Ron Sellers
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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Bill Belichick
I just came across this and thought it was a pretty good read. If nothing else it's a far cry better than another writer rehashing the already overused 'the Ravens will win because they won in 2009, and the Pats are 0-2 against teams with winning records'. To me it's a pretty good balance - not all sunshine and rainbows, but not all stirring the pot contrarianism either.
Charles P. Pierce on the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos divisional playoff game - Learning To Love The Antichrist - Grantland
I just came across this and thought it was a pretty good read. If nothing else it's a far cry better than another writer rehashing the already overused 'the Ravens will win because they won in 2009, and the Pats are 0-2 against teams with winning records'. To me it's a pretty good balance - not all sunshine and rainbows, but not all stirring the pot contrarianism either.
Charles P. Pierce on the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos divisional playoff game - Learning To Love The Antichrist - Grantland
This is what you get — incredibly disciplined players, talking like automatons, but playing in a system in which almost anything is likely to happen on the field, as well as in a system that will gleefully exploit every misplaced comma in the NFL rulebook, which the NFL richly deserves to have happen to it. This has been the great conundrum of the New England Patriots under Bill Belichick — a kind of blessedly refreshing football anarchy explained by its practitioners in stale terms that run the gamut from prosaic to sullen and back again. To concentrate on the latter is to miss the sheer artistry of the former. Bill Belichick, the last NFL anarchist, the Lord of Misrule, gets to tee it up this weekend against Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens. Corporate partners can be found hiding under the bed, where most of them damned well belong.