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Poll: How do you feel about the Patriots win? 12.23.12 at 4:39 pm ET
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  • Guy

    Britton’s outing doesn’t sound very dominant . . .

  • Guest

    Jeremias Pineda is “not” 7-for-12?

  • Nfunky

    They are measuring outings according to DiceK charts now in the sox system.

  • JonnyRay

    Drake the Snake

  • Talafortune

    I wouldn’t call the 31st ranked defense a tough defense…

  • Willrijnbeek2

    Very concerned as it was a very uninspired performance. Thinking back on it though generally every year the Pats have 1 or 2 games like this against teams they should crush, yet they barely squeek by.

  • Mprice54

    The pass defense was just awful. Are the enormous holes on short/medium routes caused by Patriarca’s calls? Why does Bill put up with this? Or do we just have crappy players?

    One and done in the playoffs.

  • Oldmanmercer

    This game proved the value of Talib. The defense is totally different without him!

  • Anonymous

    With Spikes, Talib and Dennard missing you can see an enormous difference in the coverages.  Anytime they can keep Arrington and Chung off the field would be a plus.  All will play against Miami and hopefully Gronkowski as well.  Go Indy!  Go Chiefs!

  • http://twitter.com/JLeClair_ John LeClair

    They only won the first Championship here in over 20 years in 2008, made it to the Finals in 2010, and almost went back to the Finals last year. Shut up and leave your negative comments to yourself.

  • mike

    Pierce could care less if they one or lost and he never takes blame
    Pierce suck tonight like he has for a long time and was always very overrated. Pierce only played hard
    when he wanted to which was not very often and since 2008 he has suck.

  • bill

    Rivers should watch popvich from San Antonio and maybe he will lean how to coach because he sucks

  • Paul Edward McLaughlin

    trade for Oden

  • Billy OBrien

    I thinkKG, Pierce and Doc are all gonna walk into the sunset

  • thunderstruck

    OH SHUT THE HELL UP YOU BOSTON HATERS, THEY STILL HAVE MORE MONEY THAN WE DO

  • bill

    Ownership needs to get rid of Ainge Rivers Pierce Garnet Terry .
    if they don’t the Celtics will suck for the next 20 years

  • rick

    Rondo will never be the same player and Green is so inconsistent so Boston has nothing to build on. All Pierce was for 15 years was a ball hog and never could play with younger players he suck.

  • ron

    your not a celtic fan for sure maybe a ny fan pacers will beat ny 4-0 soon

  • ron

    mike you got one of those pink hats on

  • ron

    bill you should move to ny you might be more happy as knicks fan…..

  • Mike is a tool

    Go to the library and start reading “English For Dummies”….there will be a quiz later in the week to see if you’ve learned anything.

  • http://twitter.com/RedSoxFanatic38 RedSoxFanatic4Life

    As much as it pains me to write it, the correct decision now is to move on from the Pierce/KG era.

  • mike_certified_dummy

    I have to reply to a guy calling someone a tool and agree with him. I honestly couldn’t read the post from the artist allegedly known as “mike”. Even if we were hammered we couldn’t have wrote that poorly. I must be just as stupid if I tried to read it 3 times. Quiz 1 at 6pm next week mike! You dummy.

  • Bill_hicks

    Who do you get to replace them? That is the issue. You trade contracts. The player is behind the contract. What free agent or dude out of the draft can you get to replace them? It can’t be oh, oh, just git rid of ‘em…..

  • Joshua Jock

    Go play some golf Celtics.. or you gonna watch some Warriors to see how NBA is played??

  • drew

    Pierce single handedly lost that game for us, he was horrible last night!

  • Matt

    BLOW IT UP. Stop delaying the inevitable, Danny, and do what’s best for the future of this franchise. Think with your head, and no with emotion, and don’t continue to be a complete fraud like you’ve been doing for the past little while, when you laughed at Red for holding onto the players for too long, and you said you’d never do that. Yet, you have.

  • Anonymous

    Like I have said before in here, people need to have a brain in order to post. Pierce and Garnett are first ballot Hall of Famers. Thanks for the memories!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Anderson/100000065630538 Bill Anderson

    Every team has to deal with injuries but the Celtics have had key injuries every year since the championship in 2008. Garnett in 09, Perkins in 10, Bradley in 12, and Rondo this year. (I don’t remember who it was in 11). A very good team and run that was a couple injuries or missed shots from a dynasty.

  • Bruinman86

    My best guess is that Pierce gets to ride off into the sunset with one final season with the C’s before retiring. Meanwhile, either KG retires or they move him.Perhaps they can talk him into letting them trade him to a contender who needs one more piece. He doesn’t look like a starter anymore. Time to rebuild.

  • Schwank

    Read a “take em” (keep them for next year) and “leave em” (get rid of them) article in ESPN and for the most part it we keep just about everybody. That said there was significant criticism of Courtney Lee in the comment section. My take is that PP and KG are the “vets” their team so to speak. You can’t expect C Lee to come and score 20 a night there’s only 1 ball. That’s why a I give Green a pass too. When he came in two years ago…..he couldn’t just waltz in and take over. Then he was out with the heart ailment last year. This year he had to overcome that and eventually ascended to the top. Danny’s job is to determine if Green will thrive or regress when PP leaves. He’ll be the man then. On the other hand if he is simply a by-product of playing with KG and PP well then…..we got troubles.
    In football (different sport) Parcells used to beleive that the older vet ,…might be better, but by keeping them, they would stunt the development of the younger player. So in essence roster decisions were somewhat based on what was best for the future. To be fair I think in football it was more along the line of who keep as the 4th WR the wiley vet or the up and coming rookie. In basketball when only 7-9 guys make any signifcant contribution, your best options still maybe PP and KG.
    I’m in the camp of keeping KG and moving on from PP. But I realize they may come as a set. In other words if PP goes maybe KG hangs it up. It’s delicate right now and I’m not even factoring in Doc. I think they have to get a decision from him as it would effect on the type of players they bring in.
    My hunch…..they all go.

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