Miguel said:
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The 48 posters are in a contest. If they felt that picking the Bengals would give them the best chance to win the contest, how is that a reflection on their faith in the Patriots?? Let's say that some of the 48 had picked the Broncos last week. Why would it be unreasonable for them to have picked against the Patriots for the 2nd straight week?? You have no idea who of the 48 chose the Bengals because they feel that choice was their best chance to gain bragging rights and yet you lumped them all in the same category. That is my problem with your post. Is the contest "Predict how much the Patriots will win every game by??"No, it is not.
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Yeah but contest or not, almost 40+ percent of PATs seemed to be
convinced that Patriots would lose to the Bengals.
That's the point.
Was there justification for that point of view? Maybe.
Certainly the point of view that PATs would beat the Bengals was not being
talked about hardly at all. In fact all week long the negative posts here were
just unbelieveable. AJ even started at thread about how disgusting it was.
If there was a lot more talk about the PATs potential ..
- what they really did show and
- how they have beaten high powered offenses in the past and
- how they play after a humilating loss and
- how their run stopping has been good this year and
- how Gabriel and Tom looked like they were getting something together in the Denver game and
- how PAts running game was real good except for the Denver game .......
and so many other positive things ....
then I doubt there would have been so many thinking Bengals would win.
Well, as I've said before, it's Ok to be wrong -- and its ok for some guys
to hand out a little ribbing .... after all they did pick the PATs:rocker:
Nobody is saying these Bengal pickers are not die hard PATs fans ...
they were just wrong ... this week.
... and I'm sure they are glad of it.