FO has to save face with that extension they gave mark. They will try to pull the wool and push the blame everywhere but mark. They need to fire morono asap, it's inevitable anyways.
I can't point to anything specific but I do remember at the time the pats were getting fed up w/ Drew despite the awful deal they just signed him to. That team was getting worse every year bottoming out at 5-11 in '00 then starting 0-2 w/ Drew. pats fans cheered the Drew injury, he was getting booed all game long. They were going to make a move sooner than later, again it may have been delyaed the dynasty meaning they missed the playoffs in '01 but Brady was going to be playing if NE kept losing which they would have w/ Drew.
Again, it is not about McElroy. It is about the FO and HC not wanting to admit they were 180 wrong in putting together the O the way they did this season.
So, you admit that you've just made this up? Now you are trying to tell me that they were actually getting "fed up" with the guy that they handed more money to than any other player in NFL history? They were getting fed up after just one game? Your argument is completely unfounded and ridiculous. The Patriots weren't even considering giving Brady a shot.
They brought in huard to backup Bledsoe so they didn't think anything of Brady. More anger was shown towards bb than Bledsoe that year. If the pats continued to lose, bb would of been fired well before Bledsoe was ever gonna be benched.
It's entirely possible. I think that falls in line with the Chargers hanging on to Turner so long to prove the firing of Schottenheimer was the correct decision. They may very well be trying to justify the extension of Sanchez and may wind up blaming the offensive woes on losing Holmes.
There was HUGE division amongst Pats fans who were pissed they didn't give the team back to Bledsoe at the time.
FTR I do not pretend to know i am right. Just like everyone else here, when we are working with opinions and lack of complete information, we have to acknowledge that we might be wrong. But my view of what is going on I think fits a pattern we see again and again in this team and the way it is run.
I would start mcelroy.. But the rex won't cause at this point rex is looking to save his job. With the scedule being realtivlly weak.(Even though we are so bad, teams are as excited to play the jets) he going to try and win atleast 4 games to finish 8/8 and live to fight another day. It would be better long term if woody endorsed rex coming back now, so he could start to see what other guys can do. Sanchez,green, scott,pace.thomas should all not play another down this season. For all his talk, rex doesn't have the balls to do that. Sucks that this season will be complete waste. Bad team and no understanding of young talent.
nothing was made up. you are making things up, Bill Belichikc may not have had a job after '01 if he kept losing w/ Bledsoe. Yes they did, the way our fans cheered Clemens coming into the pats game in '07. It may not have been direct but they went wild when Brady came in which was cheering the fact that Bledsoe went down.
There's an argument to be made about that, though. Holmes is the only experienced receiver on the team and still, after missing the overwhelming majority of games this season, has the second most receiving yards of our WRs.
They did not cheer the injury. I was at Foxboro that day. There was stunned silence over the hit. There was no cheering of Bledsoe getting injured.
Initially I thought the Jets and Sanchez in particular, would be better off without Holmes. Now, I think it's hard to debate because Sparano has the offense to screwed up to project where it might have been with Holmes.
