Archive for October, 2007

New England Patriots defeated the previously unbeaten Dallas Cowboys 48-27 and improved their 2007 regular season record to 6-0. It was one heck of a game with big plays, pivotal plays, missed plays, baffling plays and lots of excitement and entertainment. Tom Brady had one heck of he game, his best of the season so [...]

I watched bits and pieces of the Missouri – Oklahoma game tonight. It can’t be much fun to play on the offensive line for Missouri, because those guys don’t really get to block much. They mostly seem to more or less drift around, sometimes standing in the way of a defender. A lot of college [...]

The ancestors of Jewish-American community leader Mr. Abe Foxman’s Turkish buddies were a busy bunch. They slaughtered not only hordes of Armenians, but also hordes of other non-Muslim people, including Assyrians. Many surviving Armenians cleverly emigrated to America, a country that matters, while Assyrians for God knows what reason chose to turn my Old Country [...]

Here’s a look at New England Patriots offensive linemen and the different combinations of starting offensive lines that the team is using in the 2007 season. I’ll update this post as the season chugs along. New England Patriots starting offensive linemen by game in 2007 Week Left Tackle Left Guard Center Right Guard Right Tackle [...]

New England Patriots improved to 5-0 by beating visiting Cleveland Browns, 34-17. Patriots seemed to employ a game plan in the first quarter that was designed to keep the score down. When that resulted in a 20-0 halftime lead the offense pretty much just stopped playing altogether in the third quarter, allowing the Browns to [...]

How the f can this rambling drivel make the Boston Globe op-ed page (feel free to stop reading at “my own scientific experiment,” it only gets worse from there)?

Our favorite rookie from New England Patriots training camp, undersized offensive lineman Mike Elgin, has been cut from New York Jets practice squad (or deleted, as NFL jargon elegantly puts it). As it happens, three of Patriots’ five interior linemen on the 53-man roster are already banged up (center Dan Koppen, and backups Russ Hochstein [...]

Here we are now, a full one-fourth through the 2007 regular season, and the New England Patriots are entertaining us with a 4-0 record obtained by way of serious drubbings of hapless opponents. They are apparently the first team to win the first four games in a season by 20 points or more since some [...]

Sadly, we won’t see David Thomas operate in the three tightend Power-I formation the way we did last year. New England Patriots placed Thomas on the Injured Reserve list today, meaning he won’t play again this year. That stinks, because Thomas is a promising combination of good receiving and decent blocking (Better blocker than Benjamin [...]

The Boston Herald‘s Patriots beat writer John Tomase has taken over the departed Al Breer’s Tale of the Tape segment on the Herald’s The Point After blog. In his anlysis of New England Patriots game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Tomase writes: Any examination of the game has to start with Sammy Morris. Laurence Maroney’s fill-in [...]