Jug·ger·naut [juhg-er-nawt, -not] –noun
1. Any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant
battleship, or a powerful football team.
Dictionary ~ Juggernaut
The Best Defense...Is An Offense That Rains TERROR on the Enemy!!
There is a term ~ "Tipping Point" ~ that applies to many endeavors.
My application here is
this: All his foibles not withstanding,
Coach Belichick ~ not unlike
Andy DuFresne of
Stephen King's magnificent
ShawShank Redemption ~ has applied superior skill and extraordinary expertise for
an extended period of time.
My position is that you can only apply superior skill and expertise for
so long...before
all crumbles before you.
In the case of Mister DuFresne, Brother King's protagonist in ShawShank Redemption, it was simply a matter of applying astonishingly persistent pressure ~ and natural talent ~ upon a
wall, over a period of many years.
In the case of Coach Belichick, it has been a matter of applying equally astonishingly persistent pressure on
the rest of the league.
Coach Bill's instrument of pressure, however, is not a Rock Hammer: It is
Draft Trades.
Unprecedented Historical Inflection Point
I'll spare you the details.
Suffice to say: We all know them well enough, those amazing Trades.
What most do not ~
can not ~ conceive, is the
cumulative impact of repeatedly
fleecing the rest of the league...until we reach a Saturation Point ~ a
Tipping Point ~ where the aggregate influx of
disproportionately gathering highly skilled and motivated players and applying extraordinary coaching expertise to them...simply
overwhelms our rivals...
...
and carries all before it.
And while I presume
nothing...I believe we have just
reached that point.
Smash Mouth FootBall ~ Its Sudden + Astonishing Return!!
I'm pretty sure that far less than 1% of our fans ~ I'm hoping that number is far larger, hereabouts ~ fully grasp the
import of our unprecedented drafting of a behemoth ~ an unusually
agile behemoth ~ like
Marcus "Howitzer" Cannon...and the
rest of these Beasts:
~ LT Nate "Universal" Solder ~ potential 10X All Pro, under Coach Dante.
~ RG Marcus "Howitzer" Cannon ~ potential 6-8X All Pro, under Coach Dante.
~ TE Lee "The Myth" Smith ~ Potentially The Best Blocking Tight End in the LEAGUE.
~ XB Shane "The Machine" Vereen ~ The most DANGEROUS Back we have
ever drafted.
EVER.
Ascension: The Rolling Wall of DEATH!!
Need I say it, gentlemen??
Coach Bill has taken DRAMATIC steps to forge a team that can run on
ANYBODY.
The
Steelers.
The
Ravens.
The
1985 BEARS, by God.
ANYBODY.
The Immortal 1977 O Line: Redux!!
We are exactly one High Caliber Center ~ IF that ~ from matching ~ and even
eclipsing ~ the devastating dominance of ~
yes ~
that O Line:
LT Leon Gray
LG John Hannah
OC Bill Lenkaitis
RG Sam Adams
RT Tom Neville
Mind you: I don't see this coming to full fruition until very late in 2011, so a full year ~ or perhaps
3-5 full years ~ of what I foresee isn't likely to happen just
yet.
But WAIT...There's MORE!!
Imagine, though, if you will...
Imagine if we DID forge a team that weilded such a
Rolling Wall of Death...that we carried ALL before us...and sent the Enemy FLEEING before us, howling in TERROR...
Imagine if the Three Headed Monster of:
~ Stevan "Fire When Ready" Ridley
~ Shane "The Machine" Vereen
~ Danny "Would You Like Fries With That??" WoodHead
...wreaked HAVOC on the shattered remnants of opposing D Lines that our
Rolling Wall of Death simply
DESTROYED???
NOW How Much Would You Pay???
Imagine...if the Enemy simply could not
stop our Run Game??
Do you...um...do you think that maybe that guy we have under center...might be able to take a little bit of
advantage of that situation??
But WAIT...There's MORE!!!
The Modern Game has moved
way over towards Faster + Smaller on Defense...SO far over, in fact, that a team that had had the foresight to draft
multiple Tight Ends who commanded an extraordinary fusion of Speed, Size, and Skill...and who could, therefore, PARALYZE Defenses who were too small to block them, and too slow to stop them...could potentially make every enemy Defensive Coordinator's
WORST NIGHTMARES COME TRUE.
GOD, I wish Coach Belichick had had the foresight to...
What??
Really???
RE-HE-HE-HE-HEEEEEEEEEEEALLY???
This Is What We're Realistically Looking At In The VERY Near Future
1 ~ A Smash Mouth O Line that will soon be ANNIHILATING people.
2 ~ Possibly the Deepest, Strongest, and DEADLIEST BackField we've EVER had.
3 ~ An Hybrid Passing Offense that will be a NIGHTMARE to defend.
4 ~ The Greatest QB of the Modern Age to Orchestrate All The Above.
My GOD...It'll be BEAUTIFULL!!
There Are...Possibilities
Infallible??
Far from it.
The Defensive Front 7 is still vulnerable to injury, as is, ultimately,
every team,
ever.
But the
Extraordinary Competitive Advantage that Coach B has quietly accrued, ere the last 3 years...is
unprecedented in modern times.
It's going to take YEARS ~ or a multitude of injuries ~ to bring us back to Earth, folks.
If we stay reasonably healthy...
Exactly WHO is going to keep up with us???
1 ~ 3 Peat.
2 ~ 19-0.
It Could Happen.