"How do we feel about 13 and 3?"

robertweathers said:

I remember saying at the start of the 2001 season I would be happy with 9-7 as it would show progress.

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bormio said:

I thought this was an 8-8 team .....

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K. Dog said:

The strange thing is that most of the bad events of the season unfolded in exact accordance with my preseason analysis - Brady late season deep ball decline and interception uptick since the Patriots (unnecessarily) declined to rest him; defensive issues with the Gilmore signing and all its direct and indirect effects on Butler and defensive synchronization. Then the loss of Edelman and Hightower on top of that. I don't understand how despite all this the Patriots win anyway. But I continue to be even more pessimistic about the playoffs, for the same reasons I was pessimistic in the preseason, multiplied by: the opposition will be stronger, Brady more tired, and much of the receiver corps either injured or just coming back from injury, hard to imagine a playoff Patriots without Edelman and Hightower at all (not to mention Blount) and the coordinators might be distracted by the head coaching offers.

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perspective.

K. Dog said:

The strange thing is that most of the bad events of the season unfolded in exact accordance with my preseason analysis - Brady late season deep ball decline and interception uptick since the Patriots (unnecessarily) declined to rest him; defensive issues with the Gilmore signing and all its direct and indirect effects on Butler and defensive synchronization. Then the loss of Edelman and Hightower on top of that. I don't understand how despite all this the Patriots win anyway. But I continue to be even more pessimistic about the playoffs, for the same reasons I was pessimistic in the preseason, multiplied by: the opposition will be stronger, Brady more tired, and much of the receiver corps either injured or just coming back from injury, hard to imagine a playoff Patriots without Edelman and Hightower at all (not to mention Blount) and the coordinators might be distracted by the head coaching offers.

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bormio said:

I thought this was an 8-8 team .....

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Off The Grid said:

Has @VectorPrime ever issued a Mea Culpa for that hilarious and classic September meltdown?? I've seen'm around. I asked Kontradiction ~ who quite hilariously cut and pasted the aforementioned meltdown to'is Sig, but he didn't know.

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KontradictioN said:

ViperGTS... and no. He gone.

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Off The Grid said:

I remember saying before the 2001 season that I expected us to go 4-12...But that was before Mad Bill suspended Terry "Our Entire Offense" Glenn.

After that, I figured...5-11. #TrueStory!!

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robertweathers said:

I remember saying at the start of the 2001 season I would be happy with 9-7 as it would show progress.

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robertweathers said:

Got that right. Spoiled rotten to the core.

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Patsfanin Philly said:

Where else could 13-3 be a " pretty solid year" as Belichick referred to it as????

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K. Dog said:

The strange thing is that most of the bad events of the season unfolded in exact accordance with my preseason analysis - Brady late season deep ball decline and interception uptick since the Patriots (unnecessarily) declined to rest him; defensive issues with the Gilmore signing and all its direct and indirect effects on Butler and defensive synchronization. Then the loss of Edelman and Hightower on top of that. I don't understand how despite all this the Patriots win anyway. But I continue to be even more pessimistic about the playoffs, for the same reasons I was pessimistic in the preseason, multiplied by: the opposition will be stronger, Brady more tired, and much of the receiver corps either injured or just coming back from injury, hard to imagine a playoff Patriots without Edelman and Hightower at all (not to mention Blount) and the coordinators might be distracted by the head coaching offers.

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K. Dog said:

. But I continue to be even more pessimistic about the playoffs, for the same reasons I was pessimistic in the preseason, multiplied by: the opposition will be stronger, .

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Off The Grid said:

Good God, man. Get some perspective.

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Ivan said:

You sure nailed it. I remember you saying the Patriots would go 13-3, get the #1 seed, Brady would be the best player in football, and the Patriots would be Super Bowl favorites going into the playoffs. Great calls, all of them.

You the man.

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long distance said:

Fair enough .. you do the worrying . they'll do their job..

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chasa said:

What?

of the AFC playoff teams, the patriots have only NOT played the Jags and the titans.

the patriots beat the bills twice, the steelers once, and lost to the chiefs.

the titans by all accounts are pretty trash, and the chiefs are not the same team they were at the start of the season, and the jags are honestly a coin flip because of bortles, shut down the run game, and they have nothing.

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K. Dog said:

The strange thing is that most of the bad events of the season unfolded in exact accordance with my preseason analysis - Brady late season deep ball decline and interception uptick since the Patriots (unnecessarily) declined to rest him; defensive issues with the Gilmore signing and all its direct and indirect effects on Butler and defensive synchronization. Then the loss of Edelman and Hightower on top of that. I don't understand how despite all this the Patriots win anyway. But I continue to be even more pessimistic about the playoffs, for the same reasons I was pessimistic in the preseason, multiplied by: the opposition will be stronger, Brady more tired, and much of the receiver corps either injured or just coming back from injury, hard to imagine a playoff Patriots without Edelman and Hightower at all (not to mention Blount) and the coordinators might be distracted by the head coaching offers.

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