Chameleons

I would like to know what it was Sergio Brown said or did to Rob Gronkowski because I never want to say or do that. You know, just in case Rob Gronkowski is standing right behind me and I didn't notice.

Gronk blocking Sergio Brown into a camera stanchion was such a quintessential football moment. It’s too bad the camera was set up there. I think Gronk might've taken Brown all the way up the tunnel if the camera stanchion hadn't stopped him. If you've ever played the game at any level I think you've seen one player absolutely destroy another in a blocking drill. There’s usually some context to these moments. Maybe the coaches are out of control, barking incomprehensibly, spit flying everywhere, it's hot, it's the second of two-a-days, you’re on your second or third time through the drill (you've lost count) and any semblance of humanity has been lost. You've been reduced to your primeval essence. You want to kill and eat the kid across from you. Sometimes the kid who gets rolled has it coming, sometimes it's just the luck of the draw with the fourth-string running back lining up against the starting right tackle. Either way, it's hilarious.

Opus 382

I don’t know what bothers me more; the haters or the bandwagon jumpers.

The haters are annoying but ultimately pathetic and certainly doomed if it’s true that whatever you put out into the universe comes back to you tenfold. That’s a hate-filled Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing 600 pounds. It is, as they say, a pretty big Twinkie.

The bandwagon jumpers are also annoying. And unctuous. Whenever I’m around bandwagon jumpers I find myself checking my pocket for my wallet every few minutes and I don’t even care if they’re offering to buy me a drink, which is, of course, the very least they could do.

Hello?

Thirsty man, here!

Can't Wait To See What Happens Next

Seven wins won’t get you much in this league.

Word.

Bettah

Got to admit, I did not see that coming. Not 43-21.

Players Play

Anything can happen. I admit, I didn’t feel that way a month ago. A month ago this looked like a blowout loss at home. No chance. No hope. After the loss to the Chiefs, it wasn’t just the 2014 season that was over, Brady was over, Belichick was over and the New England Patriots could only hope that Jimmy Garoppolo would be ready for opening day 2015. Today? There’s a chance. It won’t be easy, not without Jerod Mayo and Chandler Jones, but there’s a chance.

Four weeks ago we’d all forgotten something we should never have forgotten.

Never count out Tom Brady.

Or Bill Belichick.

They Will Write Books About This

Brady Manning Brady Manning Manning Manning Brady Manning Brady Brady Manning Manning Peyton Brady Manning Brady Brady Manning Eli? Manning Peyton! Manning Brady Brady Manning Manning Brady Manning Brady Brady Brady…

Hey, did you hear that Peyton Manning and Tom Brady a facing off again this Sunday?

No?

Yeah, it’s like a total thing.

Rising to the Moment

Some of us seem genetically predisposed to rise to the occasion. The rest of us must’ve missed that particular nucleotide. Tom Brady must’ve been James Bond in another lifetime. He certainly played this past Sunday like he had a license to kill.