He’ll be back for the playoffs and this whole discussion will be moot.

As far as “running up the score,” maybe the other team should be allowed to throw in the towel so the Patriots know when to stop playing? Or the Officials can impose a “mercy rule” like little league? We don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, right?

Bill Belichick knows more about football than every poster on this site combined.

I love the way people with losing teams can’t let that go. Every good team was doing it. He got caught by his old rat assistant.
“Oh, but he hasn’t won since he got caught!”

Right, cause being in the playoffs and going to 2 more SBs (beating out 30 other teams)really makes him a terrible coach. Better bring in Rex Ryan.”

He’s a helluva head coach, but how many Super Bowls does he win without Brady? I know that they won 11 with Cassel as a QB, but didn’t they also get bounced in their first playoff game too?

Colts moved the ball, just had 2 pick 6′s & and a punt returned for a TD.

So no, you are not hurting the Colts feelings, just making yourself look like a widdle boy.

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It tells me that there are a lot of crybaby bitches out there.

Lets give little Johnny a trophy even if his pee wee football team goes 1-7!!

How come I didn’t see you on here a few weeks ago when Aron Rogers threw 6 td’s vs the Texans?

“Coaches have 45 active players each game. They don’t have a “second team” of the point-after-try unit. The PAT is one of the most risk-free plays in football. Rodney Harrison, the former Patriots safety now in the NBC studio with me on Sunday nights, didn’t get taken off the kickoff team in routs. And Tony Dungy, who coached the Colts and Bucs, told me: “Jeff Saturday was my right guard on the PAT team, and I’d never think of taking him off. All my years in football, I never heard anyone, never heard Chuck Noll saying, ‘Well, we better get Jack Ham off the PAT team.’ It’s not something I’d question.”

So Dungy never changed out players on the PAT team either.

The New England Patriots do things their way and I respect that. Why should the Patriots close up shop just because their lead is big? You do not play to avoid injuries, you play to win the game at all costs.

This isn’t the first rodeo for the regime in NE, just to let you know they have won three super bowls and have an undefeated season under their belts.

As a New York Giants fan I have seen two separate examples where the Giants had a 17 point lead in the fourt quarter and instead of continuing to play their game, they became complacent and lost thanks to a Desean Jackson punt return.

The other coming in Philadelphia a couple years back when the New York Giants overcame another 17 point lead with a late overtime touchdown to Plaxico Burress thanks to the Eagles feeling like the contest was over with 15 minutes left.

You play until the clock reads zeros across the board. Question it now but that’s not how it goes in the NFL. There is a reason why we are writing on here and Bill B. and company is living it.

Did anyone notice how the Saints pulled Brees after being up 2 scores with 5 minutes remaining? And they didn’t try to run up the score? That’s from a team who was in the Bounty Gate scandal, who is apparently still much much classier of a team that the Pats. What does that tell you?

Patriots win by 6 against the Bills, so they suck. They win by 35 against the Colts, it’s too much. So I guess they should get up by 21 and then kneel and punt every time, so they don’t hurt the widdle Colts feelings.

we will be fine without him and he will be back for the playoffs! count on it!

Out of the mouth of babes.

The Injury came on an XP attempt – it is typical to have your blocking TE’s in on these plays, there is typically no real danger of an injury.

I wonder how many roster members you think the Patriots carry on offense on gameday.

I’ll give you a clue: it isn’t enough to substitute/replace the whole offense.

False, Shiancoe and Hoomanawanui both were active.