NEPD Staff Writer: Doug Kyed
I’ve always had a theory that a win never feels as good as a loss feels bad. This one was different.
With all the build up and all the Tebow-mania, this is one of those incredibly gratifying wins for us Patriots fans.
Here are my quick-hit thoughts on the destruction of Tebow and company:
NEPD Staff Writer: Doug Kyed
So raise your hands if you were freaking out about that first quarter for the Patriots?
You should all know better by now that that’s just how this team operates. We’ll see how it goes come playoff time, but for now the Patriots used their “start off slow and end fantastically” to clinch home field throughout.
Here are some things I noticed today:
Should J.J. Watt and company hang on to their winter clothing?
When Bob Kraft took in a football game at the University of Florida last year, did he know that he would be watching three of his future employees? Brandon Spikes, Jermaine Cunningham, and Aaron Hernandez were all plucked from the Gator sidelines to join the Patriots in the 2010 NFL Draft.
If there is any correlation at all there between Kraft’s one college game a year that he attends and who the Patriots end up picking, then these members of the Wisconsin Badgers should starting looking at real estate in Boston.
Devin McCourty is just one of the Patriots 2010 Draft Picks to make a mark this season.
Around the web and print media, excluding yours truly of course, the 2010 Patriots Draft Class was widely panned (see Borges, Ron) for having eschewed some more well-known names for guys that “nobody had even heard of” – the likes of Devin McCourty, Jermaine Cunningham, and others.
Six weeks into the season, it is time for us, and you, to weigh in on how the rookies are developing in the Patriots system.
Can Brandon Spikes follow in Jerod Mayo's shoes?
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When you talk to anybody in reference to Brandon Spikes, they would always describe him as a football player. Despite a 5.06 40-yard dash, Coach Bill Belichick saw enough in Spikes to make him a second round pick.
Will Brandon Spikes bring a Ted Johnson like presence to the Patriots defense?
Brandon Spikes is now the 3rd Florida Gator to sign their rookie contract with the New England Patriots, joining tight-end Aaron Hernandez and DE/OLB Jermaine Cunningham. Spikes signed a 4-year deal reportedly worth $3.21 million dollars. Only 1st-Round draft pick Devin McCourty remains unsigned going into rookie portion of training camp.
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