After reading message boards around the web, I'm getting back that loving feeling for the Patriots. Yes, the Patriots, according to message boards, are 'one of the worst 6-1 teams of all-time'. I LOVE IT! This is exactly what Patriots football is all about. This is exactly where we want to and what won the Patriots 3 Super Bowls in the early 2000's. All the Patriots concentrated on was winning. They didn't care how, they just won. Defense one day, special teams the next, offense the week after. The only problem with this team as opposed to those other teams is that this defense lacks what I call, play-makers and heart-breakers.
From 2001 to 2005 we had play makers like Ty Law and Richard Seymour and heart-breakers like Mike Vrable and Tedy Bruschi. What I mean by heart-breakers are players that teams and fans alike totally disregard as a factor or a play-maker and sneak up on you with a big play that seals the game. Tedy Bruschi was the BEST at that. The quarterback would look over the middle for a pass on, what would be, a game winning drive, throw a pass and Tedy Bruschi would just jump up and snatch it out of the air. Interception, game over, bring out the victory formation.
From here on out, teams will totally take the Patriots for granted. The other teams will play a very vanilla cover 2 defense just to get picked apart by Tom Brady like a vulture over a dead body in the desert. Players like McCourty, Cunningham and Spikes are really turning out to be play makers. Wait...weren't they all from the same draft class??? And we Patriots fans got all bent out of shape for not drafting Dez Bryant.
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