speed he flashed in those clips, especially where he ran the Wisconsin QB down fall the way across the field from the back side and just running by the OT? Incredible. If he really has jets like that in the bigs, we may have a reall Playa here......
  12. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/sports/f...ttee&st=cse This article is about all you need to know about the Pats*-- Some nuggets: "The committee heard accusations that the Patriots had taped opposing coaches’ signals, placed microphones on defensive players to steal quarterbacks’ audible signals and manipulated clocks and coach-to-quarterback radio systems.... [Ask Marinelli and Del Rio about that one--I know both of them complained about radios mysteriously dying in Gillette at odd times.] The N.F.L. team executive said the Patriots were the subject of most of the accusations discussed in the rules committee’s deliberations. The team’s recent success and tight-lipped approach, as personified by Belichick, has played a role. “They were the only team, really,” the executive said. “Clearly, they were the team mentioned far more than anybody else.” Yeah, everybody does it--my arse......
  13. LOL--I literally said to my wife when I heard about the potential Lynch suspension, "I'll bet you $100 that our first game is against the Pats*" and lo and behold. What a shock (not)--I'm just surprised they didn't try to give them a bye before that game to go along with it.....
  14. Much more likely, "Rodney-style", had he gone to the Pats*--I'm not too worried about it with him going to the 'Fins.....
  15. Moved from the upper deck, Row 4 at about the 15 to upper deck, Row 11 at about the 40. First time in 3 years that I've been able to upgrade, FWIW.
  16. Out of curiosity, what was he doing in White Plains? I live in Larchmont here in Westchester myself, but obviously need to get out more!
  17. The negative nancy's have a field day on this board. Our "sack free" defense was ranked 14 last year in yardage, IIRC. That was without it's best DE for most of the year and its best LB for the whole season and, most importantly, playing with our woeful O (remember, the D is just the other side of the O coin--if our O can't stay on the field, our D will get more yardage against it by definition). So, our D that really only lost Greer--who was more than ably replaced by Leodis, Florence and Youboty (also out almost all last year as well)--and is getting back Schoebel and Maybin to the pass rush is going to be worse than last season's slightly better than average D? Most importantly, even bigger strides were made on O, the most important being TO, the new rookie linemen we're all so excited about and last but by no means least, Trent having another full year under his belt. I'd wager that this O, despite losing Peters, Dockery and Royal and Marshawn for 3, is better than last year's. Just a hunch. If it is even slightly better--say moving up 5-6 spots in the rankings, I see no reason why our D can't be Top 10, barring a really bad injury run. Is this team an "elite team" yet? No, I don't think so. But are we a bottom feeding 3-13, 4-12 kind of team as many here seem to think? No, they aren't either.
  18. He*, like the rest of your "team," has an asterisk next to his records, unfortunately. Blame Belichick for that. And before you hop on how he shouldn't have an asterisk, consider the HBO Inside Sports story last spring in which an unnamed "former Patriots star offensive player" who played on some of those teams was quoted as saying "of course it helped us immensely--we knew exactly what the defense was going to do before they did it". I'm personally shocked that no one else ran with that story and I also personally guess that it may have been Antowain Smith or perhaps Deion Branch--clearly someone no longer with the team and a skll position player, since you don't typically call linemen "offensive stars."
  19. Bill, here's a way it translates to the field, which is what you seem to be focused on (understandably to some of us). Someone with such character and maturity is a heckuva lot more likely to (a) work his arse off to make the most of the God-given football talent that he has, (b) be a smart player on the field and © not do self-destructive things off the field that hurts both himself and his team (are you listening, Mr. Lynch?). All of that is to the positive in terms of getting a better Bills product on the field, and it's just an added bonus that he's actually a decent guy to boot.....
  20. Sounds a lot like Matt Cassel to me--I don't think he can hit the broad side of a barn more than 20 yards from what I saw last year, yet he's being touted as the second coming of Favre......
  21. As someone else noted above, it's nice that the WR spot is finally actually a real strength on this team. Between TO, Evans and Reed and if, and this is a big if, Hardy, Johnson and/or Nelson emerge as a real playmaker to boot, teams are really going to have trouble covering us. We just need to make sure that Trent has the time needed to deliver the pigskin and a major weakness might really become a great strength.
  22. I actually agree with you on Wilfork not being old for his position--DTs do play well into their 30s, as do OL in some cases. Speed is what goes first on athletes, which is why it's RB, WR, LB, DB and DE that you don't want on the wrong side of 30. If I were a Pats* fan, however, and after I contemplated suicide long and hard, I'd personally be worried that Big Vince is going to suffer a career ending knee injury when someone else gives him a Vince Wilfork-style cheap shot--and I'm only half joking about that. I never root for injuries, but he might be one guy I'd consider an exception for.....
  23. I hate the 'Pokes, too, but also hope that everyone is okay after this.....
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