And this is from a photojournalism subscription service, not Rex Ryan on ESPN’s morning show.
Even people with zero skin in the Patriots' game recognize what an undeniable goatfuck this team is.
For those of us who are emotionally invested in the Patriots, they’ve become unrecognizable.
It’s theParadox of Theseus' Ship.
In the normal course of business, Wednesday’s press availability doesn’t produce anything you’d consider blogworthy.
Belichick himself would spent his Hump Day presser extolling the virtues of the next opponent.
But rarely did anything of note ever come out of these midweek interviews.
Of course, this isn’t the normal course of business.
So with everything going, today figured to be one for the books.
And it didn’t disappoint.
Well, that’s not entirely true.
The one guy I wanted to hear from most is Ja’Lynn Polk.
He of the three dropped passes and one self-tacklization, tripping over the goal line on a 2-point try.
How he never seems to engage with his players during a game.
But he insisted that he does:
He clearly is not ready for this part of the job.
As someone on Twitter said, he makes more corrections than a 5th grade English teacher.
The question remains whether he’s ready for the other 999,999 parts of the job.
Some retired Patriots legends weighed in as well.
You dont need to be fast or do anything special to be tough.
The second part of that is: Why, Jerod?
Why is this team not tough?
How is he getting them ready to go?
Mayo and that staff have a lot of questions to answer going in the next week.
While longtime Belichick assistant Michael Lombardi is still nuking Mayo from orbit:
But not everyone is so negative.
Forgive me for taking that off ramp, because today is about the players currently on the active roster.
Beginning with Kayshon Boutte, Hunter Henry, Deatrich Wise Jr and Keion White.
All of whom seemed to agree with their coach:
Truth is a defense against libel, I guess.
So what’s the bottom line to all this?
Sitting here now, in the middle of the week, it sounds like this an external problem.
One that isn’t a problem inside the building.
The proof of who’s right will come on Sunday.
