“The football gods are not yet finished punishing Bill Belichick for Spygate.”
Maybe he just can’t win without spying.
The odd thing is that even though the Patriots are out of the play offs, the entire state of Massachusetts will shut down for one day to celebrate the team...Patriots Day.
The football gods are still punishing the Pats for the ‘tuck rule’.
Brady is suffering from the Samson-in-reverse syndrome. He needs to cut his hair and quit looking like some neo-hippie.
This writes is an asshat. The Jets have a veryyyyyy good defense. They have the best CB in the game and Cromartie is damned good. They have talent all around and were ranked as one of the best units of the league. They shut down Manning in Indy last week where many calls tend to go the Colts’ way. As much as I hate on the JETS they are a damned good football team.
The Pats have a lot of young players and it showed with the fake punt decision and breakdowns. Oh yeah, their coaching staff is rather thin as evidenced by the failure to adjust. Lastly, their O-Line once again got exposed for being weak. However, they get two very good players back from injury next year along with maturing young players and with 6 of the top 90 players to be selected in the April draft they are actually going to be better. 14-2 in a rebuilding year?????
Thanks for this post. I hadn’t realized that stat. Being a mostly ‘college ball’ guy, I hadn’t noticed that.
It is a very interesting stat. Next year will be interesting to see.
I wouldn’t read too much into it. In the NFL streaks are part of the game. Momentum swings. Strengths and weaknesses ebb and flow.
My favorite NFL quote, still to this day, is from former NBA coach Frank Layden who once said:
“Funny how Don Shula, Tom Landry, and Chuck Knoll all got stupid over the same summer.”
The Pittsburgh Steelers have played in 15 of the 45 AFC Championship games since the beginning of the Super Bowl era. That is an extraordinary accomplishment. And only in about HALF of those seasons did the Steelers have a real quarterback...those featuring Bradshaw and Big Ben. Pittsburgh has without question been the most successful team in the NFL over the last 45 years. WHY?? Because the first principle has never changed—HIT THE OTHER GUY IN THE MOUTH!!!
I think Belichek is getting too full of himself. The genius moves of running the ball down 2 touchdowns, and mostly the idiotic fake punt.
I wish that I could have caught the Jets vs. Pats game in its entirety.
But now the Jets go to Pittsburgh. If the Steelers' Defense once again channels the old Steel Curtain (viz the 3rd Quarter last week), the Jets will lose.
But there is no denying that the Jets punked the Dolts and the Patsies in their own back yards. But since I think that the Steelers took Baltimore seriously, they aren't likely to take the Jets lightly.
Here’s the real reason!
A coworker of mine is a huge Boston-grown unapologetic Boston sports fanatic. To him, there is no better nor will there ever be any better team then the Patriots, the Red Sawx, etc... I told him to enjoy the championships because one day he will wake up and his teams will suck again. It happens. He told me there was no way, they would never suck again because they have finally “figured out how to win”. We are witnessing the greatest dynasties in all of pro sports, dontchaknow! I tried to tell him that sports, like most things in life, are cyclical. You win some and you lose some, your team is no different than anybody else’s.... well, maybe except Cleveland. ;-)
But I got a chuckle out of his balls to the walls fanaticism. Especially when he came in late on Monday morning and told me that he was no longer going to pick up the NFL Ticket because if his team doesn’t care as much as he does, he’s no longer going to spend the $180/season to make sure he can watch his Patriots every Sunday.
It was somewhat sad to watch a 40 year old guy in his Tom Brady jersey quietly clearing his cubicle of all the sports memorabilia. The Tom Brady bobblehead, the Ted Williams statue that christened the top of his monitor, the plastic Pats football, the miniature replica Red Sox bat. The brand new Patriots Calendar. The poor SOB is a shell of his former self, LOL! Might be having to talk him off the ledge soon...