here's a pats thread for everyone to talk about patritos shit because nobody else cares

i am disappointed that our pats thread for everyone to talk about patritos shit because nobody else cares isn't delivering the goods for its intended audience, forksclovetofu. we need to get our patritos shit together for 2014. planning meeting?

i can save you the meeting: have legume buy me a sweater

forks sweater

http://cf.ltkcdn.net/mens-fashion/images/std/46258-300x400-Turtleneck_sweater.jpg

i'm going to put this in the 'would like' and 'not urgent' quadrant

xp edelman lost a lot of weight

oh man i used to have a cashmere sweater like that brady sweater.
it was from steven alan. i sold it though. wish i hadn't! what was i thinking

time to search for vintage pats gear and another one of those sweaters

steven alan is so baller

http://www.rantlifestyle.com/wp-content/slideshow/2013/11/linda-holliday/medium/Linda1.jpg

i lost the auction for the sweater

how much did it go for

think its ongoing just i got outbid and was not prepared to reup

ends in a few hours its at $41 now, bidding started at 40 lol

i really dont want to pay even 40 for that thing tbh (+s&h)

if it was blue maybe

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=181273622612

since the result yesterday i have seen talk in the media of 1. pats getting #1 seed, 2. bill b being coty, and 3. tom b being mvp (!). i mean, is there any way that miami doesn't win on sunday now?

haha

if the patriots play four full quarters of football, they'll have a pretty good chance against miami. inasmuch as they played basically two quarters against houston and one quarter plus against cleveland, i'm not counting on it. i haven't seen anything on the field in the last few games that suggests bb should even be under consideration for coty. if there's a "coach of the 4th quarter" award, maybe that.

and of course he should get the "press conference coach of the year" award every year. that award should be named after him.

i mean, is there any way that miami doesn't win on sunday now?

welp :/

does anyone remember in 2011 when julian edelman was playing defensive back and he hit ladainian tomlinson hard enough that the trainers had to come out?

http://i42.tinypic.com/35avh5l.jpg

oh now i remember

also a pretty good hit on vince young that year (had to google to figure out which qb it was)

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/804978/edel_medium.gif

these gifs are making me indescribably happy

that's not it tho, this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdIG2IvNI2Q

oh nice!! that one is awesome.

http://i.imgur.com/9IRoD.gif

aw, rip big guy

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/warrant-links-aaron-hernandez-boston-shooting-153936759--spt.html

The search warrant filed by Bristol police provides some of the first details of Hernandez's alleged link to the Boston shooting.

Surveillance camera recordings showed Hernandez and Bradley going into the Boston nightclub Cure at about 12:30 a.m. on July 16, 2012, shortly after the shooting victims went into the club, according to the warrant.

Hernandez's movements inside the club weren't recorded, but police said Hernandez quickly downed two drinks and that he and Bradley left after about 10 minutes. Surveillance video then showed Hernandez driving a Toyota 4Runner SUV out of a nearby parking garage with Bradley as a passenger, police said.

The footage shows the victims leaving the club at about 2:10 a.m., and Hernandez's SUV passing by them twice as they walked to a parking garage to get their car, the warrant says. The shooting wasn't recorded by any cameras.

A third man who was shot in the car but survived, Aquilino Freire, told police an SUV pulled up next to them while they were stopped at a traffic light, and he saw someone in the SUV's back seat laughing, the warrant says. Then, several gunshots were fired from the rear passenger seat into the car, Freire told police. Two other people in the car ran away, Freire said.

A witness in another car told investigators that he saw an SUV with Rhode Island license plates run a red light, stop next to the victims' car and he heard six gunshots. He described the SUV driver as a light-skinned Hispanic man with short dark hair.

Bill Belichick Smiled Seven Times This Season

lol

if they studed on-field facial expressions, they'd have found two or three more smiles within the 50 or so hours of game time this season. at least!

you usually see a quick on-field smile after a good win. i think there were probably 2, maybe 3 this year.

http://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/6a0115709f071f970b013488925bf7970c.jpe

lmao

i remember that! bill loves halloween.

yeah look at that big ol grin

you can see him remembering

ok, he looks a little too happy there

so...if you choose to believe the reports, spikes was put on IR because he was late for practice

Seems extreme for the postseason when they already have some serious gaps in their lineup.

yup, especially run defense

i don't think they IR'd him for being late to practice once. sounds like an ongoing issue. and that's how bb has run the team from the day he took over, and i don't think he's ever cared if it's preseason, season, postseason or offseason. he's pretty much repared to bench or release anyone (except for brady) for anything at anytime.

repared = prepared

that's so insane, where was this info?

8 conference championship games in 13 years is insane

otm

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/dante-scarnecchia-the-patriots-forgotten-man/

deserved shoutout to dante scarnecchia, great coach + human being

and now retired...

scar and pepper gone, that's like the soul of the coaching staff departed

maybe this got a lot of traction on weei or something but i never heard it once on national media -- if the refs don't pick up the MNF PI flag in carolina (note: the pats still have to score the next play but still), pats are teh #1 seed, could plausibly lose in div rd to san diego, but prob are hosting the conf final vs den instead of going to mile high

idk i just wanted to write that to remember it, i think its accurate. i did think @ the time it wouldve been an ok no-call PI, but considering the flag was already thrown, you can't pick it up and then race off the field, thats p bogus

yeah the pick up was the objectionable part.

i wish they had shown up more but otherwise no sane NE fan can complain about them not making the super bowl this year. it is basically the only playoff loss i am okay with since bill & tom's excellent adventure began. equanimity feels p good.