Boston D Party
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By "this crap", I mean the suggestions from many (on this board, in the Boston and national media) that Brady's decline is upon us, that Belichick has put us in a bad position, that this loss to the Dolphins means our team isn't elite anymore, and that we are no longer the cream of the crop in the AFC East.
How can any Pats fan who has been around for a few years really believe this? How many times have we had a rough start to a season and rebounded drastically?
Last year, we lost a huge amount of our top talent and were dominated worse than any of us had seen in a long time - for 60, not 30 minutes - in Cincinatti, and surprise, we wound up 12-4 with a first round bye. How can any reasonably educated person not expect a similar outcome this year? Bad games early in the season have happened to us time and time again, and we have always climbed our way to the top of the division and near or to the top of the AFC. I can't even think of a time since 2007 where we didn't have some anomaly of a piss-poor performance against an inferior opponent in the first half of the season - and every year (save the Bradyless) we're right back where we belong by the end.
We laid an egg in Miami. It happens. We will be fine. Anyone who now expects less than 11 wins from this time is hopelessly pessimistic, self-hating, or (and this is the only somewhat excusable reason) a new fan with no understanding of how our team has operated in the Belichick/Brady era. I don't see any other possibility.
How can any Pats fan who has been around for a few years really believe this? How many times have we had a rough start to a season and rebounded drastically?
Last year, we lost a huge amount of our top talent and were dominated worse than any of us had seen in a long time - for 60, not 30 minutes - in Cincinatti, and surprise, we wound up 12-4 with a first round bye. How can any reasonably educated person not expect a similar outcome this year? Bad games early in the season have happened to us time and time again, and we have always climbed our way to the top of the division and near or to the top of the AFC. I can't even think of a time since 2007 where we didn't have some anomaly of a piss-poor performance against an inferior opponent in the first half of the season - and every year (save the Bradyless) we're right back where we belong by the end.
We laid an egg in Miami. It happens. We will be fine. Anyone who now expects less than 11 wins from this time is hopelessly pessimistic, self-hating, or (and this is the only somewhat excusable reason) a new fan with no understanding of how our team has operated in the Belichick/Brady era. I don't see any other possibility.