PatsFaninAZ
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Why does this bother people so much?
I can guarantee that the next time there is a 16-0 team headed into the playoffs, people will write stories speculating on situations in which they are potentially beatable. It's the natural story to write. It's the story I'd write.
People get so freaked out on this board about the "blueprint" stuff, or about sports columnists suggesting scenarios where the patriots could lose. It's a huge compliment. It's a natural question begged by 16-0.
You see it in every sport all the time. It's nothing more than a variation on the classic, "Can anyone beat the [fill in the blank]." Whether the Yankees, the undefeated USC Trojans a few years ago, or whatever, it's just a classic variant on a classic theme.
Wilbon covers the Redskins. While he also has a national sports presence, he also has a local one -- they are on his beat, as they were on Tony Kornheiser's when he was a more frequent columnist for the Post. Wilbon has picked up the slack since Kornheiser got his radio show and MNF gig. (Some of Kornheiser's columns about the Redskins "bandwaggon" back when they were good and played in a rocking RFK every week are classics.)
I can guarantee that the next time there is a 16-0 team headed into the playoffs, people will write stories speculating on situations in which they are potentially beatable. It's the natural story to write. It's the story I'd write.
People get so freaked out on this board about the "blueprint" stuff, or about sports columnists suggesting scenarios where the patriots could lose. It's a huge compliment. It's a natural question begged by 16-0.
You see it in every sport all the time. It's nothing more than a variation on the classic, "Can anyone beat the [fill in the blank]." Whether the Yankees, the undefeated USC Trojans a few years ago, or whatever, it's just a classic variant on a classic theme.
Wilbon covers the Redskins. While he also has a national sports presence, he also has a local one -- they are on his beat, as they were on Tony Kornheiser's when he was a more frequent columnist for the Post. Wilbon has picked up the slack since Kornheiser got his radio show and MNF gig. (Some of Kornheiser's columns about the Redskins "bandwaggon" back when they were good and played in a rocking RFK every week are classics.)