No matter how hard I try, it is almost impossible to spot a shred of a bright side as if you were being blindfolded and locked in a shed on the dark side of Pluto at midnight during an eclipse. Consider the current edition of the Patriots have:
Given up 69 unanswered points.
A total failure to score a touchdown on 33 straight possessions and just to make it clear, you cannot win let alone score just by having possession for a long period of time..
–Can’t pass protect:
And the defensive downfall against a below average offense of the New Orleans Saints was mind-blowing
–Watched players they either tried and failed to acquire or gave up on outperforming everyone on their offense:
–And are generally having this consistent difficulty recovering from the post-Brady era
And just to rub it in, after losing their two best players last week, this week the following starters failed to finish the game: Michael Onwenu, Demario Douglas, Juju Smith-Schuster, Jabrill Peppers, and Ju’Whaun Bentley. Meaning are appreciably worse off at the end of two utterly non-competitive losses that represent the worst game of Bill Belichick’s 24 years in Foxboro than they were at kickoff of the first one.
This should indicate we are far from seeing the worst this current team can offer. And I say this as a guy who is probably the last survivor of Optimism Island. I’ve tried to hang in there. But I’m left with no choice but to shut the lights off and grab the last boat out.
The next week is going to take a lot of thought and mind reset to recover from this loss both emotionally and mentally because writing these words has been nothing less than a slow eternal agony