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Reiss: Patriots look for identity vs. Raiders

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Reiss: Patriots look for identity vs. Raiders

The quarter point of the season is the time when you can start realistically assessing what you’ve got. What your problems are, what your areas of strength are. The Raiders provide an excellent test for this Patriots team. It will be a hostile road environment against a tough, physical team, while coming off a loss. We’ll have a real sense for where this Patriots team might be headed by Sunday night.

Here’s a nice nugget from Brian Waters.

“This is a good team, a very professional football team; very consistent, not an up-and-down, roller-coaster type atmosphere,” he said. “Every day you come in to work, the guys prepare. The first thing I noticed once I got here was how many guys were here on their days off. That can be hard to convince guys how important that is, and that’s something I noticed right away.”

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnyDUJMw6xg

I never like to generalize fans of any team. For every team in every sport (including my beloved Pats) there are delusional aholes, and there are rational fans who just enjoy rooting for their team.

With that said I’m getting the “Uncle Rico” vibe from *some* Raiders fans this week. As if the Tuck Rule is the only thing that held them back from being the dynasty the Patriots were.

“If only that fumble call had been upheld, we’d have beaten the Steelers, and then the Rams, and the Bucs the next year, and the Panthers in ‘03 and the Eagles in ’04…no doubt… not a doubt in my mind. Things woulda been different. We’d have won four straight Super Bowls. We’d all be making millions of dollars, living in big ole’ mansions somewhere with our soul mates…”

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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