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Ha. Anyone have a video of that yet? Pulled channing crowders dreads with one hand punched him with the other. As much as I was pissed off that light sunk to that level, Channing Crowder was the instigator, he was smiling because he started it and got light to hit him. Looks like he will be suspended for the Pitt game.

That was the only negative about that game in my opinion. Moss passed that fool Cris "people in new england don't know football" carter for TD receptions, and I thought our d-line was great. If matt cassell performs like he did this game, I think the pats can win against pitt. Steelers offense isn't special.

Randy Moss is the second-greatest receiver in modern-era football history. To think otherwise is just showing one’s biases towards Moss as a person and not as a football player.

The Matt Light scrap was hilarious. “You know, if they really wanted to punish the Patriots, they’d have left Matt Light in and ejected a good player” was the general consensus in the household yesterday.

A few thoughts:

- credit the linebackers (and Vince Wilfork) for containing the trendy Wildcat yesterday by sealing the outside lanes and collapsing the pocket inward towards the inside linebackers and Mt. Wilfork. One of the reasons why the Wildcat worked so well in the first meeting (besides the element of surprise) is that the Patriots were being overmatched at the line of scrimmage, giving the Dolphins enormous running lanes outside and, more devastatingly, inside. Wilfork did an incredible job against a very good (and very underrated) Samson Satele, breaking up the inside seal and getting great pressure up the middle.

- The Patriots’ interior offensive line was surprisingly effective picking up the A- and B-gap blitzes by the Dolphins. When I criticized Logan Mankins last week for having troubles picking up the incoming linebacker, I made an effort to keep an eye on him this week. What I saw was Mankins sliding him primary assignment off to Light and getting a good base when taking on the linebacker. There were a few misses but, over all, he did much better this time around.

- Notice how the Dolphins sent CB blitzes off Light’s left should? No way in hell he could have stopped those. Very few LTs can, so I don’t consider that a serious negative in an otherwise competent day for Light.

- Often we criticize Cassel for taking off at the first sign of pressure but, on his TD run yesterday Cassel made a split-second read of the defense, identified a gap, and took off. Very few QBs have that kind of prescience when it comes to identifying running lane breaks in the defense. Even fewer will take that chance over buying a few more seconds in the pocket. Maybe I’m crazy but I see Cassel’s talent upside to that of Vince Young’s coming out of college: a dangerously mobile QB, good on short and intermediate passes, an iffy deep ball, and questionable pocket presence. The difference being make-up and the ability to maximize his talent to its full potential.

- Ellis Hobbs: proof positive that New England can’t plug in any young, mildly-talented DB and get Pro Bowl-quality play out of him.

- Parcells may have been overrated as a coach but Parcells may be one of the two or three greatest organizational architects in NFL history. What he has done in Miami, top to bottom, is nothing short of amazing.

Hobbs has pissed me off the most out of any player. Our CB's have been dreadful this year.

Is Light the first player to be ejected in the BB era? I am probably forgetting someone, but I can't think of anyone. Especially for fighting.

Basketball Jesus wrote:The Matt Light scrap was hilarious. “You know, if they really wanted to punish the Patriots, they’d have left Matt Light in and ejected a good player” was the general consensus in the household yesterday.

You say that now, but we'll see if you're laughing it up still when "Nick Kazcur, starting left tackle" is playing against the Steelers next week.

What a lame scrap, Matt Light continues to disappopint. He has the guy in his sights, holding him by the dreads, and still can't make decent contact. oaf.
and I wholeheartedly second the Ellis Hobbs comment by BBall Jesus, that guy is a nickelback at best seeing 15-20 snaps in 03 or 04