Indy festival
Page 2 of 28 -- Manning is 2-6 against the Patriots with a QB rating of 79.7. Marvin Harrison should have the usual hard-fought battle with Ty Law. Harrison has eight TD catches in 12 games vs. NE and has caught 71 passes for 1,053 yards. Edgerrin James has had four, 100-yard games against NE.
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During the Super Bowl season of '01 when the Colts were still in the AFC East, the Patriots beat them twice. The Patriots always loved playing this team, but the Colts look a little different two years later, especially on defense where they have a lot of speed.
Here's the mailbag:
I found your 11/19 article on Troy Brown too be one of the most maudlin, unrealistic, biased and overly sentimental columns ever found on the Globe sports pages. When Troy Brown can't keep his job through ability he will be cut. This appears to be another setup so you can slam Belichick when Brown is released next year, the same way you have slammed him with regard to Slade, Bledsoe, Milloy, Johnson, Mcginnest, etc. The Patriots take a businesslike attitude that is no different than any of the other 31 teams take, well except for Buffalo, where GM Tom Donahoe is found of overpaying for former Patriots. What's Buffalo's record again?
-- Mark, Berkley
A: The Patriots enjoyed the column. Many of them complimented me on it. I think this is the first anti-Troy Brown sentiment I've heard.
Can you please just accept that professional football is big time business and must adhere to the restrictions of the salary cap? Next year, if Ty Law, Troy Brown, Willie Mcginnest, etc... can all still play at a cap friendly salary then they may still be here. If not, they are free to go to Buffalo and join long lost (and I do mean LOST) pals Lawyer Milloy and Drew Bledsoe (that is provided Buffalo doesn't finally wake up and cut both non-producers prior to next season.)
-- LJ, Sandwich, MA
A: I sure can accept it, LJ. I don't lose a wink of sleep over it.
Hey Nick, Big Fan, I read you every week...After the AP ran that ridiculous photo of Bill and Bill embracing at the end of the game, Do you think Belichick has the same opinion of the press (not all of youz of course) as Bobby Knight which is, and I quote "(journalism is) two steps away from prostitution"...and what's with running that photo to ad nauseam? Hey, not that there's anything wrong with that, but it was somewhat misrepresentative of the actual newsworthy event. Are there really 5th grader working as editors for the Associated Press? Someone a little too bored at work perhaps? Oh I don't know. Maybe I'm completely out of the loop, are Bill and Bill lovers?
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