In the last couple weeks, my blood pressure was high and I screamed and cursed when I watched our team play. I'm happy that we win and I look forward to a perfect season.
I feel that our team is getting tired lately and does not have the same energy in previous 4 weeks. We simply can't win a game by 3 pts. We will never break any record if our team continues playing like this.
We definitely need to work on our D and O and improve them quickly if we want to be a champion.
Does the Pats finally run out of gas in the end.? I"m really concerned and worried. I hope that we play better games in the next few weeks if we really want to be name the BEST.
At first I was of a mind to ridicule you for this post. After all, the pats are 12-0. As a fan of the game I'm sure you must appreciate how hard it is to go 12-0 in the NFL. Many teams can and do rise to the occaision on any given Sunday. I think every knowledgeable fan of the game has to appreciate 12-0. Only a very good team gets the opportunity to reach that rarefied height and I mean this. Starting off 12-0 is extremely hard to do in the NFL.
I'm really not inclined to entertain arguments about strength of sked, weakness in the division, other teams blunders and/or fortunate happenstance. There is a bottom line here and it does in fact read 12-0.
The above said, the pats coasted to 9-10-0. But At this point the pressure is on. Period. Make no mistake, NE does feel it. All eyes are on NE. Put another way, there is and will continue to be a lot of energy being directed NE's way for the remainder of the season.
The only question remaining is this. How is NE gonna use the energy coming at them for the next 4 games?
Is NE capable of running the table? Yea, I believe so. I'll acknowledge that I think NE has it in them. The problem I see is that it's going to take a HUGE mental and emotional investment to get there.
Nah, I'm not hearing what NE homerrs think or anyone else. Being casual and easy flies out the window when you're talking about going 16-0.
Nobody has ever gone 16-0. It doesn't matter who NE is playing their last 2 games. I really believe the effort required to achieve that goal (16-0)
will take it's toll.
If that happens, NE going 16-0, then the Q becomes how much fuel does NE have left in the tank?
Philly had you in their clutches as did the Ravens. But the pats prevailed because they do not suck. Sure, there's lots of intricacies surrounding my last sentence but I don't want to get into that and it doesn't matter. I think that sentence sums it up. Sure, the pats can be beaten and at some point it's definitely gonna happen. But that's what's gonna have to happen. Some team is gonna have to beat NE. Because it's a little less than likely NE is gonna do what it takes to beat themselves.
Don't get me wrong. I know and all NE fans should know NE is not perfect. You can and will lose. It's just a matter of when. NE has clearly been a bit vulnerable recently. As it happens, during every one of NE's SB run's the team has in fact put itself in a position of vulnerability. It's just that opposing teams have been unable to cap and made clear cut mistakes in trying to do so.
For the last 2 seasons NE has given more than a couple teams every opportunity to beat them. The Colts managed to walk thru the door last year. But they had to rise up to get there. This is part of my point. The only way NE loses a game nowadays is that somebody takes the game from them. NE can and will give the opposing team op's if the opposing team is there to play.
The bottom line is that it's all about ABC. Always Be Closing. Always.
The team that does beat NE absolutely will be a huge proponent of the ABC principle and apply it on that day.
In closing I'm saying this. I hope my Bolts find their way into the playoffs and SD meets you in Foxboro. I hope NE is undefeated if the Bolts get there. I fervently hope the Bolts get to explore past transgressions w/regard to NE and learn from them.
Cheers
