Realtalk. How possible is a sixth ring?

Very. Particularly if they get a haul for Jimmy G. and load up. Even if they don't they'll be in the conversation.

its obviously possible but we'll see how the offseason shakes out, a lot of things can happen in a year

The craziest thing to me is that Gronk's health really doesn't matter, they'll win regardless it just takes longer.

He's got 10 fingers...

Really depends on whether the Patriots have a legitimate opponent in the AFC. Really the Patriots are guaranteed a superbowl if there's no legitimate opponent in the AFC, as of right now, it's probably the Raiders.

>>74158932
>Raiders
>A defense that let Brock osmemer shit on them

>>74158898
Load up how? What positions would Beli. focus on if he traded Jim?

How often do teams defend the super bowl?

>>74158974
not very

1966-1967 packers

1972-1973 dolphins

1974-1975 steelers

1978-1979 steelers

1988-1989 49ers

1992-1993 Cowboys

1997-1998 Broncos

no 3 peat has ever happened

2003-2004 patriots

>>74158981
The Threepeat begins now

>>74158981
The Buffalo Bills went to the super bowl like fifty times in a row though.

>>74159001
>The Bills are the only team to win four consecutive conference championships and are the only NFL team to lose four consecutive Super Bowl games.
kek
> are the only team that has not appeared in the playoffs so far in the 21st century
KEK

>>74158971
he could upgrade safeties or linebackers

How do you stop this team with a healthy Gronk? You can't. Please footballing gods let Gronk have an injury free season.

>>74158951
Defenses can Improve

All you need is an Elite QB and O-line which they have and they will be contenders. Don't forget Khalil Mack DPOY single handily won 3 games for them this season.

>>74159071
Gronk is infected with the Madden curse, his career is literally over.

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How do I get into this sport, bros? I already got into luckswing, and it's doozy. Is Joe Montana the best ever? Is Rodgers a meme? Why do they only play like 10 games per season despite having 50+ players per team? What are the hardest things to do in this sport? Why does every game last 4 hours?

>>74158996

This should have been the 3 peat sadly.

If not mistaken if they hadn't blown either of those reg season games vs the eagles or jets in 2015-16 they would have played Denver in the AFCCG at Gillette, but instead they lost by 2 at Mile High. (Gronk was playing injured- big fucking surprise), but Edelman was also hurt, playing with a metal boot on to protect his fractured foot. They still only lost by 2 at Mile High.

Whoever won the AFC last year was going to curbstomp $cam Newton and his meme team. Sadly it was Denver.

>>74158881
Not very likely statistically. They're the only well coached team in football so anything is possible though.

>>74158881
>possible

it's as inevitable as the sun coming up tomorrow, or the tide going out this evening.

>>74159230
This is true on paper but what team can realistically challenge them?

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>>74159230
>Statistics

> $68 fucking million in cap space
> top tier trade bait on roster

I would be shocked if they didn't make it back tbqh.

>>74159692
You forgot

>Best offensive weapon will in all likelihood be kept to less snaps to guarantee health in the playoffs

6th round
6 rings

>>74159708
>Belichick coddling players
Not in this universe

>>74159730
He'd be stupid not to with Gronk honestly, if he's not made of glass Brady has 7 rings

Other than the Romo sweepstakes and maybe the Raiders if the defense improves, who's going to stop them? AFFCG appearance at bare minimum. The AFC is just not ready.

>watch it
>yes he is
>no hes not
>because its a contact sport, 16 games are played because the toll on the players bodies is much more than baseball/basketball
>win a super bowl
>commercials

>>74159741
Belichick's whole philosophy is do your job or I'll find someone else who can. Gronk's a freak, but I'm not convinced Belichick is willing to abandon decades of this mindset.

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>>74159230
>>74159659
The bringer of chaos laughs at your statistics

>>74159154
You sound like a faggot. Luckswing'? Memes? No idea of anything? You may spend too much time in your mothers basement. You're a pleb. Get off the internet and go outside. Stay away from football, you dont belong.

>>74159757
>yes he is
>no hes not

I think you got those switched around

>>74159747
homo's not making anyone a contender

>>74159198
Whos defense was better 14 Seahawks or 16 Broncos?

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>teams leading by 25 or more points at any time in any NFL game were 2,545-4-2 in the regular season and 102-2 in the postseason (2,647-6-2 total).

>>74158971
Running back, lineman, OLB, TE

>>74160210
*

>>74158881
Hate the pats but they have the makings of a big off-season. Garopolo for picks, and plenty of cap space. Anything is possible during the season but hard to believe they won't be in the playoffs given the dumpster fire that is the AFC east.

>>74159580
Well they were getting curbstomped by Atlanta before they started shitting all over themselves.

So he has an elite defense, good rushing game and good oline. They could trade jimmy G for a WR or Linebacker or just use those damn 65m cap space to give brady another owl.

>>74158881
this is it. this is the time to mortgage your future. dont believe in life after brady. just try and get one more ring.

just go crazy in FA and actually dont trade back in the draft. just send the team into cap space purgatory to maximize bradys final years.

>>74162954
The Pats are super young, even if they go all out these next few years they'll be set up pretty nicely without Brady as an 8-8 team

>>74159798
I will learn it and watch just to spite you now. Then I'm gonna post about it on /sp/.

Has to be next year imo.

>>74159046

>are the only team that has not appeared in the playoffs so far in the 21st century

That's amazing. Even the browns have been there since 2000.

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well with as much $$ as they paid the refs this time .....
id say its already a done deal.

>>74159154
>Is Joe Montana the gretaest
Montana's title of GOAT has been passed to Brady
>Is Rodgers a meme
He has a ring, so no. Very talented, but the Packers haven't had a run game or pass defense the past two seasons for them to really make an owl run
>Why do they only play like 10 games per season
It's a physical game with high speed impacts and collisons, with a bunch of hits to the legs, and can be very wearing on the body. Also, the season runs into winter, and a majority of the teams play outside, so weather can be an issue.
>What are the hardest things to do in this sport?
From a team perspective, having an undefeated season. No team under the current 16 game schedule has won every single game and the owl. The Patriots came close with >18-1, but choked in the last game. The 1972 Miami Dolphins had a perfect season and a super bowl victory, but that was with a shorter schedule. From an individual perspective, it is hard to find a good qb. Teams last year like Houston and Minnesota had a great defense, but no quarterback to give them a breath of offense.
>Why is every game 4 hours
Because the NFL has a monopoly on American Sunday Afternoons, and can air as many commercials as they want, because people won't stop watching it. That combined with excessive penatlies, injuries, and replay reviews causes the games to last incredibly long

>>74159712

My nigga. It's like pottery.

>>74159741
>if he's not made of glass

Gronk is a monster and an old-school, smash-mouth football player. He's no finesse guy. That's why he's always hurt. He's a giant, quick as hell and it takes multiple guys or another monster to take him down and those guys give no quarter. They literally have to maul him to stop him. So, he gets fucked up...

>>74164728
Kek you've never played football.

>>74164815

How many NFL games have you played? Zero? Oh, alright. You must be the foremost authority then.

>>74158881
They should trade Brady for Rogers

>>74159747
>Romo getting any team through the playoffs

>>74158881
They have to sign Hightower & Butler then have a decent enough draft/Free agency.

I'd lay good odds.

>>74164815
Well, guys intentionally go for Gronks knees and legs and shit because they have a hard time going face to face

>>74164815
Sooo, Earl Thomas DIDN'T fuck Gronk up? That's the only way to stop that guy, hit him hard.

>>74165209
No. The Earl Thomas hit caused him to miss 1 game, the season ending surgery was completely unrelated to that hit.

>>74158881

It's obviously very, very possible. I'd give it like a 25% chance of happening for the next two years. After that, you'd expect Brady to slow down so.... who even knows

>>74165032
8.

>>74165265

Liar. Identify yourself.

He's in the AFC with no legitimate teams

Schedule babby will take 3 more before retiring

>>74165299
Schedule baby doesn't make sense seeing as he has to beat the NFC champions to get the ring

>>74165224
>completely unrelated

He'd been playing hurt most of the season but still playing. He takes that hit, comes out of the game, then is in for one play of the following game where the guy guarding him sneezes on him and he collapses... That Thomas hit fucked him up good.

>>74165299
>Schedule babby

Seems he played a completely healthy and much younger offensive juggernaut Falcons team this year. Strength of schedule is what won him he ring though.....................

KEK

>>74165362
Patsfags are 2EZ

>>74164452

They are actually discussing showing one less commercial break per quarter which would make a huge difference.

>>74158881

I would say... More probable than not

;)

>>74158881
if lewis and gronk end up being healthy for the whole year it's over

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>>74158881

what will actually stop him
he didn't stop at 18-1
nothing will stop him

I think there is a good chance Brady gets one more in the next two years. Who knows what the team will look like 3 years from now when he's 42/43

>>74158881

>Patriots are one of the youngest teams in the NFL
>Are heading into the off season with more salary cap room than the other 3 teams in their division combined
>After they lost their best offensive weapon they didn't lose a game including the Superbowl
>Have the GOAT QB who still needs to prove some stubborn people wrong
>Have the GOAT Head Coach at a time when coaching is potentially at an all time low
>Opposing teams are going to be shitting themselves knowing that no lead is safe after watching Brady come back from the biggest deficit in Super bowl history, will lead to mental mistakes
>Patriots have never lost a game when Dion Lewis is active
>it looks like all of the Pats coordinators, who are all top tier, will be back
>All of the other high tier teams in the NFL right now either have a great QB but no defense, or a great defense but no QB
>Most of the teams that could realistically challenge the Pats have a very young and unproven QB that could regress just as much as improve (Dallas, Oakland, Tennessee, Tampa)

9/10 bretty good

>>74169757
lewis is overrated. you can find players like him left and right.

>>74170055
Dallas defense is trash, Brady would eat their corners alive.

>>74159046
They should've went with fucking Flutie. But the Bills really love them razorcakes

>>74170402
Pretty much. Plus Dez seems to be declining at a consistent rate and Dak/Zeke are unproven in the long haul.

>>74170055
The pats have something special called 'coordinators who never ditch'. Stability wins.

If the AFC continues to be dogshit and the Patriots make some GREAT deals in the draft and free agency, I can see it.

For starters I'd make sure Hightower is resigned, he's the leader of that defense.

But Brady SERIOUSLY need some dominant reciever to throw the ball to. Meme manlets are great and all but can quickly get exposed.

>>74171062
>only one NFC winner in the last 5 owls
the NFC would look dogshit too if they had the Pats

>>74171062
Larry Fitz pls and thank you

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>>74170055
>Opposing teams are going to be shitting themselves knowing that no lead is safe after watching Brady come back

this
dude is terrifying

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>>74159071
Oh, please, even Dom Capers was able to slow that pollock down.

>>74160199
14 Hawks

Dominate line, LB and secondary.

Broncos couldn't even make it back to the playoffs.

>>74159747
>Romo sweepstakes

Only a foolish team would go after him. Romo is done. These last 2 seasons, he's gone down with injuries from hits and he's on the wrong side of 30.

>>74162954
>dont trade back in the draft

Spoken like a Jest fan.

>>74172422
It's more about who's going to be able to stop the Pats. If by some miracle Romo signs with a good AFC team and stays healthy (lol) it could be their biggest roadblock.

Realistically they're going to BTFO the Raiders in the AFCCG.

>>74170144

New England has never lost a game when Lewis is active.

>>74172422

Romo doesn't need to be a top 5 QB on a team like the Broncos or Texans, he just needs to be smart enough to go through his progressions and find the open men on short routes. He would be a vast improvement over Osweiler or Seimien.

unless they go full retard and let Hightower go they're guaranteed to at least get back to the Superbowl next year

Vegas currently has it 5-1.

>>74165298

I'm Jared Goff

>>74158881
Man will be 40 this year. We may be getting close to his retirement.

>>74164728
Gronk is Bo Jackson, his injuries are from the xtra effort and players it takes to bring him down. Because of this he'll have ALS in his 40s

>>74173921
Until he gets hit and is done for the season. Houston will make Romo his bitch if he goes to the Donkeys.

>>74177627

Brady's confident of playing to 45, and barring injury, I think he does so

Odds are really good

Broncos have an entirely new coaching staff and question marks on offensive line and at quarterback, they're not contenders

Raiders have Carr, but he's proven to be injury prone. And Brady can go balls deep on that joke of a defense

Colts don't stand a prayer of a chance

Steelers are falling apart, who knows if Brown will be back or Bell. Roethlisberger is even talking retirement. Way too much drama around that team.

Ravens lost a stud defensive player to retirement, and feels like they aren't legitimate

Bengals can't win a playoff game

Dolphins got lucky this year, they won't be serious next year.

Titans flashed potential at the end of the year but that quickly evaporated.

So there's really no one in the AFC to compete with

NFC could beat them, but the Seahawks are all prima donas now. Packer's "defense" has no quick answers. Cowboys might be the best threat if they can improve defensively and get lucky with injuries again.

Pats will trade Gronk to some idiot team that thinks they're only one piece away, rape the Browns on a trade for Garapolo, and reinvest their 68 fucking million.

Really they're going to repeat and it won't be close.

Fucking sucks, I absolutely despise the Patriots. The only way they'll be stopped is if Brady or Edelman go down, everyone else is disposable and they'll win the superbowl. They could even handle Edelman as long as he's the only significant injury.

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>leave the Patriots to me

Imagine they lost to the team Jimmy gets traded to. This is what I'm hoping for.

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>>74177761

You can't plan your team around an injury that may or may not happen. That's planning for failure. You sign the guy and do your damndest to keep him upright and on the field.

Depending on the off-season, I wouldn't be shocked at a 6 and 7.

I think #1 or #2 seed to the AFC Championship game is probably the minimum they get the next 2 years.

>>74181654
seriously, who can compete with them? they have 68 million in cap space, and they have the best team in the league.

how did they get so far ahead of the competition???

>>74181712
B R A D Y
R
A
D
Y

>>74158881
next season, assured

>>74181712
Thu have a front office that isn't filled with grossly incompetent cunts.

And coach + qb puts winning ahead of money.

>>74178023
possible since jimmy is a pats disciple

>>74182057
belicheck really is a genius

either that or everyone else is really fucking stupid. all belicheck does is gameplan away the best offensive player for any team, then he gameplans the offense to pick at the sore spots in the defense. anybody could do it but everyone else just does the most predictable shit

>>74158881
They can do it again next year. Its scary how competitive Brady is. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to win 10 owls just so he can shittalk every athlete for the rest of his life.

>>74182164
It's really fucking funny when you think about it. Virtually every other coach or GM is held hostage to some diva player. It in New England they are booted to the fucking Browns while they still win Owls. They must put the Cult in Culture in that locker room and it obviously works. I hope some business graduate writes a thesis on the Patriots. Would make for an interesting read desu.

>>74182164
It's really both. Belichick is a god at gameplanning and half-time adjustments. He literally plays 12-D chess insofar that other teams act completely retarded even when up 25 with 18 minutes left in the Owl or on the 1 yard line with Beast Mode and a timeout.

>>74182209
[roger that intensifies]

about 40.567575758565675% i'd say

>>74182209
It's both. Belichick is autistic about asset management and season gameplanning ("Really, we're starting 5 weeks behind everyone else" -- Bill Belichick after winning his 5th Owl as HC when asked about the offseason) and every other team has Dumbass McRetard running their FO and Stubborn Asshole as the HC most of the time.

>>74182242
i was thinking going into the playoffs, belicheck finally has the defense he wants

he doesn't care about yards, he cares about points and forcing turnovers. he doesn't need elite athletes like jamie collins, he needs smart white guys like shea fucking mcclellan. guys who he can tell exactly what to do and they do it, even if they're not turbo niggers

nobody else could win a superbowl with shea mcclellan starting at lb, but belicheck got exactly what he needed from him.

>>74182262
yeah his halftime adjustments are second to none

>>74158881
Will have to see how free agency shakes out. About half of their defense is no longer under contract as well as some key pieces of the offense. If they can retain all of the key talent with long term signings as well as come up big in the draft then the sky is the limit. If Key players are bought in free agency by other teams and they aren't replaced with top talent, and they don't get a kings ransom for the possible future Jimmy G trade then they may hit a bit of a mini-rebuild for the next 2-3 years, and at that point I don't think Brady gets #6 before he retires.

>>74181712
>how did they get so far ahead of the competition???

Highest-tier ownership, management, coaching, QB, and locker room culture.

>>74164452
Bradford was alright with the shit O-line he had to work with. Be curious to see how this team addresses the line issue this off-season.

>>74183284
Imagine if Bradford had the amount of time to throw that Rogers has

>>74158881
7th ring is in play right now..

I don't even care anymore. I'm starting to resent football

Very likely

GOAT

>>74185272
this

Brady could be pushing 8 by the time hes 45

>>74202466
Brady needs a ring this year to have his second dynasty

Inevitable
#BlitzforSix

>>74172113
True pats fans knew we were never out of that game, I myself asked myself around the 28-3 lead whether or not we would lose that game, and I thought
>no, there's just no way we'll lose
and we didn't.

As long as Brady plays well they have a chance.

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>Megatron comes out of retirement
>signs 1 year deal with Pats
>Pats go undefeated and win Superbowl
>Fitzgerald signs with Pats
>Pats go undefeated and win Super Bowl again
>Brady retires with 7 rings, back to back perfect seasons, and the 3peat
>runs for Senate in Massachusetts and wins in the largest ever landslide
>Jimmy G gets signed to longterm contract and the Patriots enjoy another two decades of domination

screencap this

>>74204372
post yfw Brady becomes the first republican candidate to win office in Massachusetts for a long time.

>>74204402

Brady plays for four years and then runs as Trump's second-term VP.

>beat aaron rogers to avenge 96
>beat eli to avenge 18-1
>retire
>defense-oriented patricia/jimmy g/bob kraft's kid era starts

They fucking doubted tom brady. And now he can piss into their faces LAUGHING LAUGHING at the fact that they did. He'll fucking be able to shit down the throat of every single hater while he rubs his six rings together 3 on each hand soon.

You've made a big mistake thinking you could fucking deny tam broody a thing.

>>74158881
>Realtalk. How possible is a sixth ring?
Real possible barring some injuries and/or huge missteps by Belichick, the GM and Belichick, the coach.

>>74158917
no one talks about the fact that the SBLI comeback, hell, the whole game, happened without Gronk. Brady can officially be stripped of the Gronkbabby title after that.

>>74204407
if a HOF coach can be a Supreme Court justice and a HOF pitcher can be senator, then anything is possible with athletes and political office.