Patriots Questions
Long before the 2007 season, I posed several questions about the New England Patriots. I think they can be answered now.
- Can the defense hold up? Well, that defense is currently ranked #2 in the league, and #6 in the all important statistic of points allowed per game. It's a long season, and they still have to face some very good offenses, but so far that defense is holding up quite well. The only flaw I've seen is they seem a bit vulnerable against the run. Barber got off some good ones in the Dallas game, particularly the play where he broke 6 or 7 tackles, most in the end zone for what would have been a safety, and turned a broken, no shattered, play into a nice gain. They're still ranked #7 against the run, but the opposing teams are usually so far behind so fast that they just can't run too much. Against a team whose defense can slow the Patriot offense and attack the defense with the run, New England could have problems.
- Can the brand new receiving corps gel? Uh, they seem to be doing pretty well. And if this is how good they are while still getting to know each other, how scary will they be when all the kinks are worked out? Wow!
- How will Randy Moss fit in? So far, outstandingly. He leads the league in receiving yards and touchdowns. In six games, he's blown well past his statistical output in all of 2006. Moss has been on his best behavior, at least publicly a model teammate. I think the only question now is when the Patriots are going to sign him to a long, and big, contract. At this point, I don't think they can let this guy go.
- Can Maroney carry the load? This hasn't really been answered as Maroney has been injured and has missed 3 games. But in his absence, the running game has clicked along just fine with Sammy Morris. Unfortunately, he's now injured as well. But when both are healthy, Maroney won't have to carry the load as New England will again have an outstanding two-headed running attack.
posted by Doc at 12:56 PM
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It is with a e-vile heart that I now go boo boo, onto the e-vile warriors of the white and blue. For you see, I remember a yon year gone by, when two mighty armys did grabble upon the iron grid.
Two mighty armys did toil and battle that day, for a gleaming ring and a championship did lay ahead. They fought apon an iron grid in the eastern lands, two mighty armys that day, one of blue and white
(boo boo boo), one of the black and silver. They fought from sunrise to sunset that day, the fighting was fierce and many were mangled apon the iron grid, then a whitness came unto the eastern land, but still the mighty armys fought hand to hand. Now the armys were equally matched in almost every way, and the play was long and hard, and neither could slay the other, but then just then, as the shadows grew in number and the face of time grew smaller and smaller, a mighty guard from the black and silver tribe did smack and wack the leather orb to the ground, and then another warrior from the west did bounce apon it, the day was won for the army of the black and silver. Much gladness and toy toots were heard apon the land, for you see, the face apon the dial was almost gone, the mighty warriors from the west now would go in search of the magic ring. The blue and white warriors from the east had been vanquished, this was very plain and all did see.
But then the evil wizard Belichick did thow a scarlet rag upon the whiten grid, which made all the zebramen say wait. Then the evil wizard Belichick talked to the zebramen and he protested how the leather orb come to be apon the whiten iron grid. Then the leader of the zebramen when under the black curtain to view apon the silicone screen, just what it was that made the leather orb fall unto the ground. For many ticky tocks the leader of the zebramen did watch the play apon the silicone screen, but he could not discern weather the Brady arm went back or forward and then he asked his brother zebraman to view the flickering images and to give unto him, his version of that play. The second zerbaman did not view the flickering images there, this I can truly say. But unto the head zebraman he was heard to say.
“look about this crowd and be afraid, for if the leather orb is not given back unto the warriors of the eastern lands, the crowd will slay us this very day”.
The head zebraman then looked into the eyes of the beastly crowd, and agreed that he would like to live another day. So it was that the
Zebramen gave back the leather orb unto the warriors of the eastern lands. It was a woeful ending that day for the warriors of the western lands. The zebramen had cheated them once again. :-)
Good luck against the colts, but if you’re a wise man, you will also look to the western land, for the mighty black and silver again begins to rise upon the grid of iron, so beware oh men of the blue and white,
For all who dwell in the raider nation remember that day, when the zebramen took glory away…….
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