Right after the game on Sunday Collinsworth was more complimentary toward the Pats than anybody I've heard to date.
Did anybody see that moment where he committed himself to saying that nobody could be the Pats because they were at *that* level above everybody else?
He may be a bit of a showman, but he knows how good the team is. And even if he doesn't like the team, personally, who cares? There have to be loyalties out there that blind people, and we know that this is taught to us from the office of the Presidency of the United States on down to local teachers and police. We see it all the time. It's wrong, but it's expected.
Collinsworth, as a few others, will scramble to get on the bandwagon where they either predict what they actually think is happening, or go down as the only guy to pick wrong. Nobody wants to pick wrong. They can wish all they want, but in the end they still want to be right and say, "I told you so." If there is no hope of that "I told you so" for a Pats loss then they'll want to grab it by predicting no loss. Guaranteed. It's just that some loyalties die a slower, more painful death than others.
Once they get the sniff that they are witnessing history, they'll all be on the band wagon. Some get the sniff faster than others. I think Chris has it, and I doubt that he'd predict a playoff loss. That I would have to see in print, and surrounded by double quotes.
