An Independent Patriots Blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPwiG3pgg8
The 2009 Patriots-Ravens playoff game segment from Bill Belichick: A Football Life. What a miserable performance. No question the worst a Patriots team has ever looked in the playoffs, but knowing what we know now about the 2009 Pats it almost should’ve been expected.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/patriots-ravens-2009-playoff/
New England Patriots Team Grill Brander
What do you mean you don’t brand your steaks with a Patriots logo before you eat them?
Enter code “PatsProp” for 10% off!
Rob Gronkowski, the New England Patriots, and party style – Grantland
Great read that really captures the force of nature that is GRONK.
The NFL is long on stars, ones with problems and without. But Gronkowski is the only one who seems genuinely beside himself. Success hasn’t gone to his head. It’s gone to his arms and his pecs and his calves and his Twitter account. It’s gone to his party budget. He set NFL tight end records last year for receiving touchdowns, touchdowns, and receiving yards. These are achievements people watch in awe, yes. But you also watch Gronk stalk into the end zone and spike the football with hilarious too-muchness, and think about the way, in a teen comedy, the quarterback’s friend would hurl a keg or destroy a kitchen.
Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript
Defensively they’ve had some turnover. They’ve had some younger guys come in, for example in the secondary at corner. Lardarius Webb has emerged as a very good player; he’s been a big playmaker for them. He plays outside; they move him inside in the nickel package. Cary Williams, who isn’t a new player, but this is his second year as a starter so he’s certainly a new player for Baltimore and Jimmy Smith last year, so they have some new faces there at the corner position. Inside linebacker with [Jameel] McClain and Ray Lewis, that’s been steady here for a couple years, but they lost Jarret Johnson and Suggs is out, so they’ve had to make some changes there at the end of the line of scrimmage, however you want to look at it – Sam, crash end, rush end, that type of thing. [Haloti] Ngata has been a big force for them inside [and] continues to be. They’re very strong down the middle with Ngata and [Ed] Reed and Lewis of course.
The last we saw of the Ravens…
I really don’t want to rub the AFCCG in too much this week. Let’s face it, we should’ve at least seen overtime, much less lost had Sterling Moore not gotten a hand in on Lee Evans. As I said at the time, the only person on the Ravens that deserved to lose like that was Bernard Pollard.
Still, I love this GIF…
