This is how I choose to remember the 2011 Patriots

The 2011 Patriots will slowly come fully into focus over the next few days. While it would be easy to get depressed about the end this was another special season filled with record-breaking performances,  AFC East and AFC Conference championships, and a tight Super Bowl that went down to the end.

Maybe it’s because we already lost a Super Bowl to the Giants that today’s feeling isn’t that entirely novel. Of course there will be much overreaction to this loss, but a couple of missed plays won’t alter the Patriots approach to team-building, and the have the draft picks and cap space to improve the team.

We’ll begin to turn the page to the off-season, beginning first with evaluating the internal free agents the Patriots must make decisions on, then slowly making our way to external free agents and the draft.