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"We've got to get those guys," guard Damien Woody said less than an hour after the win over the Giants. "They beat the crap out of us. It's been ugly games down there ever since I came here."
Woody was a first-round draft choice in New England in 1999 and since his arrival the Patriots never have won in Miami. Add his experiences against the University of Miami while at Boston College and it's unfathomable why he built an offseason home down there except that, obviously, he likes the heat, too.
Little of what has gone on at Pro Player Stadium (or the old Orange Bowl for that matter) was Woody's fault. But it has not gone unnoticed by him and, frankly, by many of his teammates that year after year the outcome has been depressingly the same whenever he and his friends from New England leave for a weekend in Miami. To let that happen again this Sunday after wrestling their way to a 4-2 start despite enough injuries to justify opening a triage center next to Gillette Stadium would not be the end of the world and certainly wouldn't be the end of the season. But it wouldn't exactly help the cause, either.
"We're fed up with going down there and getting beat," Woody said of his previous four trips to Miami. "We want to try and do something about it. We know it will be hot. That's a great advantage for them. It's hot down there right now. But we can't worry about it.
"They play great ball at home. We know that. It's been ugly down there. This game is huge. You know what it would do for our team to go to Miami and beat them down there?"
Read the rest at:
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2003/10/14/after_giants_giant_challenge/
Woody was a first-round draft choice in New England in 1999 and since his arrival the Patriots never have won in Miami. Add his experiences against the University of Miami while at Boston College and it's unfathomable why he built an offseason home down there except that, obviously, he likes the heat, too.
Little of what has gone on at Pro Player Stadium (or the old Orange Bowl for that matter) was Woody's fault. But it has not gone unnoticed by him and, frankly, by many of his teammates that year after year the outcome has been depressingly the same whenever he and his friends from New England leave for a weekend in Miami. To let that happen again this Sunday after wrestling their way to a 4-2 start despite enough injuries to justify opening a triage center next to Gillette Stadium would not be the end of the world and certainly wouldn't be the end of the season. But it wouldn't exactly help the cause, either.
"We're fed up with going down there and getting beat," Woody said of his previous four trips to Miami. "We want to try and do something about it. We know it will be hot. That's a great advantage for them. It's hot down there right now. But we can't worry about it.
"They play great ball at home. We know that. It's been ugly down there. This game is huge. You know what it would do for our team to go to Miami and beat them down there?"
Read the rest at:
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2003/10/14/after_giants_giant_challenge/
