My goodness, the Tebowless Patriots are in for a long season. What more is there to say when the biggest offensive weapon for Brady is a former quarterback who wears Drew Bledsoe’s #11. These rookie receivers are clueless, just like Ocho Stinko two years ago.
Sometimes, best to swallow some pride, Wes Welker should have been resigned and not brought in Amendola, who is hurt, yet again. Appears the defense and special teams will need to excell, for the Patriots to have a chance.
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…since his rookie year.
I was at one of those practices, on those aluminum benches, and this big kid with the Leno jaw just SHONE. He was always the Mini-Wes, he plays offense AND defense, and is a huge talent. He got lost a little with the broken bone, but I think this will be his year to really get noticed.
And playing punt returner, he will be worn out by October. It just doesn’t look good, reminds me of the Red Sox when Tim Wakefield was your best pitcher.
Bruins start soon, no?
I will give you that Tebow would probably be better than Sanchez or Smith…
Also weren’t you saying Timmy was better than Tukka? Not see I can trust you on the BS either
but I don’t see how Tebow would have made it any better. I do miss Welker, however.
It seems pretty stupid to compare rookie recievers in the second week of the season to the veteran Ocho who still seemed to have problems at the end of the season. Let’s give them a chance to learn and grow. Your comment makes it appear as if you have not actually paid any attention to how the Patriots have operated in the last ten years.
if only we had Tim Tebow, the score and outcome of the game would not have changed at all!
(Or, you know, we could have lost, if some special teamer who made a key play somewhere in there was cut instead to have kept Tebow on the team.)
I was trying to pick him up on waivers in my PPR league so I could replace Amendola (always want one Pats offensive player in my lineup) but list out on priority and got the Wasjington WR Hankerson instead who could see a lot of time. Somewhat painful game to watch but if we have to reboot while we are winning it could be worse. Glad it wasn’t on CBS-Simms would have accused us of running up the score again :p
I’d really like it if BMG did not become a sports site.
Thanks
with no complaints and without BMG becoming sports radio central. Me thinks this being a DFW post has something to do with this protest.
We’ve had lots of things before, where the people who didn’t like it bit their tongues and waited for it to go away. In this case, it drove all the comments about politics completely off the front page.
You may thinks what you like, but when I want sports, I have lots of other places to go where they do it better.
Why 100% politics? Variety is the spice of life.
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so I don’t comment on them, find the ones that do and comment instead. So kirth go to your favorite sports site and comment away and ignore the very occasional sports thread that pops up here.
Plus it appears that other BMGer are more than happy to comment on sports now and in the past.
Me thinks you doth protest too much.
And omfg, stop making me write comments supporting a post by DFW
I am not making you do anything. Do the things that you aren’t interested in push all the on-topic comments off the front page, the way this did?
What is it that you thinks I doth protest too much? Do you think I secretly like sports discussions here? I don’t. I find them tedious and shallow.
relatively infrequent and helpful in building community. If you fear you’ve missed something due to one, click on “recent posts.” There are not so many that one sports post every two or three months is a big problem.
And, again, this kind of complete disdain for sports does Democrats no good at the polls.
Where is the “complete disdain for sports” you’re talking about? I don’t have disdain for sports; I just don’t come here for discussion of them. I also don’t come here for movie discussions, or recipes, or pet-care tips, or fashion advice, or the latest insights from Breitbart. I never said sports discussions are tedious and shallow (though most of them are). I said such discussions here are. Let’s stick to what we do well, and leave the things we don’t alone.
“Recent Posts” shows exactly the same list of comments that the front page does. When I wrote my original comment, all of those comments were to this thread; no politics comments at all.
Thank you very much.
Local sports teams bring people together, as Bruins fans sang the National Anthem at TD Garden after the Boston Bombing. I know, I was at that game vs. Pittsburgh. Big Pappi talking to Red Sox fans. As fenway49 pointed out, Coakley not knowing who Curt Schilling played for, doomed any hope she had in 2010. She was “out of touch”. He’ll, I recall Doug Flutie endorsing Hillary in 2000, when he played for Buffalo. Red Sox brass endorsed Kerry, Schilling came out for George W. on Good Morning America, just after winning the World Series.
Now you complain b/c we talk about the most popular game in America, the NFL and our home team? We will likely never see such a run like Pats have had, for the rest of our lives, and we should not discuss it? You want another diary on Citizens United? Or worse how about rule changes for the for MA Democrats at their convention.
I still can’t believe SomervilleTom and I have similar music tastes, we both loved The Doors. Never would have known if we were limited to just discussing “politics”. Life is much more than political issues, even on BMG.
Tedious and shallow
When the Troll in Chief was JohnD, he would make a point every now and again to produce an innocuous post, or a holiday greeting. This served as a kind of protection: he could write scores of everything-is-equivalent-to-everything-else posts but the “Hallmark” posts were a way of trying to stay on the good side of management.
So this is not an unusual pattern. It’s part of attaching the barnacle more firmly to the rock and the tic more tightly to its blood source
I didn’t comment for days (even though I’m pretty solid a Patriots fan) because of that. Then I gave in.
And one post every month doesn’t make it a sports site. So I can’t get worked up over it.
How narrowly should we define it? Shall we ignore what’s happening in Ne York if it’s of note? My word, the time we’ve wasted on national elections even though Massachusetts was a lock for the Democrats!
I am not anti-variety or anti-community. If I want nonstop dry political commentary, I’ll watch Charlie Rose.
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I’ll take the W’s, thanks.
I’ll save my comments after about week 6, then we’ll have a good idea of what we have this year, lets see how the receiver do after a few weeks and see if they starting picking it up better. Brady has to use them the binky is gone, so let’s see what they can do. Plus, don’t know what we have with our defense yet, they haven’t been tested.
People already forgot how the team won games in 2001? The pic to end the game last night, haven’t see that stuff in a long time.
You would think with his first name, the guy would be rock solid. Danny Boy out 6 weeks with a tweak hammy. Reminds me of a song b/c of how the Pats fell in love with Danny Amindola after giving the cold shoulder to Welker
What do you get when you fall in love?
A guy with a pin to burst your bubble
That’s what you get for all your trouble
I’ll never fall in love again.
and it happened in the pre-season, can he play with it is the question. He was a health risk and it already bit the Patriots in the arse.
But he’s no Terry Glenn. The guy couldn’t walk, took a needle to numb his leg then went back on the field, caught seven passes, and was “the guy” on the winning drive last week. So no, not Terry Glenn. You need to make sense when making your comments.
and I will start posting about the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Extravaganza coming this November. Spice of Life Indeed!
just to get some 50th Anniversary Extravaganza posts.
OMG, over two months from now, I am loosing my mind!
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Spoiler Alert (actually just speculation, no actual spoilers): I have thought about the two primary options:
1) He is the Time War regeneration between Paul McGann and Chistopher Eccleston.
2) He is a version of the Doctor prior to William Hartnell.
While I like the idea of finding out why he stole the Tardis (or REALLY the Tardis stole him) and why he left Gallifrey, I think seeing or at least learning more about the Time War would be more satisfying. And while hints dropped in the past have been flat out lies, the heart break of his being the last of his kind since the Chistopher Eccleston/Rose Tyler era really needs to be paid off, IMHO.
Plus, the fire behind John Hurt in the poster makes me think this will be about the Time War. And I agree, this will be infinitely better than any old superbowl!
“He’s got a religious passion, as well he should, we’re in America,” the KISS frontman told Radio.com earlier this week. ”He’s proud to be a Christian, what’s wrong with that? And yet, with sports media and pop culture media, they make fun of his religion. Really? In America? If he was wearing a burqa, they wouldn’t dare say anything [editor’s note: only Muslim women wear burqas]. But if you’re a Christian, you get to be picked on? What the hell? The guy’s got family values. I never saw the media picking on Michael Vick for torturing dogs. Or this other football player, who’s alleged to have killed, committed murder. That’s ‘cool.’ But a guy who’s religious and has got family values isn’t ‘cool?’ He’s cool to me.”
Oh Tim Tebow, I love your big powerful weapon. Ohhhhhh Tim, let me worship you with my tongue. Oh, Oh, Oh, OWWWW Tim!
make you think even one person on BMG — beside yourself — would care about what Gene Simmons thinks?
And it descends from there.
This should be a BMG-vacation-deserving comment.
Gene breathed fire on stage, the makeup, it was wild.
I love it
Its the big time!
n/t
He is pretty much a narcissistic a-hole with almost few redeeming qualities unless you value pure obnoxiousness.
It’s really hard to admire anyone who is willing to go on The Apprentice.
Anyway, actual NFL teams don’t seem to agree with your assessment of Tebow, since none have picked him up so far.