DISQUS

Margaret Butler · 1 year ago

Dear Bill Burt,

Great game, fantastic team, the best Coach. Again, enough said. GO PATS!

Mike Daly · 1 year ago

I'm going to do my Glenn Ordway impression - BTW Bill, what is that music cue they always spoof you with? - by saying I only half-agree that the Giants may be in trouble against the Bucs. To take on the league's best team and surprise everyone with as superb an effort as the Giants put out, that is one of those things that strangely can give them momentum against an NFC opponant right now. On the other hand, teams that battle the Patriots have a history of losing their subsequent game because they've been so beaten up, plus Jeff Garcia beat a Giants team that showed up to play in last year's playoffs.


Speaking of tight ends, what is the deal with Kyle Brady's foot? Will he be there for the playoffs?

I noticed Donte Stallworth getting some good throws after being mostly ignored the past few games - if San Diego or whoever tries to gang up on Welker and Moss, I suspect Stallworth and Gaffney will get the ball more, espeically Gaffney as he showed up bigtime in last year's playoffs.

Finally, on the 1972 Dolphins - if the Patriots run the table, the 1972 Dolphins will still be able to note that they ran the table first. It's like when Al Unser won Indy four times; people thought it would diminish A.J. Foyt, but it didn't because he was the first to pull that off.

Mike Daly · 1 year ago

Question - did Zak DeOssie play at all in this game?

Marci · 1 year ago

On 5. I didn't think the quotes were particularly complimentary. My strongest recollection is that they all said the 16-0 record didn't matter at all because they hadn't won the superbowl and they couldn't possibly call it a perfect record without that.

When the Pats win the superbowl, they'll not only have "come into the same street" as the '72 Dolphins, they'll have passed it. Maybe it's because my first love is baseball, but it seems to me that baseball players make more of an effort to appreciate when records are broken rather than grousing and complaining about the people/teams who break those records. (I just think of the family of Roger Maris who was on-hand for McGwire (if we knew then what we think we know now...))

Jim-red sox nation west · 1 year ago

Yes, the dolphins were the first to go 14-0. The Pats are the first to go 16-0. A greater feat! Now the Pats have to take care of business. You thought the foot was on the gas in the regular season...look out in the playoffs...no mercy! More than anything, I dont want to hear from Mercury Morris for another 20 years. I am a little concerned about the Pats defense especially in the middle of the field. If Eli can be that successfull, imagine what his older bro can do... Tighten it up guys!

Mike Daly · 1 year ago

Jim-red sox nation west - Eli's older brother already choked to the Patriots this season; in Week Nine after the Patriots got the Wes Welker TD Peyton fumbled on 3rd and 9; then after Faulk's TD Peyton got hit by Jarvis Green and flipped the ball into Rosey Colvin's hands.

Jim-red sox nation west · 1 year ago

Mike Daly,
We still know what Peyton can do with an open middle of the field...if the Pats dont tighten it up it will keep TB on the bench...and we dont want that.

Mike Daly · 1 year ago

Jim, the Colts aren't good enough to keep exploiting holes when the Patriots close them up in crunch time, as they did in the meeting in November.