Is Belichick ready for Shady Pines? No.

Now everybody and their mom knows America and it’s National Football League love hyperbole as much as apple pie, cheep ammunition and jail bait, but all this fallout is two degrees South of ridiculous.  Does going for it on a fourth and two mean your coach is a lunatic in charge a nuclear submarine? Does it mean he’s blinded by hubris?  Does it mean he’s secretly in cahoots with the Governor of Indiana? NO, what it means is your coach has balls.  He has a quarterback that has done the impossible over and over again, he has an offense he feels better about than his defense, and he has balls.  He didn’t make the easy decision, and taking a risk ended up biting him in the ass big time, the risk didn’t pan out.  Oh well, there’s next Sunday to worry about, back to the drawing board.  If football fans in Massachusetts start pining for a coach who calls the game according to Hoyle, then they should have to give their last three championships back because you don’t get the sort of dynasty they’ve enjoyed this decade when your team is run by a bunch of pansies.  

I feel their pain, losing to the Colts is a hard thing for Pats fans to do, but losing a big game midseason does not constitute grounds for a mutiny.  First place in the AFC east is a lock unless Miami recruits God for the second half of the season, and everybody knows God is backing New Orleans this year.  Life as you know it is not over and baring some sort of 2012 disaster canceling the season these two teams have a rematch on the dance card in two months.  Stand by your man for Pete’s sake.   There, I’m finished.

The future tastes easy for the victors, and after the confidence boost that was Sunday Night they would have to set the spread at triple digits to keep the Colts from beating it against the on-again off-again Ravens.  If there’s any defense in the entire league that can solve Manning for 4 quarters of football, Baltimore ain’t it.

The Patriots meanwhile can lick their wounds and think about taking out all their embarrassment on their next opponent.  I expect Mr. Sanchez and his Jets are going to get to know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of a sixty minute, bitter, no nonsense shitkicking.