The whole place was all "16-0" after a 3rd preseason game against Carolina.
Now we're all "OMG season is over after the Miami game."
I'm submitting a few general thoughts here:
- Pull Mankins, reap the whirlwind,
for a certain amount of time at least. Okay. The season is more than 1 game.
- Scar's gone. This is new territory. He had the perfect name. Cut us, do we not Scar? But we'll have to see what happens to the OLine's collective ability to heal/gel without the Scar difference.
- Can't break down Brady into a has-been w/this amount of data. But w/overwhelming amount of opinion I'm seeing here, we'll keep an eye on it. But all you chicken littles re: Brady... think about him in kelly green. Just got a lot scarier, right?
- The big unknown as of last year was the Dobsons and Thompkins wild card. Again, we all have a whole game to go by. I generally don't trust these guys until they show something special. Not competent, special. But there's upside there held in abeyance until the national media
allow us to notice it.
- Defense spent a game sucking. On paper, defense should not suck. Let's see.
- TFB spent a half a game sucking. On paper, I've seen breakdowns that say, yeah, he does actually suck now. I've seen counters as well as to
why his stats aren't breaking any fantasy records. Once again, let's hope we see catches outside the numbers and a few downfield. Let's hope we see the traditional bounceback game, where the team after the team that beats us wishes they played us any other time. Would like a good beatdown like that (going the other way) to get the balance back into the threads.
- BUT - my spoiled brethren and sistren - we will not see the 2007 squad marauding through the league again. There's not a "Pats Supremacy" that other people have to disprove. We're the past. Until we decide we're not
- And no, that doesn't mean Jimmy Grapefruit, at least not after one down half.
Are we good enough to take out Minnesota without AD? If not, er, time to be truly worried.
It's SUNDAY people. Mope on Monday, if need be. Time to get your homer on - worried as you may be. Try to remember that 2 weeks ago people were wondering why nobody pencilled us in for the Super Bowl.
Jesus. Week 2. I can't take 15 more of these.