This guy only plays because Terry glenn is hurt..he should win one post season game never mind 3 Superbowls before he shoots his mouth off

Maybe Mr.Clayton could comment on the great Cowboy defense that gave up 47 points.

I'm amazed that teams and players around the NFL continue to publicly disrespect the Patriots. Thanks for the bulletin board material, Crayton. I'm sure you'll be reminded of it if you happen to be playing football in Arizona in February against the "not for real" Patriot defense.

The thing that irked me was that the Patriots defensive scheme did not put pressure on Tony Romo a week after he threw 5 picks and lost a fumble. It reminded me of how the Pats allowed the Colts back into the AFC Championship game last year. It cost them a trip to the Super Bowl, and it almost cost them the game against Dallas. Remember a few years back when they were aggressive on defense and held Peyton Manning to 3 points in the playoffs? When they attacked the Rams and held the "Greatest Show on Turf" to 17 points in beating them in the Super Bowl? If the Pats lose a game this year, it will probably be because of this "passive" defensive scheme. It makes me livid when I watch teams move the ball down the field so easily against the Pats, who could wipe them all off the field if they were in attack mode most of the time.

Why is it always the no-name receivers that decide to run their mouths against the Patriots?? Remember Freddie Mitchell before the Super Bowl against the Philadelphia Eagles saying he "didn't even know who are cornerbacks are?" Then what happened... he didn't have a catch or impact the game significantly just like the Cowboys and their offense didn't on Sunday either. My advice: Shut up, play the game, and try to actually win a ball game before you talk trash.

The Dallas Cowboys are a talented team but remain undisciplined. Wade Phillips, like his father, is considered a players coach, and unfortunately that is the last thing this young team needs. The lack of veteran player leadership, coupled with coaches who want to be player friendly and young cocky teamates, manifest itself into the ignorant statements made by TO and Patrick Crayton. Whewn I look at the Patriots I see a team where everyone knows there role from the front office to the water boy. A first class organization all the way. Go Pats

Brian G. Walsh- I agree with your sentiment that it would be much more comforting if the Pat's D were more aggressive in stopping some of the more high-powered offenses in the league. The thing you have to keep in mind though is a key component from those wins is gone. Number 24 in your scorecard Ty Law. Law was a very physical corner who also had better than average cover skills. That allowed the Pats to be more aggressive in jamming receivers at the line, which in turn allows the pass rush to be much more effective.
The Pats corners are not a physical group, so they need to play back a bit more and make sure the coverage is where it needs to be. A tall task for any team. You'll notice that the Patriots success in totally shutting down Indy has slowly waned as Law left town.
They have to rely on different tactics to beat teams like Indy and Dallas now. Sometimes it can be a white-knuckle ride.
The difference this year is the Pats offense now has as many (if not more) weapons than anyone.
At least thats the way I see it.

Why would the Patriots show their best defensive stuff when they didn't have to? Seems pretty basic to me.

Patrick who? Did he play Sunday? What team is he on?

quit your bellyaching and move on Patties, see if you can beat the Colts then talk

TY to Patrick "Freddie Mitchell" Crayton for another posting for the Pats bulletin board. I love the reaction from the Pats, just moving on to the next game...rest assured that they will pull those quotes out again should these teams meet in a certain more meaningful game in Feb '08!!!!

Nobody in The NFL, outside Denielsville, MA cares what the Patsy's did in past postseaons, Irrelvent and old news.
Nice to relive some past glory, but give the 3 SBs a rest!! Ad Nasuem.
Great job of waxing the Cowboys on sunday, but leave the past where it belongs...In the past.
This current team might be better than those ones anyway.

I'm a Boy's fan, and I can't stand these cocky comments from ANY of our players, much less Crayton. He got his butt whipped Sunday, bottom line.

when the patriots team is no longer the best, the teams that
they ran the score up on will remember that!!!!!

Patrick Crayton. Your annonymity as a truly relavent player should have checked your ego at the door. However your juggernaut offense scored a WHOPPING 20 points against a Patriot defense that really for them didn't play all that well. (the Cowboy defense scored a TD on a fumble return). Besides, that overrated defense will be getting back arguably its most dominating player soon when Richard Seymour gets back so...Patrick maybe you should wonder why at home you got blitzed 27 - 3 in the 2nd half after your touchdown gave you the 24 - 21 lead. It appears to me that the Patriots finally got tired of screwing around with you and decided to step it up a level. A level your team CANNOT match as long as terrell ( I DROP THE BALL TO DAMN MUCH TO BE COUNTED ON IN THE CLUTCH) owens (NOTICE THE LOWER CASE) is a leader on your team.

Quite frankly, as a Cowboys fan, I really agree in a way with what he said. And I am a no-name nobody, too. Nobody knows who the real deal is until the playoffs. The first 16 games are a bunch of teams trying to get into the playoffs and get field advantage, then the real season starts. The Patriots were much better than the Cowboys, but a defense like New England giving up 27 points has got to be a worry for Bill B. You will not win super bowls if you do that in the playoffs, I don't care who your QB is, if you do it every game. Really, the Cows and the Pats have only played one quality team each, and that was Sunday. Its a long way to January.

They better start putting pressure on the Quarteback. Our corners are good enough to be left alone, to free up the Blitz this. For 3 years in a row the Colts were supposed to beat us in the playoffs, but we got to Manning. Very upset that Belechik does not do this more.

Crayton, like TO, seems to be trying to remain edgy and pump up the team's confidence in the face of being completely dominated by the Patriots. Seems to me that their defense is what got them back in the game, not their offense.

Its funny that guys like TO,Tomlinson,Merriman and others shoot off their mouths before playing the Pats then when they dont come thru they gat mad and call the Pats disrespectful for mocking them..If they would shut their mouths the Pats wouldnt have anything to mock..Why would anyone still talk smack about them still shocks me..The Chargers are learning the hard way that the talking is done on the field and so will this clown Crayon and his pal with the aligator arms TO.

The more you kick around a pissed off dog the more pissed off that dog is going to be. Keep kicking the Pats all the way to another SB win!!!

Brian,

I don't think it's as simple as the Patriots simply being "more aggressive" on defense. The Patriots are not so much better than every other team in the league that they can simply be more aggressive on defense and expect to shut out every opponent on their schedule.

The Patriots have a great offense. This gives them the luxury of being more conservative on defense. When a defense gambles more (i.e., plays more aggressively), they increase their risk of giving up big plays. By playing a more conservative form of defense, they reduce the risk of these big plays and instead force the opposing offense to play a more consistent, grind-it-out style of offense. More often than not, an offense in that position will not be able to throw up enough points to outscore the Pats.

Belichick and his gang will get another shot at Crayton. Oh boy, will they ever. And to those who are trash-talking cause the Pats have 3 Super Bowls, you may want check out what the Cowboys are packing. Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but 5 (count with me 1,2,3,4,5) Super Bowl trophies.
Booooyeah! Logging off now so no need to respond to these facts.

doesn't matter if you're a Pats fan or not - if you don't win the game, you should keep you mouth shut. The whiners need their daddies to teach them some old school respect.

Does this guy think we sent out our best defense in what was basically a cakewalk? He better hope they don't meet again.

What's with the knock on the Pats defense? Last I checked Dallas had the #2 offense in the league averaging 35 points per game coming into last Sunday. The NE defense held that vaunted offense to 20 points. If you knew going into that game that the defense was going to give up 20 points to Dallas, I think most people would feel pretty good about that number.

If the Pats Defense is'nt the real deal, what does that say about the cowboys offense? I mean they were only able to muster up 20 pts against a supossedly sub par defense. If I were a cowboy, I'd be a little more worried about my own teams defense. Burned for 48 pts? @ home? And Crayton has the audacity to say the Pats Defense is'nt the real deal? Are you kidding me!? The Patriots came into the cowboys house and mopped the floor with them, offensively and defensively. Put simply; The Pats dismantled what is arguably the best team in the NFC on it's home field.

I think the pats defense will be fine and we will see significant improvements as the season goes on. Remember, Harrisonn just returned recently and Seymour is coming back. I know there are many other great players on defense but with everyone healthy it makes them that more dangerous. How many teams have actually dominated on both sides of the ball consistently? Not many

Heh, if the New England defense is "not the real deal" what does that say about the Dallas D that just gave up 48. Does he have any idea what he's talking about? The Bills needed Tony Romo to commit an absurd number of turnovers to hold the Cowboys to 25. The Pats held one of the most prolific offenses in football to 27 with only one late turnover, not too shabby IMO.

From a long time Cowboys - my thoughts- The Patriots were picked to win this game and were suppose to win this game because they have a better QB, better WR corp, better offensive line, better defense, better head coach, better roster of players, as well as probably several other "betters". Crayton is just a competitor, with maybe a little stubborn stupidity mixed in. I'm not sayin we could never beat the Pats with this team but we would never beat them with the Pats playing at the level that they did last Sunday which is a level that this Cowboys team is not capable of.

The Coyboys won 9 games last year and were a bust in the 2006 playoffs. They only reason they get the run they do is because of their big mouth players (the other 81), owner and coach. GO AWAY DALLAS.

Amazing stuff coming from Cowboy fans - only a small percentage are giving the Parts their due. The rest are simply part of a screaming mob - they lack the ability to view impartially and to apply reason to what they view. The spittle flies out of their mouths when they feel the need to support their "Boys". These same fans actually believe that T.O. and Crayton have legitimate points. Not an admirable display of employing sound judgement. Don't even try to rationalize with them unless your okay with getting some eye-spittle.

In response to MJ about the Cowboys having 5 SB trophies, I think the Patriots are alot closer to that than you think. And Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin aren't walking through that door any time soon. Yeeeeaaahhh...

In response to MJ, how many of those superbowls were in the salary cap era ??

Nobody has mentioned what Crayton said.The flags are what stopped Dallas offense.If you watch the replay you will see that he is correct.!2 flags.That will stop ANY offense.See you in Feb.08.

In response to drew, you mention penalty flags like they're a third team on the field, trying to sabatoge the Cowboys. Flags come as a result of a good (Patriots)defense putting a lesser (Cowboys)offense out of position and on its heels. I respect the cowboys and think they are a very good team, but if they want to see us in Feb 08 guys like crayton should stop trash talking before and after games (especially ones they lose) and take their losses like men.

In response to Rich.You are right,Crayton should keep his big mouth shut.He has zero rings.He should NEVER had said the Pats defense is not the real deal..They are a very good team on both side of the ball.I just hope the Cowboys can have a rematch in Feb.

Hey jeff the cowboy fan supporting patrick Cry-ton's comments. So what if the pats give up 27 points on defense. And it was actually 20 points not 27 because the cowboys had a defensive TD. Anyway you should worry more about your boys giving up 40 plus points. You definetly wont win any games if your boys defense does that.