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Looks like we're begrudgingly #8 in their weekly power rankings.
SI.com's NFL Power Rankings, Week 9 - Dr. Z - SI.com
In other bits and pieces around their site this week:
I find it difficult to understand all the dislike. Is it because we're not so far suffering the SB curse? Is it because with 3 starters on IR and and even with several chunks of play-time being filled in by rookies and has-been's we're 5-2?
If people want to believe "Karma" had it's way with us, fine. We don't get to celebrate wins before the games are played this year. But I hope the message gets delivered soon: we don't plan to stop winning.
Randy's quote seems more apt to me all the time about the Haters. I don't know exactly what it was, but I assume most of you remember it.
I know it's a long shot, but if we win the SB this year, it will make this season and 2001's SB season historic moments of a scrappy, intelligent team rubbing the NFL's collective face in sh!t.
Maybe I just need more coffee.
Go Pats.
SI.com's NFL Power Rankings, Week 9 - Dr. Z - SI.com
New England Patriots (5-2)
Got the warning light. You're running too long, Z. Sorry boss. Patriots pressed hard by once hopeless St. Looie. They'll lose at Indy. Short enough?
In other bits and pieces around their site this week:
The NFL is more fun because Tom is injured?Story of the year: Tom Brady's knee injury. Though they won their opener against the Chiefs, the Patriots' attempt to duplicate their perfect regular season of 2007 effectively ended less than eight minutes into 2008. That's when No. 12 was felled by K.C.'s Bernard Pollard, setting off what I've already identified earlier this season as a seismic shift in terms of the league's balance of power. With no New England in the role of the NFL's Goliath, the league features a bunch of scrappy David's fighting it out. And it's kind of fun.
Fail: sucks to lose, but hardly the upset of the year. Maybe if Tom was in the game.Upset of the year: Miami 38, New England 13, Week 3. The winless Dolphins went into Gillette Stadium and thrashed the Patriots, snapping their NFL record 21-game regular-season winning streak. It was the first career win for Dolphins head coach Tony Sparano, and it came on the back of Miami's versatile Ronnie Brown, who scored four rushing touchdowns and threw for one -- with four of the scores coming on the Dolphins' "Wildcat'' formation.
Did this pretend to be a compliment in order to insult Seau?Defensive rookie of the year: Jerod Mayo, New England, LB. Playing inside linebacker as a rookie in Bill Belichick's 3-4 defense is a study in multi-tasking. Mayo has seamlessly fit into his complicated role and consistently shown up among the team's leading tacklers. The Patriots defense has yet to hit its stride, but Mayo's play has represented a big upgrade over last year's starter, Junior Seau.
I find it difficult to understand all the dislike. Is it because we're not so far suffering the SB curse? Is it because with 3 starters on IR and and even with several chunks of play-time being filled in by rookies and has-been's we're 5-2?
If people want to believe "Karma" had it's way with us, fine. We don't get to celebrate wins before the games are played this year. But I hope the message gets delivered soon: we don't plan to stop winning.
Randy's quote seems more apt to me all the time about the Haters. I don't know exactly what it was, but I assume most of you remember it.
I know it's a long shot, but if we win the SB this year, it will make this season and 2001's SB season historic moments of a scrappy, intelligent team rubbing the NFL's collective face in sh!t.
Maybe I just need more coffee.
Go Pats.
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