hey kids-
i’m sure you’ve heard by now that the patriots lost. it was a tedious,
grueling game that seemed to go on forever and had very few highlights – not
unlike the past week.
our fearless quarterback looked as frustrated as i felt on sunday – but
even his best efforts couldn’t get our team in sync. all credit to the cardinals
defense who sacked tommy four times and blocked a punt – but it was one of those
fluky games where you just knew from the early tipped-pass-turned-interception
that things were not going to go our way. well, you can’t win em all, tommy.
seriously – it makes everybody else really mad when you do.
one week in to his very own (shared) feature, aaron hernandez twisted his
ankle and is out for a month. the bad news is that supersucks because aaron
hernandez is awesome. the good news is wes has already started playing more to
pick up the slack, which gives him more opportunities to restake his claim on my
affection and get the i heart wes welker back in the header. in the meantime,
here’s poor aaron giving us a last look at his tattoos for a while. is anyone
else getting supersick of these patriots writhing-in-pain pictures?
know what else made me supersick this week? the play calling in the last
two minutes of this game. i know, i know – blah blah blah holding call, blah
blah blah replacement refs. but after the patriots’ final touchdown was
reversed, they went uncharacteristically conservative, spiking the ball twice
(thrice?) instead of making any effort to get stephen gostkowski a little closer
to the uprights. as it went, stephen missed that final field goal, and our pats
lost a game they well-deserved to lose. nevertheless, the tommy of the week goes
to stephen gostkowski. he missed the last one- but he nailed the first four
(including two 50+ -yarders), which is the only thing that even kept us in this
game. if anyone else on our team had converted on 80% of their plays, we
wouldn’t be having this conversation. thanks for the leg, stephen. maybe next
time, the boys’ll have your back.
we play the ravens tomorrow night, and after that title game last year,
they’ll be out for blood. of course i always hope we win, but let’s all practice
our happy patriots thoughts that all our boys make it out of the murder capital
of america alive. we’re already down an aaron!
have a great night- and go pats.
love dav
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