I know they were all at different points of their career but I don’t think any team could match the names on this list!

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  1. This was my Favorite Patriots team to watch. That had so many ways to beat you. That being Said Moss was traded early in the season

  2. Ignoring their individual for the 2010 season alone, it’s probably up there as far as groups of names on one team at one time goes. 

    That being said, Welker was the only one on this list even close to his prime. 

  3. This team was so good. The Jets loss is up there with some of the worst losses they’ve ever had.

  7. Not even on paper. The actual results were bananas. They ran into bad luck and bad matchups in the playoffs but that offense stands up against any offense in history.

  9. If Deion Branch is the fourth best receiver on your team, you’ve got a monster. Branch was at the end of his prime and had lost a step but he was still absolutely solid.

    It really was a shame that Hernandez turned out to be who he was. He was not the blocker Gronk was but he was also an all pro caliber TE and I think he had hall of fame level skills.

  12. Edelman wasn’t Edelman yet.

    He was still a QB returning punts. It took him a few years to become a legitimate receiver.

  13. I think it was a great offense but I’m very confused why people in this thread are talking about the 2010 Pats as some insane overall *team*. The offense was spectacular and it was the first year we modernized the 2 TE set, but the defense was horrendous and I think people forget that.

    The 2010 Pats gave up a historical amount of yards, and were saved by their ability to get an unsustainable amount of turnovers. Really, the only reason that defense isn’t considered one of the historically worst defenses ever is because that same year the Saints defense *was* the historically worst defense ever lol.

    Going against the Jets wasn’t “a bad matchup”, they beat us handedly in week 2 when they didn’t commit turnovers, and then we crushed them when they did later in the year. Lo and behold, when we faced them again in the playoffs and they didn’t commit dumbass turnovers, we lost again lol.

    I’d put almost any Brady Pats team (other than 2002) above 2010 in watchability…

  14. No. Any receiver group with Jerry rice in it was the best as he was the best by far

  16. Gronk makes it impossible to argue against but 2007’s receiving corps is up there

    Moss, Welker, Gaffney, Stalworth .

  17. Maybe, then again Gronk, Moss and Welker added to any unit puts that group automatically at Goat level.

  19. If we’re going by how their entire careers ended up playing out then they would be in the conversation. But thats a weird way to do it and ignores how they actually all played together. Edelman was a glorified punt returner and Randy Moss played in 4 games. The 2011 season would be a much better argument for greatest group who all played together and performed at the same time.

    As for teams that can match it, the Colts would be the first team that comes to mind like the 2004 season with Harrison, Wayne, Stokley (all 1000yds that season) plus Dallas Clark and Edgerin James. The 2000 Rams would also be pretty high up there.

  20. Not even close. Edelman wasn’t Edelman yet, Moss was on the decline, and the TE’a were rookies who were not what they’d become.

  22. LOVED these guys on the 2010-2011-2012 teams

    Offense was so fun to watch.. SB 46 and Jets loss still bothers me.. Ravens AFC title loss also but that team was on a mission

  23. Still upset Hernandez had to go murder people. That combo of him and Gronk would have been the best duo the NFL had ever seen.

  24. Its up there, but production wise, it wasn’t called the Greatest Show on Turf for nothing

  27. I’d argue that the Patriots’ 2007 WR squad was stronger than 2010.

    Likewise, 2010 wasn’t as strong as some other teams, such as the ’98 Vikings, ’99 Rams, or the 2021 Tampa Bay squad.

  28. It’s kinda hard to say that when most of this list is, “This guy will be elite in 3 years” and “this guy was elite 3 years ago.” Rookie Edelman was an unknown quarterback, Deion Branch was 10 years passed his prime, rookie Gronk and Hernandez were really good but Gronk would become elite in ensuing seasons. Welker was the best WR on the team but largely thought past his prime. Randy Moss is obviously one of the greatest WRs in history but going into the 2007 season the general consensus was that he was past his prime and washed, and then of course he went on a tear to prove everybody wrong. Moss’s final productive season for a team was 2009.

    This is similar to calling the 2004 Lakers the greatest basketball team on paper ever. Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Karl Malone, Gary Payton, Horace Grant, Rick Fox, Derek Fisher… Four of those guys are top 15 in NBA history (at the time), and then three are key players on multiple championships. But Payton, Malone, and Grant were well past their prime. Kobe was still an elite player but him and Shaq had issues, and Shaq had been mailing it in and not fully committed to winning. It’s a team that looked like a super team in November, only to end up falling flat in the playoffs.

  29. Didn’t we also have Tory Holt and Alge Crumpler that year at various points? Both very good players, again at the end of their careers.

  30. Are we on drugs? In the early 2000s the colts had Marvin Harrison, Dallas Clark, brandon stokely, and Reggie Wayne and the Rams had Isaac Bruce, Tory holt, Ricky proehl, and Marshall Faulk.

  32. Ive been saying this for years that when we had gronk and that other guy that combination was just as lethal as the 2007 squad when gronk was healthy. in the end it dont matter because bum ass eli manning got bailed out lol. but ive always been curious on why dont other teams try to replicate that by trying to have 2 elite tight ends because if you can accumulate any run game whatsoever they cant really go to nickle formations on defense and they cant press the tight ends really on the LOS

  33. I mean Moss was only there for a few games, and Edleman was mostly just a punt returner at the time.

  34. I have always said this 2010 team is fascinating because for a few short weeks they had two different eras combined…..Moss, Welker, Branch, Edelman, Gronk, Hernandez

    I also think this is the great forgotten team of the dynasty. They were 14-2 (with an all-time fluke loss to the Browns, a bizarre game where a terrible team just murdered a great team) and they had played, and defeated, every team that was a threat in the AFC. They beat the Jets by 40 points in December and then somehow lose in the playoffs to them a few weeks later. It’s a shame!

  35. They did put up gaudy numbers but it definitely felt more like frontrunners when it mattered (Jets playoff game to be exact).

    I preferred the 07 trio of Moss\Welker\Stallworth or the 2016 group of Edelman\Amendola\Hogan\White\Bennett (no Gronk).

    When Gronk got hurt and missed rest of the year, it was actually worked out better for the Pats because Brady was no longer trying to force it to less than 100% Gronk and you had no idea where he was going with the ball. The culmination of that was the Super Bowl vs the Falcons.

  36. Remove Moss and Edelman and it’s still an all time group.

    Having Welker, Gronk, Hernandez, Branch, and Woodhead from 2010-2012 (with Lloyd stepping in for an aging Branch in 2012) is stupid riches. Edelman was started to cook in 2012 with Gronk and Hernandez missing time too before he got hurt. Edelman and Welker were perfectly capable of sharing the field

    They’re one of two squads to score 500 points 3 years straight. The other was the greatest show on turf

  37. Pretty sure this was the year my Fantasy team had Brady, Gronk, Welker, Woodhead, Gostowski, Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson haha

  38. We often have a washed up WR on our roster pre-season. You could probably fish out a Chad Johnson team. We also had Reggie Wayne for a hot second.

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