What "dumping" are you referring to last year?
I regularly took dumps all over the Chicken Littles last year. See my GDT breakdowns.
Not sure how that's relevant but I wasn't around much last year, but am discussing now and disagree with your righteous tone on how people should view the Patriots.
Who is being righteous besides you in this thread? People can view the Patriots how they wish. That doesn't exclude them from getting criticized. That's how a message board works.
Also, you continue to make strawman arguments and act like you defeated them.
Please point out where said straw man argument occurred. I'd love to see if you grasp the definition of exactly what that is.
Nobody is saying the team is without flaw.
There are PLENTY of people who argue vehemently against whatever flaws the Patriots have. One of them just patted himself on the back for predicting Gordon would fail at the worst possible time on page one or two.
Nobody is saying the Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl.
Believing that the Patriots aren't out of it is also believing that the team has a realistic shot of winning the Super Bowl. If you didn't think that, you'd think they were out of it and would say as much.
My argument has been on your crap categorization of fans who are remaining positive, think the team still has a shot, pointing out that other teams have flaws yet they do so because they're "bandwagon" fans who "can't see reality."
Then you had an absolutely terrible comprehension of my categorization of front runner or bandwagon fans. Maybe instead of getting immediately triggered/offended and flying off the handle (only to get your head handed to you), try reading the post again next time and checking for proper comprehension.
Also, your Jags comparison is so lame and irrelevant. That was 3 games into the season and they have no track record. Better yet, no Patriots fan (even ones that aren't counting them out yet) have ever said the Pats have no flaws like your comparison.
It's lame because it defeats whatever point you were trying to make here. But it's far from lame and even further from irrelevant. That you're trying to dismiss it as so tells me that you're pretty well aware of the weakness of whatever argument you're attempting to construct. All fan bases have fans like that. Using my experience with Jags fans was just a comparison. The Patriots are no different. We have posters here every single day that turn threads into pissing contests in an attempt to dismiss those that point out the flaws in this squad. We saw this with the following two examples:
- Attempting to point out that Shelton might not be the answer to the run D's problems.
- Attempting to point out that the team didn't do enough to address the WR position.
The posters I'm referring to were even still trying to argue their point even after the results were in on the season. Shelton has now been benched and the team traded for a WR that just smoked/drank/snorted his way out of town due to desperation.
The Patriots are still eyeing a first round bye and have repeated success with BB/TB. Also, the playing field has very clearly evened out toward the end of the year, with no real team legitimizing themselves as a clear favorite. Considering all of those factors, a lot of us don't think the Pats are out of it. You'll misconstrue this post as an overzealous/head in the sand post by a fan who thinks things are rainbows but that's just par for the course for you recently.
Actually, if your reading comprehension wasn't total garbage, you would see a post from me, directed at you, stating that you're not the kind of fan that I'm talking about. But it was too late by that point because you were already triggered. You're out of your depth here, guy. Next time, calm down and read the post you're responding to before flying off the handle.
