Thread: Patriots: Not ready for prime time players

[size=13pt]Not ready for prime time players[/size]

BY MARK FARINELLA / SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
thesunchronicle.com

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 1:08 AM EDT


FOXBORO - Is the dynasty dead, or just in the doghouse?

They have lost so much credibility that it will be difficult for them to overcome that.
Fuck the lying cheating bastards.

The dynasty was dead in 2001 when they first pushed the Record button....

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This is silly.
Why on earth would they have scheduled the Patriots, one of the top two teams in the NFL for drawing viewership, on opening weekend?

Better business move to save the Pats prime time spots - and they will have plenty - for weeks with historically lower ratings.

PFT.com put it nicely:

Why burn one of the appearances in Week One, when we’ll all flock to watch a Packers team without Brett Favre play a Vikings teams with Brooks Bollinger, and then we’ll chase it with three hours of Broncos-Raiders?

So there’s simply no reason to waste an appearance in prime time from teams like the Patriots or the Cowboys (the two biggest regular-season draws in 2007) during the first week of the season, when (as we all proved last year) we’d even watch the 49ers and the Cardinals, a game that generated only one real highlight

"NodakPaul" wrote:

This is silly.
Why on earth would they have scheduled the Patriots, one of the top two teams in the NFL for drawing viewership, on opening weekend?

Better business move to save the Pats prime time spots - and they will have plenty - for weeks with historically lower ratings.

PFT.com put it nicely:

Why burn one of the appearances in Week One, when we’ll all flock to watch a Packers team without Brett Favre play a Vikings teams with Brooks Bollinger, and then we’ll chase it with three hours of Broncos-Raiders?

So there’s simply no reason to waste an appearance in prime time from teams like the Patriots or the Cowboys (the two biggest regular-season draws in 2007) during the first week of the season, when (as we all proved last year) we’d even watch the 49ers and the Cardinals, a game that generated only one real highlight

I love how they mention our back-up QB? wtf?

No mention of... oh... I don't know... 2007 ROY... Pro Bowl MVP... Single Game Record Holder... They are just fishing to make us look bad...

Seriously though, our backup? Fuck You PFT.com.

"NodakPaul" wrote:

This is silly.
Why on earth would they have scheduled the Patriots, one of the top two teams in the NFL for drawing viewership, on opening weekend?

Better business move to save the Pats prime time spots - and they will have plenty - for weeks with historically lower ratings.

PFT.com put it nicely:

Why burn one of the appearances in Week One, when we’ll all flock to watch a Packers team without Brett Favre play a Vikings teams with Brooks Bollinger, and then we’ll chase it with three hours of Broncos-Raiders?

So there’s simply no reason to waste an appearance in prime time from teams like the Patriots or the Cowboys (the two biggest regular-season draws in 2007) during the first week of the season, when (as we all proved last year) we’d even watch the 49ers and the Cardinals, a game that generated only one real highlight

Yes, but did you watch the video they provided of that 'one real highlight'?

[youtube=425,350]RsuvenvQ-6M[/youtube]

"josdin00" wrote:

"NodakPaul" wrote:

This is silly.
Why on earth would they have scheduled the Patriots, one of the top two teams in the NFL for drawing viewership, on opening weekend?

Better business move to save the Pats prime time spots - and they will have plenty - for weeks with historically lower ratings.

PFT.com put it nicely:

Why burn one of the appearances in Week One, when we’ll all flock to watch a Packers team without Brett Favre play a Vikings teams with Brooks Bollinger, and then we’ll chase it with three hours of Broncos-Raiders?

So there’s simply no reason to waste an appearance in prime time from teams like the Patriots or the Cowboys (the two biggest regular-season draws in 2007) during the first week of the season, when (as we all proved last year) we’d even watch the 49ers and the Cardinals, a game that generated only one real highlight

Yes, but did you watch the video they provided of that 'one real highlight'?

[youtube=425,350]RsuvenvQ-6M[/youtube]

, that is exciting.
Almost as exciting as the unveiling of the new NFL logo.

[size=12pt]Belichick says nothing more to come out on Spygate[/size]
Associated Press
Updated: April 1, 2008, 9:27 AM EST

"NodakPaul" wrote:

This is silly.
Why on earth would they have scheduled the Patriots, one of the top two teams in the NFL for drawing viewership, on opening weekend?

Better business move to save the Pats prime time spots - and they will have plenty - for weeks with historically lower ratings.

PFT.com put it nicely:

Why burn one of the appearances in Week One, when we’ll all flock to watch a Packers team without Brett Favre play a Vikings teams with Brooks Bollinger, and then we’ll chase it with three hours of Broncos-Raiders?

So there’s simply no reason to waste an appearance in prime time from teams like the Patriots or the Cowboys (the two biggest regular-season draws in 2007) during the first week of the season, when (as we all proved last year) we’d even watch the 49ers and the Cardinals, a game that generated only one real highlight

Um, isn't there a Sunday night primetime which also could have been slated? Also, just because there's a second Monday night game doesn't mean that fans will tune in to watch the Broncos Raiders simply because it was preceded by a Vikings Packers game.