Amazing first round of the playoffs that we had in the NFL. Arizona and Green Bay just scored again, by the way. What an amazing game that was! But the greatest thing, for me anyways, was the absolute beat down that the New England Patriots got today.
I think that the best part about all of this is that people will finally see the Patriots for what they actually are. Old, and mediocre. Is Brady still a good Quarterback? Sure, but he is far from the God-like player that they make him out to be. He was weak in pressure situations this year, and made a decent amount of bad decisions and bad throws. You saw some of the bad throws today, like his first interception where he under threw his receiver by, oh I dunno, 10 yards! The defense is slow and was completely dominated today. They are just plain old!
My favorite thing, of course, comes at the end of the game. After they have had their rear ends handed to them, what is the picture we see? Bellichick making the barely contacting handshake before sulking off the field. Randy Moss and Tom Brady tucking their tails between their legs and not acknowledging anybody from the other team as the go to cry in their lockers. A team's true colors are always shown in the most agonizing moments because it is easy to be classy and say the right things when you win (not that Randy Moss has ever been a classy guy). But it is hard to go across the field to the guy who just kicked you in the teeth and told you to like it and congratulate them on a job well done. Yet, almost every single other player and staff in the league manages to do it because, as we all know, every game must have a loser. So when you don't, and you make such an obvious point about not doing it every single time, it really reflects poorly on you. It's something that I've been saying about the Patriots for a long time. They have no class. Brady, Bellichick, the 2 so-called faces of the NFL are among the sorest of losers that I have ever seen.
The other benefit that I can hopefully see from all of this is a recognition by the world of the "experts" that the Patriots are not superhuman. They do not walk on water. In fact, they are actually quite human, and they have shown that a lot this year. I hope that the ESPN and NFL commentators everywhere realize that deifying a team is ridiculous, and that all of this absurd and sickening Patriot worship will finally stop. This is definitely a high hope, I realize, but a guy can dream, right? At any rate, now we get to see another round of awesome playoff football!
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