01 ~ Anyone who thinks that any Divisional Game is an Automatic Walk Over is Brain Damaged. Mutual Familiarity with a thousand nuances tends to obviate most Tactical Advantages.
02 ~ Coach Ryan is highly familiar with our Systems and how our Players play within them, infinitely more so than we are with how his New Crew plays within
his Systems.
It is an huge Advantage.
03 ~ It is September. For those of you who failed to get my Message ~ last Year, the Year before, and the Year before that, but especially
last Year, when many a Moron was ~ yet again ~ declaring that Brady is Finished and The Dynasty Is Over:
Mad Bill uses September as an extension of Training Camp.
A Loss or two in September tends to be not only No Big Deal but perhaps even a welcome Harbinger of Good Tidings To Come, for those of you who don't remember 2001....or 2003...or ~ ahem ~
2014.
Having said all that...
"We Want Brady!!!"???
Seems to me I've heard something like that, before, Once Upon a Time...
I've always felt that General Tom Brady was channeling a certain Boston Great of recent times...
Anyone else remember the Cavalier Fans, circa 1985, after they beat us 1 Game in the PlayOffs, because The Great One needed to ice off his elbow for a Game, and forestall CleveLand's Elimination by a Day???
"We Want Bird!! We Want Bird!!"
Heh.
A great Article, by the way, from when SportsWriters Roamed The Earth.