the return of pat the patriot

Week 5!

Oct 09, 2022

For the first time in a decade, the Patriots will be wearing their throwback Pat the Patriot jerseys today.

Pat was created by Worcester Telegram - Evening Gazette cartoonist Phil Bissell.

“Things are going so fast today,” Bissell said. “People like to have their feet on the ground, and my old Pat, when I drew him back in 1960, he had both his feet on the ground. He was ready to do battle.”

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Numbers

4: Cooper Rush is the first QB in Dallas Cowboys history to start his career 4-0.

4: Trevor Lawrence lost 4 fumbles last week. He's the first player this century to lose 4 fumbles in a game.

13: 13 passes into his NFL career, Kenny Pickett has not thrown an incompletion yet. (10 completions, 3 interceptions)

20: Tom Brady will attempt to avoid his first three-game losing streak in 20 years. Brady has lost more than two games in a row only ONE time in his career — all the way back in 2002.

281: The Lions and their opponents have now combined for 281 points through the first four games of the season. That’s the most ever in NFL history. Detroit leads the league in points scored at 35.0 per game and also leads the league in points allowed at 35.3.

50: Baron Browning posted the highest single-game pressure rate (50%) and win rate (60%) EVER in the @PFF era (since 2006) against the Colts. Browning did that in his first ever career start at OLB.

42 [TRIVIA]: There’s a WR in the NFL who has more receptions through four games than a starting QB has completions. Can you name them both?

Quotes

“It fucking sucked. You don’t get to do nothing over there. You just fucking get on a plane, get over there and fucking practice, and then you play a game. You get back on a plane and travel fucking eight hours somewhere else.”

Packers CB Rasul Douglas on playing in London

"State taxes."

Tyreek Hill on why he's a Dolphin and not a Jet right now

"I feel like I've had my 'last game against Tom Brady' like four times now."

Mahomes

"Not an excuse, but every year we have a new quarterback. So each year we have growing pains while we sit here + watch Tennessee, which has had Tannehill, what, my whole career? And each year we’re restarting and we have to turn the page."