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    The Game Goat Thread: Wk. 12 @ Minnesota

    I'm aware that "incontrovertible video evidence" (or whatever the precise verbiage was), hasn't been the standard for a couple years. It also wasn't really ever the standard the refs were actually applying, so whatever. I was merely echoing the sentiment that the NFL could avoid at least some...
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    The Game Goat Thread: Wk. 12 @ Minnesota

    100% this. If a call isn't obviously wrong watching a replay at full speed, let it stand. If we're going to ask NFL officials to construe Delphic rules on the fly, remind (or perhaps establish) the replay officials that the applicable standard of review is clear error. And relatedly, I...
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    The Michael McCorkle "Mac" Jones Thread

    I think this undersells Mac's contributions in the first half of his rookie season--those numbers and my (unreliable, subjective and rose tinted) eyes told me that the team wasn't winning those games in spite of him. Latter half of the season is another story. It sure looked to me like the...
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    The Michael McCorkle "Mac" Jones Thread

    Two decades of Tom Brady is a tough act to follow, it seems. Mac certainly hasn't been great so far this year, but I'll reserve judgment until we have a sample size of regular season games that doesn't consist entirely of: (1) in Miami, where NE always seems to find new and creative ways to play...
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    Expectations for the 2022 Pats

    That was said with a wink and a grin, which I realize doesn't translate well to the page. Just needed to point out that there's a very recent comp for year 1 to year 2 improvement at the QB position. And from a player with a somewhat similar skill set. Mac has a long (LONG) way to go, and...
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    Expectations for the 2022 Pats

    I doubt I'm covering any new ground here, but I'm not too worried about the RBs, WRs, TEs, special teams or even the OL. May not always be pretty or flashy, but I expect that these units will get the job done. However, that still leaves two BIG question marks. (1) Mac Jones. It's a QB driven...
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    The Open Championship - St. Andrews (Old Course)

    As a graduate of the esteemed University of St Andrews (Class of 2005, along with a certain prince), and frequent victim of the courses in town (the Old included) I feel obliged to point out that the road itself is not OB....anything beyond the stone fence on the other side of the road, however...
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    Analysis of Celtics Games, '21-'22 Season

    I remember watching this run...and wondering, as a pretty casual basketball/NBA fan, what could possibly explain the home/road discrepancy. Soft team that would crumble on the road/under pressure? The end result suggests otherwise. Conclusively. Random variance that can happen in any short...
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    Worst Red Sox contracts ever

    Has to be Carl Crawford for reasons stated previously. I didn't love the signing at the time, but it seemed (at worst) like a slight overpay for a player who, while perhaps not an ideal fit, had been a really, really good player in Tampa. Nope. Disaster pretty much from the start. Smaller...
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    Florio: Pash ordered PSI readings “expunged” in 2015

    None of this surprises me. I would have loved to see the leaguewide data they claimed they were going to collect leak. But I'm sure that once the initial results came in and (shockingly) didn't support the NFL's position, that data was locked down tighter than Fort Knox before being fired into...
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    What was your favorite Tom Brady moment?

    To echo what several others have said already, the comeback against the Seahawks is tough to top. Brady carved up a defense that had flat out embarrassed Peyton Manning the year prior, had his team in a position to win. Then the Kearse play (aka "Helmet Catch II," or III depending on your view...
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    Pats defense: Ongoing discussion

    You'll get little to no disagreement from me. Clearly BB agrees that average(ish) pass coverage from the inside linebacker position is a price worth paying, assuming the players stop the run and can rush the passer a bit when asked. That's basically every inside linebacker the Patriots have...
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    Pats defense: Ongoing discussion

    I'll defer to you and others on here who follow college prospects on a regular basis and in depth (I am casual viewer of college football at best), and can't disagree that a run stuffing LB with speed and the ability to rush the passer would help immensely. I don't think you're describing a...
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    Thank You, Tom

    I'm in pretty much the same boat (I was a senior in HS when Brady was drafted). It just seems crazy to think that until Tom Brady came along Boston teams not named the Celtics just didn't win. Break the hearts of fans everywhere? Sure. Win a title? Keep dreaming. Then Tom Brady happened...
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