The Patriots Are Elite Until Further Notice
How many goddamn times are we gonna do this until we learn?
I stopped making Pats comics around the Super Bowl aftermath because there was nothing left to say about them. That’s the problem that sports writers still haven’t figured out what to do with yet. How do you write about a team that everyone wants to see dead when there’s no reason to say anything bad about? FREAK OUT OVER MINOR SETBACKS!
To be fair this year’s over-reaction to early season Patriots hiccups had a lot of writers hedging themselves with stuff like “There is still plenty of time to turn things around” and “The Pats are still a good team so it’s early” but that was just an excuse to prevent them from looking bad when the inevitable happens. There is only one thing to write about the Pats every year. “The Patriots are an elite team that will figure things out and make a deep playoff run”.
That’s it. Until the very moment the Patriots don’t make the playoffs or get washed out in the wildcard round, that’s all that needs to be written about the Pats.
No other good team gets written about like it’s the end after one or two bad games. The Eagles are 2-2, you aren’t going to see many, if any, articles about how things might be falling apart, because even good teams have bad games. Even good teams have problems. The Patriots do have problems! But who cares they’ll figure it out, because they always do. In the meantime stop giving Boston fans any sort of ammo. They’re stretching for literally anything to use as motivation at this point (because even the greatest dynasty of all time still doesn’t get respected enough for them so you gotta grab onto the smallest insults).
I recognize I’m part of the problem here but just stop talking about the Pats. I’ve been doing my best to avoid them for months. All the minor drama like Gronk, Malcom Butler, Jimmy G vs Brady, all of it. Ripe material but I’m just tired of them. Leave the Pats alone, sportwriters. It’ll be more fun to do an autopsy once the wheels finally fall off anyway. Failing to predict it for 5 years + now is getting just as boring as the team itself.
EDIT: I checked Deadspin this morning for news and this article about Maybe the Eagles Stink is the first thing I see. Fuck me, right?
I’m still waiting on that season long suspension for Brady for existing.
lol
Damn that Pats Dolphins game was boring
Don’t you like seeing a good old fashioned smackdown every now and then? Most people thought Super Bowl XLVIII was crap, but I laughed my ass off for three straight hours watching peypey get his ass handed to him.
Meh, the difference is that peypey and tahmmay bradeh (the NFL’s laurel and hardy) deserve to get ruined and then some. People still have a sad happiness around the Dolphins and there’s no point in kicking a bad team when they’re down. People loved the Giants for kicking the Patriots out of their ivory towers, and for watching peypey kick himself out of the ivory tower
Not that it matters since his noodle arms and teabag got carried to a trophy by clete bakeman two years later, and brady got carried to yet another trophy by the falcons
So, this comic is like, having this as the main theme:
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/we-all-want-the-pats-to-fail/
…but the setting of the characters is kinda like this:
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/hernandez-faces-justice/
Ehh. I don’t know how this is news-worthy, but it actually IS news, as much as it boggles my mind, so whatever. The Pats are gonna find themselves in the AFCCG yet again because of course they will, so why bother making up all these articles which will turn out to be garbage in a few months?
Anyway, I was more expecting a comic to be made about Earl Thomas being hauled off the field in a cart, probably dead for the season(and there goes all those delusional Seahawk fans guessing that they can get a 1st-round pick for trading him), but not before apparently giving the finger to his team on the sideline and the fans behind them.
Gronk being sidelined might hurt for a few weeks now. But the AFC is so trash will it matter.
Dear God the AFC is so garbage. Le’veon Bell is probably going to go to the NFC too, which will make them even more ridiculous.
Not even going to lie, the Chiefs are the only promising team to actually win the AFC. Everyone else is just burning in a dumpster fire.
Yes I’m high on the Chiefs, too, but I have way more confident in the
(1-2-1) Steelerss or Ravens coaches to keep pace with Bellicheck over the Walrus :-/.
Also surprised this isn’t an article about the interior of the Giants O-Line. ESPN kept saying things about how the Giants should have drafted a QB… It’s like “Y, tho? So they could die young?”
So the Giants could put Eli out to pasture and not be screwed in 2 seasons when he retires.
The Giants made a massive mistake by not taking a QB over Barkley who at max will play 10 solid to great seasons before falling off a cliff.
While that is true, even if they drafted Eli’s replacement over Barkley he would inherit bad pass blocking and no run game. All the receiving weapons in the world can’t fix that.
If the o-line doesn’t get fixed, the new guy you think they should have drafted would wind up dead in few years, screwing them anyway.
ESPN still blame Tim Couch for being sacked a crap tons of times so what do you expect?
Haha. Yes. That’s because the mainstream sports media gives QBs 100% credit or blame for everything on the football field when it’s been well documented that coaching/defense is almost more important than anything.
These checkdowns are glorious Dave.
I mostly just love the contrast between a fully colored guy and the reggo.
Oh, just admit it, you love us.
I mean what fun is it without a villain.
I used to love baseball more than I do now, but part of what made it fun was we had a villain…. The New York Yankees. Once we slew our dragon, it lost alot of it’s attraction.
I mean, is the Eagles victory as sweet if they didn’t slay the mighty Patriots of New England. And us New Englanders appreciate our role. If we come off as sane, rational fans, well, it’s harder to hate us. Plus, were are in fact assholes, so you play to your strengths.
So go ahead and focus on us. Hate us. It’s part of the story, part of the fun. A good villain adds drama and excitement, and is there a better villain than Bellichick and the Patriots?
You’re not a good villain. The Patriots are boring as fuck. Gronk is the only remotely interesting person in that entire organization.
Didn’t you watch the game? The signs were there man? I’m telling you, the decline is real! Any other year, Bill, Brady, and the Patriot Death Machine would’ve beaten those Dolphins by like 50! But 38-7 is just laughable! LIke Tom Brady can go around calling himself the GOAT now. The Dolphins exposed him for who he really is. And now the rest of the league knows how to play the Patriots and ONLY lose by 31. The decline is real man, it’s damn real!
*Note: This entire post is written in SARCASM font for those of you who have never seen it before.
I do not envy you for the time you had to spend looking at the soulless eyes of the Pats’ mascot in order to draw it that well. *shudder*
Hey Dave, just a reminder, you may want to update your banner.
This is just a test for the time being
If it works better for me I’ll make it official and do it then
+1 for calling these short drawings “The Draw Play Checkdowns”…but how have you not featured Mr. Checkdown himself Alex Smith in one? I know its hard to make a joke about Alex Smith (who may have the emotional range of cardboard) but still…it feels like a missed opportunity
I knew the comments on NE’s woes were shortsighted. They acquire Gordon in week 3, but play in week 4. Edelman returns from suspension in week 5 against Indy. That’s two top receivers they didn’t have in the first 3 weeks. Couldn’t be bothered to wait to see if they still struggled with those two receivers… which could still happen, but I highly doubt it.
Checked down out of either Earl Thomas getting sent to the IR bar, Fitzmagic turning into Fitzception and him getting eaten alive by literal Bears – or fuck it, the entire Tampa pirate boat getting blown to smithereens while Titty Boi stands on the beach and watches, the lulzy manner in which the Browns returned to Browning, or any other meme generated out of this weekend.
…Good for you, dave.
And he was doing well too, three picks already and this happened. Tough luck.
My suggestion to ensure the Pats’ downfall, let Tom Brady win the passing yards title like last year. Seriously there seem to be a jinx on leading the league in passing yards after 1959.