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Blogging Reflections on the 2007 Pats

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A couple really good and long pieces reflecting upon the 2007 Patriots popped up yesterday — one from The Ringer’s Kevin Clark, the other from ESPN’s Bill Barnwell. I suggest you check both out, assuming you’ve gotten over 18-1 in the last 10 years. I know I have, two Super Bowl wins certainly helped.

I thought it was a good chance to do some reflecting myself, without getting into the nitty gritty that Clark and Barnwell do, instead focusing more on what it was like to be a Patriots fan that season, and how that season gave birth to the very blog you’re reading right now.

I can’t talk about 2007 without first talking about 2006. 2006 was the year I truly became Pats obsessed. I think it was because they lost their first playoff game in Denver that year and suddenly it dawned on me that Brady-Belichick had a long road ahead of them, but a finite number chances to win more Super Bowls.

So in 2006, I made my first trip back home to see them live, hitting up the opener against the Bills. My sister Mary and I were so excited to get down to Foxboro we ended up in an empty parking lot just as the gates opened with nothing more than a case of beer and a tennis ball. Still, it was a glorious day that saw the Bills score a touchdown before we even made it to our nosebleed seats.

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The Patriots Aren’t Going Undefeated…and that’s okay.

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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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Despite losing the Super Bowl, the 2007 Patriots rank first all-time by Elo — in fact, they’re the only team with a composite rating higher than 1800. The 2004 Pats are right behind them in second place; those two editions of the Patriots are the only teams in pro football history to end a season with an Elo of more than 1800. Many readers will doubtless slap an asterisk on their accomplishments, what with Spygate, Deflategate, Radiogate and the like. But in the sense of pure statistical dominance, Elo says the best Patriots teams have no historical equal.8

The Best NFL Teams Of All Time, According To Elo | FiveThirtyEight

Still waiting for the NFL Film’s Missing Rings 2007 Patriots edition. No loss can ever top that loss, but you still have to love the 2007 Patriots’ epic ride. So many personal things came from that season for me, this blog would certainly not exist if it hadn’t been for that team and Spygate and everything else that happened that year. So I try to see the silver lining of the 2007 Patriots, and it certainly stings just a tiny bit less after 2014.

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2007 New England Patriots: The Pursuit of Perfection [HD] – YouTube

Why not? I know I’m in the minority but the 16-0 banner doesn’t really bother me. 2007 was an epic trip and yes it came to crash landing at the end, but no one’s gone 16-0 except that team and I think it counts for something. Are the Super Bowl champs the only team that ever gets to really celebrate? If that’s true then why hang division or conference title banners (or runner up banners, Colts)? Even though the Patriots didn’t win every Super Bowl of the last 15 years, there’s tons of awesome sprinkled throughout that entire run and 16-0 was my favorite non-Lombardi winning of all them.

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