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I'm going to guess the following guys:

Deltha O'Neal
Kyle Arrington
I object to the Arrington hate.

Yes, he was awful in SB 49 and mercifully pulled off the field. But he was also pretty good at times and contributed to winning. I also don’t recall him ever being a douche off the field.
 

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I object to the Arrington hate.

Yes, he was awful in SB 49 and mercifully pulled off the field. But he was also pretty good at times and contributed to winning. I also don’t recall him ever being a douche off the field.
Hey, there is no confirmed case of Arrington hate. I was just trying to figure out who he could potentially have been thinking of.
 

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Who was the guy who muffed the Punt in Denver 1 2015 costing us Home field. I hate him so much I have blocked him out. Didnt he do something else that screwed over the team? I shouldnt hate him....he was a kid in a tough situation. But goddamn it make the fair catch.

Peyton. Gotta Be Peyton. Or Eli. Yea Eli. No Screw that, Archie by a mile. Archie cost us 2 definite superbowls and possible 4 more. Imagine that.
 

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Who was the guy who muffed the Punt in Denver 1 2015 costing us Home field. I hate him so much I have blocked him out. Didnt he do something else that screwed over the team? I shouldnt hate him....he was a kid in a tough situation. But goddamn it make the fair catch.

Peyton. Gotta Be Peyton. Or Eli. Yea Eli. No Screw that, Archie by a mile. Archie cost us 2 definite superbowls and possible 4 more. Imagine that.
Chris Harper and thanks! I knew I was forgetting someone
 

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Not my most hated, but I can't believe Sergio Brown didn't get mentioned. He has a case in either category; he blew them the Giants regular season game in 2011 (which didn't matter for the Pats, but New York doesn't make the playoffs without that W and thus can't beat NE in the Super Bowl), and he was the one who broke Gronk's arm on the extra point a year later.
And he got thrown out of the club by Gronk!
 

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It was Larry Whigham. Somehow, according to Wikipedia, he went to 3 pro bowls. But man did I HATE that guy. Always seemed to be getting burned.

Also, did you know that in the mid-60's, the Pats had a d-back names Dick Felt? I wasn't around then, but I bet it was hard to hate that guy.
 

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It was Larry Whigham. Somehow, according to Wikipedia, he went to 3 pro bowls. But man did I HATE that guy. Always seemed to be getting burned.

Also, did you know that in the mid-60's, the Pats had a d-back names Dick Felt? I wasn't around then, but I bet it was hard to hate that guy.
Wait Larry Whigham? Dude was a star special teamer. He didn't play much on D, if any. When was he getting burned?
 

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It was Larry Whigham. Somehow, according to Wikipedia, he went to 3 pro bowls. But man did I HATE that guy. Always seemed to be getting burned.

Also, did you know that in the mid-60's, the Pats had a d-back names Dick Felt? I wasn't around then, but I bet it was hard to hate that guy.
Whigham was a very good special teams player. And it’s indeed very possible that he sucked in the secondary.
 

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Wait Larry Whigham? Dude was a star special teamer. He didn't play much on D, if any. When was he getting burned?
Honestly, it is so long ago, all I remember is yelling his name in complete frustration. WHIGHAM!! I am positive he played some secondary though, but I have no evidence to back it up.
 

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Most hated opponents:

-Peyton, for his fake good old boy horseshit and the wrongheaded belief that he somehow belongs in the same league as Tom.

-Pollard because duh

-Terrell Suggs for being a walking, talking bag of dicks. Ray Lewis too, while we’re on Ravens linebackers, for his insane pastor character and murder-y tendencies.

-Any member of the Steelers with a special shoutout to Captain Fat Fuck specifically.

-Despite it being before my time, I’ll join the chorus of folks hoping there’s a hell so Jack Tatum can burn in it for all eternity.

Hated Patriots:

This is hard because I honestly can’t remember ever really hating any of our players. I guess I’d have to say:

Hernandez because as another poster said, the human cost of his actions is horrible and the worst part of his transgressions but his inability to not be a psychopath also cost us a serious offensive weapon.

And, another guy from before my time, Bill Parcells: Punting the Super Bowl because he was busy trying to land the Jets job is unforgivable but every single story I’ve read or interview I’ve seen paints him as an arrogant, manipulative dick who treats people like shit and uses them for his own ends. Great coach, major tool.
 

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I thought about Parcells. Tough one for me, what he did during the Super Bowl week was unforgivable and I've basically hated him for it for 20+ years. But, (a) he came to coach the Pats at a time when they were a goddamn joke of a franchise. Luring an actual, accomplished, NFL head coach to Foxboro in those days was almost inconceivable, and he (along with Kraft and Drew) actually injected some excitement into the franchise for the first time in a long time, and (b) he brought BB to Foxboro which was the first in a series of events that led Kraft to hire him in 2000. Parcells is an arrogant dickhead and generally seems like a shitty person, and the SB stuff is infuriating, but there's enough good associated with him for me not to put him at the top of the hated list.
 

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Neither a player nor a coach, but I hated Victor Kiam far more than anyone else related to the Patriots.
 

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Honestly, it is so long ago, all I remember is yelling his name in complete frustration. WHIGHAM!! I am positive he played some secondary though, but I have no evidence to back it up.
Wheatley?
 

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Mowatt for sure, but I wanted to put Dave Meggett's name out there for Dishonorable Mention. The fact that he was a New York Giant for so many years is only 4th or 5th place on my reasons why I think he's a piece of shit.

We don't have time to go into the opponent, but you guys have named most of them, starting with Tatum
 

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Hated opponent has to be Eli. Captain Mediocrity had two great playoff runs amidst an entire career of average play, and that's what stands between the Pats and 2 more super bowls.

Hated Patriot is Adalius Thomas, for reasons already stated. It's hard to get too fired up about much else in this era. Hating a guy for lousy performance either means hating a sucky player for being sucky (Chris Harper, Reche Caldwell) or a good player who contributed to tons of success but had a bad moment or two that cost us (Asante Samuel, Wes Welker).
 

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Hated opponent:
Rex Ryan. Just the sound bites, NY connection, and him beating in my opinion a top 5 Patriot team in the divisional round.

Hated Patriot:
Casius Marsh. How hard is it to set the edge you talentless douchebag.
 

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How can you hate Nick Foles? He’s just a humble motherfucker with a big ass dick.
I don’t hate Foles or Manning, but have a begrudging respect for them. It’s assholes and shittalkers like Peyton and Suggs that I hate.
 

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No votes for this "opponent", Ben Dreith? I hate Peyton Manning with a passion. Not as a football player but as a horrible human being.
I'm not sure it's hate but the annoyance of a big, goofy manchild that could get injured while watching game film?
 

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Jack Tatum by a landslide for me... whoever's second isn't even close. Unapologetically crippled Daryl Stingley, then pretty much does a victory dance about it later in life. Changed Stingley's life forever and undoubtedly shortened it. Seriously, fuck that guy. How the Stingley family didn't universally throw a party when Tatum died a slow and excrutiating death is beyond me. Seriously, fuck that guy.

So you can see why the hate for Peyton Manning and his big giant Nationwide-jingle singing head does't come close to me. Same for everyone else in this era. It's tough to hate on anyone from the last twenty years or so since, they're not so much as hated combatants as much as they are bumps in the road during a great era in sports.

Oh... and Hernandez. The guy killed people. Reche Caldwell is probably second on my list. I'm not sure if they keep such stats, but the ratio of his dropped passes to his indignation about no flag ratio had to be close to 1:1.

But seriously, fuck Jack Tatum.

Reason for edit: Changed some tenses, forgot a pronoun, and added another fuck that guy, because seriously, fuck that douchenozzle.
 
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Jack Tatum, Phil Vilapiano, George Atkinson...pretty much that whole Raider secondary (save Willie Brown) and linebacker corps

Ray Lewis

Hated Patriots? Marc Wilson--Ken Sims--Cassius Marsh
 

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I think it’s funny how hated Cassius Marsh is. He wasn’t even on my radar when I started the thread but now it’s all coming back to me just how annoying of a player he was.
 

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Hated Patriot: Asante Samuel. Catch the damn ball.
By the same logic, couldn't you say: Rodney Harrison, knock the damn ball off his helmet?

Asante was a great player for us and a big part of two SB winners. It would have been awesome if he'd picked Eli too (where would that go down in great Patriots playoff moments? No worse than #3, right?), but his failure to do so doesn't color the rest of his career for me.
 

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By the same logic, couldn't you say: Rodney Harrison, knock the damn ball off his helmet?

Asante was a great player for us and a big part of two SB winners. It would have been awesome if he'd picked Eli too (where would that go down in great Patriots playoff moments? No worse than #3, right?), but his failure to do so doesn't color the rest of his career for me.
He also had the Pick 6 against Manning that would have been a top 3-5 Patriots playoff moment had corrupt officials, Caldwell, and injuries taken their toll.
 

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By the same logic, couldn't you say: Rodney Harrison, knock the damn ball off his helmet?

Asante was a great player for us and a big part of two SB winners. It would have been awesome if he'd picked Eli too (where would that go down in great Patriots playoff moments? No worse than #3, right?), but his failure to do so doesn't color the rest of his career for me.
I can't get over that moment. Yes I know how good he was for the team, but catching that means football immortality for that 07 team.
 

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I can't get over that moment. Yes I know how good he was for the team, but catching that means football immortality for that 07 team.
I agree, but why are singling him /that moment out as opposed to Rodney or Adalius Thomas (who does belong in this discussion) or Logan Mankins (who was awful all game)?
 

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Most hated opponents:

-Peyton, for his fake good old boy horseshit and the wrongheaded belief that he somehow belongs in the same league as Tom.

-Pollard because duh

-Terrell Suggs for being a walking, talking bag of dicks. Ray Lewis too, while we’re on Ravens linebackers, for his insane pastor character and murder-y tendencies.

-Any member of the Steelers with a special shoutout to Captain Fat Fuck specifically.

-Despite it being before my time, I’ll join the chorus of folks hoping there’s a hell so Jack Tatum can burn in it for all eternity.

Hated Patriots:

This is hard because I honestly can’t remember ever really hating any of our players. I guess I’d have to say:

Hernandez because as another poster said, the human cost of his actions is horrible and the worst part of his transgressions but his inability to not be a psychopath also cost us a serious offensive weapon.

And, another guy from before my time, Bill Parcells: Punting the Super Bowl because he was busy trying to land the Jets job is unforgivable but every single story I’ve read or interview I’ve seen paints him as an arrogant, manipulative dick who treats people like shit and uses them for his own ends. Great coach, major tool.
Hernandez at the end of the season before... BB had just started thinking of how he could use him.. he started (as I recall) lining him up as a FB, RB,WR and TE... he was going to be able to run some crazy sets the next year because of his talent. IF he hadn’t murdered people Hernandez was destined to become a once in a lifetime type of TE that we’ve never really seen IMO... such a waste in all aspects.
 

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Eli.

Eli is the most overrated goddamn QB because of two horseshoe up the ass moments and a godly defensive line. He isn't good, he's never been good, his name is Elisha, he sucks, and because he got insanely lucky he ruined the best season football has ever seen.

At a time, I had a begrudging respect for Peyton because as annoying as he was (a selfish ass with a fake personality who got entirely too much credit from the media and a received COMPLETE pass from the NFL for HGH at the same time Brady was getting absolutely railroaded over nothing,) at least he was talented.

Generic list of whiny, excuse-spewing sore losers, and I'm expanding slightly past players into FO as well: Joey Porter, Bart Scott, LaDainian Tomlinson, Shawne Merriman, Marshall Faulk, Eric Mangini, Tony Dungy, BILL POLIAN.

Bernard Pollard. Doesn't even need a category.

As far as Patriots I hate...it's difficult for me to build up a lot of hate for anyone over such a run of sustained success. Caldwell sucked, but it's not his fault our receiving corps that year was him, Doug Gabriel, and guys even worse than the two of them. Same for any one of our thousand shitty DBs wheeled in and out over the past two decades. You have to give it to Hernandez for the double whopper of being the epitome of wasted potential and an absolutely terrible person in every sense of the word.
 

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Jack Tatum, Phil Vilapiano, George Atkinson...pretty much that whole Raider secondary (save Willie Brown) and linebacker corps

Ray Lewis

Hated Patriots? Marc Wilson--Ken Sims--Cassius Marsh
On the topic of old Raiders, I fucking hate all of them because of the Top 10 show on NFLN. They’re always on as guests and they’re all a bunch of loud mouthed fuckfaces with persecution complexes. I would pay at least one full paycheck to see Gronk suit up one last time to throw all of their insufferable old asses out of the club and into a dumpster full of horseshit.
 

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On the topic of old Raiders, I fucking hate all of them because of the Top 10 show on NFLN. They’re always on as guests and they’re all a bunch of loud mouthed fuckfaces with persecution complexes. I would pay at least one full paycheck to see Gronk suit up one last time to throw all of their insufferable old asses out of the club and into a dumpster full of horseshit.
If you're going down that road, can we add Lyle Alzado (yeah, he's dead, I know) and Bill Romanowski to the club/dumpster pile?
 

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Absolutely Eli Manning. Pats never should have lost those SuperBowls and he certainly didn't deserve to come out lauded for the victories.

For the Pats...I was going to say Adalius Thomas, but seeing as many people have already said him I'll go with Laurence Maroney. He was so frustrating to watch rush, just dancing around getting zero yards.
 

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Opponents: i have three
P Manning for going like 8-1 aga denver and knocking out a good 04 broncos team yeah i know its weird
tony dungy he thinks he knows it all was a overrated coach and lucked into his 1 s b win
bill polin he basicly took out fair defense football

least fav bronco Josh mcdanals - had he had a good 2009 draft maybe denver wins 1 or 2 super bowls under manning players denver could of had RB L McCoy FS E Thomas OLB Clay Mathews