Patriots Only Win By 3, and the World Goes Mad
The following is a paraphrase from every major sports resource:
The world is ending! There is a blueprint to beating the Patriots! The Patriots aren’t going to win the Superbowl! The Eagles showed the Patriots whose boss! The unbeatable can be beaten!
In all honesty, this is what was going on after Sunday night’s 31-28 victory over the Eagles. I guess everyone that said these things are right, the Eagles really did show how the Patriots can be beaten with an unexpected vict-
Wait a sec! The Eagles didn’t win, did they? Last time I checked, the Patriots dominated the ball on offense, didn’t turn the ball over, and forced three turnovers on defense en route to a narrow victory. But according to every media outlet in existence, there is now a “blueprint” to beating the Patriots. Oh really? I don’t see anything in the loss column as of yet.
So for every panicking Patriots fan out there; calm down. The Patriots haven’t lost yet, and they even won when they played their worst game of the season. And for everyone who thinks there is a blueprint to beating the Patriots, you can calm down as well, because as far as I can see, the Patriots haven’t been defeated this season.
Sure, you can create a blueprint for a project, but completing that project is an entirely different task.
That doesn’t mean that this game didn’t have any importance. Believe me, it did. The Patriots learned that they cannot slack one bit. The average NFL team would have been enthralled with the way the Patriots played, however, the Patriots were down just a little bit from their performance, and it showed. The Eagles did everything they could, and they gave the Patriots a challenge.
With five weeks left, things are going to get real interesting.
Reader Comments
The blueprint talk is fairly ridiculous. The fact is the defense did play a fairly lousy game, save Samuel, but the offense was basically clicking with almost the same efficiency it has throughout the season. Some may argue this is not the case, but that is simply because of one terrible push-off call on Randy Moss. If Randy Moss scores that touchdown and there is no offensive interference call, Randy Moss finishes with 50 yards and a touchdown and no one even suggests that he got completely shut down. In addition, the Patriots extend the lead and don’t end up missing a field goal which ends up giving the Eagles hope and pumping them up to go down for a touchdown. The Patriots would have went up then scored that next touchdown and the victory would have at least ten points. It was that one terrible interference call in which Moss who does use his hands, didn’t really use them. However, that would not make for foolish theories that there is some kind of blueprint to stop the Patriots offense. Also, when did letting a team score 31 points become shutting down and thus implicitly having some incredible defensive scheme. The Eagles hardly ever got to Brady, and he threw for almost 400 yards. Just because they gave the ball to Maroney near the goal line and Brady didn’t get his 3 touchdowns doesn’t mean they shut him down. People seem to be ignoring these facts while they jump on the blueprint bandwagon. The Patriots outplayed the Eagles throughout the game, and anyone who watched the game had the feeling the Patriots could score whenever they wanted to. However, this was not the case in the Colts game and that is something that Pats fans should be legitimately concerned about. The Eagles game does not warrant the concern the media would like you to think, but ESPN does want ratings next week for the Baltimore game, a game which many people would not have watched because they assumed it would just be another blowout. Therefore, the blueprint bonanza will be running wild this week on ESPN, while the game will be another blowout in which Ray Lewis will admit to shooting Sean Taylor and then proceed to go after Brady. (Too Soon?)
(Quote)
[Reply]
That is what makes it so shocking acutally, like you said, the patriots “dominated” on offensee and forced 3 turnovers, but only managed to win by 3 points.
I think the Patriots are fine, but something I have seen all season is that the defense is not what it used to be.
(Quote)
[Reply]