3 Game Lead when Brady returns?

[mosslost]

Be great if we beat Buffalo and the Jets lose to Seattle. 4-0 and three 1-3 teams and Brady coming back. I might have predicted at least it possible we could be 4-0 (though unlikely, 2-2 was my hope) but that all the others would also be 1-3, really nice.

 

[Galeb]

Be great if we beat Buffalo and the Jets lose to Seattle. 4-0 and three 1-3 teams and Brady coming back. I might have predicted at least it possible we could be 4-0 (though unlikely, 2-2 was my hope) but that all the others would also be 1-3, really nice.

A tad early to start counting.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

A tad early to start counting.

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It's the Bills. If we can't beat a Rex Ryan team at home, then we probably don't deserve to win the super bowl this year.

 

[Galeb]

It's the Bills. If we can't beat a Rex Ryan team at home, then we probably don't deserve to win the super bowl this year.

As you become a more seasoned fan, you will probably come to understand the "any given Sunday" concept.

 

[Froob]

Would be a great start but, the real hunt is for the #1 seed. Would like to see Denver slip up sometime soon.

 

[PatsBoy12]

Be great if we beat Buffalo and the Jets lose to Seattle. 4-0 and three 1-3 teams and Brady coming back. I might have predicted at least it possible we could be 4-0 (though unlikely, 2-2 was my hope) but that all the others would also be 1-3, really nice.

I stated 4-0 before a single TC practice or preseason, and I have not wavered. NE is too good all around to ever have gone 1-3, 2-2, and they were definitely never going to go 0-4. I said that IF they lost a game, I saw the most likely one being Buffalo (never thought they'd lose to AZ). But after watching a few Buffalo games (not all three) and seeing that they're still the same undisciplined, underachieving bunch (especially on D), I'm not as afraid. As long as NE does not start turning the ball over left-and-right, they should be just fine.

This team is only going to get scarier as the year goes on. There's no shortage of motivation to destroy the league when Brady returns. And if the O-Line continues to play well, I don't see any reason other than injuries that can stop this team. I also said that at the beginning of TC. NE just looks like the best team in the NFL to me (again). I've watched so many games the first three weeks, and they simply look like the best, most disciplined and efficient team in the league right now. They looked like that right out of the gates last season as well. Injuries are the great equalizer, so we'll just have to see what happens there.

 

[Spiral]

This just in:

"Brady's suspension will continue until TV ratings improve," Roger Goodell announced this morning.

If the Patriots are up by three, then I see no reason why Roger won't extend Brady's suspension for another few weeks. Maybe for too much Pellegrino in his system, for getting a sunburn on his butt, for too many sesame seeds in his snack packs, whatever. Expect something to be leaked to ESPN by Monday.

 

[scott99]

It's the Bills. If we can't beat a Rex Ryan team at home, then we probably don't deserve to win the super bowl this year.

You do realize the Pats barely beat the Bills twice last year WITH Tom Brady ?

 

[WaterfallJumper]

As you become a more seasoned fan, you will probably come to understand the "any given Sunday" concept.

I've been a fan for over two decades. I'm not interested in mediocrity.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

You do realize the Pats barely beat the Bills twice last year WITH Tom Brady ?

You do realize that 2-0 is all that matters?

 

[Galeb]

I've been a fan for over two decades. I'm not interested in mediocrity.

Poor soul.

 

[Bradyking12]

We will beat the Bluffao NoSkills

 

[FrodoBagginz]

It's the Bills. If we can't beat a Rex Ryan team at home, then we probably don't deserve to win the super bowl this year.

We lost to the Bills at home in 2014. We won the Super Bowl.

 

[JMC00]

You do realize the Pats barely beat the Bills twice last year WITH Tom Brady ?

Never trailed in either of those games.

 

[mgteich]

I stated 4-0 before a single TC practice or preseason, and I have not wavered. NE is too good all around to ever have gone 1-3, 2-2, and they were definitely never going to go 0-4.

Then, for you, Brady isn't even 1 game better than our quarterbacks who started their first game this season.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

We lost to the Bills at home in 2014. We won the Super Bowl.

Lost 31-0 to them in 2003 and won the Super Bowl......

 

[PatsDeb]

It's the Bills. If we can't beat a Rex Ryan team at home, then we probably don't deserve to win the super bowl this year.

Of course we deserve to win the Super Bowl this year, whether we win this weekend or not! We don't have our starting QB (who was fraudulently taken away from us for 4 games) and our 2nd & 3rd stringers are banged up, to the point that nobody knows who's starting two days from now. Our 4th stringer (our best WR) might even have to put in some time at QB on Sunday. Despite all the crap the league threw at us, we are 3-0 going into this weekend. That is a miracle and we are most definitely SB contenders whether Sexy Rexy (who usually manages to give us a hard time at least once per season) gives us a game or not.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

This division is LOL

 

[PatsBoy12]

Then, for you, Brady isn't even 1 game better than our quarterbacks who started their first game this season.

Respect. It has nothing to do with Brady (directly) or whether or not he's one game better than anyone. The team is very well put together and the whole is ALWAYS greater than the sum of it's parts. Brady is the GOAT and there is no denying that, but the team is 3-0 right now without him and has a VERY realistic chance of beating the Bills (a team in disarray, with an average at best QB, likely no Watkins and an underachieving D). What does that tell you? My assessment and the reason why I stated from the start that the team would be 4-0 was simply me judging the roster (at least the top of it) and the teams they'd be playing and had little to do with the absence of Brady, though he is obviously the biggest reason why almost everyone else was saying 1-3, 2-2 and even a few 0-4's. But the fact is Brady, for all his GREATNESS, is still only one man on a 53-man roster.

With all that said, there is no way I would have predicted 4-0 if the competition to start was better. If it was Pittsburgh (never mind last week), Seattle, Green Bay or even lesser-tiered good teams, like Denver (that D), Cincinnati or the like, I would have likely said we'd lose one or two of those games. Along those same lines, I know that it would also be unlikely to win a SB without Brady (though I know that may be a bit unfair to Jimmy G). But I never feared any of the four opponents we had to open this season (Any Given Sunday notwithstanding). Arizona, at this time, is clearly overrated and that's what I felt about them coming into the season. I know Miami would suck. I thought the Texans would be average. The Bills were the only team that gave me pause because they have two highly regard defensive minds, both have played very well against NE at times in the past. But after watching the first three weeks, I don't see them beating NE unless NE just makes a bunch of mental errors. They're just not good enough. So, I hope that explains it somewhat.

 

[Ring 6]

You do realize the Pats barely beat the Bills twice last year WITH Tom Brady ?

Barely?