Archive for September, 2007

On his show today on ESPN 890 Mike Felger asked New England Patriots left tackle Matt Light about the team’s zone blocking scheme, or perhaps more accurately, he asked him to what extent it is zone blocking. In true Patriots fashion Light deflected the question by asking Felger about his view on what zone blocking [...]

Boston Business Journal doesn’t want Massachusetts to license three casinos to operate in the state: As a matter of economic policy, expanded gambling is a non-starter. The commonwealth stands to skim $600 million off the top in licensing fees, one-time revenue that quickly becomes lost when it gets absorbed into $26.8 billion budget. Then it [...]

New England Patriots shook off a sloppy opening quarter to soundly beat Buffalo Bills 38-7. An illustration of Patriots’ schematic superiority occurred on a 3rd & 5 situation in the fourth quarter, with the Patriots up 31-7. New England went with a shotgun spread formation, with wide receiver Wes Welker in the slot right. Bills [...]

I predicted that New England Patriots late round 2007 draft picks Mike Elgin and Clint Oldenburg would end up on practice squads this season, I just didn’t think that they both would be snagged by the poorly coached New York Jets after getting dumped by the Patriots. But that’s what’s happened. Elgin was added to [...]

On Friday’s episode of the podcast PFW In Progress Fred Kirsch reported that the National Football League sent out a memo on Thursday that in strict terms prohibit teams from having their cheerleaders warm up and stretch outside the visiting team locker room. The tactic is “distracting and inappropriate and to be stopped immediately and [...]

Correction to a post from Wednesday (yesterday) night: New England Patriots do have an offensive lineman on its practice squad, contrary to what I claimed. Dan Connolly was added to the squad on September 12. Connolly is listed as 6-4, 318. He entered the league in 2005 and was signed by Jacksonville Jaguars. He played [...]

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick grew up at the U.S. Naval Academy, where his father was an assistant coach and scout for decades. Now, if Belichick were to run some kind of spy program, which he should and hopefully does, don’t you think he’d be more likely to model it after GRU, KGB, [...]

New England Patriots’ 2-0 start has provoked virtually insane conversations about the likelihood of Patriots going undefeated this season. I guess the reasoning is that since Patriots have won two big victories another 17 are practically in the bag already (Bill Belichick’s take: “That’s so ridiculous.”). I’d worry more about the next game, against Buffalo [...]

Too bad for San Diego Chargers they don’t have NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in their lineup, because he’s the only one so far this season who’s been able to put a dent in the New England Patriots. The much anticipated game between San Diego Chargers and New England Patriots turned out to be a one-side [...]

People who are “Not-Hispanic, White alone” (white, in other words) make up 50.2% of Boston’s population according to data from the 2006 American Community Survey that was released today by the United States Census Bureau. For a background on the sheer madness of the ACS and Census Bureau data for Boston over the past few [...]