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Re: 2008 NFL season
jorge76 wrote: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.
I get where you're coming from, but I don't think Brady necessarily deserves it. He's the face of the team and shoved down our throats, so it's easy to put the shit his way.
On your point of what you were getting at, in a conversation earlier today I described Bellichick as a good coach, but a piece of shit as a human being, so like I said, I see where you're coming from.
Frankly, 10 years ago I'd have rooted for an injury(and did), but I've kinda decided it ain't cool in recent years. But you're right, there are large amounts of classlessness throughout that organization.
Re: 2008 NFL season
Wow. No one expected that. This is bigger than Marino going down in 93 at the beginning of the season.
I think the Pats either need to ask Flutie to come out of retirement or get some other veteran to manage that offense. This team will crumble with someone inexperienced steering the ship.
I missed most football today because I went to the Pentecostal celebration. Normally doesn't last that long, but my girlfriend's friends wanted to stay there and drink, so my day was spent watching my wallet shrink because of their liquor tab.
From the highlights I just watched, looks like the Rams are even worse than they were last year. Is that even possible? Browns are sliding. Last thing this league needs is another season where everyone worships Romo. Buffalo destroyed Seattle.
Pretty uneventful opening week other than the Brady injury. I wish I could have watched Favre's first game.
I'm gonna finish watching the Bears destroy Indianapolis.
Re: 2008 NFL season
I think the Pats either need to ask Flutie to come out of retirement or get some other veteran to manage that offense. This team will crumble with someone inexperienced steering the ship.
The first thing a buddy of mine said after we saw it was that it's almost inevitible anymore that every so often somebody pulls Testeverde out of mothballs, and maybe that's what's gonna happen here.
He was pretty much joking, but made a good point.
Re: 2008 NFL season
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP)'”Tom Brady went from the disappointment of a Super Bowl loss to the devastation of an injury that could keep him out for the rest of the season.
After missing the entire preseason with an unspecified foot injury, Brady left Sunday's season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs in the first quarter after being hit on the left leg by Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard. Coach Bill Belichick provided no information on the injury, but Pollard had a diagnosis of his own.
'He was in a lot of pain,' he said. 'When you hear a scream, you know that.'
Various reports Sunday night said Belichick told the players that the injury was serious. The Patriots were already looking for a possible replacement for Brady. A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that former Tampa Bay quarterback Chris Simms was coming in Monday for a physical.
Brady was the NFL MVP last season after throwing for a record 50 touchdowns and leading the Patriots through a perfect regular season to the brink of their fourth Super Bowl title in eight years. But New England lost its chance at an unprecedented 19-0 record when the Giants won the championship, 17-14.
Any chance at redemption might have disappeared when Brady, who has started 128 consecutive games, went to the turf clutching his left knee midway through the first quarter. After being tended to on the field, he walked off, limping, between two trainers.
Brady, 31, went to the locker room and wasn't seen again on the sideline as backup Matt Cassel led the Patriots to a 17-10 victory. The two-time Super Bowl MVP was not available for comment after the game, and Belichick said he had nothing to add to the in-game announcement that it was a knee injury.
'They're looking at him, doing some tests on him, so I don't have any information there,' the coach said, cracking a smile as he added, 'doubt anybody's interested.'
The Chiefs also lost their starting quarterback when Brodie Croyle was sacked in the third quarter. The team said he had a bruised right shoulder and he was replaced by Damon Huard.
Brady was 7-for-11 for 76 yards, completing a 28-yard pass to Randy Moss on the play in which he was injured. Moss fumbled the ball away when he was tackled; the Patriots forced Kansas City to punt, then Cassel came in for New England.
'Since I've been here and been around Tom, he's always popped back up,' Cassel said. 'I didn't know (how serious it was). I just buckled my chinstrap and the guys rallied around me. I felt their support.'
Cassel took over at his 2 yard-line and, after two handoffs nearly netted the Chiefs a safety, completed his first pass to Moss for a 51-yard gain. Cassel, Brady's backup for the past three years, finished the 98-yard drive with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Moss that gave New England a 7-0 lead.
'This is something I've been preparing for for a long time,' said Cassel, who threw just 33 passes while backing up Heisman Trophy winners Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart at Southern Cal. 'It's not something I expected to come up on opening day.'
A former fourth-stringer who was the 199th overall selection in the 2000 draft, Brady himself took over at quarterback when longtime starter Drew Bledsoe sustained a life-threatening chest injury in a 2001 game against the New York Jets. Brady led the Patriots to their first NFL title that year, another in 2003 and another in 2004.
In the process, Brady has become one of the league's biggest stars and a crossover cover boy who has met the Pope and the president, dated actresses and supermodels and rewrote one of the NFL's most coveted records.
Last year, while leading New England to a 16-0 regular season, Brady set a record with 50 touchdown passes and improved his overall record as a starter to 100-27'”the best in the Super Bowl era. The Patriots blew a chance at an unprecedented 19-0 season and a fourth NFL title with a 17-14 loss in February's Super Bowl to the New York Giants.
Brady did not play in four exhibition games this summer'”all of them Patriots losses'”while trying to recover from a right foot injury.
'He's the face of the New England Patriots, and Tom being who he is it kind of hurts, to be honest with you,' said Moss, who caught 23 of Brady's TD passes in 2007, also a record. 'I know the show must go on. Hopefully Matt Cassel is ready to step in. I know the team is ready to embrace him and let him lead us.'
Re: 2008 NFL season
This is bigger than Marino going down in 93 at the beginning of the season.
I'll never forget Randall Cunningham going down on opening day in 91. The day I was going away to college, we were listening on the radio. Ruined my whole day.
Re: 2008 NFL season
well if he's out for sure i'm kinda bummed...saving grace is that they have a weak sched this year so they may be able to still make the playoffs...maybe he'll be back by then
really opens up that division though if he goes down, though i dont know how we'll live with CC if the bill make the post season 
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That schedule isn't weak anymore.......
Bills are practically a lock for the playoffs now. I didn't think NE was going to the playoffs anyways, and I know they aren't going now.
Brady's injury also helps the Jets. If the Browns and Jags slide, Jets are in the wild card hunt.
If NE doesn't go after a veteran, I think Belichick is gonna write the 08 season off as a loss.
Re: 2008 NFL season
James Lofton wrote:This is bigger than Marino going down in 93 at the beginning of the season.
I'll never forget Randall Cunningham going down on opening day in 91. The day I was going away to college, we were listening on the radio. Ruined my whole day.
I don't even remember that. Had a lot of drugs flowing through my veins in 91.
