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It seems pretty apparent that the secondary is horrid right now. It doesn't seem like it's going to get better without serious personnel additions at cost. But I see another issue: if the opposing defense can pull off an amoeba defense, flood the middle of the field with defensive backs and...

Something else to consider is that this was the Jets only opening to make a SB run and for one reason more than just all of their FA re-signings and the emotional letdown of this loss after all their bluster (and the difficulty generating that bluster they will face next year): They gave the...

It's three games ahead, I know. But seeing how our defense is coming together and how our offense has adjusted, with our TE group coming into its own, I am VERY excited to face the Jets again, this time at home.

The more I think about the refreshed receiving corps, our TE situation, the resurgent running game, the more balanced play-calling, the promise of a young defense that has some real talent and - dare I say it - discipline/leadership... Couple that with a very fired up Brady, Moss and Welker...

Let's have a fun exercise -- if you were a defensive coordinator going against a Pats passing game facing this tandem, how would you work to stop it? I'm genuinely unsure you could defeat this passing threat, unless you had a 2007 Giants caliber pass rush and the Pats do nothing to upgrade...

So, hopefully a fun thread. I was thinking about how fast Manning is able to score when he's in the zone and Belichick's conviction that you can almost never have a lead too large to be safe in this league, and that got me wondering: If hypothetically the Pats had managed to rack up 52 - 7...

I think that more than a few of us agree that offensive and defensive play-calling has been sorely underwhelming, predictable and entirely containable. Now, on to solutions. Defense: I want to start here because I feel it's the most obvious fix: play way more aggressive. The league has...

I posted this in the Bart Scott thread, but frankly that thread sucks and I didn't want it getting lost in there. So here are my thoughts on this matter: It's kind of like a DDoS attack with these defenses versus Brady. The truth of the matter is, the Patriots O-line isn't good. It hasn't...

Disclaimer: I still want the *Patriots* to go all the way and win it and I still want to beat the Colts every time we face them. I've had a weird feeling since yesterday when I found out about Brady going on IR. Now, I want to preface this by saying I've "hated" Peyton for a while because I...

I was talking to a friend about what has happened with Brady's injury, as well as the gloating and absolute venom hurled at the Patriots organization for the past 12 months. Here is what he had to say, and I couldn't agree more: "I'll say this. After last year's gloating over the pats' loss...

So the Patriots FO seems to believe the same thing that those of us in the pro-Moss camp have been saying. Moss is this team's top priority. Also, it looks like Gaffney will be back, which is excellent news.

If Ryan falls to Baltimore at No. 8, it would be as perfect a fit as Ben Roethlisberger's falling to the Steelers at No. 11 in 2004. We've got a bit more cap space now after all of the cuts that have been made. Baltimore needs a QB and Matt Ryan falls right in the Patriots #7 range. I know...

I've been giving some thought to how the team is going to respond to this defeat and I reminded myself that this is a team that prides itself on playing with a chip on its shoulder. It's led by a quarterback who admits that there's no such thing as 'enough' and that he lives with the demons...

I admit I really don't understand the whole salary cap setup and process, so I'm hoping someone could shed some light on possible transactions. Despite the O-line completely collapsing in the SB, I think we have bigger fish to fry on defense. The Giants may have been able to get to Brady and...

I'm going to throw out a hypothetical that I think is reasonable to consider if we're only two games away from taking it all at this point. All year we've heard about how this team is beatable. We've heard about blueprints to get it done. We've heard about the weaknesses that can be...

From here... Some might call this "Pot Calling the Kettle Black," but to be honest it did seem like the Giants took a lot of cheap shots. Yes, there were a few on the Pats side too (wtf Wilfork?). But it definitely seemed to me like the Giants wanted to turn it into a street-fight early...

More here... Strategy. Not tactics. Something for the armchair OC's and QB's to think about before spouting off about the second half of yesterday's game.

After seeing how the Ravens just decided not show up against the Colts this past week, is anyone a little concerned that the Ravens might actually find a way to lose this one? Worrisome: Haloti Ngata is questionable Samari Rolle is questionable (shoulder) Todd Heap is questionable and...