Metric This

“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”

-Mark Twain

“Stats are for losers.”

-Bill Belichick

Bill Belichick is a secret stat nerd. He just doesn’t want you to know it. I get it. It’s complicated. But I like to keep things simple. As Belichick himself has acknowledged, there is one stat that matters; points.

Rooting Interests

We’ve reached that point in the season where I care almost as much about other teams losing as I do about the Patriots winning.

Almost…

I'm On To San Francisco

Look, I get it. Dallas looked like Godzilla in the Tokyo financial district in the win over Pittsburgh. Then Tom Brady couldn’t overcome the ennui and Gronk couldn’t make a catch playing with a punctured lung and the Patriots had lost their second home game. It was… disconcerting. At the end of the day they simply didn’t play well enough to beat a team as good as the Seattle Seahawks. Maybe it’s a good thing. A Zen slap. An icy cold glass of wait-what? The proverbial wake-up call. Maybe it will be good in the long run...

On to San Francisco!

I'm Trying

I’m trying. I’m not sure I’ll ever get to acceptance. Too many thoughts I doubt I can ever reconcile…

The Perfect Distraction

Yeah, I’m not going to talk about it. The thing. You know. The thing. We’re on to… who the hell knows, really? But I bought the ticket a long time ago. I’ll take the ride.

Where was I? Oh, right. We’re on to Seattle.

Narrative Seeking

As we hit the halfway mark in the season, there are a few storylines I’m tracking. Well, it’s more that I’m narrative seeking than narrative tracking. After all, anything can happen in this crazy pigskin world…

Something Special

I’m about to get way ahead of myself here but I’m not the only one. National pigskin pundits and bobbleheads have ceded the AFC to the Patriots and started wondering if there’s a team that has a chance to beat them in the Super Bowl. The calculus of the statistically minded says Tom Brady has never been better. Local fanboys have noted the 2016 team is as Patrioty as any Patriots team ever.

Yeah, I’m going to go out on a limb here. I think we’re watching something special happen.