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Week 16 Snap Judgments
I popped over to Patriots.com to see if the locker room feature was up yet, and happend to read this article by Don Banks. He as been recently hired by Fred Kirsch to do a column for the site. I don't know what Bank's position was on deflategate, but I know some fans were pissed Kirsch hired him, because I heard him defending the hire to his listeners onf PFW in Progress. At any rate I though it was a first rate article and worth reading if only for the first observation.
A Pats fans we have been long since spoiled beyond any redemption over the last 16 years, but the reality for most fans is that success in the NFL is usually very fleeting, and Banks first observation points this out all too well.
The Falcons CRUSHED the Panthers yesterday in a game that clinched the NFCS as well as a possible #2 seed, while Panthers saw theiir record drop to a Jet-like 6-9. The irony is that the game was exactly one year from a complete reversal of fortunes. On that day the Panthers beat Atlanta 34-0 (their 6th straight loss) while the Panthers improved to 13-0, on their way to a Superbowl appearence, and, what looked like, long term dominance in the NFCS.
How quickly things change......for most franchises. And how lucky we are.
I popped over to Patriots.com to see if the locker room feature was up yet, and happend to read this article by Don Banks. He as been recently hired by Fred Kirsch to do a column for the site. I don't know what Bank's position was on deflategate, but I know some fans were pissed Kirsch hired him, because I heard him defending the hire to his listeners onf PFW in Progress. At any rate I though it was a first rate article and worth reading if only for the first observation.
A Pats fans we have been long since spoiled beyond any redemption over the last 16 years, but the reality for most fans is that success in the NFL is usually very fleeting, and Banks first observation points this out all too well.
The Falcons CRUSHED the Panthers yesterday in a game that clinched the NFCS as well as a possible #2 seed, while Panthers saw theiir record drop to a Jet-like 6-9. The irony is that the game was exactly one year from a complete reversal of fortunes. On that day the Panthers beat Atlanta 34-0 (their 6th straight loss) while the Panthers improved to 13-0, on their way to a Superbowl appearence, and, what looked like, long term dominance in the NFCS.
How quickly things change......for most franchises. And how lucky we are.