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Originally Posted by Manster
I think it is funny they have one close game and instead of saying that the Colts played well with some starters missing it the blame it on the Refs bit. The Pats are a very good team and with the way the NFL is now a team could go 19-0. I do not think it is going to be the Pats this year though. The best two team that the Pats played this season while both of them were on the road, Cowboys and Colts, both were missing key plays that could have helped in change the outcome of the game. While there were some maybe bad calls the went against the Pats in the Colts game it was the other way around in the Cowboys game, so the Colts games makes up for the Cowboy game. The Pats are going to have tho play the Steelers and Giants be for the Playoff start and then have to face either the Colts or Steelers maybe even both in the playoffs before they go to the SB. While they soould be able to win the games in their division there is still 3-4 games left that they can loose and I will be will loose at least once. I have a feeling and it could be a little wishfull thinking on may part but I do not think that the Pats will win the SB this year. The reason for this is because I picked them to I said they would play the Eagles and you can see how their season has turned out so far.
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What can we say, we call it how we see it. The difference between the Colts and Cowboys games were that the refs made some bad calls in the Colts game, and they were just about all against the Pats... to the point where it almost looked like they were trying to fix it. The Cowboys got sloppy, and deserved most of the calls they got against them in the 4th.
I don't remember any key players being gone for the Cowboys game... could be my faulty memory, but I don't remember that. In fact, it was the Patriots who were missing Richard Seymour, if I remember correctly. We also lost Morris and Watson in the beginning of the second half in that game... and Maroney was, at the very least not at full strength. Either way, kind of ironic that every team that plays against us with injuries gets to use that excuse, but when we had all kinds of key injuries on our defense over the last 3 years, that was just an excuse for us. When we mentioned them, we were being babies. Injuries happen. No team has shown an ability to overcome injuries the way the Pats have over the last few years. Please don't talk to us about injuries!
Still 10 games to go, a few of them will be tough ones. And the bullseye is on them, which makes each game tough (except possibly the Jets game. Lol)... not to mention that the media has put the evil label on them, and even if the NFL isn't trying to make them lose, I'm sure that subconciously, this is on the refs minds, which means any questionable calls are likely to go against the Patriots. I should mention to my Patriots friends that a team has gone 9-0 in the last 3 of 4 seasons... one of them has won the Superbowl... of course none of them have gone 19-0. Whats important, IMO, is winning the Superbowl. Of course I wouldn't mind seeing them go undefeated to shut those Miami fans up, but there is too long to go to really be talking about it now. One game at a time! Go Pats!!!