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 The Red Sox traveled to Japan and now the Patriots are playing in London.  What’s next, the Bruins strapping on their skates and heading to Alaska, or how about the Celtics playing in Australia while eating a little shrimp on the Barbie.  Truth be told, I don’t care where the Pats play today, all I want to see is a well-played game that they can build on.  To the entire nay Sayers out there crying that the Patriots ran up score, enough is enough.  This is a professional game with professional athletes who get paid millions of dollars to perform at their best.  Brady lost an entire year with this offense and needs all of the time that he can get, even in lopsided games.  If the Yankees were losing to the Red Sox 10-0 because C.C. was walking the ballpark; and trust me that is a big if, do you really think that the gentlemanly thing to do would be for the Red Sox to swing at every pitch no matter if it were a ball of strike because sports etiquette dictates they should?  How about the 32-point comeback the Buffalo Bills displayed on the Houston Oilers with backup Frank Reich in 1993, or the Jets miracle versus the Dolphins in 2000 to stun the league with a 40-37 victory.  If you don’t think that they would like to have a mulligan and go back and maybe keep up their intensity because they thought the game was over, well you are wrong.  The point is, that when you have a team down, keep them down.  To many times in sports we have seen comebacks because other teams have let up.  Trust me, if the Pats were to let up last week and somehow the Titans came back to win the game, there would be mass suicides in the streets of Boston questioning Bill’s decisions from the sidelines.  Why is nobody questioning the Giants romp over the Raiders two weeks ago?  I will tell you why, because people love to hate the Patriots and Bill Belichick.  It is okay for Manning to tear up the league in route to his 49-touchdown season in 2004, but not for Brady in 2007.  There was a four-week stretch were the Colts blow teams out by the scores of 49-14, 41-10, 41-9, and 51-24.  I don’t remember writers and fans screaming out that Coach Dungy was running up the scores, or Peyton Manning should let up off the gas peddle because it was the right thing to do.  No, everyone was enamored because Manning was going to break Marino’s touch down record that had sat for twenty years.  The second Brady and Belichick break records it’s bad for the league and frowned upon.  A note to everyone, take your emotions out of the game and just enjoy what you are watching.  Remember, it is just a game.    

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There's a misconception out there about the 2007 Pats

Here are the final scores for the season:

Jets 38-14
Chargers 38-14
Bills 38-7
Bengals 34-13
Browns 34-17
Cowboys 48-27
Dolphins 49-28
Redskins 52-7
Colts 24-20
Bills 56-10
Eagles 31-28
Ravens 27-24
Steelers 34-13
Jets 20-10
Dolphins 28-7
Giants 38-35

There were only two fifty-burgers and two forty-burgers. Not blowing out every team the entire year, as some bloggers like to insinuate. Of course some games seemed like blowouts that had scores in the thirties, where the outcome wasn’t even as close as the score. That’s where the perception came from. In quite a few of those games, the winning scores would definitely have been higher if the starters weren’t pulled.

There is no such thing as running up the score. Period. The PC police decided scoring too many points would be an issue, applying only to the Patriots, because the Pats were the only team able to do it with consistency [and their own teams couldn’t.]

Keep the faith!

by Marima on Oct 25, 2009 9:13 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

teams spend over 100 million on their players most of the time
the Offence is suppost to score points
the Defence is suppost to stop that from happening

by Patsfan4life on Oct 25, 2009 12:40 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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