Hope Floats Like A Butterfly

Hope is a funny thing. Funny strange, not funny ha-ha. Or maybe both. Boldly stating that Aaron Dobson can provide a legitimate deep threat as some kind of mojo inducing incantation may have your friends saying, "Really? Do we even need a deep threat? We just won a Super Bowl, you know. Are you drunk right now?" but if you think out loud that Josh Boyce could start in the slot over Danny Amendola and be a YAC machine well that's hilarious.

And, okay, I am a little drunk right now.

Taking No Pigskin Prisoners

Deflategate is already in Bill Belichick's rear view. Tom Brady hasn't missed a workout while dealing with his appeal. It may be true that no one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills but it's clear that nobody compartmentalizes off the field distractions like the Patriots.

This is starting to remind me of 2007. I guess the big question is, who's the Randy Moss of 2015?

I'm Looking At You

Despite the usual Belichickian flourishes, the consensus amongst the gridiron cognoscenti is that New England put together a solid 2015 draft class. Undrafted free agents have been signed and while anything can happen in this crazy world, I think what you see today is pretty much what we'll see in September.

Speculating

It seems the good citizens of Patriots Nation have lost their collective shit. Suddenly, the football players on the New England roster – the team that just won the Super Bowl – aren't any good, at least not as good as all the football players on the rosters of the Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins and New York Jets. Those teams have all taken a step up and the Patriots have taken a step down. In case you forgot, they were lucky to win the Super Bowl. They're doomed. Might as well not even show up because why bother? Even the most optimistic of pigskin pundits and bobbleheads believe the Pats will struggle to win the AFC East in 2015. Super Bowl 50? Don't even go there. Don't even. Don't.

The good news? There isn't another franchise in the NFL that plays better with a chip on their shoulder than the New England Patriots.