Funk Chowder

As I watch the the talking heads on ESPN dissect the Pats/Rams preseason tune-up, I waited and waited for the glaring story from the game.

We got roughly 74 hours worth of Tom Brady to Randy Moss analysis sprinkled with a healthy dose of Rob Gronkowski. Clearly the Pats put on a scoring display.

I guess I was the only one who noticed that every time NE scored they were still losing.

This is the 3rd preseason game where the starters and seconds play well into the second half. The Ram starters, minus Donnie Avery and with rookie Bradford, went into the half up 20-14 and went up 27-14 in the third before winning 36-35. Hell, the Pats even got a special teams TD and never went on top.

I've seen nothing that leads me to believe that NE is any different than last years frauds. Will the offense be good? Sure, except it won't have a running game and Brady is going to take a lotta hits. As we saw last year, you can't just outscore everyone playing in Foxboro, Buffalo and New York all year. You need a stout D and at least a little ability to play ball control. Right now they can't do either and the Rams spanked em.

Deconstructing Bill

Last nights Pats-Colts game could not have gone much better. Bellicheat blows and easy one, Tom Brady takes the loss and if you took the Pats plus the points, you still won. If there was a way to remove a Manning win from the equation, everything would have been perfect. Either way, it was good times all around.

I must say though, the post game analysis leaves something to be desired. Everybody seems to be a hammering Bill on going for it, arguing the spot or beating a dead horse about blown timeouts.

The spot and the decision to go for it were both fine. The timeouts were indefensible but it shouldn't have mattered.

The only problem was the play called.

If you have a chance to put away the Colts by gaining two yards, you have to take it. No way Manning wasn't going to score after the punt. If you're going to man up and go for the win though, how about you call a play that is designed to get you, oh I don't know, three, four yards instead of 2 yards two inches? Seriously, the best you can come up with is a 2 yard out to Kevin Faulk? Does Wes Welker not no how to run a quick out? Maybe a play action pass to Moss?

If you're going to stake a game on one play you simply cannot cut it that close and count on a octogenarian running back to make the play, especially when Indianapolis was crowding the line looking for the quick snap and toss. That's just a little too cute Bellichek, lets hope nobody was stealing tape on that call.