This team is going nowhere with this pathetic offense

You forgot to include a discussion of your unimpeachable objectivity which is absolutely vital to your street creds.

Throwing a red flag on your" crying three year old girls". You are calling bottom feeding crying girls??? clean up you post!!

I blame Bill.

Who the hell is boob?

LOL, got it, he's only responsible for the bad. BTW, helluva ST play by Brady getting that safety yesterday.

Yeah, pretty much. While he is a meh GM, he is usually a stellar coach, but that D in the early games was not being coached well enough.


Yeah, the 8-8 teams the GM builds get a safety once in a blue moon.

Anybody can say almost anything.

One problem with criticizing the Patriots right now is that the team hasn't lost a game since September, and before that, the final game in September was blatantly thrown by a crew of bought refs.

The Patriot game plan is all about getting ahead in the first three quarters, then coasting in toward the win. It looks a bit scary when Phillip Rivers is set up on the 30 yard line with one second left, but Rivers somehow has to throw a long miracle pass into a pile of eight Patriot defenders sitting back there in the end zone with the back line of the end zone acting as an extra defender. Beyond that would have been a two point play, then overtime for a notably worn-out Chargers defense.

Part of the Patriot fourth quarter near-victory strategy is to minimize long offensive passes that can get picked off. As a result the team plays a clock-eating prevent offense, ugly on the offensive stats but proven to be quite effective in the win-loss column. The offense shouldn't be criticized for doing exactly what the coach told them to do.

Friendly Foxboro isn't quite a spear-chucker's offensive dream. The football was rather wet on Sunday, as Mr. Rivers found out when he patted the football and then the football vanished from his grip, almost like the hard-shell taco that split apart in my hand and then landed all over the floor when I saw the play. The extremely heavy fog we saw last week also probably greased the ball pretty well. I don't know how much that wind and rain affected long passes on Sunday, I found a four inch thick branch in our yard this morning.

Is the team the offensive dream that we imagined? No, Edelman's out and Allen's not good at getting open. Overall, BB's strategy of acquiring heavyset skill players, the kind that are slow to injure, and of emphasizing the 53rd man on the roster because starters go down, will continue to produce a relatively great offense in November and in December.

After the bye I expect Nate Solder to be somewhat better healed. If Gillislee has been playing hurt, he gets a bit of help from the bye week. The entire team gets more on the same page, with new wrinkles added. Cannon hopefully gets his ankle better. Hogan's shoulder gets time to heal. Half the team has their quiet bumps and bruises that need time to heal.