Are Patriots this good, or is every other team a Tomato Can?
DENVER — It must be December in the AFC. Chestnuts are roasting on open fires and Tomato Cans are falling down in front of the sons of Bill Belichick.
Enjoy this as long as it lasts, people. You are not likely to see it ever again in professional sports.
It was yet another hat and T-shirt game for the New England Patriots Sunday. Playing one of their best games of the season, the Patriots Trumped the defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos, 16-3, at Mile High, winning the AFC East for the eighth consecutive season and the 13th time in the last 14 years. The Patriots are 14-2 in AFC East titles since Tom Brady took over at quarterback in 2001.
For the Patriots, winning the AFC East has become like signing up for Facebook or getting a letter of acceptance from the University of Phoenix. It’s professional sports’ version of a Newton youth soccer participation trophy. All the Patriots have to do to win is show up, play their traditional tight game, and wait for the other guys to make mistakes.
The chorus line of dunce coaches (Cam Cameron?) and bum quarterbacks (Thad Lewis?) populating the AFC East in this century stretches from Orchard Park to Miami Gardens with an annual stop at Exit 16W off the Jersey Turnpike. And the beneficiaries of this abject ineptitude are your New England Patriots — a team that never, ever takes a year off.
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Singing A Different Tune
It seems it was only yesterday when Shank was reminding us about Tom Brady's terrible record at Denver (2-7 lifetime). After a 16-3 win yesterday, Shank does his usual 180 degree turn.
Proof that Shank knows nothing about football came today on 98.5 on the Zo & Bertrand show where Shank claimed the whole league is abysmal and he can't trust the Patriots - he cited as his reason 25 fumbles (including those the Pats recovered) and didn't even know what turnover differential was - the Patriots are plus-six in turnover differential with eleven giveaways and 17 takeaways.
ReplyDeleteOf course New England's record against quality opponents - 6-1 this year, 106-61 lifetime in the Belichick era - disproves his premise, but he won't go there.
Dan never talks about the tomato cans that were the Syracuse Nationals, St. Louis Hawks, Fort Wayne Pistons were up on the schedule for his hero Red Auerbach.
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