Patriots, Mid-Season

So the Patriots are tied, mid-season, with the Bills and the Jets, in the AFC East, at 5-3. And, for the record, there are only 6 other teams in the entire NFL, with a better record. I still feel good about the Patriots. I still put them at 10-6, possibly 11-5. It's these next 3 games that are the most important, to me. Playing against 3 Divisional teams, the Bills the Jets, and the Dolphins, is key. Forget Pittsburgh, with their good Offense and great Defense. Nevermind Arizona, who has Kurt Warner throwing like a damned mad-man! These next 3 games, to me, decide the 2008 future of the New England Patriots.

The Bills started strong, but are showing their weaknesses. I think the Patriots can beat them, twice. The Jets, well it's Mangina's Jets...the Pat's will be gunning for them in grand fashon. That leaves the Dolphins. The Patriots are hungry...no...STARVING, for a rematch, to make up for their embarrassing loss back in the early season. Ronnie Brown and the "Wildcat" can kiss my buttocks. The Pat's, and Belichick, are gunning for this rematch. You can count on that.

3 weeks to prove what the rest of the season will bring. This is crunch-time, folks. Let's kick some AFC East butt, and move towards the Playoffs!!!

Robert Shaw

I've probably never shared this with you yet (or maybe I have), but my favorite movie of all time is Jaws. I'm not ashamed that I know every line, word for word, of that movie. I think it has an incredible cast, and some really good acting for it's time.

If someone wanted to know my all-time favorite scene from a movie, I'd say it was when Quint (Robert Shaw) in Jaws, was retelling his version of being on the USS Indianapolis. I absolutely loved Quint's character in the movie, but that was the most moving, "Holy Shit" piece of acting that I have loved.

I'm sure most people would disagree with me, but the good thing about this being MY BLOG, is that I don't care. :-) hehehe

Post Voting Results

OK...Obama has won the Presidency. I have no doubt whatsoever that you already know this, because if ANYONE is reading my Blog for up to date world news...then you need a new link in your Firefox Bookmarks file! :-)

I'm going to try to not get too political, because I'm not huge on politics. I do vote, but I am a Registered "Independent". I don't favor one party or another. I favor making my own damn choice. I want to choose the candidate that I like, not vote for someone because of their party affiliation.

But let's speak "locally" for a moment (and if anyone outside of the realm of MA reads this, then you may want to skip past this). Let's talk about Questions 1, 2, and 3.

I'm a newly hired municipal employee, one that I feel would have potentially been facing a layoff had Question 1 passed. OK...people are upset. About how the MA Legislators blow threw our money quicker than anything. But I don't think that cutting out a good portion of the state's Income is the way to go about fixing it. I think that sometimes "radical change" is not the best kind of change. Let's make change by voting out the "big spenders", and get some fresh blood into the legislature. If any other company or corporation suddenly was faced with a 40% cut in income, can you imagine the changes that would be made? And...I don't care what you think, have you ever heard the phrase "shit flows downhill"? And look, if you want to start weeding out the old-blood spenders, you've already got a head start! On January 20th when Obama accepts the Presidency, Deval Patrick and John Kerry will be moving into their new offices in DC! So we've already started! :-)

Question 2. I think this was a no-brainer that would pass. I'll jump on the bandwagon, and say let's put our cops spending their time working on real crimes. Not getting tied up with some punk 20 year old that is caught with a couple of joints in his Marlboro pack. The only potential problem with I see, is when the same 20 year old punk happens to be driving his car, and go across lanes and hit and kill someone. When they find 1 or 2 joints in his car, how disappointed will everyone be that they can't charge him for the drugs, as well???

Question 3. I thought this would be more of a landslide than it was. I figured that people would, thanks to Michael Vick, be all for the fair treatment of animals, and would vote in droves to do away with dog racing in MA. It passed, but not by as much of a margin as I had thought.

OK...it's Wednesday. Voting is over. Shouldn't we be talking FOOTBALL???

So the Patriots face the Bills this weekend. I watched some of the Bills/Jets game this weekend (I was at work, so I watched/listened to it in between calls). At the beginning of the game, I thought, "Holy SH*T! Look at that Defense! They're in Favre's face on every play!". After the first quarter, that feeling quickly faded. Buffalo has had a great start, but the Patriots, ie: Matt Cassel, are making headway every week. I put this game as a WIN for the Patriots. They're hungry. I had put them losing to the Colts, but they squeaked out a loss in a game that they SHOULD HAVE WON! I'm not one into predicting scores, but I'll put the Patriots winning this game.

Hey David Thomas!

How's your ass feeling right now??? Because, I'm sure it has had it's diameter increased greatly both by your Coach, Belichick, and by every team mate that you have. How could you be so STUPID as to pummel someone after a play had been called dead???

Can I blame the Patriot's loss to the Colts (18-15...kind of a weird score, huh?), primarily on Thomas? YES! Sure...other mistakes were made. But this was the biggest mistake of the biggest proportion...and in my opinion (and I'm sure my others), cost them the game.

Yes...yes...Jabar Gaffney dropped a tremendous pass that was floated into his hands from a million yards away...oh, yeah...a pass that, if caught, would have resulted in a TD! But I still think that Thomas's sin was worse than that.

All in all...I was pretty happy with how the Patriot's played the Colts. Up until Thomas's major screw-up penalty...I was happy with their performance. I think that Cassel improves every week. Cassel, his ability to scramble combined with a better O-Line performance, actually wasn't sacked! Holy Shit! Given the shortage of healthy Running Backs, I thought they ran the ball well (of course, I picked up and activated "Old Reliable" Kevin Faulk on my Fantasy Football Team this week, and wanted to see him touch the end zone with the ball!)...against a fairly lame Run Defense. But it was also against the COLTS! And Peyton Manning seems to be improving every week as well.

Ultimately, I'm happy with how the Pat's played most of the game. And I feel pretty good about the last half of the season. They've got 3 Divisional games coming up, which will be huge, considering that they are now in a 3-way tie in the Division with the Bills and the Jets.