I Will Eat Crow And I Bet All Of New England Will Too

If you had the New England Patriots going out in week 1 against the Cincinnati Bengals, with all the reports from training camp and the eye test from the preseason games, holding the Bengals to 10 points and coming home with a win! Then you must be Marty McFly and have the sports almanac.

The Patriots played mistake free football, something Rich said on the show Thursday that Big Black Hoyer (Jacoby Brissett) was capable of doing. Manage the game. The bigger note of the game where Greg Bedard had a lighthouse in his pants was the O-Line. Something we have been harping on throughout the preseason was that they couldn’t keep Jacoby upright and he would get injured. Being only sacked 1 time and having Rhamondre Stevenson run for 120 yards and 1 touchdown was the 2 biggest stats of the day.

Is the Patriots defense this good or do the Bengals just completely suck when it comes to week 1 games (Joe Burrow 1-4 in week 1 games)?

Another victory lap for our show, Chief Bobby predicted the game Keon White would have, toot toot. Judon who? Keon white had 2.5 sacks and was a force for the defense. The secondary stepped up. Holding Ja’Marr Chase to 6 for 62 and the comments of Christian Gonzalez was something you want to hear from the second yard corner, “i wasn’t going to let them give him a contract after going up against me.” That’s the type of confidence I want to hear from my CB1.

Is this team good? I don’t know, but what I do know is that nobody expected the Patriots to be 1-0 after this week.