2013 Patriots Football

[Roy H.]

Gotta love Welker dropping multiple passes in his return to New England.

[D.o.s.]

Gotta love Welker dropping multiple passes in his return to New England.

I think Wes Welker may have just handed Tom Brady a win.

[Celtics18]

And, that play on the punt return was on Welker. 

[lightspeed5]

lol welker 

[Bahku]

Wow ... just wow.

Did the fans have an effect on Welker on that last punt, or what?!?

Awesome win, truly.

[kozlodoev]

Eleven total fumbles this game, not counting the miffed punts. Unbelievable.

Also, weird stat of the night goes to Rob Ninkovich: 0 tackles, 13 assisted tackles

[Bahku]

Eleven total fumbles this game, not counting the miffed punts. Unbelievable.

Also, weird stat of the night goes to Rob Ninkovich: 0 tackles, 13 assisted tackles

Yeah, I expected a lot of turnovers ... a football just does NOT behave the same in that kind of bitter cold. I give the edge to Brady in that kind of weather.

Love the Ninkovich stat, lol ... bee-zahh!

[PhoSita]

The Patriots scored 34 points after I stopped watching.

I guess I should never watch the Patriots ever again.


In all seriousness, a great game.  Sorry I missed that second half + OT.  That said, defense on both sides of the ball was pretty poor in this game -- an ongoing issue for both of these teams.  I'd be a little surprised to see either of these teams in the Super Bowl because of the defensive issues.  Still, the AFC is incredibly weak this year, so who knows.

[Cman]

TB12. Greatest Ever.

[kozlodoev]

For everyone who thinks Bill gives the dullest interviews out there, here's a cut from the Monday call with the press. You just got to know what to ask him.

Q: How difficult is it for a defense to deal with the different skill sets of your running backs and not knowing who will be the feature back from game to game?

BB: I think we’ve seen that from different teams over the past few years. It’s kind of interesting how, again, and Houston is a good example but we saw with Denver, we saw with other teams that try to match you on defense, sometimes it takes a little while to figure out how they’re going to match you. It’s a lot easier when you go to three receivers, one tight end and a back to get that matchup. It’s the ones in-between where there are two tight ends and who is the back and we’ve found in years past and even this year, sometimes a team would match a sub defense against a certain player. It could be a back, it could be [Danny] Woodhead or [Kevin] Faulk or [Shane] Vereen. It didn’t matter who else was in the game. Sometimes they would match it based on what combination of tight ends were in there. When you’re shuffling a lot of people in and out, it’s hard to, I think, defensively it’s hard to get it all figured out. Sometimes that why I’m saying it’s just predicated on one guy. Like going back, there were times when teams, as soon as they saw Kevin Faulk come in the game, they would go sub just in anticipation of whoever the other people were, it was more of a passing-type of down. Then hopefully when you see that, you would try to put him in there with a group that you feel like could give you a good running matchup against a team. We hit a couple sub runs on Houston yesterday in that situation. Again, that’s a little bit of a chess game sometimes. If a team is trying to match you, what’s triggering the match? Is it a certain guy? Is it multiple receivers? Will they match multiple tight ends if a certain tight end is the trigger guy? Is it a guy? Sometimes it’s just down and distance. Sometimes you’ll see a team that will just send their sub group on there if it’s second-and-8, it doesn’t matter who you have in the game. Sometimes figuring that out, when you use different personnel groups offensively, takes a little bit. Shane’s a guy that dependent on how a team feels about their coverage situation, he may or may not dictate a matchup. It’s something that we’re aware of, but we don’t know how everybody is going to treat us until we actually get in the game and play them.

[Donoghus]

Sounds like Dennard's request for a continuance on his sentencing was denied and he will be sentenced today.

[Donoghus]

Sounds like Dennard's request for a continuance on his sentencing was denied and he will be sentenced today.

Now has to report to jail on 3/31/14 for 60 day sentence with probation extended a year, an additional 100 hours of community service, and a no-alcohol condition.

From @LJSpilger

[kozlodoev]

Sounds like Dennard's request for a continuance on his sentencing was denied and he will be sentenced today.

Now has to report to jail on 3/31/14 for 60 day sentence with probation extended a year, an additional 100 hours of community service, and a no-alcohol condition.

From @LJSpilger

That's not horrible. Basically, he got an extra month in jail and more probation.

[Donoghus]

Sounds like Dennard's request for a continuance on his sentencing was denied and he will be sentenced today.

Now has to report to jail on 3/31/14 for 60 day sentence with probation extended a year, an additional 100 hours of community service, and a no-alcohol condition.

From @LJSpilger

That's not horrible. Basically, he got an extra month in jail and more probation.

She just reported that the jail time actually starts March 1st and not the 31st.  Also mentioned that he could potentially serve 35 days with good time.

[kozlodoev]

She just reported that the jail time actually starts March 1st and not the 31st.  Also mentioned that he could potentially serve 35 days with good time.

Even better. Means it will cut less into his offseason.

Though I hear that's just the probation hearing, and he's still due for the actual DUI hearing on Friday.