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This years team has not had a single reliable aspect of its game to hang its hat on.
What we have is mostly intangible.
We have a collective desire, a gutsiness, a togetherness, a fight to the end and fight at all cost mentality.
At times the offense has been anemic and other times a top shelf team full of explosive plays and yet others we have been a slow methodical grind it out running team that can bully the opponents.
Our defense has been full of holes, undisciplined and feckless - yet at other times has been stout, tough and gritty - and still other times it has been down right mean and vicious.
All together we have been just good enough to win most games - but rarely dominant.
This week I am hoping/predicting we put it all together and play lights out.
Last year in this same week 17 match up, we were hitting Brady so hard and so consistently that Bellicheck pulled him from the line up and basically conceded the game while it was still competitive. Bellicheck was right to do that because the Dolphins were gonna twist him up for good it seemed.
Look for more of the same - this is the perfect storm.
A home crowd - it seems like we are playing with house money as if we have less to lose then they do - in years past when we have been able to hit them hard with a big running back they have crumbled.
Expect more of the same -
Let this be the beginning of the end of the patriots dominance over the Dolphins as we take a giant step towards changing the power balance in the AFC East - for good!
What we have is mostly intangible.
We have a collective desire, a gutsiness, a togetherness, a fight to the end and fight at all cost mentality.
At times the offense has been anemic and other times a top shelf team full of explosive plays and yet others we have been a slow methodical grind it out running team that can bully the opponents.
Our defense has been full of holes, undisciplined and feckless - yet at other times has been stout, tough and gritty - and still other times it has been down right mean and vicious.
All together we have been just good enough to win most games - but rarely dominant.
This week I am hoping/predicting we put it all together and play lights out.
Last year in this same week 17 match up, we were hitting Brady so hard and so consistently that Bellicheck pulled him from the line up and basically conceded the game while it was still competitive. Bellicheck was right to do that because the Dolphins were gonna twist him up for good it seemed.
Look for more of the same - this is the perfect storm.
A home crowd - it seems like we are playing with house money as if we have less to lose then they do - in years past when we have been able to hit them hard with a big running back they have crumbled.
Expect more of the same -
Let this be the beginning of the end of the patriots dominance over the Dolphins as we take a giant step towards changing the power balance in the AFC East - for good!
