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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Patriots Media Update
What?! No Patriots post on January 31st?
An interesting
Posted in Bill Belichick, Information Sources, James Sanders, Kevin Faulk, MVN, Mike Vrabel, NFL News, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Patriot Act, Patriot Nation Blogs, Patriots Game Previews, Patriots Roster, Predictions, Randy Moss, Robert Kraft, Rodney Harrison, Special Teams, Super Bowl XLII
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Thanks Plax!
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Somebody had to come out and say something, anything, that could be used as bulletin board material. WR Plaxico Burress has said words that turned one coach’s stomach sideways and turned another’s lips into a crooked smile. Burress has guaranteed a Giants winon Super Bowl Sunday. He even was nice enough to provide us with a score: 23 – 17. I have no problems with players being confident that they can win a game. Heck, if they don’t, they should hang up their cleats. However, if there is any team that takes such a comment as a dig, it’s the New England Patriots. Opposing players stating that they think they can win is one thing, but as soon as the word “guarantee” accompanies the statement, the Pats rally, as Anthony Smith of the Steelers found out. I’m sure the score prediction was amusing to the Patriots as well. Surely, Belichick had to smile slightly when he heard that comment, as he knows what that does to his players.
That coach whose stomach was turning I mentioned, that would be Tom Coughlin. He knows how those statements affect the Patriots. Here was his response:
Patriots and Giants media updates
So in trying to find everything about the Patriots that I can, I do come across a few funny items or have a few send in by readers.
The guys at CapeCast sent this one over on GiantsCast on their Super Bowl coverage. Thanks Eric!
Also found is another Ryan Parker song hoping the Patriots lose in the Super Bowl. oh well I guess he has too much free time on his hands…
Also in the news is an update on those traveling to Arizona and looking for entertainment.
For your daily Patriots update you can check out a Hot cup of Fitzy each morning on WBZ-TV and he even has his own State of The Patriot Nation. Imagine waking up to watch him each day!
IN BILL WE TRUST!
Hey la, hey la, my QB's back
Hey all. I got stuck on jury duty all last week. It was terrible, but it’s over now.
In the meantime, anyone who’s not a Patriots fan has really wanted to get my goat about this Tom Brady thing, knowing how easily my goat is gotten when No. 12 is involved. Especially when he didn’t show up to practice for a few days.
I even had a friend who told me that he’d heard fourth or fifth-hand from some dude that Brady had minor surgery on his Achilles tendon. The speculation has definitely gotten crazy, but this isn’t surprising. The suggestion of an injury for Brady is enough to send chills down the spine of any Patriots fan and a quiver of delicious hope through anyone who’s not a Patriots fan. And for me, the words “minor” and “surgery” don’t quite go together, especially not when it’s being done on my team’s quarterback a week before the Super Bowl.
But Brady has played with a sports hernia before, a separated shoulder, an injured knee…I don’t think he gets enough credit for his toughness, because, well, he’s a pretty boy. But he’s played–and played championship-caliber football–with injuries in the past that have ended other quarterbacks’ seasons.
In this case, he’s been spotted with an ankle boot…sometimes. To me, if he even has the option of not wearing it, that’s a good sign. He also showed up looking hale, healthy and like a trillion and a half dollars at the Pats’ big sendoff at Gillette Stadium on Sunday. Every other mortal on the stage squinted and shivered in the cold, and the snowflakes catching in their hair and on their faces made them waterlogged–Brady stood there in a suit that probably has its own insurance policy, open-collared, not a hair out of place, like the snow was computer-animated around him. And he was wearing regular shoes.
Now, the Washington Post (among 1,898 sources on Google News) reports that:
Wake up, Gillette!
I have been hesitant to write this article, but after reading Mike Vrabel’s commentstoday, I’m emboldened to speak out. Fans, particularly the season ticket holders, need to get up off their backsides and MAKE SOME NOISE!!! Now, I know Gillette has seen its final game for the season, but this should be addressed now before next season starts up. Did anyone else notice how quiet the fans have been the past couple of years? I think it hit its peak in quietness during the Jacksonville game, where David Garrard must’ve thought he was back in Florida with the total lack of noise when he was engineering the Jags’ offense. Perhaps it’s complacency with the Patriots’ success over the past decade. Another theory could be the clientele that now occupy most most of the seats at old Foxboro Stadium.
Pats fans may be smarter and more sophisticated than other fans, such as New York fans, but perhaps they are too sophisticated. The more raucous fans seem to have been priced out of tickets and a day at a Patriots game. Tickets themselves are expensive, and when you add in parking ($30-$45) and the ridiculous price of food ($8 for a beer!), loud Joe Sixpack, the average fan, simply cannot afford a football game. I was fortunate to get a hold of a ticket for the Miami Dolphins game, but before I set foot in the stadium, I was already $100 in the hole, and that was with saving money by taking the train in. When I attempted to make noise and get the fans in my section to get loud when the Fins’ offense was on the field, all I heard was, “Sit down!”
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Patriots head for Arizona
Today at Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots have a send off before heading to Arizona for Super Bowl XLII.
The Patriots have been preparing before leaving and Coach Bill Belichick is still not answering questions on Tom Brady.
For fans preparing to go to Arizona, MVN’s own Mark Wahlstrom (Cardinal’s Report) writes on the 10 best things for Patriots and Giants fans to do in Arizona.
For those fans that are that are going to the Super Bowl – I envy and hope you have a great time!
For the rest of today, Mike Reiss outlines the Sunday media schedule for the Super Bowl bound Patriots:
Patriots and Giants players part of 'Super Debate' at NFL.com
At NFL.com they are comparing Eli Manning’s quarterback abilities to pro-bowler (and soon to be free agent) Asante Samuel’s cornerback skills. The Super Debate is a vote on who you think would win the match-up.
HHhhmmm interesting?! No not really..
So what does Manning have?
Patriots Kraft perfected business attitude
One aspect of the New England Patriots is their winning attitude. While most fans often think of Tom Brady and Coach Bill Belichick as the key to the Patriots winning performance, the person that put it all together was Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
The key to any winning organization is the ability to find the right people that have the right chemistry and will fit into the organizations culture. Kraft’s ‘gut and instinct’ led him to believe Coach Belichick was the right fit for the Patriots and commented on the importance of intelligence and strategic mindset for any organization during an interview on CNBC.
As the rest of the world wants to know where Brady is these days and how bad he is injured, Brady was actaully part of the CNBC interview shown today and reacted to comments made by Kraft.
Kraft regards Brady as a ‘team player and not a me, me me – kind of guy’ and an example of how the Patriots brand should be about.
The Patriots are a world class organization with an owner that has helped the NFL become the elite sport of the United States.
Although Kraft is all business, he is at heart a football fan and that is why he bought the team in the early 90′s.
It is interesting to see that Kraft has helped the New England fans by providing a franchise they can be proud to support. Before Kraft bought the team most football fans and viewers in western New England were Giants fans of the Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick (also with Tom Coughlin).
Now we shall see Belchick and Brady versus Coughlin and Manning in Super Bowl XLII.
THANK YOU MR. KRAFT!
I also have my own experience on CNBC Europe in September and October 2007.
Patriots' Benjamin Watson announces new charity
New England Patriots’ tight-end Benjamin Watson announced the start of his new charity organization ‘One More’.
Watson and his wife Kirsten explained the mission of his foundation to reporters. Several television stations were present, as well as newspaper writers
For your viewing pleasure: Patriots on TV
With all the sports television giving you every angle of the Super Bowl and their own spin of who will win, Comcast SportsNet will have their own (ahem) coverage with hosts Michael Felger and Gary Tanguay with reports on Pats camp by Dave Briggs; Giants camp by Lance Crawford; national football analysts; and regular football local contributors Andy Gresh, Michael Holley, Tom Curran, John Tomase, Don Banks, PFW in Progress’s Paul Perillo, and of course the lovable threesome of Steve ‘My son is Zak’ DeOssie, Fred ‘Who me’ Smerlas and Scott ‘The Wizard’ Zolak.
Monday, January 28