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Five Things to Watch This Week - Week 14

The Patriots play their thirteenth regular season game at home (!) against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday December 13th at 1:00 PM at Gillette Stadium.


Oh man...  I picked a hell of a year to start a Patriots blog... I feel like I'm chronicling the Fall of the Roman Empire.

The offense looks stale.  The defense went from "young and fast" to "inexperienced".

And a big part of the problem is... (gulp)... Brady.  He looks too predictable out there at times.  Welker is making him better at this point.


Here's what I think is going on:


  - Some of the creativity is gone from the offense.  Bill O'Brien is no Josh McDaniels

  - Nobody is stepping up after Welker and Moss.  Sam Aiken is nice special teamer / 4th or 5th receiver, but they could actually use a Gaffney or a Stallworth.

  - Brady has got a baby on the way (UPDATE - he just had a boy).  Don't laugh.  He looked like crap last time he had a kid coming. 

(Tom - please note: with the use of modern birth control techniques, you can chose WHEN you have your kid.  Please don't have any more kids during the season.  Plus December babies have it rough.  He'll be almost a year older than everyone else once he's finally able to start school.)


As my buddy JT put it...

Balls.


Here's five things to watch this Sunday other than the Patriots (because if they're not going to show up, why should we?)


- "The Dark Knight" (HBO) - Holy hell... they show that movie ALL THE TIME.

- "Pump Up the Volume" (CW) - Oh Samantha Mathis... Too bad you never did anything else this memorable in your career...  (Note: not really worth watching edited.)

- "Caddyshack: The Inside Story" (Biography) - This totally sounds like something I'd get sucked into.  "The making of the 1980 comedy classic Caddyshack is chronicled. Included: the reminiscences of the actors, producers and director Harold Ramis."

- "Star Trek" (2009)  JJ Abrams did a phenomenal job with this one.  Go rent it.

- Turn the TV off and go spend time with your kids.  Oh man, do they grow up really fast (you just missed another amazing moment right there while you were reading this stupidness...).




My prediction: Pats 27, Carolina 10


(And Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friend out there.)
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