t’s weeks like this one that make it fun to be a football fan. If you only allow yourself to truly get excited about playoff games you’re really missing out. That’s why seasons like 2008, when the Patriots traveled through a warm, cuddly schedule of the NFC and AFC West divisions that made an 11-5 record sans Tom Brady possible, was never really that exciting. Not just because Matt Cassel was playing QB.
This year there is no rest for the wicked young Patriots. We’ve already been beaten over the head with lowlights of the Ravens mopping the field turf of Gillette Stadium with the Welker-less Pats but now it is time to write a new chapter of an emerging Baltimore-New England rivalry.
If there had to be a consensus best team in the NFL right now at week six, the Ravens would be it. However they are not a perfect football team just yet.
It won’t be easy, but the Patriots could pull this one off and answer a great many questions that are currently swirling around this team. The game plan after the jump…