You'll regret putting that in writing. 5-1 in the division? Really?
I regret nothing
I got annihilated on air last year when WEEI's Merloni and Fauria decided to start their segment with the other preseason way-too-early prediction I wrote, which - at the time - was written with the understanding they'd pick up from where they left off in 2021 and improve, not turn into the you-know-what-show that obviously played out on offense last year.
I was caught off guard because I certainly didn't expect WEEI to see it, let alone talk about it, especially when it was essentially just a thing I wrote with a week-by-week look at how things might play out.
It's always a blast when you hear from people you haven't talked to in years telling you they decided to embarrass you on the radio and you find out about it after the fact.
Steve needed me to cover his column that Sunday, and I wrote my reaction to it, which a couple of reporters caught and reached out and told me they also heard it and thought it was kind of s****y of them to do what they did, especially without even reaching out to ask/talk about it. Whatever, it was what it was.
Anyway, what's funny about this is that if you're looking at it from a big-picture standpoint, it's definitely easy to dismiss 12-wins as a possibility. But when you do it week-by-week without looking at the record until the end and sort of imagine how one week might turn out before moving on to the next and doing the same thing, it's a different story.
Just like during every season, when you look at a tough match-up heading into that next game, you don't automatically pencil it in as a loss. In that one moment, you might feel like they might not win, but that they still have a shot based on whatever the storylines are at the time. That's essentially what something like this is. You imagine how a game might go, and then you move on to the next, etc. Whatever the record is at the end, it is what it is.
