Are the New England Patriots in trouble?

Their starting safety Rodney Harrison was lost on the third game last year. He is the equivalent of Sean Taylor and we saw what happened to our D backfield when we lost Taylor for a few games last year.
Rodney Harrison is of the hardest hitting and great safety's in the NFL. It was a big loss, plus losing Ty Law in the same year was alot to overcome in one year. Yet they still made the playoffs. Rodney Harris will be back this year and the Pat's will be one of the top 5 teams in the NFL again. They still have a great O and D line, great RB, QB and LB's. That will make them good. Plus they have great depth in the defensive line. They might not be dominate like they were 2 years ago but they will make the playoffs and who knows from there. The young CB's need to pan out for them to be great.
They are not in bad shape. Right now I would rate them on par or slightly better than the Redskins. They play in the much tougher AFC.

My bad I must have gotten the 2 mixed up, by the way where did you get those stats? Are you in with the in crowd when it comes to stat, you know what I mean??? j/k

nfl.com stat section ;)

law and harrison usesd to be in that secondary at full health and at their peaks. after both of them bowwed out, it hurt.


btw, they have the money to sign arrington and law right now, both would be huge upgrades for them, but they tend to be a bit cheap. beyond those two the FA market is low on known high talent commodities.

i agree with saden.their run is over(for now)im also not sold on crowning belichek a great coach.remember,it took an injury to bledsoe to even get brady on the field

I'm interested to see how this all works out for them. They seem to have this attitude that they can plug anyone in and it's their system that drives their success. They haven't been afraid to let big names go, and they always seem to be able to keep on chuggin'. You have to wonder if sooner or later it will catch up with them.

I'm interested to see how this all works out for them. They seem to have this attitude that they can plug anyone in and it's their system that drives their success. They haven't been afraid to let big names go, and they always seem to be able to keep on chuggin'. You have to wonder if sooner or later it will catch up with them.

I think it will catch up with them. I don't know how, two years running, you could have that type of turnover and it not hurt. On top of that lose two coordinators.

But we'll see.

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Yeah, no sh**t. Romeo may be on to something in Cleveland...and we saw how Weiss turned the Irish around.

I would be concerned if I were a Pats fan. I think if they run into injuries, as any team, they'll have some issues with depth.

you can't prove nothing. I have no idea how you inferred my stupid post from ... though.

you can't prove nothing. I have no idea how you inferred my stupid post from ... though.

very nice, guy!

I'm interested to see how this all works out for them. They seem to have this attitude that they can plug anyone in and it's their system that drives their success. They haven't been afraid to let big names go, and they always seem to be able to keep on chuggin'. You have to wonder if sooner or later it will catch up with them.


It could be the Fins year next year, and honestly, why not? They have very good running game, a guy who likes to air-box and take boat trips on lakes as their QB, a defense that's pretty good year in year out, and a wide out who can play in Chambers.