A.C Vegas

Today in the store waiting for some meds I was flipping through the athleon (sp) "preview" and they picked to finish 3rd in the divison and not even make the playoffs. I know it doesn't matter at all I just wanted to share what I saw.

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Originally Posted by The Onion See Wes [Welker], here, the man with the honor of being my chauffeur? This resourceful bastard actually beat me home, so it's not like it can't be done.

JoeSixPat

Good. The more underdog karma the better.

Have people forgotten that the more underestimated the Patriots are the better they seem to play?

Modest

+1 Amen to that. Only thing better is if we ranked under Detroit and the Rams. The more they underestimate, the sweeter it is when were in the playoffs.

jmt57

Meh ... this publication is neither the first nor will they be the last to make this prediction. The only thing many in the media seemed to have noticed with certain teams is their additions (Marshall in Miami; Holmes, Tomlinson and Cromartie for the Jets) while ignoring the roster losses, and about the only comment made about the Pats is their playoff loss.

Don't worry about preseason predictions; you'll give yourself a stroke if you do. How many times over the last decade were the Redskins supposed to win it all? Last year the consensus was either the Pats or Steelers would win the Super Bowl while the Titans would take the AFC South and the Colts would miss the playoffs; how did that work out? Look at how many had the Saints winning it all in '07 after their playoff run the previous season, only to see them go 7-9 - and then had them missing the playoffs and watching Atlanta win the NFC South last year.

No point in getting worked up over preseason predictions, or who somebody with a column, website or magazine is "disrespecting" the Pats.

mgteich

The analysis of the publication is not much different from much of the analysis of some posters here who say that the jets and phins have iumproved while the patriots have not improved (or nowhere as much).

BelizePats

To me this just represents "lazy, unimaginative thinking". The Jets this, the Fins that. Summertime champs usually turn into fall/winter chumps.

WelshPat

Lol, who picked the Redskins to win it all?

It goes the other way too. Most had the Pats winning in 07, they came pretty close. Same for 06, i remember the Steelers-Hawks SB they couldn't stop saying how great the Pats would be next year.

It's okay for you to not like people doing this before the season, it should just go both ways, if they say the Pats will win the SB you should be like "Meh... whatever".

Deus Irae

I'm not sure what the big deal is, or why this is surprising to people. It's still only May, the Jets and Dolphins made bigger name additions, and the Patriots suffered the biggest losses (Until his return, Welker will be the biggest loss of all, for example).

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reflexblue

After reading this i hope they were good drugs you were picking up

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DaBruinz

With the Phins having lost both starting OLBs in Taylor and Porter, I have a hard time seeing them finishing ahead of the Pats.

Yes, I know they signed Dansby, but they signed him to play ILB. But, really, their LB corp is going to be a week point as is their safeties..