I know it's unrealistic to give much thought, but if the Bills lose to the Chiefs tonight, Pats will only be one game behind them for tops in the division with both games against them left this year.
It's absolutely realistic. I don't agree with the patently false claim by some idiotic commercial that "impossible is nothing." That's just grabbing an already stupid phrase, switching the order, and acting like you came up with something new.
However, "improbable" definitely
is nothing, and that's what we're looking at. There was no way the 2001 team got out of the first round--hell, we shouldn't have even been there. Beat the RAMS? Pfffft. It is fine to think big, yes of course it doesn't mean it WILL happen but it definitely can.
We will look back at whatever outcome we get and decide it couldn't be otherwise. Look forward knowing that.
There are too many in here who believe that the height of football knowledge is to deny any success, however small, and embrace negativity. I don't actually think they're fans, but that's beside the point. Point is, you're effing right we would be right in the thick of it. There's no freakin tablets from a mountaintop that say that the Pats now must suck in every way. It's just convenient if they
do, if you want your "GM" or "OC" opinion to matter (because you need the team to be losing for that to pertain.)
We're suffering from reductionism. We note one thing bad at a position grouping. That must be all that needs to be said at that position, rinse, repeat. We never have something we have to work on; we just have a collection of things characterized as "pathetic." And we never see a team as a group of guys trying to learn (and do) a job for 17 weeks, with the job changing every week. We look at them as units and stats. And some **** about being able to measure heart, blah blah blah.
In reality, it's not plucking this unit, saying the names of guys you like, putting ratings on them, quoting their fantasy stats, collecting their Topps cards, whatever. It's their ability to hang in there in adversity and stay grounded when they're flying high, together with making the best of what abiity they have. It's
their ability to say no, I don't care what it looks like, I don't care that I didn't beat my man THAT play, I'm beating him the next one. We have to slug it out in most football games now, and news flash, we had to even with Brady.
Last week we slugged it out with a good team, Tampa Bay, and lost by a hair. Today we slugged it out with a crappy team, Houston, and won it. We hung tough to do it, we stood up and said "we're better than that," on defense we clamped down, and on offense we opened up just enough to get the win. We've got another 12 games this year to slug it out.
This isn't a bunch who "can't win at a high level" or whatever. They're a team that some of us have no confidence in. My own reductionist sense says they're an 8-9 or 9-8 bunch. If they catch fire and stay relatively healthy, they're a playoff team. And once you're in it you can win it. Ask those Gintz teams that kept beating us in the SB.
Um triggered a core dump. Go Chiefs.
