Enjoy this run while it lasts.

As I was watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals I was contemplating the talent gap between the Cavs and Warriors. Then the talent gap between the Cavs and Celtics. Realizing how hopeless it was, it dawned on me. I've never been able to look at the Patriots from the outside. But being an NBA fan of a team that isn't the Warriors is what it must be like to be a fan of an NFL team besides the Patriots. The NFL has more parity and given the one game playoff scenario a fluke upset (like both Giants games and the Broncos in 2005) is more likely. But coming into this season, if you are a fan of another team, do you honestly believe that your team has a chance of winning a title? You can talk tough, but deep down inside, you know your only realistic chance is multiple injuries.

I want to savor every moment of this. It's difficult to not take it for granted. We all do, whether we realize it or not. Eventually it will end.

dafoe2016 said:

As I was watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals I was contemplating the talent gap between the Cavs and Warriors. Then the talent gap between the Cavs and Celtics. Realizing how hopeless it was, it dawned on me. I've never been able to look at the Patriots from the outside. But being an NBA fan of a team that isn't the Warriors is what it must be like to be a fan of an NFL team besides the Patriots. The NFL has more parity and given the one game playoff scenario a fluke upset (like both Giants games and the Broncos in 2005) is more likely. But coming into this season, if you are a fan of another team, do you honestly believe that your team has a chance of winning a title? You can talk tough, but deep down inside, you know your only realistic chance is multiple injuries.

I want to savor every moment of this. It's difficult to not take it for granted. We all do, whether we realize it or not. Eventually it will end.

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injuries happen. im not counting any chickens.

dafoe2016 said:

As I was watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals I was contemplating the talent gap between the Cavs and Warriors. Then the talent gap between the Cavs and Celtics. Realizing how hopeless it was, it dawned on me. I've never been able to look at the Patriots from the outside. But being an NBA fan of a team that isn't the Warriors is what it must be like to be a fan of an NFL team besides the Patriots. The NFL has more parity and given the one game playoff scenario a fluke upset (like both Giants games and the Broncos in 2005) is more likely.

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In the NBA, you're always one player away from contending, and almost always one or two players away from being a serious title threat. The issue is always that player, as league history shows. A non-exhaustive list:

Russell
Chamberlain
Jabbar
Bird
Magic
Jordan
Shaq
Kobe
LeBron

Foundational players at their peak, who could singlehandedly, or almost singlehandedly, make their teams serious contenders for the throne.

In the NFL, there's only been one of those players, and he's the guy far too many around here have been talking about jettisoning.

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But coming into this season, if you are a fan of another team, do you honestly believe that your team has a chance of winning a title?

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This year's Warriors team is like the '86 Celtics, or the 2007 Patriots, where it took ... no, I refuse to talk about that damn game...

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You can talk tough, but deep down inside, you know your only realistic chance is multiple injuries.

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But take Durant off the Warriors, and put him on the Celtics, and you've got 4 teams (Warriors/Cavs/Celts/Spurs) with truly legit shots at the ring, because of the impact of single elite players in the NBA.

dafoe2016 said:

I want to savor every moment of this. It's difficult to not take it for granted. We all do, whether we realize it or not. Eventually it will end.

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When Brady wins his last title and retires, at age 55 (Please, God), it will have been a glorious run.

dafoe2016 said:

As I was watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals I was contemplating the talent gap between the Cavs and Warriors. Then the talent gap between the Cavs and Celtics. Realizing how hopeless it was, it dawned on me. I've never been able to look at the Patriots from the outside. But being an NBA fan of a team that isn't the Warriors is what it must be like to be a fan of an NFL team besides the Patriots. The NFL has more parity and given the one game playoff scenario a fluke upset (like both Giants games and the Broncos in 2005) is more likely. But coming into this season, if you are a fan of another team, do you honestly believe that your team has a chance of winning a title? You can talk tough, but deep down inside, you know your only realistic chance is multiple injuries.

I want to savor every moment of this. It's difficult to not take it for granted. We all do, whether we realize it or not. Eventually it will end.

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Totally true, we are lucky.

But, Denver in 2005 was not a fluke upset. They were the better team that finished
2 - 0 against the Pats that year

I typically don't enjoy the runs, but they're certainly an effective means for losing weight.

Well, at this point it's cherries on cream on cherries on top of some more delicious cream.

SB51 solidified Brady/Bill era Pats as the GOAT team, Brady and Bill as the GOAT QB and Coach. Teams like the Vikings and the Eagles would give everything for one title and here we are, with legacies already cemented, having by far the best team in the league.

You know you're terribly spoiled when making the SuperBowl is the minimum goal.

<start old guy voice> I remember when ...</end old guy voice>, one day in the summer of 2002, I was out in my yard and still basking in the joy of the SB36 win. It was such a great feeling. And I was thinking about the 2001 run -- I wondered: will this past season -- and Brady -- be looked back upon as a one-year fluke, the memories of which would still be able to sustain us through less glorious seasons to come? (I'd be happy with that, I thought that day). Or will these Patriots -- and Brady -- be something more? Even contemplating the "something more," I never could have imagined that it would end up being this much more. So, yeah, savor; every year, every win, every milestone.

It's all Belichick. From the mind of a football genius.

dafoe2016 said:

As I was watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals I was contemplating the talent gap between the Cavs and Warriors. Then the talent gap between the Cavs and Celtics. Realizing how hopeless it was, it dawned on me. I've never been able to look at the Patriots from the outside. But being an NBA fan of a team that isn't the Warriors is what it must be like to be a fan of an NFL team besides the Patriots. The NFL has more parity and given the one game playoff scenario a fluke upset (like both Giants games and the Broncos in 2005) is more likely. But coming into this season, if you are a fan of another team, do you honestly believe that your team has a chance of winning a title? You can talk tough, but deep down inside, you know your only realistic chance is multiple injuries.

I want to savor every moment of this. It's difficult to not take it for granted. We all do, whether we realize it or not. Eventually it will end.

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No thanks. I'd rather just be entitled, unappreciative, expect Super Bowls every year and when they don't win go to my safe space and draw in my Ranger Rick coloring book.

I still remember in the 70's and 80, 8 games in with the sports section on the dining room table trying to figure out what kind of crazy math it would take for the pats to be the wild card team.

It's been cake since SB 36.

I doubt we will ever see another run like this. Especially in a salary cap era

You should save this thread OP and post it when the GDT All-Stars call it a season after the first incomplete pass versus the Chiefs....

I enjoy it one game a at time.

And being on to KC is going to take a heck of a long time, but I look forward to the process of getting to know this team and can't wait until we unload this offense.

Deus Irae said:

Russell
Chamberlain
Jabbar
Bird
Magic
Jordan
Shaq
Kobe
LeBron

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I would have to add Durant and Curry to that list soon. This is probably the best basketball team thats ever been. The Golden State Warriors that is. Everyone saw this coming, at least that they were locks to win the championship barring injuries.

After watching them this year and there playoff record speaks for itself the Warriors might be the best team in NBA history.

They were already championship caliber and then they just added if not the best player in the league a Top 3 player. Its almost not fair.

People have been saying this for like 8 years now. We know, we're enjoying it. We don't need reminding.

Can you believe it? Brady threw a pass in the flat to Brown that gets them in FG position with under a minute to go ...and Adam comes in and kicks the game winner...as John Madden and the rest of the greatest show on turf rumpswabs choke on their turducken dinners...and ever since we have been farting in the general direction of every fanbase in this league.

Enjoy this run? you mean someone needs to be reminded? really?

I've seen dozens of these threads with similar titles thinking it was winding down. Still savor every moment but I think there is another 10 years of awesome to go.

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I've seen dozens of these threads with similar titles thinking it was winding down. Still savor every moment but I think there is another 10 years of awesome to go.

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Jimmy G will be 40 in 2031 so any chance of this run coming to an end wont be until the early 2030s

stinkypete said:

Totally true, we are lucky.

But, Denver in 2005 was not a fluke upset. They were the better team that finished
2 - 0 against the Pats that year

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Pats were better than Denver that year, and that was a star-crossed playoff loss at Mile High. But in truth we had just won 3 of the past 4 titles and were due to lose one. There's a lotta good fortune involved in winning it all.

None of the NFL's other dynasties (steelers, packers, cowboys and 49ers) ever went back to being a dynasty.

dafoe2016 said:

As I was watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals I was contemplating the talent gap between the Cavs and Warriors. Then the talent gap between the Cavs and Celtics. Realizing how hopeless it was, it dawned on me. I've never been able to look at the Patriots from the outside. But being an NBA fan of a team that isn't the Warriors is what it must be like to be a fan of an NFL team besides the Patriots. The NFL has more parity and given the one game playoff scenario a fluke upset (like both Giants games and the Broncos in 2005) is more likely. But coming into this season, if you are a fan of another team, do you honestly believe that your team has a chance of winning a title? You can talk tough, but deep down inside, you know your only realistic chance is multiple injuries.

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On paper this 2017 Team is built to withstand multiple injuries.