Two days late
If I hadn’t passed out immediately after getting home from work last night, this is something that you might have read here on bostonbrat:
“And this is reason Numero Uno why I hate when the Patriots play Monday night games. I am exhausted! Long gone are the days when I could hit the bars until 2 a.m. and be up and ready for work by 8. Maybe it has something to do with being 30. Or something. But I feel more beaten than the Patriots secondary right now and that can’t be good.
“BUT, tired or not, I don’t have that ‘OMG, I want to hurl myself off the Tobin‘ feeling like I had after the Colts game a few weeks back and DEFINITELY not the ‘OMG, I want to hurl SOMEONE off the Tobin’ feeling like I had after the Jets game in Week Two.”
Seriously, aside from the sheer exhaustion, I was in a good mood yesterday. Ask any of my co-workers. I also got into a mini-debate with another co-worker about the extent of suckitude in the Patriots secondary. She thinks they “suck bigtime.” I think a secondary is only as good as its companion pass rush, of which the Patriots are horribly lacking (and don’t bring up Richard Seymour, he wasn’t doing much either and you all thought so, too). She also thinks Tom Brady has completely lost focus, which, if I didn’t like her so much, would have sent me into hysterics.
The Patriots were summarily defeated by the New Orleans Saints Monday night and not one person could tell me the last time a Tom Brady-led Patriots team was beaten like that.
But I digress (heh), did you happen to notice, I successfully completed NaBloPoMo?
until the NFL Draft!
I’m still trying to figure out what NaBloPoMo is!!!
I’m going to say this about that: I feel less-bad about this loss than I did after the Colts ‘near-win.’ This was never a ‘near-win,’ which is why I got over it less than twelve hours later. Onto other things, and other thoughts. We know what we have here in the Patriots: a team that will likely win its first playoff game (at home) but go no further. It is what it is. By my reckoning, I suppose I’ll feel rather satisfied if we make the AFC Championship game. To go further will require that a major upset occurs in the AFC (to get rid of the Colts) and the NFC (to get rid of the Saints).
I think it’s a given that when Belichick traded away Seymour, he considered this a rebuilding year (in Patriots’ terms, not like, say, the Lions). But I’m a total homer. I think they can win the Super Bowl every year, no matter what. This year is no exception.
Try moving to a different time zone. That’s one problem solved.
thank you wery much