By Dan Snapp, Patriots Daily Staff
Indianapolis Colts president Bill Polian has had a rough week, enduring a good butt-whipping from the Indy press and fanbase alike for the team’s decision last week to not pursue a perfect season. But in light of his recent interview with NFL Network, we’ve concluded Polian isn’t necessarily wrong, just [...]
There’s this new game I like to play. I call it, “Imagine if Bill Belichick had done that.”
After three straight losses, Mike Tomlin told the media the Steelers were going to “unleash hell” in December. Then they lost to Oakland and Cleveland. Imagine if Belichick had done that.
You get the idea.
Tomlin’s decision Sunday to try [...]
by Dan Snapp
dan@patriotsdaily.com
Original publish date – August 2nd, 2007
(In light of the resurgence of regurgitation by many in the media of this Randy Moss quote following Sunday’s game against Carolina, we’ve decided to bump this article up from the archives.)
The Globe’s Mike Reiss today repeated the celebrated Randy Moss quote “I play when I want [...]
By Dan Snapp, Patriots Daily Staff
The best take I heard on Bill Belichick’s now-legendary fourth down call:
You’re Jim Caldwell. In a rare league occurrence (and one Bill Polian’s having the Competition Committee consider for next year), you get to make the Patriots’ decision on fourth-and-two. So your choices are have them punt the ball, with [...]
by Dan Snapp, Patriots Daily Staff
September 27, 2009
Two years ago, I wrote a piece saying Pats fans were entitled to root for the team in whatever manner they pleased. In hindsight, I was high.
Some people are just too stupid to be football fans. They should switch to one of those games in which the outcome [...]
by Dan Snapp, Patriots Daily Staff
September 10, 2009
I sometimes wonder if I’m watching a different game than everybody else. When did football become about making sure everybody’s happy? Since when did approval ratings trump winning?
Yes, it sucks for Richard Seymour to be traded to Oakland, and yes, he just built a house, and yes, he [...]
“Falling on a Knife” must have been a real health concern in Oscar Hammerstein’s old neighborhood. Whenever the legendary librettist needed a quick character exit, but without implicating another, falling on a knife was the literary device of choice. Jud Fry? Billy Bigelow? Both dead by self-shiv.
The point being, as an NFL starting quarterback, JP [...]
My daughter said the F-word last week. Here we were Thursday, happily watching the game, and out it blurted:
“Daddy, did the man just say, ‘Brett Favre’?”
Oh dear. We knew this day would come. A little bit before I expected, but here we are. Deep breath.
No, honey, there is no Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy is [...]
by Dan Snapp
Dan@patriotsdaily.com
Tell me you didn’t think it.
Tell me, as Adam Vinatieri’s unexpected (to put it mildly) 52-yard field goal sailed through the uprights Sunday night, you didn’t hear in your head the retired, red-nosed, paper-shuffling anchor with his most tiresome of bromides:
Why can’t we get players like that?
Fortunately, we did. In fact, the Patriots [...]
by Dan Snapp
dan@patriotsdaily.com
You never know what memories of a football game you’ll stash away long after the contest’s completed. The big plays typically get top billing – the bomb, the interception, the game-ending sack – but often, it’s less-likelier suspects that resonate. It’s a subtle part of the game’s beauty.
Early in the fourth quarter Sunday, [...]
by Dan Snapp
dan@patriotsdaily.com
Remember the halcyon days of yore, when people routinely compared Tom Brady to Joe Montana? These days we’re left resurrecting the Ghosts of Patriots Misfortune Past.
Who does Matt Cassel remind you of most? Drew Bledsoe holding onto the ball too long, Tony Eason turtling under pressure, or Hugh Millen losing his bearings on [...]
by Dan Snapp
dan@patriotsdaily.com
Troy Brown says he’s a Patriot for life. We need to hold him to that. Hear that, Troy? You can’t leave.
“If you love the game so much,” his son Sir’mon tearfully asked during the retirement press conference, “Why are you retiring?”
Excellent question, and the answer is he’s not. We won’t let him.
Consider this: [...]
