Nobody Likes You

The Patriots "underdog" mentality has been less than charitably described as bullshit by pigskin pundits and bobbleheads.

The money guys have made New England 2.5-point favorites, so, not underdogs as far as that goes. ESPN's FPI says Los Angeles has a 52% chance of winning but pigskin pundits and bobbleheads favor the Patriots 6 to 4. I've got to think some of those picking the Pats are working a reverse jynx but even so… underdogs?

Maybe it's really just semantics.

Almost There

Which one of Sean McVay's weapons will Bill Belichick try to take away? Is the most important match up in SB53 Josh McDaniels vs. Wade Phillips? The Patriots O-Line vs. the Rams D-Line? Millennials vs. their dads? Is this finally the end of the New England Hegemony? (Sorry, but we're way past Dynasty at this point.) Will Tom Brady live forever?

My gridiron sensibilities have been assaulted by a double A-gap blitz of rumors, assumptions, numbers, graphs, Madden simulations, positional breakdowns, expert predictions, and failed attempts to humanize Ndamukong Suh. Despite the relentless efforts of pigskin pundits and bobbleheads to tell me everything about SB53, I now feel like I know nothing.

Same as it ever was.

We Don't Know But We Will Find Out

Did you know a home defibrillator is just $1,275?

I Hear You

It's been nearly a week.

I'm still amazed.

On The Road To History

Pinch me.

Wait - No! If this is a dream I don't want to wake up.

Underdogging

There's no need to fear! The underdogs are here!

Cliff or Cliffhanger

I feel like I've spent the last two weeks with my pigskin head in a vise. And every day it got a quarter turn tighter…