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

Tony Romo didn't play in Sunday's Cowboys-Patriots game, but he had a message for New England QB Tom Brady regardless: "See you at the title game in February." Romo's comments, made during the postgame handshake, were caught by a mike on Showtime's "Inside the NFL."

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That's cool, maybe Brady can hook him up with some tickets

tarell brown on IR, another player lost at a thin position

feel like the perfect end to the patriots antihero storyline will be when brady gets caught juicing after the they go 19-0 this season

that would make for a headline or two. was reflecting on this recently, right now the legacy of the belichick pats is going to hold up just fine because the "cheating" scandals have been such overblown nothing but the consequence of all that is if they are caught doing anything legitimately fucked up cheaty then the whole edifice will immediately crumble to dust.

pats are bookie favourites for the rest of their reg season games but they will slip up somewhere, especially with the injury problems. i can see them locked for a bye at 13-1 and losing those last two road division games. who that first loss is to idk, as long as it's not the fucking giants.

obvs prob they will prob lose some games but the sched is p soft

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jamie collins southern miss

LEWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS

anything new to report or are we still hoping for some good news?

ACL torn, season over

i am more sad for the game of football than i am for the patriots tbh, he has been a delight to watch at times

awful news though i do think they need someone to be as good as shane vereen not dion lewis

awful news, but it does seem that every time they lose a kevin faulk or a danny woodhead or a shane vereen, they manage to find another, and sometimes i wonder if maybe it's the system and not the player.

but damn i do love dion.

meantime, i'm waiting for the week that belichick just goes ahead and dresses only four offensive linemen for a game.

arrgggh

xxp dion is by far the most talented of the group you mention but they have won with less. time to see what james white can do.

rip

rams signed welker

: /

he's back

patriots release db floyd raven, sr. from practice squad.

just wanted to let you all know.

Guess they are not serious about competing this year

awesome malcolm butler anecdote in this sports illustrated story about the history of "i'm going do disneyland."

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap3000000578255/Sound-FX-Chandler-Jones

lol hes funny

he's having fun out there. love that sequence with the blocking on the extra points.

Interesting note.

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/belichick-explains-why-he-asks-linemen-wear-knee-braces

I like the idea that Belichick is doing doing rotations on O-line too. If your depth was fairly equal quality wise, I think it would give you a shot. Send in a fresh guard and run the big sweep with a guy with full breath. In theory, I could easily see that working. It would be easier to hide to the other club than changing around some receiver set where you have your returner playing or some not usual TE reporting.

reiss with a great factoid: The Giants are 3-0 against the Patriots since the start of the 2008 calendar year. The Patriots have beaten every other team in the NFL in that time.

edelman broken foot, surgery, maybe back this year, boo

idk what jamie collins was sick with but he was reeeal sick. rehabbing with specialists to regain weight and strength???

yeah i was reading some stuff on that. i think he got sick the day before the washington game and then wasn't able to keep food down for awhile
should be back v soon though

also these guys are adorable
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Chandler Jones is such a groupie

lol aw

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-videos/0ap3000000584694/The-Butt-Fumble-I-This-Day-in-NFL-History

any patritos heads have the inside line on whether I should start LaFell or Amendola tomorrow?

gotta think amendolas gonna get most of edlemans usual looks

hard to say where edelman's targets will go but prob start lafell, even if he gets increased looks amendola doesn't really score tds

hmmmm. But he got one against the new york football giants I thought.

oh no he didn't. my bad.

*i dont play fantasy sports

this is my first time playing fantasy football. I am winning the office league, having started 5 patriots in the same week. everyone hates me.

amendola did have 11 targets against NYG, though

I will start LaFell and hover over Roberto's FP button while I watch the game (not really, ty)

one last thing is that amendola also catches almost everything, whereas LaFell has jigglemittens

i would bet on edelman

lol, amendola i mean

they are essential the same guy, belichick is just cloning slot receivers now

ok, at the risk/certainty of going deeper than anyone cares...

amendola will not replace edelman at the patriots' slot receiver because amendola already is the patriots' slot receiver. most likely he will continue to play that role. the outside receivers will be lafell plus either keshawn martin or aaron dobson. belichick and josh mcd apparently like martin a lot, and they don't seem to rate dobson all that high, so martin is prob the first choice if he plays. he is listed as questionable for tonight. if martin plays he'll drop into edelman's z receiver role. if dobson plays he is more of a limited go route type of wr so he will go to x and lafell will switch to z, which is his best spot anyway. so in 2 receiver sets amendola is not necessarily going to be the default 2nd receiver, especially if it is 12 formation with both gronk and chandler on the field too. amendola is not going to be the guy going down the field any more than his in now, and he is still going to be 4th/5th option near the goalline.

so, in conclusion, amendola is going to have a similar role as he has to this point, and already he is getting a lot of the ball so i don't know how much room there is for his numbers to jump, and he is still unlikely to be the guy scoring tds

for fantasy if you have room on your bench martin might be a better speculative pick up

also, lafell was super rusty that first game back but he was really good vs nyg last week