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Re: 2008 NFL season
Glad to see Brady take that shot. I'm done with sportsmanship for all the things the Patriots have done these past years. In fact, they did a very similar, but slightly more intentional elbow to QB knee to Losman last year. I will have no sympathy for any player, coach, or fan of that team.
Bills kicked some ass. Seattle had injury trouble, and they're not great to begin with, but the Bills had only 20 offensive TDs last year and scoring 34 is big anytime. Edwards started bad but had good rhyth,m by the end, Lynch was in beast mode, and Moorman's passing stats are better than Tom Brady's. Haha. The defense destroyed Seattle though, 5 sacks and a ton of behind the line tackles on the running game. Stroud and Mitchell are huge additions.
Re: 2008 NFL season
Glad to see Brady take that shot. I'm done with sportsmanship for all the things the Patriots have done these past years. In fact, they did a very similar, but slightly more intentional elbow to QB knee to Losman last year. I will have no sympathy for any player, coach, or fan of that team.
Bills kicked some ass. Seattle had injury trouble, and they're not great to begin with, but the Bills had only 20 offensive TDs last year and scoring 34 is big anytime. Edwards started bad but had good rhyth,m by the end, Lynch was in beast mode, and Moorman's passing stats are better than Tom Brady's. Haha. The defense destroyed Seattle though, 5 sacks and a ton of behind the line tackles on the running game. Stroud and Mitchell are huge additions.
That's going a little far.
If you want somebody to hate on, hate on Moss for going on TV and saying the hit was dirty. It wasn't... At All.... and that fact was obvious to anyone who saw it so he should've just kept his mouth shut.
- Communist China
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Re: 2008 NFL season
Communist China wrote:Glad to see Brady take that shot. I'm done with sportsmanship for all the things the Patriots have done these past years. In fact, they did a very similar, but slightly more intentional elbow to QB knee to Losman last year. I will have no sympathy for any player, coach, or fan of that team.
Bills kicked some ass. Seattle had injury trouble, and they're not great to begin with, but the Bills had only 20 offensive TDs last year and scoring 34 is big anytime. Edwards started bad but had good rhyth,m by the end, Lynch was in beast mode, and Moorman's passing stats are better than Tom Brady's. Haha. The defense destroyed Seattle though, 5 sacks and a ton of behind the line tackles on the running game. Stroud and Mitchell are huge additions.
That's going a little far.
If you want somebody to hate on, hate on Moss for going on TV and saying the hit was dirty. It wasn't... At All.... and that fact was obvious to anyone who saw it so he should've just kept his mouth shut.
I don't think it's too far. Hey, I'm not the one that'll be taking dirty shots at them. I'm just saying I'll show no sympathy for a team that has done anything and everything to win, has violated league rules (in more ways than have been publicized), and have ditched sportsmanship for points at every turn.
Moss is kind of an ass, but he's better than a lot of the Patriots (and their staff) since they got their first SB win.
Re: 2008 NFL season
Brady's knee injury reportedly to end his season
Reigning NFL MVP injured in first quarter during Patriots' win vs. Chiefs
The Associated Press
updated 7:21 p.m. ET, Sun., Sept. 7, 2008
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Tom Brady screamed. The fans went quiet.
The seemingly indestructible star of the New England Patriots lay on the ground, clutching his left knee. The NFL's reigning MVP and three-time Super Bowl champion was done for the day '” at least. Yahoo! Sports later reported that Brady's injury is severe enough to knock him out for the year, and Peter King of NBC Sports reported that the injury was "serious."
'He was in a lot of pain. When you hear a scream, you know that,' Kansas City safety Bernard Pollard said after hitting Brady on the left leg midway through the first quarter.
Untested Matt Cassel took over, and played well as the Patriots beat the Chiefs 17-10 in Sunday's opener. But they needed a last minute defensive stand to do it.
Now Brady's 128-game starting streak, third-longest in NFL history, is in jeopardy.
'It kind of looked bad,' Randy Moss said. 'I know the show must go on and, hopefully, Matt Cassel is ready to step in.'
He was Sunday. That came as somewhat of a surprise after he failed to produce a touchdown in 17 exhibition series, leading many to wonder if he would even make the team on which he backed up Brady the past three seasons.
'He did a good job coming in and, obviously, made some big plays for us,' tackle Matt Light said. 'That guy's had a lot of criticism cast down on him and I felt like he stepped up and played like a professional.'
Still, the Patriots plummeted from an exclamation point of an unbeaten 2007 regular season to a huge question mark in 2008. They lost the Super Bowl to the New York Giants 17-14 then went 0-4 in the exhibition season while Brady had a right foot injury and missed all four games.
But for the first time in 57 games, Brady wasn't listed on the Patriots' injury report for Sunday's game. He completed seven of 11 passes for 76 yards.
Cassel, who had thrown just 39 passes in his first three seasons, went 13-for-18 for 152 yards and one touchdown.
'This is something I've been preparing for (for) a long time. It's not something that we expected to come up on opening day,' he said. 'Since I've been here and been around Tom, he's always popped back up.'
Not this time. And Kansas City also had its own quarterback woes.
Damon Huard, playing after Brodie Croyle left with a bruised shoulder late in the third quarter, completed a 68-yard pass to Devard Darling, who cornerback Deltha O'Neal ran down and tackled at the Patriots 5 with 53 seconds left.
'It was a gut check. Go get him,' said O'Neal, a two-time Pro Bowler who signed early last week. 'That's what my whole mentality was.'
The Chiefs moved no further with two incompletions, a run for no gain by Larry Johnson and a poorly aimed pass toward Dwayne Bowe.
'Matt played well,' Huard said. 'At the end of the day, it's how quarterbacks are measured.'
But, Chiefs cornerback Patrick Surtain said, 'Brady is Brady. There's only one of him.'
Last season, Brady set an NFL record with 50 touchdown passes, but it ended in disappointment with the Super Bowl loss.
They stayed calm without him Sunday.
'Worry about the consequences later,' linebacker Tedy Bruschi said. 'Whoever's in there, do your job.'
With the game scoreless, Brady was hurt when Pollard hit him low as he heaved a 28-yard completion to Moss. But Moss fumbled the ball away.
Cassel was impressive on his first possession, starting at his 2. With a third down at the 1, he threw a 51-yard completion to Moss.
'We had them deep into their territory,' defensive tackle Glen Dorsey said, 'but they made a good play.'
Eight plays later, Cassel and Moss hooked up for a 10-yard touchdown and a 7-0 lead.
It was Moss' 126th touchdown, tying Jim Brown for eighth most overall, and 125th on a reception, tying him for fourth in NFL history.
The Chiefs cut the lead to 7-3 on a 40-yard field goal by Nick Novak with 17 seconds left in the half.
Cassel led another impressive drive, covering 80 yards in which he completed all four passes. Sammy Morris ended it with a 5-yard scoring run for a 14-3 lead.
The injury marred the Patriots season opener for the second straight year.
They won 38-14 at the Jets in last year's first game, then were punished by the NFL after an employee was caught filming the Jets' defensive signals. Belichick was fined $500,000; the team was fined $250,000, and the Patriots also lost a first-round draft choice.
'For Week 1, you never know what to expect,' Light said, 'and this was one of those weeks.'
Notes: A new banner hung from under the third deck marking their 16-0 regular-season record last year. ... Croyle, now 0-7 as a starter, went 11-for-19 for 88 yards. ... The Patriots improved their NFL best regular-season winning streak to 20 games.
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