Focus Your Negative Energy- Pats-Cowgirls Thread

I think we played a really tough game against a good team. It's a game we could have and probably should have won, but didn't. In spite of the loss, we have several positives to take from the game, we are 3-2, and we still have 2/3rds of the season ahead of us. Plenty of time for us to get on a roll.

Should we be happy we lost? No, of course not. Should we slit our wrists, call for everyone to be fired and predict 0-11 the rest of the way? Even more absurd. Season's not over, not by a long shot.

I hate Brady for the simple fact that if he was playing for any other team he wouldn't be this good. He is not as good as most think. You remeber Tim Rattay when he played for Miami (the U) and he looked great because of the system he was playing in. Where is he now? He was just like Brady never wanted to get hit. Yesterday, I saw more than a couple of passes that could have been completed if he would have steeped into the throw like a man, delivered the ball and took the hit. Instead he would throw it short or away. I LOVE football because it is a manly game, the game where you leave everything you got on the field. If I wanted to watch grown up men getting scared of getting hit, I can watch soccer all day long. Manning, Palmer, McNabb (even though I hate him), Warner...etc. will stand there and deliver. No Guts, no glory.

Yes, I am the guy who think the NFL is becoming too soft with Fair Catch, no touch afer 5 yards, and too many tackles being called as un-necessary roughness. Within 10 years, the NFL will make it mandatory for the players to get their nails polished.


That is why I said the bottom line is Dallas lost. No excuses.

will do.
I love this shit.. you know as well i as do if brady was a cowboy you would only have good things to say about him. point is everybody and there brother could have picked him even the cowboys.. remember he is a i believe a 6th rounder so dont hate him....lol

I probably shouldn't but....

This thread is kind of pathetic - it reveals that we're so bad (and we all know it) that rooting for losses elsewhere is all that's left. When I tried to watch Dallas-NE it was too depressing. I can picture the scene two weeks from now when we fail to score a single TD against NE and lose by 40 or 50 pts... Gibbs, completely outwitted and outclassed, staring across the field at Belichick w/ all his players respecting him and showing it in how they play. And then thinking ahead to Dallas, a team not anywhere in the league of NE, but still on a much higher level than Gibbs and Co. I hope there's a shakeup sooner than later, whether Gibbs retires or Snyder starts firing people, it's never too early to start the new era. For one thing, if the front office continues to be totally incompetent and the offense plays like a bunch of pussies, we're likely to lose Campbell to a much better team. There are some very good reasons to make the big changes sooner than later.

Given your signature, MT, does this post really make sense?

If this is "sharing your courage," I really hate to think what your fears are in this context!!!

My opinion: you are over-reacting to a 17-14 loss at Lambeau. We've got a top-10 defense, an emerging young QB, and an offense that, out of 10 halves of football, has played badly in only 2, really. We're getting better. It's not the smooth process we'd all want, but it's there. No, we are not an elite team. But we aren't shit either: check out the Rams, Falcons, Jets, Dolphins, Saints, and Bengals, for a start. Those teams have good reason to moan. We don't, not yet anyway. When did skins fans become so pissy, nervous, bitter, and insecure? Have some heart and stick by your team, at least here at 3-2. Or, if that's too much for you, just change your name to MTPatriotsFan and go cozy up to Belicheck. And then when, down the road, they run into trouble (all teams do), you can jump on whomever else is the new hot thing.

Or just keep your fears to yourself.

I think we played a really tough game against a good team. It's a game we could have and probably should have won, but didn't. In spite of the loss, we have several positives to take from the game, we are 3-2, and we still have 2/3rds of the season ahead of us. Plenty of time for us to get on a roll.

Should we be happy we lost? No, of course not. Should we slit our wrists, call for everyone to be fired and predict 0-11 the rest of the way? Even more absurd. Season's not over, not by a long shot.

Love your optimism but seriously dude, it's not happening under the current management. We're not anywhere near a playoff caliber team after 5 games and what's the point in spending oodles of cash on coaches and players if the playoffs look like a longshot? Shit, the only team playing worse than us in our own conference right now is Philly. Dallas will kill us and from how NY has rebounded I think it's real likely they will sweep us again this year.

Somebody needs to start a thread discussing the best coaching changes after this season - or maybe even during this season.

Love your optimism but seriously dude, it's not happening under the current management. We're not anywhere near a playoff caliber team after 5 games and what's the point in spending oodles of cash on coaches and players if the playoffs look like a longshot? Shit, the only team playing worse than us in our own conference right now is Philly. Dallas will kill us and from how NY has rebounded I think it's real likely they will sweep us again this year.

Somebody needs to start a thread discussing the best coaching changes after this season - or maybe even during this season.

Any thread that is started now speculating on best coaching changes wil get locked...immediately. It's as ridiculous, if not more so, than those idiotic Who Should We Draft in 2008 threads.

We clearly have been watching two different teams this year. The team you're watching is apparently 0-5 and has been shut out every game. The team I'm watching is 3-2, and one game out of a playoff spot...with 11 games to go. Hardly a longshot

Love your optimism but seriously dude, it's not happening under the current management. We're not anywhere near a playoff caliber team after 5 games and what's the point in spending oodles of cash on coaches and players if the playoffs look like a longshot? Shit, the only team playing worse than us in our own conference right now is Philly. Dallas will kill us and from how NY has rebounded I think it's real likely they will sweep us again this year.

Somebody needs to start a thread discussing the best coaching changes after this season - or maybe even during this season.
Shear lunacy.

We're two plays from 5-0. Our defense has elite status. Coaching changes during the season? You can't be serious.

We're a playoff caliber team in a weak as hell NFC. Look at the teams we're competing against. What you call optimism, I call realism. To each his own.

Hey, if you guys can be satisfied w/ an offense that can't score a single point in the 2nd half of two games (already) that's your shame. I'm just saying that Belichick, Dungy, Cowher, (and probably the old Gibbs) wouldn't stand for that kind of shit beyond the blink of an eye. Has it been addressed in Washington? Hmmm. If the coaching doesn't address the problems what do you do w/ the coaches?

Lunacy would be a call for a whole organization shook up. I love GW. But you can't be a contender for anything w/o consistency on both sides of the ball. Gibbs hasn't been able to get it done going on four years (even the 05 run was inconsistent and relied heavily on a healthy Portis). And Gibbs/Saunders hasn't got it done going on two years.

Where are the excuses going to come from next?

Hey, if you guys can be satisfied w/ an offense that can't score a single point in the 2nd half of two games (already) that's your shame. I'm just saying that Belichick, Dungy, Cowher, (and probably the old Gibbs) wouldn't stand for that kind of shit beyond the blink of an eye. Has it been addressed in Washington? Hmmm. If the coaching doesn't address the problems what do you do w/ the coaches?

What do you think Belichick, Dungy, and Cowher would do without their #1 receiver, most of their starting o-line, and with a banged up RB and a young QB?

Our patchwork offense is currently #15 in the NFL. Let's take it easy...

What do you think Belichick, Dungy, and Cowher would do without their #1 receiver, most of their starting o-line, and with a banged up RB and a young QB?

Our patchwork offense is currently #15 in the NFL. Let's take it easy...

Where do the excuses stop? Did we go w/o Moss and the starting o-line in NY? It has little to do w/ injuries. Great coaches and organizations prove that over and over again, that's the whole point.