season = over

[Monostradamus]

:lol nfl gonna get buttraped
:lol 19-0 looms

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Glad to see Belichick is mixing the defense up more and sending Mayo on blitzes

[Fabbs]

I'm a weasel welcher.

[Kirk Nowitzki]

It's comforting to know you can always return to Fabbs acting like anyone on SpursTalk gives a shit about what he has to say, and equally comforting to know you can take a two hour dump on his chest and all he'll do is accuse you of being Mono, quote you and replace your text with a joke most of us learned in the 3rd grade, or post a Simpsons picture. Funny when this picture quite accurately sums up any post Fabbs has ever, or will ever make:

http://www.gifflix.com/files/ba7041ef8f57.jpg

Isn't it ironic, dontcha think?

[Fabbs]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/1/14/20091009163519!Ralph_Wiggum.png
I can make up multiple profiles.

[LnGrrrR]

I was waiting for this post. :lol

[Kirk Nowitzki]

I was waiting for this post. :lol

That's just it, you can literally bait Fabbs into his own shtick. That's how played out it is. He's clearly butthurt over how despite the fact that he thinks trolling is stupid, people respond to it and think mono's funny. So one day he decided he'd fight the good fight and call everyone he suspected of being one of mono's trolls with this garbage "MultiTroll" business, and the rest is history. The epiphany probably hit him while watching the Simpsons, making a PB&J with Welcher's jelly (see what I did there?) and fingerbanging his pet weasel. With the Ralphie card already played in this thread, I'm sure I'll now just get one of his generic cookie-cutter filler quotes slipped in next.

[lefty]

We staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacked

[DeadlyDynasty]

Their running game and run defense look beastly so far--that's what matters most. Nobody gives a shit if Brady/Mallett/whomever can chuck the ball for 5,000 yards and 50 tds--it hasn't even won them a playoff game recently.

If the law firm et al can continue to produce while on the opposite side Wilfork and Haynesworth can shut down the inside running game, than New England we'll be disgusting.

I'm still not sold on their secondary though, and I don't think they match up well with The Pack should they meet in the SB.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

They have a deep as fuck group of corners if they're all healthy. Bodden and McCourty as the starting corners, probably Darius Butler as the nickel corner, and Arrington/Ras-I Dowling/Wilhite as the other corners.

Their safeties are the issue since Meriweather is a moron and Pat Chung sucks in coverage.

[512spursfan]

God damn the Patriots look awesome this year. Definitely my favorite team.....such a smart FO and coach, just like the Spurs.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

:lmao

[Monostradamus]

fabbs please reply in this thread with a ralph wiggum post or calling me weasel, welcher,monoslob, or any other cliche post of yours if you want to start the Axe/Fabbs subcrew.
I like to change quotes!http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/I-m-With-the-Band-ralph-wiggum-123926_400_334.jpg

[Pelicans78]

My favorite Patriots highlight:

LrlsVcASsSo&feature=related

[Fabbs]

My favorite Patriots highlight:
Nicely done. :lol :toast


Monoslobus
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/1/14/20091009163519!Ralph_Wiggum.png
I thinks the Pats will go 19-0.
I've thinked that before.
But i welched.
I'm a welcher.

[LnGrrrR]

My favorite Patriots highlight:

LrlsVcASsSo&feature=related

I went to that game... had great seats. Had as much fun as you can have when your team gets its ass handed to them.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

If the Patriots don't address the giant problems they have at C and RG, it'll be the same story as last season. Great regular season, run into a 3-4 defense in the playoffs with a line that manhandles Koppen and whatever scrub they'll be starting at RG. The Lions aren't even a 3-4 defense but their D-line exposed the huge problems New England's interior O-line has. With the scrubs they have at C and RG other teams can get pressure up the middle to easily with D-linemen who can bull rush, and we know how ineffective Tom Brady is against interior pressure. The time to replace Dan Koppen was after he got destroyed by Haloti Ngata in 2009 yet BB doesn't seem to realize how worthless he's gotten.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Any word on Welker?

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Not yet. Losing Welker to PUP or IR would be a moderately big deal but it wouldn't be the death blow people would talk it up as. It would force Brady to spread the ball around and work through progressions rather than stare Welker down like he has a habit of doing. If he's out for awhile they could move Branch to the slot and have Brandon Tate/Taylor Price start opposite OchoCinco.

None of that is as big a deal as the hole they have at C and RG IMO. their last 3 playoff games have all been abortions largely because of how much they shat the bed against interior rushers. It's been a problem for years and hasn't been addressed.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Not yet. Losing Welker to PUP or IR would be a moderately big deal but it wouldn't be the death blow people would talk it up as. It would force Brady to spread the ball around and work through progressions rather than stare Welker down like he has a habit of doing. If he's out for awhile they could move Branch to the slot and have Brandon Tate/Taylor Price start opposite OchoCinco.

None of that is as big a deal as the hole they have at C and RG IMO. their last 3 playoff games have all been abortions largely because of how much they shat the bed against interior rushers. It's been a problem for years and hasn't been addressed.

It looked pretty fucking awful yesterday, no doubt. Suh and Co. had their way. You just know Rex Ryan was jerking off to that game.

[Monostradamus]

Not yet. Losing Welker to PUP or IR would be a moderately big deal but it wouldn't be the death blow people would talk it up as. It would force Brady to spread the ball around and work through progressions rather than stare Welker down like he has a habit of doing. If he's out for awhile they could move Branch to the slot and have Brandon Tate/Taylor Price start opposite OchoCinco.

tbh anything that gets Brady to start looking at the two best receivers on the team more (Gronk/Hernandez) is a good thing.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

tbh anything that gets Brady to start looking at the two best receivers on the team more (Gronk/Hernandez) is a good thing.
Yeah exactly. Losing Welker might turn out to be a blessing in disguise for Brady like Kevin Faulk's injury last year or the Randy Moss trade. Now both the receivers (Moss and Welker) 2009 Brady loved to stare down and over-rely on are gone and hopefully he'll return to pre-2007 Brady where he just threw to whoever was open.

A Woodcuck injury would really help the team out now. He's another guy who got WAY too many touches late last season and against the Jets when he's nothing more than a change of pace/3rd down specialist type guy.

[Fabbs]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/1/14/20091009163519!Ralph_Wiggum.png
The Pats will go 19-0.
I'll make a weasle welch wager on that.

[LnGrrrR]

The Great White Hope is gone? NOOOOOOOO.

Seriously, I'm a fan of Welker, but I think we have enough to get by without him.

[Fabbs]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/1/14/20091009163519!Ralph_Wiggum.png

:lol nfl gonna get buttraped
:lol 19-0 looms

[Fabbs]

:lol nfl gonna get buttraped
:lol 19-0 looms
Believe.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/14/Ralph_Wiggum.png/212px-Ralph_Wiggum.png

[4>0rings]

:lol Mono got the sores ass in the world right now from the Ranger debacle and now the Pats

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

They have a deep as fuck group of corners
:lmao:lmao:lmao

[Monostradamus]

:lol Mono got the sores ass in the world right now from the Ranger debacle and now the Pats

lol, 8 and the Mavericks ringing still burns your hide, eh?

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/7172336/time-start-questioning-new-england-patriots-coach-bill-belichick

Great article. As far as I'm concerned, BB is the coach here as long as he wants to be, and after that I'd still love to see him as a Bill Parcells-type consultant to help whoever takes over for him, but it's time he scales back his power. There needs to be a defensive coordinator who can worry about evaluating defensive talent and helping defensive personnel improve.

The way BB has mismanaged this defense (in particular the secondary) has turned a defense with tons of young talent in 2009 and 2010 that had shown flashes of great potential into a jumbled up mess.

Cutting Darius Butler after a sophomore slump was stupid.

Cutting Leigh Bodden less than a year after he had reconstructive shoulder surgery (and a shoulder injury affects a corner more than you'd think) was stupid.

Cutting Brandon Meriweather without having any idea who his replacement would be was stupid. Meriweather was an idiot who had it coming, but he's still better than any safety on the team not named Patrick Chung.

Using two 2nd round picks on Brandon Spikes and Jermaine Cunningham then switching to a 4-3 a year later so they have no use was stupid.

Making it so generating pressure was dependent on Albert Haynesworth suddenly giving a shit was really stupid.

Deciding to switch to a 4-3 because "the lockout made it so there wasn't enough time to teach a complex 3-4 in training camp" when nearly every player on the defense had much more experience with a 3-4 was the latest example of BB over thinking things and trying to do too much.

When Todd Haley pisses Romeo Crennel off like he did Charlie Weis, New England needs to give him a call.

Bill O'Brien has received a shit ton of criticism as long as he's been calling plays but I'm fairly content with how he's done as offensive coordinator as I don't think anyone realizes how many holes this offense has. Having one of the most productive passing games in the NFL with your only threats at TE and in the slot requires a good offensive coordinator even if Tom Brady is the QB. It's not like 2009 when their yards came from throwing it up and having Moss go get it.

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

Amazing how bad the secondary is considering the number of picks used to shore it up the last few years. WTF is going on with McCourty? Michael Clayton syndrome?

Time to use some of those 48 picks to trade up for some defensive playmakers. Front seven scares nobody.

This year? Defense is beyond reproach so why not add Moss and lay the wood on opposing defenses?

Do it, BB.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Amazing how bad the secondary is considering the number of picks used to shore it up the last few years.
That's exactly it. He's used sooooooo many 1st and 2nd rounders to shore up the secondary but has done a shit job developing most of them and has been way too impatient with a lot of them.