Blinded By The Lombardis

I never want the Pats to be players for the alleged “big” names in FA, as so often you’re overpaying for past production. Humphries seemed like a target that fit their FA MO, but given what he got, sounds like he wasn’t exactly under the radar. It could just be that other teams are getting smarter, so it’s tougher to compete for the types of…[Read more]

Sizz – is that the sound bleach makes when it makes contact with skin?

I never watched him play. I went off what teams told me and that was a lesson learned.

— Greg A. Bedard (@GregABedard) March 25, 2019

Had Gronk been a bust, I’m sure Almost a Coach would have similarly equivocated that the “I don’t see it.  At all” was the evaluation he was hearing at the time, and not his own. I’m sure he’d never take a victory lap for someone else’s opinion.

Edit: wrong thread

Kraft’s not taking the deal. Doesn’t he want to end the rhetoric?

This is six days old, but thought it was noteworthy. When the NFL was changing the overtime rules from sudden death to the system they have now, Gasper had written a column prior to the move proposing pretty much the system they adopted. I remember him taking some victory laps that they did so. So I was wondering, now that the pearl-clutchers are…[Read more]

Jesus, Bert. Can you insert yourself up the Steelers’ ass any deeper?

Jets RB Le'Veon Bell's four-year, $52.5 million deal has $14.5 million in Year 1, $26 million over first 2.

That's $7 million less than the $33 million he was offered over the first two years of the Steelers' five-year, $70 million proposal in July.

— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) March 14, 2019

Since the numbers are in, let's compare the Steelers offer vs. the Jets deal …

Through Year 1: Steelers $19.5M, Jets $14.5M
Through Year 2: Steelers $33.0M, Jets $26M
Through Year 3: Steelers $45.0M, Jets $39.5M

… Not much to argue here. Pittsburgh's offer was better. https://t.co/YbWZqnataG

— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) March 14, 2019

Fatty early in the column:

I’d never have offered Brown a contract adjustment right now, after watching him lob Molotov cocktails at the Steelers for weeks. Except maybe to say, I’ll guarantee this year’s compensation, but as far as a new deal, we’re not going to offer any new money till we see how this relationship works.

Later, same column:…[Read more]

It all comes back to BSMW:

"He’s as valuable a piece to an organization as there is."

For @washingtonpost, I wrote about God Shammgod (@therealshammgod) as a coaching pioneer, and why ball-handling specialists may be on the NBA's horizon: https://t.co/9F7gzaByJs

— Michael Pina (@MichaelVPina) March 5, 2019

Lebron wrote:

Pete and his wife are getting to be quite the theater goers, in Manhattan, where they live. I get the feeling Pete is unaware that the play Network was based upon the film Network, namely that there was a film.

Brian Cranston was just tremendous as a network TV anchor who cracks up, basically, on national TV. The play, meh. Too much…

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.@MarkLeibovich: 'Level of glee' around NFL, and among fellow owners, when things go wrong for Robert Kraft https://t.co/2rfcoK1SVg @tomecurran

— NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSBoston) February 27, 2019

“I’ve talked to a few owners in the last couple days,” Leibovich said. “There’s not a lot of, sort of a groundswell of ‘Oh, poor Robert.’ I think as we’ve seen around the Patriots over the last few years, but especially around Mr. Kraft, there’s a level of glee when things go wrong.”

Lebron wrote:
Jesus Christ. Kraft is to blame for the air pressure in footballs incident and what happened subsequently. It’s all Kraft’s fault. Insanity. “Shaughnessy was right.” It figures you’d reiterate all this bullshit given the events of the past few days.

If you think I’m a broken record with this, that’s fine; I apologize for being so…[Read more]

Remember SI’s Michael Rosenberg? He was the guy who wrote the most comical of all the “here’s all the other shit the Patriots have been accused of” articles during the Deflategate investigation. He’s the one who said the Gillette Stadium parking lot video screen was positioned so Belichick can view replays the opposing team can’t see. The line I…[Read more]

Why do we know Kraft’s name in the investigation, but not the allegedly “bigger” name?

Funny thing is there was no sex involved whatsoever. It was just two employees role-playing as John Mara and Art Rooney Jr., respectively, and required to say “Mr. Kraft” over and over.

So he … has to watch on tv at his mansion? How is this a penalty? (The fine is a penalty but should be taken off the cap). https://t.co/g18iVIFylx

— Will Carroll (@injuryexpert) February 22, 2019

"I would take their whole draft from them. it has to be something that cripples them. This is a black eye." – Bart Scott on the punishment Robert Kraft and The #Patriots should get from the league after today's news.

— Carlin, Maggie, & Bart (@CMBWFAN) February 22, 2019

So here come the suggestions for how Pats punishment should be different than the standard.

I think this is pretty well done by TEC:

COLUMN: Robert Kraft is now in for a rough ride. https://t.co/IQW5VILWFl @tomecurran pic.twitter.com/ZvRmKu9r1x

— NBC Sports Boston (@NBCSBoston) February 22, 2019

Turns out “end the rhetoric” costs extra.

In hindsight, “Let’s win one for the ****” should’ve been a red flag.

Shank just climaxed