Everybody Pat Chung Tonight

Patrick Chung’s return has been greeted by equal parts wishful thinking and desultory indifference. The optimistic view is that with Devin McCourty at free safety and the Pats playing Cover 1, Chung will be more effective playing in the box. Chung can pick up some of the slack from Brandon Spikes departure and with Jamie Collins able to cover tight ends, Chung could add to the pass rush with a well-timed blitz. Or Chung is just a camp body who will be lucky to make the final 53.

The Manzielian Candidate

If there’s an upside to being seen as a devious underhanded cold calculating imp of Satan it’s that over time, your competitors see you as even more devious and underhanded and cold and calculating an imp of Satan than you actually are. Your every move is viewed with suspicion, deconstructed and analyzed, scrutinized. Feared.

Putting the Band Back Together

Cooler heads don’t always prevail. Thankfully, this time they did. Big Vince will be back in 2014.

Waiting By The Telephone

So, I guess I understand how women feel waiting for that call after the first date. The first week of free agency was amazing and it seemed to promise so much more. And then? Nothing. Why doesn’t he call?

Big and Tall

Wait, what? Kenny Britt is still coming to Foxborough?

There's No Place Like Home

Who are you and what have you done with the real Bill Belichick?

A Change is Gonna Come

It’s been a crazy 48 hours, compounded by the fact that I’ve suffered through a brutal head cold. Sinus pressure and pain that brought me quite literally to tears. In between a dry unproductive hacking cough I thought would turn my face inside out. Yuck! The loss of Talib, the signing of Revis followed hard by Wilfork’s request to be released. There would be no restructuring of Big Vince’s contract, no cap relief. I’m reminded once again that everything ends badly or else it wouldn’t end.