History shows that a team that loses the SB dosen't fair very well the next year.
Okay before I flame - the whole post is just irony, right? You don't really think this crap, you're adopting a persona to laugh at ridiculous people, right? If not...
First of all, it's
fare very well. Sorry, nails-on-the-chalkboard thing. Spelling nazis are irritating, I know, and sometimes I am one... but it's only because stuff like this, when coupled with content that makes me gag, gets even more irritating to my point of view. Also: 72 Dolphins do come to mind. Also too, to quote the recent half-governor of Alaska, teams that
do win the super bowl don't seem to fare too well. Do it back-to-back, and it's close to a "dynasty." Cope. Every season is a new team. History is yesterday. Every Pats team makes it on its own or doesn't.
If Belichick dosen't use those first 4 draft picks on defense players from Alabama and LSU. I might take the year off from them anyway.
Here's where I become incredibly irritated at the "fan" base.
I mean, in what sense are you a fan of the Patriots? I don't need everybody to be face-painting and crying at every missed tackle and orgasming with every touchdown to say you're a fan.... To me, though, the minimum qualifier is that you
can't "take a year off."
What I mean is, the damn team matters to you like it or not year in, year out, 1-15 seasons included. Have you even been around for those?
I get similarly worked up when people say they "use to be" a ____ fan, but "now they're a _______ fan." I couldn't "adopt" a new team; it's not in my makeup. That's just how I am and how I feel. Football = Patriots. And in the autumn/winter months, at least, football is a big part of life.
To say "I might take the year off the Pats," if you are a fan, sounds sort of like "I might take a year off from brushing my teeth."
I won't even go into your ransom demands in the draft which the Pats must meet to secure your treasured affections. I'm pretty sure they have guys paid to make those picks, and I'm pretty sure they're paid for a reason. Call me crazy, but my guess is they're better at it than you.
We will never win a SB so long as we continue to be the New England Colts.
Yeah, last SB we gave up 21 points, 6 of them on purpose.
Really?
And I don't want to hear about how few points we gave up.
Of course not. That's because you're what we like to call "wrong."
All you have to do look at is the time of possesion. You can't score if you don't have the ball.
Much better to have the ball longer. Closest thing to sense you've made. The Pats allow few points, but lots of yards. If you can't have everything, far better to allow "yards" and "minutes" than points. I'm pretty sure I've never seen a final score in yards or minutes.
Giants defense and special teams beat us along with a few clutch plays on offense. NY beat us the same way we use to beat the Colts and now we have become the Colts.
Vince Wilfork says hi.
We come to the point in the playoffs where all the offensive plays must be clutch and not just a few.
We had an easy road to the Ship.With a relativley easy opponent.That won't happen again soon. The real defense won out again against the duct tape bailing wire defense. Until we have a real defense I forsee a lot of 14-2 pain in the future.Or to stay in theme with the thread 18-1 pain.
Yeahhhhh, the Pats' defensive/draft philosophy is just not up to your analytical standards. The pass rush which came back from the dead this year (and got to Manning more then the Gintz got to Brady) is not up to your standards -- or maybe it is, even though that was what the brilliant day-after-analysts seized on in 08. The secondary is horrible, keeping it all in front of them is idiotic, letting them get yards and not points is no way to play football. In summation, the Pats should allow zero yards, have 60 minutes of possession in every game, intercept every pass thrown, stuff every run, catch every pass, own every record, go 19-0 every year, and never, ever lose a super bowl.
After all, isn't that sort of the trajectory you assumed when you became a "fan" in 2001 or 2003 or whatever?
If you don't see the building blocks falling into place and maturing throughout this defense you're blind. Mayo's been self-evidently valuable for years. Ninko emerged this year, although I am sure you are upset that some other team has a pro-bowl top-flight talent at his position. Big Vince went from "Yeah he's pretty good he plugs those gaps" to an aggressive, pocket-crushing force at the same time. Andre Carter and Mark Anderson played inspired ball their first year in Pats colors. Even the maligned secondary came up with big plays when it counted (see Moore, S.)
So if you want to pat yourself on the back about what a great substitute you'd make for the brain trust of a team that hasn't won fewer than 10 games since 2002, freaking knock yourself out.
But this "I'm taking a year off if they don't draft _____" bullsh1t?
Don't bother trying to convince me or anyone else with half a brain you're a "fan."
I live in the DC area where people are nuts for every new season, and they're so far from anything resembling success that it takes the
light from success 20 years to hit them. Just like us Pats fans were, before 2001.
If you can turn that off and on based on who agrees with you in Foxboro, hey I don't control the board, but you look like you're in the wrong place, given the name of the site.
But that's just me.
