Great day at camp yesterday and the excitement for the 2017 season was palpable. No visit to Gillette today for me, but I’ll have the old “Tweets of Note” later this morning to keep us all in the loop of what went down. I am planning on a fan visit tomorrow and the Sunday I’ll be attending practice as a credentialed member of the media (gulp).
I had to take this morning wake up call to briefly comment on all the 19-0 talk that has been the latest fad in Patriots media coverage because if there’s one thing 2007 taught us, losses are often necessary and can be a good thing.
The 2007 team really should’ve lost at least two games — one to the Ravens and one to the Eagles. They were far from their dominant selves for most of those contests, only putting together enough plays and benefitting off a Ravens meltdown, to miraculously pull off both.
In hindsight a loss in one or both of those games would’ve taken off enormous pressure. By the time the Pats got to Super Bowl 42 they were limping. Their practices in Arizona were terrible and they were a shell of the dominant team that we saw in September and October.
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