The Encore

The second start of Jimmy Garoppolo’s career was going to be the biggest. Of course, that was because we thought it would be coming off a loss. And because it’s a divisional game. At home. You can’t lose a divisional home game. Well, unless you’re the Buffalo Bills. Then you absolutely can do that. If we’re being honest, we all thought 3-1-0 was the best case scenario for Jimmy G. 3-1-0? We were going to be happy with 2-2-0. The Pats would lose in Arizona and they’d lose on a short week to the Texans. But they had to win the divisional games against Miami and Buffalo. They had to. That’s why Week 2 was going to be so important.

It still is.

Plan B Planning

Okay, I'm still hopeful the NFL's appeal of Judge Berman's judgment in favor of Tom Brady and Deflategate will fail. I'm not counting on that coming down to a lawyer being found to be lying. (Not exactly man bites dog.) Or science. The last science class most of us took was our junior year in high school and we were happy to get out alive with C-.

Recognizing that justice and the law are at best distant cousins, my hopefulness for Tom Brady playing all 16 has a palpable shadow.

This morning, I hit up YouTube for Jimmy Garoppolo highlights.

Here's what struck me.