Crazy Patriot Guy
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I never did fear Miami in the first place, I considered the Patriots a good enough team that if things went their way injury-wise, they could handle the division.
At the same time, I thought the Fins were good enough to possibly take us down if we had some tough injuries or some that were bad timing before a tough stretch of games or something.
I can't say I didn't feal a little more at ease seeing that Miami didn't seem to be the unstoppable train of dominance that some of the hype had built them into. However, I am still not looking past this team.
They played solid for 54 minutes before their meltdown. Pass protection was excellent based on what we thought it would be. The running game struggled but no more than ours has the majority of games against Pittsburgh recently.
As others have said in other threads, I'm not ready for the engravers to start etching out "New England Patriots" in the AFC East trophy. It's a long season and while very doubtful, who knows, we might stink it up this Sunday. I do think Miami has enough talent to win the East if we stumble a bit.
If nothing else just think back to 2003. We were so far beyond God-awful in our 31-0 raping by the Bills to start the year and we got torn up by fans on this board afterwards. Let's not do the same thing to Miami fans because we all know how that season ended up.
At the same time, I thought the Fins were good enough to possibly take us down if we had some tough injuries or some that were bad timing before a tough stretch of games or something.
I can't say I didn't feal a little more at ease seeing that Miami didn't seem to be the unstoppable train of dominance that some of the hype had built them into. However, I am still not looking past this team.
They played solid for 54 minutes before their meltdown. Pass protection was excellent based on what we thought it would be. The running game struggled but no more than ours has the majority of games against Pittsburgh recently.
As others have said in other threads, I'm not ready for the engravers to start etching out "New England Patriots" in the AFC East trophy. It's a long season and while very doubtful, who knows, we might stink it up this Sunday. I do think Miami has enough talent to win the East if we stumble a bit.
If nothing else just think back to 2003. We were so far beyond God-awful in our 31-0 raping by the Bills to start the year and we got torn up by fans on this board afterwards. Let's not do the same thing to Miami fans because we all know how that season ended up.