Many in Patriots Nation are probably wondering today how the Pats could possibly look so atrocious against the Cleveland Browns yesterday. For a team that some called the best in the NFL just days before this Patriots team looked lost in a sea of confusion and poor execution. Sure, you could point to poor tackling, an inability to stop Peyton Hillis or a completely ineffective offense. But the truth as to why the Patriots looked like the worst team in the NFL yesterday is actually something completely unexpected.
I, Patriots fan blogger Mike Dussault, didn’t wear my white authentic Tom Brady jersey yesterday.
I could’ve not mentioned anything, no one would’ve really known, but I feel I owe it to the team and the fans to come clean.
You see I was in Boston this weekend for Blogapalooza and while packing for the trip I assumed that my 2010 lucky hat would suffice in covering the Pats for a good performance. I didn’t want to stuff my cherished white Brady into an already over-stuffed bag.
Choosing which jersey is the lucky one for a season is an art form. I knew the white Brady was the magic one after wearing it week one, but then giving my silver Moss a try against the Jets. Bad move. I went back to the white Brady for the Bills game and haven’t looked back since. Until that fateful packing decision.
How else can you explain the each and every Patriot being so useless yesterday? In most cases a few players can have bad games, but never do you see something like we witnessed yesterday without some kind of powerful, mystical forces at work. Forces like someone not wearing their lucky schwag for the game.
While the rest of Patriots Nation was putting on their trusted uniforms that had worked flawlessly the past five games, I was putting on this awesome TFB t-shirt…
(Get yours at townienews.com)
I don’t want to take anything away from this tshirt, because clearly it’s the most badass Patriots tshirt on the planet and I have no doubt that when working in conjunction with my white Brady jersey it will bring many, many wins. But yesterday it was unable to handle the task alone.
Please do not blame players like Rob Gronkowski, even though on the surface it might look like Gronk alone cost us at least a 14-point swing. It was all Mike D.
And don’t blame a horrible week of practice. If I had just done my job like Coach Belichick preaches, it would not have mattered.
It feels good to get this off my chest. To come clean and claim responsibility for what was clearly the ugliest loss since that game that happened last January that people told me was pretty gruesome (I blocked it out).
So to the New England Patriots organization and fans I would like to express my true and sincere apologies. Never again this season will I be without the white Brady jersey and 2010 fitted gray hat. That is my fan uniform this year and I will not deviate again.