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Philly-- www.sportsnoise.com said 04/21, 02:31 PM
I am taking Peyton Manning, he too had a great year with 4000 yards but he did so without his safety blanket Marvin Harrison for 11 games. Harrison, Wayne, Clark, Gonzalez, and Addai provide Manning with one of the best offense units in the league. Peyton is still the most consistent quarterback and his lowest passing yards during a season was 3739 and that was his rookie year. Manning being the ultra competitive person that he is will want to try to match what Brady did.

Tom Brady had an amazing season, but their offense was an extremely pass happy attack. Since Belichick and Brady just want to win, why would they continue an attack that did not get them a Superbowl Ring when their more balanced approach provided them with 3. I see them playing a more balance offense in which Brady will post numbers a little higher than his career average of 3300 per season.

You mentioned losing a weapon, in Donte Stallworth and said he wasn't valuable, he was a third receiver that put of 700 yards to me that is pretty valuable. And then you want to replace that with Chad Jackson who has 13 career receptions for 152 yards, I don't think so.

More to come, Good Luck.

Philly-- www.sportsnoise.com said 04/22, 02:28 PM
If Marvin's injury takes him down a notch from what he used to be, he should still be a pretty solid receiver. He doesn't have to be the number 1 option, the Colts have Reggie Wayne to fill that void. He should be well enough to produce great numbers for a number 2 receiver.

The Pats always lose players on the defensive side of the ball and every year we hear that their D is going to be worse than it was last year. Remember a few years ago when their whole secondary were no name players, they won the Superbowl that year. Until we start to see a major decline I don't believe that their D will be a problem.

Sure Stallworth is passed around quite a bit, but his number show that he was important part to the Pats offense last year. He played in all 16 games and started 9 of them, he had 46 catches for 697 yards. Those are some pretty good numbers, Jabar Gaffney and Chad Jackson would not have been able to put up those numbers.

The facts show that when a quarterback has a year the caliber of Brady's their next year they put up average numbers. Sure Brady is far from average but I see Manning putting up the most passing yards this upcoming season.

Philly-- www.sportsnoise.com said 04/23, 02:34 PM
Throughout the whole season we kept seeing the Pats blowing teams out. They wouldn't take their stars out of games late and kept on throwing. Many people questioned this considering it only takes one angry player to put a big time hit on Brady to ruin a season. But Belichick was on a mission, he wanted to prove the Pats were the best team in the league and they didn't have to cheat to blow teams out of the water. He proved that to a point, but it cost him his ultimate goal, a Superbowl.

When playoff time rolls around the air it out style doesn't win football games, their offense was held to an average of 22 points per game which is much less than what they were doing during the regular season and Moss was completely taken out of games.

You and me both know that Brady and Belichick both want to win, that is reason enough for Belichick to change his game, plan so they can win. Even if they don't trust Maroney and Morris they have other backs and they have no problems giving it to them.

I see the Pats going back to their usual game plan and Brady getting back to his average numbers.While Peyton benefits from getting Marvin back and leads the league in yardage this season.