Ok. So how much longer do you think this mediocrity can last? We just saw a near rookie QB beat the Pats and the week before the Saints basically took their manhood, ****ed on it, picked it up, spit on it, turned around and said "I think this may be yours".
How long do you think Kraft will be ok with that and when do you suppose the winning will start again?
Ummm, they went undefeated two years ago, won 11 games last year with a QB who hadn't started since high school, and are on track for a home playoff game this year. Not to mention, he has been training their new Offensive coordinator this season, because the last one was given a head coaching job, and their defense really does not have a lot of talent to work with (OK, you can blame BB the GM for that, but not the coach).
Sure, this team has been mediocre if your standards are winning the Superbowl every single year. However, by realistic standards, this team has continued to be immensely successful.
Well when you're some typical team out there competing for the Super Bowl every year probably isn't realistic.
But when your team has Brady, two pro bowl wide recievers, three OLs just a year and a half removed from the Pro Bowl, and a coach named Belichek competing for the Super bowl every year should probably be a realistic goal. Instead I'm just hoping we don't get beat by the Dolphins and Panthers of the league
I'm sorry but when they won 18 games in a row I wasn't thinking "This isn't realistic. They'll probably lose 6 games in a couple years with a lot of the same players and coaches"
that's such a spoiled NE patriots argument that i physically cringe.
It speaks of this gross sense of entitlement that patriot fans have, that we should win the superbowl every year regardless of what the rest of the league does. This is a team who has rebuilt it it's entire defense and is, most likely STILL going to win the AFC east.
IT also blatantly makes a wrong assumption that we are "basically the same personal" as the 2007 team, and thus should be still rolling along.
Take alook at our defense and tell me how many key veterans you see left from that team.
Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh steelers, who are substantially the same team on both sides of the ball from the superbowl season, are going to be lucky to finish 8-8 the way they are playing.
This is the same team that in 2008 went 11-5 with tom brady out for the year, somehow producing a great season when everyone expected them to fail. yet that wasn't good enough for patriot fans either, and the season was widely labeled a failure.
It's just ridiculous at this point, nick is right. this attitude that we are entitled to be better than everyone else and that we should be far and away the best team in the league as long as 12 is under center isn't based in reality.
You need to be good on offense and defense in this league, and right now we have made a conscious (and correct, though painful) choice to rebuild a defense that proved it didn't have the chops and was to long in the tooth to win anything the last 2 years.
and, with that rebuilt defense, which is far to young and inexperienced to be anywhere near a superbowl discussion, we are still going to make the tournament and have a shot, albiet a long one. most teams that disemboweled themselves on one side of the ball would be ecstatic to simply make the playoffs the following year.
lord forbid we have to deal with a playoff season that may not result in a superbowl championship during a rebuilding phase though, this is the post 2003 patriots.
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