The Patriots play their thirteenth regular season game at Gillette Stadium against the Houston Texans on Monday, December 10th at 8:30 PM.
Woo Hoo! AFC East Champs!
Not the most complete game they've played all season, but I'll take it. The best thing about the Dolphins game was the 7 minute drive to close out the game. We haven't had one of those in a while.
So close!
Christmas Special Power Rankings:
1) A Charlie Brown Christmas
2) The Spirit of Christmas
3) Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
4) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
5) Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special
Here's five guys coming back this week that I'll be keeping an eye on:
1) Chandler Jones - Ankle injuries have to be rough when you're 260 pounds. 'Cause every time you take a step... You know... That's 260 pounds landing on your bad ankle. Ouch.
2) Logan Mankins - The offensive line has been pretty good this year, even the weeks he's been out. But I'd still rather have him in there (unsportsmanlike conduct penalties and all).
3) Donte' Stallworth - Back with the team. Honestly, I thought he looked great in training camp. I was surprised they cut him.
4) Brandon Bolden - Back from a four game suspension. He was playing well before that, but he's probably behind Stevan Ridley on the depth chart now.
5) Brandon Lloyd - It'll be nice to see him get back into the action this week... Wait, what? He played last week? OK... Nevermind then.
Did Brandon Lloyd have a catch last week?
Yes.
(But just one.)
Did Donte' Stallworth kill a guy this week?
No.
(Not that we know of...)
I hate to do it... But I'm going to pick against the Pats this week. It pains me.
My prediction (Game 13): Pats 27, Texans 31
My prediction (Season): 11 - 5 (Steady from last week.)
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":
It was just last week. I was finally starting to feel pretty good about this season. We had won a few big games. We had just clinched the AFC East. The rest of our schedule was tough but manageable. And then this bomb gets dropped on my desk Friday morning.
Josh McDaniels runs into my office to tell me.
BB: What? No coffee?
JM: Did you hear?
BB: Hear what?
JM: Brady's wife gave birth last night.
BB: What? Brady had another kid?
JM: (nods)
BB: During the SEASON?! You've got to be kidding me.
JM: Yeah. It was all over the papers.
BB: You know I don't read the papers... except for "Garfield". I didn't even know she was pregnant. Nobody told me.
JM: Sorry, sir.
BB: Awww c'mon... We talked about this. Big game this week, and he's not going to get ANY sleep at home with a new baby. Dammit! Can we get him out of the house for few days? Maybe here could stay here.
JM: He says he wants to be home with his family.
BB: What if we hid his keys?
JM: He keeps an extra set hidden somewhere here in the building ever since Matt Light stole his car that time.
BB: Heh heh... That was good. Can we convince him he needs to stay all night and watch extra tape?
JM: Maybe... But he'd wonder why he couldn't just take it home on his laptop.
BB: Maybe we could lock him up in the nap room?
JM: There's no lock on that door
BB: Wait... I've got it!
JM: What?
BB: Tell him a representative from Uggs is coming to see him here with samples from the new product line. It's important they see him in person.
JM: That's great. He's stay at his locker for days.
BB: And schedule a vasectomy for Brady, too.
Boom. Problem solved.
True story.
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