The Patriots are more lucky than good
Six straight wins in the NFL is six straight wins. With the Patriots getting back to feeling like their days of dominance the league is petrified and a large sect of Patriots nation is starting to poke holes in their success as not to be whole heartedly crushed come play off time. We can’t help it. It’s in our nature. This is not the Brady years anymore where we would save this pessimism for the AFC championship game. The Mac Jones era needs the delusional negging at Thanksgiving!
Let’s just take a quick look at this 6 game streak. It’s starts with a 50 burger on the Jets a week after suffering a brutal loss to the Cowboys in over time in which the defense gave up the entire Western Front to Dak Prescott. Talk about landing soft after that nut crusher. There is no sweeter embrace than the Meadow Lands staring a rookie Jets QB in the eyes with the heat of 1,000 suns after a heart wrenching loss.
Next up, a real test, The L.A. Chargers. To this point no one can blame injuries on the Patriots success. That will come. And this Chargers team had no real injuries to fall back on either. No, all they had was a sophomore QB with gorgeous hair and a head full of spaghetti that Bill Belichick feasts on. If that wasn’t enough Bill’s record vs. Rookie coaches is something like 750 - 0. Not to mention, the Chargers have gone on to show us they are more pretenders than contenders if you ask me.
The Panthers at this point in the season should be trying out for the new UFL. It was not just 3 weeks prior they boasted one of the best defenses in the league and the corpse of Sam Darnold looked like he had wiped the slimy stench of the Jets off him. They were competing for the division and looked like a tough out. Then, Darnold turns into a pumpkin with a broken shoulder and surprise surprise their McCaffery goes down. The Patriots beat the Panthers so bad they were singing Sweet Caroline in the stands and signed Cam fucking Newton the next week for $10 Million Dollars!! The Panthers could not have been fumbling and bumbling around more if they tried, but that’s okay. The Patriots will get a real test next week when Baker and the Browns roll in fresh off their best win of the season.
Oh, what’s that Chubb has Covid? Kareem Hunt out too? 45 - 7 shellacking by the Patriots over what at the time could be argued as the most banged up team in the league. That is until week 12 comes along.
Before that though a quick trip down to Atlanta to a team that had a couple surprise performances before their #1 WR took a sabbatical mid season and their #1 RB went down the week before. Matt Ryan gives way to not 1 but 2 back up QB’s all of which hand over the football politely to the New England defense and walla, Belichick’s 13th shut out victory. Onto Tennessee!
An extra 3 days to prepare for the number 1 team in the AFC?! Yes, please. A team with out the MVP of the league in Derrick Henry and a WR core that consists of Market Basket box boys?! So much for a real test, 36 -13 and buh bye Mike Vrable.
To recap:
Soft My Pillow landing with the hapless Jets
Spaghetti brained sophomore QB and rookie head coach
Sam Darnold
No Chubb
Mental health day
The King is dead
Now look, fuck all that. you can only beat who you play and the Patriots have not only beat these teams they have embarrassed, demolished, and quite literally killed them. So have they been lucky with some injuries and circumstances? Sure. But, as they say Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. At some point you have to call it what it is. The Patriots are good again. And that makes a lot of people sad.
P.S. To be fair this next month is the real test. Until Josh Allen slips on a banana peal and Jonathan Taylor gets covid. Then it’s on the the fake Super Bowl!
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