Is it just me or have the Patriots ruined this years NFL season. Yeah, they are fun to watch, and you can speculate how many records Tom Brady will break by the end of this year; but at this point the suspense is over, barring injury the only thing that may stop the Patriots from winning the superbowl are the Colts. One of my friends suggested that the Colts should move to the NFC to insure a good superbowl, mostly I think he is making the suggestion because he fears no one will show up at his superbowl party and he might be right. I am sure many advertising execs share my friends fear, this predicamnet got me thinking that maybe, maybe one or two of the Democratic candidates for president should switch parties.
At this point the Republicans don’t have a serious candidate and after the Democratic convention no one will be talking about issues. It would be great to see the Democratic nominee, maybe John Edwards, arguing the with the Republican nominee, someone like Hillary Clinton about the need to get Pharmacutical money out of the political process and the best way to provide healthcare for everyone. Or maybe Barrack Obama as the Democratic nominee could argue against the much more conservative Hillary Clinton that the time to leave Iraq is now.
All of the Democratic candidates should have more appeal to the “values voters” as all of them are on their first marriage and seem pretty good at wearing their faith on their sleeves after all nothing leads better than example. It is time for one of the Democratic candidates to switch parties, if for no other reason than to save the Republican party from the confederacy of dunces they have to choose from at the moment.
Let the GOP take some more lumps. It’s Darwinian justice. If they can’t keep their promises more than the Dems, they deserve to fade.
And I thought I was cynical
The NFL and America are getting the same thing that we got in Iraq. If the media had done its job with either the postwar or spygate, America would be a better place, with much more happiness each Sunday.
My brother was all over the spygate hysteria, the piling on (regretably, he didn’t put a couple of posts together), and what he sent me was absolutely ridiculous. On NFL Countdown, everyone besides Keyshawn Johnson was adding to the stupidity. On HBO’s Inside the NFL, Chris Carter was the only one who wasn’t grinding an ax.
Chris Collinsworth especially – he had a rant on this whole thing, and basically repeated it word for word everywhere he went.
Bottom line: TO SAY THE 3 SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONSHIPS WERE TAINTED IS INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY ON A GRAND SCALE
The truth is, many of these pundits already didn’t like the Patriots. The NFL reporters didn’t like them because they could never get a scoop…whether it was week to week, info about injuries, at the draft…NOBODY within the Patriots franchise talks to the media.
When the Pats decimated Peyton Manning in the playoffs without their two top cornerbacks (Ty Law and Tyronne Poole), having to run out Troy Brown as their nickel (#3 CB)…Peyton couldn’t score a single touchdown in that game. Going into that week, everybody was wrong.
I understand all too well how that shit gets old after a while, but like the Yankees in the 90s, (I could be justified in complaining that they outspent everyone) the team with the rings simply outplayed everyone they faced.
The salary cap is a bitch for teams that don’t have the mental tallent on the payroll to manage it. The draft is a bitch for teams that don’t have the experience and a top-down philosophy that they approach every scouting assignment with.
New England has had all of this working for them now for over five years. They only take intelligent players who can master a complex system on both sides of the ball. Nothing gets dumbed down for anyone. They pick up free agents who were tossed aside by other teams, bring them in and make starters out of them (Mike Vrabel, Russ Hochstein, Rodney Harrison) – and when a talented guy who wanted too much money after his rookie contract was up is let go, they’ve got the cap space to go out and get him…think Rosevelt Colvin & Adaleius Thomas.
When they have a top 15 pick, they draft a defensive lineman & when they have a later pick in the first round, they take the best available.
How do you like Daniel Graham out in Denver? You can thank the Pats for that. Of course, Bellichick and Pioli were looking ahead, and made sure to draft Ben Watson…
I’m getting off course here. My point is, building a pro football team that can compete every year is one of the hardest things to do in America right now. The fact that it’s so hard is what creates the vast amount of seperation you’re seeing today. Because not only on the field, but especially off the field, the Pats run their business better than any other team in the league.
That is something the sporting press has resented for a long time now. And with spygate they unloaded a ton of shit that had been building up over a number of years.
So while I’m not in favor of running up the score…in this instance, I’m deferring to Bellichick. If the world needs a reminder of how unlike Melrose Place the NFL really is, then I suppose there’s no time like the present.
As far as karma goes, check out the Jets. Mangini the bridge burner can’t seem to catch a break…imagine that.