The unsung Pat heroes...
Okay, maybe they've been sung about a little bit, but the real driving force behind the Patriots' success has been...the offensive line.
Without that offensive line, sure, Brady would still be completing passes, but he wouldn't be blowing people out and making a run for the record books. This is an offensive line so good it can make Eckel, a fourth-string running back, look as good as Maroney.
And the time they give Brady is unbelievable. And when you give Brady time, you are fucked, pardon my French.
All good coaches know that building a great team starts and ends with putting together a great offensive line. And New England's is, right now, the best O-line in the NFL. Sure, they're big, hunking galoots, and they don't get their names in the paper all the time, but they're the ones in the trenches really winning this game for the Pats.
The same goes for the defensive lineman, who are putting on a great rush, stopping the run, and holding up the line enough so linebackers on a mission from Hell have the time and room to make the play. Vince Wilfork is a force.
Still, though, ask me to put together a football team, and I'm going to start by building an offensive line. And there simply isn't a better one in the league than New England's.
posted by Kip Lange @ 11:16 AM
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Kip,
I read the blog on a regular basis and have learned to deal with your tiresome ball-licking of everything Patriots. However, how about dedicating at least a little blurb to the pathetic Cal Bears season. From what I understand, you went to this prestigious university and given your seemingly extensive knowledge of football, I would figure that you might have something to say about this abomination.
Maybe I'm off base and maybe you attended Stanfurd, but I find it hard to believe that a seemingly heterosexual male (no disrespect intended for homosexuals, I have just heard Stanfurd referred to on more than one occasion as "gay") like yourself would attend such an institution.
I think all of your readers would enjoy a small piece on the shortcomings of the pathetic Cal football program to reassure us that you are aware of your roots and are not a bandwagoner...
Thanks Kip and one more thing - U.S.A. (repeat several times, preferably at high decibels after drinking in a public place).
First, let's deal with your Patriot-inferiority complex. It's not ball-licking when they're about the best team to have every played the game. Maybe the Ravens will prove me wrong tonight, after all, the spread against them is a mere 27 points. ;-)
Second, it's spelled "Stanford". And Stanford is gay.
But I'm not going to defend the Bears. Although I will note that Nate Longshore got injured. Hell, did you see the one game where they could have snagged the #1 ranking spot and all the QB had to do to was throw the damn ball out of bounds and instead he runs for it?
That was sad.
The Bears disappoint me every year, what can I say? Ever year we start out looking like serious contenders, and then we get dropped on our asses.
Although I assume you agree with me that the year Texas sucked up to the BCS and Cal didn't go to the Rose Bowl because of it was a travesty.
I'm not posting anything about the Bears right now because the Cal Bears do not deserve a post.
You really thought I was going to defend them? I've got more respect for those stupid-ass hippie tree-sitters than I do for the team at this point.
I will, however, be rooting for them next year, again, because that's what I do, before they prove they suck once again.
Oh and one other thing -- Stanford may suck, and Cal may suck, but the goddamned USC Trojans are fucking minions from hell. I really, really hate the University of Spoiled Children. It's beyond gay. It's supercalifragilisticexpialadociously gay.
I hate USC, I hate people who attended USC, I hate everybody associated with USC except for one person there whose name I won't mention to protection his/her safety from the general suckage that is USC.
God, I hate USC.
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