TEAM SHOTS
- Some players take the loss personally; Monday team notes.
- Ask PFW: Lots of great questions on a host of different topics this week from our passionate readers.
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Bill Belichick's Monday Press Conference.
LOCAL SHOTS
- Shalise Manza Young says Patriots' Welker displays toughness (and a concussion) amid back-to-back big hits.
- Chris Gasper realizes that the Patriots can't afford to lose another game.
- Mike Reiss looks at Offensive participation, Positional Groupings, and notes that Richard Seymour was a standout Sunday.
- Ron Borges issues his report card from Sunday and notes the only area the offense was consistent, was in dropping the ball.
- Michael Felger notes the Steelers did not come ready to play Sunday and the Patriots could have taken advantage.
- Herald Staff gives us the AFC playoff picture.
- Jeff Darlington notes Miami will win the AFC East if they can win their last 4 games.
- Tony "Debbie Downer" Massarotti claims prolonged success in the modern NFL is the exception rather than the norm, and the Patriots' dominance is bound to end sooner rather than later.
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Globe Patriots Notebook: Patriots players are less than enthused about playing in London; Wilfork calls hit to Welker cheap; Pats zone defense improved slightly.
LONG SHOTS
- Tim Graham (ESPN) Moss almost invisible in Patriots losses, plus Patriots doomed by third down misery.
- Matthew Burglund (Indiana Gazette) Seeing Belichick squirm -- priceless. Burglund writing Belichick is a fraud and an evil villain -- classless.
- Mike Florio (Sporting News) asks if this is the end of the road for the Pats.
- Andrew Perloff (SI) knocks average QB Cassel from his throne. (Just a thought, but wasn't it the media that crowned him in the first place?)
- Mike Freeman (CBS Sports) says Dirty is in the eyes of the beholder.
- Ed Bouchette (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Safety Ryan Clark apologizes for big hit. Yeah, ummm... sorry I ran over your dog BUT he was in my way and that's just the way I do things and I never turn down chances to put my head down and launch ahead regardless if it's necessary or not. I couldn't apologize directly to your unconscious dog so I talked to your neighbor's pet instead. What? I cracked his skull? Really? Wow! ummm... oh yeah, sorry.
VIEW FROM SEATTLE
- Scott M. Johnson (Daily Herald) Seahawks say they won't quit.
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Tim Ruskell (seahawks.com) The Seahawks are entering their final four games when the team takes on the New England Patriots at Qwest Field.