We all want the Pats to fail
I’ve made my feelings on the Patriots clear in the past. I’m sick of them. I like Tom Brady, he’s a total dweeb stuck in a super attractive man married to a super model and he’s super fun to watch when he goes all Angry Brady. I love Belichick, he’s a remarkable coach who can do wonders, helped my own team to a couple Superbowls in the 80’s, and hilariously trolls the media. Gronk is like a big dumb child who just looks happy and trucks people. Vince Wilfork is a delightful fat man. Jerod Mayo goes great on sandwiches. I don’t hate the Patriots players or coaches or the franchise and I think Kraft is one of the better owners. I respect the hell out of the Pats.
I’m just really goddamn sick of them. All they do is win to the point where it becomes incredibly boring and they are only interesting when they are struggling. Case in point? Last week.
Last week, after the Chiefs game, really clarified that I’m far from the only person who is sick of them. We are all sick of the Patriots. We are all incredibly eager to watch them finally fall. We are incredibly ready to see Belichick step down, to see sad Brady face. Even Patriots fans are kind of fatalistic, exposing that they know the end is coming and they are dreading it. Last monday the Patriots got stomped by Alex Smith and the Chiefs, and the entire sports world blew up. IT”S THE END. BRADY IS DONE. THEY PUT IN JANEANE GAROFOLO AND HE SCORED A TD, BRADY DIDN’T HIGH FIVE HIM. BELICHICK HAS LOST IT, HE’S DUMB. JOSH MCDANIELS IS A HACK. IT’S OVER.
Everyone jumped on the Pats now suck bandwagon. Everyone wanted to believe it was finally over. Personally? I found it confusing. The Pats went into a very hostile environment (The Chiefs stole the Decibel record from Seattle again), played a tough team, and had a bad game. It’s not the first bad game Brady and Co have ever had, but it was the first where Brady looked that lost, and the entire team flatlined in such a way. But it was one game. The Patriots have been a dominant force for over a decade, shouldn’t they get more benefit of the doubt before we condemn them? People were making a big deal of Janeane Garofolo scoring a TD drive late, but why? When the Pats put in Garofolo it was a signal to everyone that they had given up the game. The Chiefs knew it and stopped trying. There was no QB controversy at all, but we are all just so damn eager to see them fall that we made one anyway.
We are all so eager to see them fall that we spent a week claiming the end has come, and in the process gave the most dominant team of the past decade a chip on their shoulder. The Patriots came into this week with a Chip on their shoulder. THE PATRIOTS. THIS IS WHY YOU DO NOT STICK A FORK IN IT UNTIL IT’S OVER. One early season game doesn’t mean that much in the NFL. Now the Pats look good again and we all just have to sit here in the Patriots bed we made. They are still flawed, and one good game against a confused Cincinnati team in Foxboro certainly doesn’t mean the Patriots are suddenly gods. But before we start sticking the fork in again, lets let the season play itself out first, eh? I have a personal policy, I try not to judge a team or player based on one game, or one season, because things can change in a hurry. I’d rather let things play out and look at the results. Week 6 is this weekend. We are still at a point where we aren’t even sure who the truly good teams and truly bad ones are.
Shut up and let the games happen. If the Pats miss the playoffs, then I think we can start the dogpile.
I’ve now been on the webcomic as much as any Bengals player.
Did I get your butt chin right this time
I aprove.
Not gonna lie, I was committing sacrilege and actually rooting for the Patriots on Sunday night. The Bengals are an overrated team who barely beat a Ravens team they had no excuse not destroying(The Ravens did nothing whatsoever the entire first half, and all they mustered were five field goals. Either the Ravens defense is back to its old self, or the Bengals were as hapless as ever), beat an inconsistent-as-hell Falcons team that has an awful defense and gifted them three turnovers(Watch the replays, one was a miracle tip, and the one to Iloka was a forced throw out of desperation down 24-3 late), and beat a hapless 1-4 Titans team that, until this week, hadn’t scored more than 17 points in a game. They’re a good team, but I wanted to see them knocked back down to where they belong with the rest of the pack.
I agree, hearing about “The next Seattle” who had only given up 11PPG against mediocre competition got old fast.
I am a very vig Pats fan and I could see that it wasn’t really Brady that was struggling against the Chiefs, it was the o-line. I don’t know what Belichick did, but the o-line was a lot better this week. Good o-line=happy (and productive) Brady, because he’s not getting pummelled to death by the opposing defense.
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THANK YOU! I’m not the only one thinking the Pats drafted an actress!
Your jealous of the rings and titles they drafted one of the greatest steals of all time and he has dozens of record very few can compete with his classy uggs
Yeah well I’m sick of the “Sexy Rexy” bit. Whaddya gonna do?
Sir I’m going to have to ask you to leave.
DO U HATE LIFE AS WELL???!!
I think my favorite quote during the Pats Bengals game came from Cris Collinsworth who said something like “People have been pretty tough on the New England Patriots this past week, but if you want to pick another team in the AFC East, be my guest.”
As a Bengals fan, as much as I thought going into the game the Bengals were the better team, I can’t say I am surprised by the result. Typically Cincinnati performance, falling flat in prime time. Kudos to the Patriots, who obviously played much better than they had against the Chiefs and were clearly the better team on Sunday.
That said, I am still annoyed at the way Brady gets all the credit for wins and takes none of the blame in losses. His greatness is undeniable, but I am not sure why he is such a Teflon Man. I guess people are finally starting to call him out when he plays poorly now after years of refusing to do so, but even then there is always a hesitance to it. Oh well, I guess that is the benefit of the doubt 3 rings brings…
Did you not see the media this week? Brady was getting a ton of flack for the Chiefs game. Only smart people were noticing the O-line. If Brady didn’t get blame there wouldn’t have been any QB controversy with Janeane Garofolo.
Maybe I am only listening to the smart people because I really did hear an awful lot of people that were still covering for Brady. I can’t deny he got more heat after the Patriots game than I’ve ever seen him get before, but still there was an awful lot of “Well, his O-Line has been really bad…” and “Well, Belichick has left Brady’s cupboard bare!”, as if Brady had absolutely nothing to do with his poor play. I won’t argue that the line play has been good, or that he has a ton of weapons around him, because it’s obvious the line has struggled and they don’t have the weapons, but Brady also hasn’t played well!
I went to this game decked out in Bengals gear, but didn’t chirp because I knew the Bengals prime time history, and for the reasons you mentioned, Dave. After the score went 14-0, I knew what was going to happen.
Being sick of the Patriots and hating them gives me the unique opportunity to know how everyone else feels about the Steelers.
You grossly overestimate how much anyone outside of the mid-Atlantic or Seattle care about the Steelers.
“Janeane Garofolo?” Is this an inside joke that I’ve missed?
His name is Jimmy Garoppolo. It’s really close to Janeane Garofolo so that’s what I’m calling him from now on.
First rule of Football Club: You must misspell every backup quarterback’s name. Just ask Bill Gibberly, Jimmy Monzole, and Mickey Vike.
Why r the Falcons/cardinals here and not the jets
Everyone in those 2 panels is a real person getting a cameo. It just worked out that most of them were AFC East.
Reading this after the Super Bowl and “Deflategate” *and* a 2-0 start in 2015…in your face, Pats-haters (especially YOU, Roger Goodell)! 😀
I think we can all go back and take in the fact that the KC game is what won them that Super Bowl.
Lest we forget the past…