PatsPropaganda

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Mike Dussault

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New England has the easiest remaining schedule in the NFL.

ESPN.com’s NFC West blogger Mike Sando recalculated the strength of schedule at midseason. The Patriots’ opposing win percentage in the final eight games is .369.

After Sunday’s game against New York, the Patriots play six of their final seven against teams without winning records. The Buffalo Bills are the only remaining opponent with a winning record – and the Patriots will get that rematch at Gillette Stadium.

The game this weekend is not must win for either team. If the Jets win they still won’t have much margin for error and can expect the Patriots to be breathing down their neck the rest of the way. Of course if the Patriots lose the fans of New England might just decide to eliminate the franchise, three straight losses don’t happen to geniuses. (Anyone seeing a trend today?)

https://www.patspropaganda.com/new-england-has-the-easiest-remaining-schedule-in/

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I think the Jets have been the better team in recent weeks, but I don’t think all the gloom and doom around the Patriots is reflective of a team that won’t show up. I expect the Patriots’ best effort and could envision a scenario where Tom Brady will play his best game of the season, the defense will rise up in the red zone again, and special teams will tighten up. I like the Jets’ mental toughness, but I also like the Patriots in that area. I think they get rewarded this week for hanging tough in tough times.

Mike Reiss summing up my feelings exactly.

https://www.patspropaganda.com/i-think-the-jets-have-been-the-better-team-in/

CHFF/Braig: Bill still knows defense

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CHFF/Braig: Bill still knows defense

Here’s a detailed article with some Patriots positivity in it. One thing I’d like to touch upon further that Braig does a great job of mentioning is the whole “genius” label. I found this little piece to be extremely well put:

Genius is a marketer’s brand that is as superficial as an iron-on alligator on a golf shirt.  Genius also is—as David Harris recognized in his biography of Bill Walsh entitled The Genius—a brand that inevitably will turn on the article—the coach’s knowledge—to which it is attached.
 
“Perhaps worst of all,” Harris wrote, “the [genius] label created a host of expectations that [Walsh] would have to meet or exceed simply to avoid being considered less than himself.”

I’m so sick of every time the Patriots lose a game or make a personnel mistake the boobirds come out with their “BUT BILL BELICHICK IS A GENIUS!!!”, sarcastically mocking him. It really annoys the crap out of me. There’s no doubt that superficial label has been used against Belichick for every misstep the organization has made over the last five years. As if a “genius” football coach should never lose…