Look, the way I look at it, this team gave up on me, a fan. Without me and people like me paying the bills, this team doesn't exist. They let me down by:
- keeping players on the field well past their prime when it would have been easy to upgrade like Bruschi. In years past they had no problem cutting loose Lawyer Milloy if it meant improving the team ... what happened?
- looking the other way at the most important part of any offense: the running game. They knew Maroney wasn't a starter, what have they done about it?
- they allowed themselves to get caught up in pursuit of selfish individual records and irrelevant team records last year, and thus were worn out by time they got to the only game that mattered last year: the Super Bowl;
- they, the coaches, allowed themselves to be completely distracted by Spygate last year. Although I think it was a mostly bogus charge, the staff had the ability to stay focused and instead delivered up the worst, most stale Super Bowl game plan in history;
- they chose not to have a strong backup for Brady, thinking somehow he was a robot that would never miss a game. And now we are in the less than capable hands of a guy that hadn't started a game since High School. I don't blame Cassell, again it's the coaches and cheapo owner's fault.
If a team like that represents you and you feel deserves your dollar, it is your choice of course to support them. To me it's wasting hard earned dollars on some perverted sense of loyalty.
