This NFL season has slightly dragged, hasn’t it?
Want to know why? Because it’s pointless. The season has not actually started. It does not matter what the record of your team is. It does not matter if your team is winning the division. Guess what, your season still has not started. Not for the Packers, which have compiled an impressive 6-0 record. Not for the Broncos, which have benefited from a mix of luck and being in a piss-poor division. Not for the Panthers, Jets, Steelers, or even the sneaky-good Bengals. And especially not for my Dolphins, who always finds a way to let me down.
Until the New England Patriots loses a game this season, it will not matter. The best team in the entire league can have an awful game and still manage to score 34 on the road. The best team in the entire league is second in yards per game and first in points per game. Brady is among the best in touchdowns, yards, and total rating. They have scored 104 points in their three road games. They can find multiple ways to beat you, sometimes destroy you (R.I.P. Jacksonville). Although they aren’t as offensively flashy as The Greatest Show on Turf, Peak Drew Brees Saints, or even the 2007 Patriots, nor are they as defensively destructive as Peak Gruden Bucs, 2000 Ravens, or 85 Bears, there’s a strong chance this team will walk away undefeated.
That’s right, the Patriots might win every game this season, and truly shove it to the faces of the NFL executives and Goodell. As a matter of fact I predict that the Patriots just might end 16-0 with just one or two true close scares.
There is only one truly tough game in their radar: going to New York to take on the darn Giants---the one thorn on their side. The New York Giants is the main reason why Brady isn’t wearing 6 rings. If they manage to shake off this demon and win on the road against a hostile and hopeful crowd (the fans know the Giants are a couple plays away from being a 5-1 team), then nothing will stop Brady and Friends.
The Jets? Please. The Dolphins? Nope. The Eagles? Only if Tebow was involved. The Old as Sin Denver Broncos? Not a chance. The Patriots’ biggest enemy is themselves, they can beat themselves in times when the opposing team can just tremble in fear. Did we see the awful attempt at a fake punt in the Patriots/Colts not-as-close-as-it-sounded game? That was a team throwing desperate shade to try to thwart what has become the scariest and edgiest team in the NFL. And it’s not only diluting the overall product of the NFL, but really has kept the league bottled up, waiting for them to mess up so the floodgates can open and other teams can throw their towel into the ring of Best Team.
Look at all the teams the Patriots beat last season en route to the Super Bowl. The Seahawks are shoddy and can’t protect the fourth quarter. The Colts lead their division-----with a 3-3 record and the Jaguars on their backs. And let’s not forget the Ravens, a team that dipped south so badly we forgot they were a trick play away from beating the Patriots. Baltimore is secretly immensely suffering, but since this season remains irrelevant nobody really cares. No team has improved themselves to a point in which fans, analysts, critics, and diehards truly feel like they are neck and neck against the champs.
The season begins, and there will actually be hope ONLY when the Patriots lose their first game. Until then, absolutely no point watching.
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