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Simms on Pats-Jets

Email|Link|Comments (6) Posted by Chad Finn, Globe Staff September 11, 2008 05:01 PM

Phil Simms, the former Giants quarterback and current CBS color analyst, offered his take today on the impact of Tom Brady's injury on the Patriots and the AFC East. Simms and Jim Nantz will call Sunday's Patriots-Jets game.

His comments, via a CBS press release:

"I’d like to see a few games before I predict the rest of the year based on the injury to Tom Brady. But it’s amazing what this does especially for the short term. It intensifies the divisional rivalries like the Jets and New England Patriots. You know that the New England players and the coaches were hearing, ‘Well your season is over…The only reason you ever won was because of Tom Brady and it wasn’t about defensive play, or strategy, or coaching or nothing.’ So that’s what I’m going to look at in this game. Does it heighten what they want to prove to the world? You know football players always want to win, but sometimes there is nothing wrong with extra motivation. Like from the way you were treated by a team a year before and how they played against you. But now it’s not even the Jets that have gotten the Patriots riled up. It’s the natural reaction to the fact that so many people think they can’t sustain or hold on without Tom Brady . . . The word for Sunday’s Jets and Patriots game is passionate. We are going to see some raw emotion this weekend."

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6 comments so far...

Pretty good take by Phil Simms, and I still think that the Pats will make the playoffs if they can stay relatively healthy from here on out.

As far as the 'raw emotion' and 'passion' go this Sunday, I think we'll see that from the Jests fans after Favre throws a couple of picks and gets his bell rung a couple of times by Seymour & Co. Brady didn't play on defense. When the Jests fall behind, Favre will resort to his schoolyard instincts, and the Pats D will make him wish he stayed retired.

Posted by Rob September 11, 08 05:21 PM

There wiil; always be an intense rivary between the Patriots and the Jets....
There have been too many problems both on and off the field that can't be forgiven or forgotten......This is not the arena ......the arena is between the white lines on Sunday

Posted by sonny olivar September 11, 08 07:25 PM

remeber when the spygate thing came out last year last year and the patriots had an emotinal week and came out and blew out the chargers? i think the pats have something to prove again. i could see this one getting out of hand for the jets. pats need to win this one for brady. P-A-T-R-I-O-T-S!

Posted by Peter September 11, 08 08:27 PM

this season is dedicated to tom brady. the greatest qb of all time. GO PATS

Posted by Alex September 11, 08 10:37 PM

Simms comments are the best thing I have read on the issue so far.

Posted by Justin_R September 11, 08 11:50 PM

Simms' comments are dead on and I agree ... Pats fans need to wait until at least half the season is over before passing judgment on Cassel and the team.

Is Cassel another Brady? Probably not, but I think he's going to surprise a lot of people. Belichick and Pioli aren't stupid ... they must have seen something in Cassel to make him #2 on the QB depth chart.

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