Short week against a suddenly hot team. Landry is a tough cover. Lamar Miller in the run game is tough too. Pats are a banged up team so simply surviving this game with a win is good enough.
axx said:At least it's at home. Kind of sucks that they play these two and then have 10 days to prepare for the friggin Redskins.
Ed Hillel said:
Meh, the Dolphins have the same time to prepare. It sucks any NFL player has to recharge and get ready for a shitty Thursday night game, however. I hate these games.
RedOctober3829 said:Short week against a suddenly hot team. Landry is a tough cover. Lamar Miller in the run game is tough too. Pats are a banged up team so simply surviving this game with a win is good enough.
In this year's NFL where only 11 teams are only above .500 a 2 game streak is significant. I agree with your sentiment, but they look a heck of a lot better than under Philbin.DrewDawg said:Look, you can only beat the teams on your schedule, but I need to see more than wins over Titans and Texans before before I call them "hot".
DrewDawg said:
Look, you can only beat the teams on your schedule, but I need to see more than wins over Titans and Texans before before I call them "hot".
Now I'm curious about what it was. "Thursday night at the Cove"?RedOctober3829 said:My post title got changed. Boo.
Ah, the name of my sex tape.ipol said:A Mid-week Evening With Mammals
MarcSullivaFan said:People were "scared" of the Jets because half the team is injured. That was not silly.
BernieRicoBoomer said:Here's how the teams have fared with the short week Sunday to Thursday since 2009. Probably not super relevant to these particular teams, but just for reference.
Fair enough. But I guess I'm missing your point. Are we supposed to assume the Patriots are going to roll over every opponent until we see someone stop them? Is pointing out bad matchups being "scared"? I've been on this board for 8 or 9 years now, and this is probably the most optimistic and confident I've ever seen it.5dice said:
Perhaps, but this team overcomes injuries like no other by being ready with next man up, so my "scared" factors are usually derived from the other team's situation.
The ability to be ready for next man up is one of the things that separates this team along with special teams when we care to look outside of specific offense/defense matchups.
And aren't short week injury reports sort of made up? (Edit: prior to practice on Wednesday) Could be wrong, but I remember that because teams aren't practicing normally they're supposed to represent who "would have" been limited participants if they had held practice.TheoShmeo said:We will have no updates on the Pats walking wounded unless and until there are practice reports regarding absences or limited participation and the list of the inactives comes out.
dynomite said:And aren't short week injury reports sort of made up? (Edit: prior to practice on Wednesday) Could be wrong, but I remember that because teams aren't practicing normally they're supposed to represent who "would have" been limited participants if they had held practice.
Anyway, Cannon didn't practice last week, so I'd be surprised if we don't see Sea Bass/Flemming again. Unless they promote that practice squad rookie (Clausell), they would once again be one injury away from "Michael Williams, Right Tackle," right?
j44thor said:One of the side benefits from not rushing vs. the Jets is they have a very fresh Blount for Thursday. WAS, BUF and NYJ all ran at will against MIA with bigger backs. They seem to playing the run a bit better under the new regime but how much of that is the fact they have gotten out to huge leads vs an actual material change?
I'm expecting a big Blount game this Thursday.
who?tims4wins said:Chris McCain's twitter page
https://twitter.com/DolphinEret?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
E5 Yaz said:
I was wondering about this as well. Twenty to 30 rushes against the solid Jets defensive front might have taken a toll with such a short body-recovery span.
It seems like one of those theories that makes more sense to fans, though; so, it's entirely possible that this had nothing to do with it. ESPN guys were suggesting this morning that what the offense did was designed to tire out the Jets front by the fourth quarter
tims4wins said:This is... unwise
That's literally been around for months. I'm guessing since its Pats week, it probably got retweeted by McCain or picked up by the media. McCain isn't the brightest bulb in the tree, and if Brady needs motivation from the Twitter account of a reserve DL/OLB, then so be it.Marciano490 said:
As Gronk points out, that'd be a penalty.
http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/gronkowski-reacts-mccain-tweet-thatd-be-penalty?p=ya5nbcs&ocid=yahoo
sodenj5 said:That's literally been around for months. I'm guessing since its Pats week, it probably got retweeted by McCain or picked up by the media. McCain isn't the brightest bulb in the tree, and if Brady needs motivation from the Twitter account of a reserve DL/OLB, then so be it.
The MHK patch was 2011.lars10 said:Isn't that picture most likely from after Brady scored a TD?
Edit: of course..it's from last year's AFC championship game.