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In true Jawaan Taylor fashion, he will leave the team early, right before the news is snapped to the press.

C’mon Terry. Time to shell out some more money.

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Don’t think I can handle that right now.

An Christian Gonzalez was lucky Darnold want more accurate or he would have given up two TDs. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think Mike Vrabel is an average coach who continually has found himself in favorable situations. In Tennessee, he was in a weak division with a generational RB in an era when NFL defenses were getting smaller. In NE, he went to a team with good young QB, HOF OC, and an easy schedule.

Seems like the easy answer there would have been “No.”

Indeed. I’m not saying there’s no pressure. I’m saying that Brady could very likely be in a position to meet (or even exceed) expectations.

Time to depose Lutnick’s wife and children. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Is there reason to assume it won’t maintain its status quo?

I guess losing Edwards, McGovern, and Knox.

But we reasonably might be sitting here in August thinking the offense will be better.

Yes. but given that the Bills’ success last season can almost exclusively be credited to the offense, I think there’s good reason to believe the will have similar success with Brady year 1.

Even if the offense doesn’t improve (I think it will), a defensive improvement could help them breakthrough

Jaguars, Bills, and Broncos with a healthy QB were all very likely better than the Patriots.

Still aren’t heroes though. 😆

It’s not bad.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is very good though. A very different tone than the other shows. Much more hopeful.

I blame the Jets.

I think the Superbowl sent a powerful message last night, that despite our many differences we can come together as a country to celebrate the fact that the Patriots lost.

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Maybe you should re-read what you wrote, take some time to process your thoughts, and get back to us.

Have a good day as well.

Yes. In response to “the idea that you can be totally fraudulent and make the Super Bowl is just silly.”

It was also in jest (see emoji). I clarified that fraud here effectively meant overrated.

Pats body of work over the season raised questions. The post-season and especially SB answered them.

“If you can determine a team isn’t a contender based on a single loss to the literal SB champs…”

Either you’re missing the argument or intentionally creating a truly silly strawman.

That’s not at all what I am arguing.

You’re missing the argument. It’s not about one game.

New England was always a solid but not great team that feasted on an easy schedule. Their only quality win was against Buffalo (where they won by 3 despite multiple Buf mistakes).

Last night just proved what NE always was - overrated.

I think we have, at the very least, strong recent anecdotal evidence to the contrary. 😆

To clarify, “totally fraudulent” should be understood here to mean a team clearly punching above their weight. Not a real contender.

I refer you to the capitalized text.

Seemed to ignore a lot of context in the three wins.

Their defense played well.

Maye looked bad.

Chest thumping about squeaking by the Broncos playing a back up QB is what I believe kids refer to as “cringe.”

It was a long time ago, but the Bills under Chan Gailey were an exciting offense (led by Ryan Fitzpatrick, Fred Jackson, CJ Spiller, and Stevie Johnson). Marrone came in and did nothing with them.

Best thing he did was hire Jim Schwartz as his DC.

Bills fan chiming in to say that the league has been gaslit into thinking Marrone is a good coach.

And the Pats’ reputation was inflated by an easy schedule.

Their 3 playoff games showed who they really were.

I think Pats fans should be deflated. They really thought they had something and then were handed a “how do ya like dem apples” moment.

Post-season showed that without an easy schedule, they’re nothing special