The Patriots play their seventh regular season game at Gillette against the New York Jets on Sunday October 21st at 4:25 PM.
Welcome Back, Aaron Hernandez.
Bros and Lady Bros,
Not good times in Patriots Nation. With that loss last week, we've already lost as many games as we did all of last year.
So is this a BAD TEAM?
Or is this a GOOD TEAM that's just not playing well?
We've lost 3 games by a total of 4 points. There's no such thing as a good loss. But it's also not like we're getting killed.
My first reaction after last week's game was to crap all over the secondary. But I think the blame really lies with Brady on that loss. Not too many plays from that game will be featured on the "TOM BRADY'S 100 GREATEST NFL MOMENTS" DVD I'll be buying 5 or 6 years from now.
Danny Power Rankings:
1) DeVito
2) Trejo
3) Torrance
4) Woodhead
5) Boy
Here's five guys I'll be expecting to play better this week:
1) Wes Welker - Welker showed up last week. Everyone else on this list kinda sucked.
2) Tom Brady - TWO (!) intentional groundings AND 2 INTs in the same game? That loss is on him.
3) Patrick Chung - You're killing me, Patrick Chung! What happened to you? I expected more this season.
4) Rob Gronkowski - Also not playing up to the level we've come to expect. He's been a step slower all year. Then he took a brutal shot to the back on Sunday.
5) Stevan Ridley - Bolden is hurt this week. The Jets aren't great against the run. Ridley should have a huge week.
My prediction (Game 7): Pats 35, Jets 17
My prediction (Season): 11 - 5 (Revised downward. Sad face.)
Nut up or move on.
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This year, we're going to have regular contributions from Fake Bill Belichick for your reading pleasure. Here's this week's selection from Fake Bill Belichick's second book "My Patriot Years":
We're on the road in 2000. At Indianapolis. They were still in our division back then.
The Kraft's were going full blast on the construction of what would eventually become Gillette Stadium, so money was a little tighter than usual. They asked us to double up on hotel rooms on the road.
I had to room with Mangini. Nobody else wanted to him to stay with him. They thought of him as the Cousin Oliver of the coaching group. No big deal, I thought. We had worked with each other with both the Browns and the Jets, so we were pretty comfortable with each other.
He gets up to the room first and unpacks all his stuff. I get up a little bit later after my meetings are done. I go to put the rest of my Diet Coke in the mini-fridge... And he's got it filled with carrot juice.
"What the hell is all this?" I asked him.
"Carrot juice! It's my new diet. Nothing but carrot juice for two weeks. I've already lost 6 pounds!" he said proudly.
Later that night, I'm having one last look over my notes. Eric is sitting on the bed with another bottle of carrot juice.
I ask him to come take a look at the blitz package I was trying to diagram. He comes over to take a look, trips over his shoes, and spills his carrot juice all over the table.
"MANGINI!"
Carrot juice... everywhere. All over my notes. All over my good gameday sweatshirt (with the sleeves ripped just right). And it was too late to do any laundry. I was super pissed. That stuff smelled horrible the next day.
I made sure I always got my own room after that. Even if I had to pay for it myself.
Never again.
True story.
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