Halloween got here and went.
So did the NFL commerce deadline.
Patriots followers acquired nothing however a bag of rocks.
The Great Pumpkin by no means materialized.
There was no all-in fireplace sale.
No offers. No nothing.
Same outdated, usual.
Rats! Bill held pat.
Robert remained MIA.
Or maybe he stayed in MIA along with his new spouse, the esteemed Dr. Dana Blumberg. She is an precise physician, having obtained a medical diploma from St. Louis University.
Dr. Blumberg, 49, is a board-certified ophthalmologist and as soon as taught ophthalmology at New York’s Columbia University. Presumably earlier than it grew to become a clearing home for Hamas sympathizers.
It is perhaps time for Dr. Blumberg to offer her husband an entire imaginative and prescient examination.
We’re undecided if Kraft can see that the Hoodie has no garments.
Or that his workforce has accomplished nothing however circle the rotary on Route 140 in Foxboro since Brady left in March 2020.
Or that shedding is successful in 2023.
Or that Bill Belichick & Company’s time has handed.
We’ve coated a few of this beforehand, however it should be famous repeatedly till the circumstances change simply how far behind the Patriots have fallen compared to the competitors.
The Dolphins may need to bronze Tua Tagovailoa. And not simply because he’s one snap away from one other season-curtailing damage.
You know by now Tua is 6-0 in opposition to Belichick.
More-so than any participant not named Tom Brady, Tua has accomplished extra to maintain Don Shula’s all-time wins file of 347 perennially out of attain for Belichick.
Brady giveth. And Brady curseth away.
It’s not simply the six video games.
Coach Mike McDaniel and Tua have demonstrated higher than every other workforce that faces the Patriots frequently simply how a lot time has handed since Belichick Ball was a winnable proposition.
Belichick coached on a Giants workforce that received Super Bowl XXI with Phil Simms at QB. They received Super Bowl XXV with Jeff Hostetler taking snaps. Against Jim Kelly.
With that on the resume, it’s not laborious to know why Belichick continues to undervalue proficient QBs.
Sunday at 9:30 a.m., you possibly can watch a possible AFC championship preview from Germany because the Dolphins play the Chiefs in Germany. You may have an additional hour of sleep to organize, because the clocks fall again one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday.
The Chiefs have received two Super Bowls because the Patriots received their final playoff recreation. This is the place we remind you that Patrick Mahomes’ dad as soon as performed for the Red Sox. And Mahomes was taken with the tenth choose within the 2017 draft. The Patriots might win their subsequent three video games and nonetheless land the tenth choose on this QB-laden draft.
The Patriots wouldn’t give Brady two years assured for $50 million after he received his sixth Super Bowl. The Chiefs gave Mahomes the largest contract in NFL historical past. Andy Reid isn’t any Gen Xer. He’s 65. But he hasn’t been afraid to adapt his game-plan to swimsuit the NFL’s need for motion and push for expert expertise to interchange expert expertise.
The Dolphins haven’t received a Super Bowl since Nixon was within the White House. They have the roster and expertise now greater than ever to achieve the NFL.
The Dolphins might properly snag house discipline within the AFC. Patriots followers know simply how brutal video games in January could be if you depart the snow and chilly of New England for the brilliant solar, 88-degree temperatures and 91% humidity of Miami Gardens. Fans in Kansas City, Baltimore, Cincinnati, or Buffalo could be taught that lesson quickly.
We’re undecided if Kraft might see Stephen Ross (Stephen Freaking Ross!) celebrating in his proprietor’s field Sunday. We perceive if Kraft couldn’t bear to observe. Ross was suspended by the NFL for 76 days final 12 months after it was discovered his workforce tampered with Sean Payton and Brady.
If Kraft can’t visualize what’s taking place, he could lastly really feel it in his pockets later this season when the stands in Foxboro are 40% empty – slicing in on concession gross sales – and subsequent spring with the season ticket renewals fail to materialize.
It’s laborious to not fault Belichick and Kraft for operating the identical playbook with a good checkbook. Combined, they’re 153 years outdated – 153 years in the past, faculty soccer was in its second season. We didn’t have telephones, electrical lights, or organized skilled baseball.
Belichick is in his forty ninth season teaching within the NFL. Kraft purchased the Patriots in 1994. That’s 78 years of collective expertise teaching and proudly owning within the NFL.
How dare you query them?
Patriots Twitter (X) tells us three of 191 NFL groups who began 2-6 made the playoffs, which implies 188 haven’t.
The Patriots are 25-1 to make the playoffs, 120-1 to win the AFC East, 200-1 to win the AFC and, you may need to sit down for this one, 300-1 to win the Super Bowl. All these numbers come from DraftKings and have been translated from betting lingo to make it simpler on the uninitiated.
The Patriots are sixteenth in a 16-team convention.
If they go any decrease, they’ll be within the NFC.
The Patriots aren’t any totally different than any nice dynasty in its waning days.
Nothing works prefer it used to. The enemy is on the gates. (Or within the case of the Dolphins, swimming circles round you.)
The plenty are stressed. Past glories masks current distress.
The Kraft Family has changed bread and circuses with free parking and a towering multi-million-dollar priapic lighthouse that may be interpreted in a number of methods.
Including as a large middle-finger to the fan base.
Pretty quickly, Kraft may even see that very same finger flashed a couple of thousand occasions within the stands at Gillette.
With or with out a watch examination.
Bill Speros (@RealOBF and @Bill Speros on X) could be reached at [email protected]
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