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Pats not as good as their hype
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Article Last Updated: 10/08/2007 10:40:58 AM EDT
Monday, October 08
The New England Patriots are 5-0 and, according to everyone from Boston sports punks to national sports pundits, headed toward an historic unbeaten season. Indeed, the Patriots are playing superbly. Then again, I recall Paul Tsongas looking pretty sharp early on in the 1992 Democratic presidential season.
Anyway, the media masses have declared this race over.
(Yes, Couch Slouch is perturbed. I'm tired of talking heads telling us how great teams are when they're winning and how lousy they are when they're losing. On TV, everyone's an expert after the fact — if studio shows were around in biblical times, Sean Salisbury would've told us that David had "the perfect game plan" to slay Goliath.)
Last week on "Monday Night Football," one of the analysts — not the former quarterback — said these Patriots on offense resembled the 1927 Yankees' Murderer's Row. Hmm. Combs, Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel, Lazzeri — that's Murderer's Row. Maroney, Brady, Stallworth, Welker, Moss — that's, uh, Misdemeanor's Row.
Last week on "Monday Night Football," the other analyst — not the former writer — said of the Patriots' success, "This is a single-minded organization. The objective is to win football games." Which, I guess, separates them from the Colts and the Raiders and the Cowboys, whose objective is to bring peace to the Middle East.
Praising the Patriots nowadays includes the deification of Tom Brady, Randy Moss and Bill Belichick. I will allow this for Brady — he keeps winning games and he exudes class on the field — but I cannot allow this for Moss or Belichick.
(Interlude: Yo, Matt Leinart — like Brady, you're good-looking, you throw a nice pass and you have a child out of wedlock. The similarities end there. He has three Super Bowl rings, you've got a ****tail waitress' phone number. So stop whining about your new coach trying to win games.)
In celebrating Moss, a "Monday Night Football" sideline reporter — not the one Joe Namath tried to kiss — told us his teammates talked about how "smart" he is. Really?
He's certainly not "book-smart" — when Moss attended Marshall, I do not believe there were books on campus his junior or senior years.
He's certainly not "street-smart" — Moss has had a couple of brushes with the law, and each time the law won.
He's certainly not "game-smart" — you never hear anyone say, "Randy's like having an extra coach on the field, well, that is, when he stays on the field."
He doesn't block anybody. He doesn't tackle anybody. And, occasionally, he doesn't resemble anybody. When the going's good, he can be great; when the going's not good, he's got Ricky Williams on speed-dial.
As for Belichick, no one can deny the greatness of winning three Super Bowls in a four-year stretch, but those genuflecting in front of his hood and wink seem to forget that he was Norv Turner before he became Knute Rockne.
Here is Belichick's NFL head-coaching record:
36-44 with the Browns (1991-95)
0-0 with the Jets (Jan. 3-4, 2000)
80-37 with the Patriots (2000-present)
(Apparently Belichick did not have the players — or technology — to succeed in Cleveland. Apparently he didn't have the backbone to last more than 17 hours in New Jersey.)
Genius or not, Belichick's Patriots are not going 16-0. I can tell you right now that Indianapolis and Pittsburgh are better, that the Patriots might even suffer a late three-game losing streak, that this coronation is preposterous for a team that will be watching Super Bowl 42 from the sidelines, maybe at the home of Belichick, whom I'm sure has a fabulous video center.
This is simply my interpretation of the game's rules, and if I have made a mistake here, I want to apologize to everyone who has been affected, most of all Patriots ownership, staff and players.
Norman Chad is a syndicated columnist.
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