Tom Brady is Hawt!!! (but not like that...)

Yeah, maybe I have a man-crush on Tom Brady. Big whoop, wanna fight about it? Deep down all men do. If you say you do not, you are lying. And if you say you are not lying...you are lying. After this beatdown the Patriots are currently putting on the Bears, Brady is going to be the clear cut MVP frontrunner and there is no argument for anyone else. What he has done this year is currently unmatched and it is uncanny how he continues to win despite the turnover in the Patriots organization. 

 

Sorry, I digress. I wanted to talk about how good the Patriots are as a whole but I just got lost in Tom's eyes, as snow flurries in Chicago outline the defined curves of his firm, yet gentle and precise body. Powerful but understanding mind and....whoa I just lost consciousness and kept typing. I am very sorry. It will not happen again...

OK. Here we go. I am going to try to explain to you why the Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl, without mentioning his name, even though that might be a futile effort. I always try to look at who a team has beat, where they beat them and in what conditions. And the Patriots are going to end up with the best record in the AFC while playing one of the toughest schedules. That is a recipe for playoff success. Their young defense, which was thought to be their weakness this year has been looking like the 1985 Bears. Bill Belichick's defense schemes and ideas are second to none. Belichick is arguably one of the greatest head coaches ever and he gets even better in the playoffs (15-4). He continues to make average players look elite year in and year out, with his methodical and aggressive game plans. He is the biggest reason why the Patriots are who they are. 

 

And I did not even mention the fact that the Pats are going to have homefield advantage throughout the playoffs, and that Tom Brady has not lost a home start since like 1873 or something (well I tried not to mention him but alas, I could not help myself). 

 

All I am saying is this: pay attention to what is going on in New England right now. I am saddened that I did not get to experience what it was like during the Steelers dynasty in the 1970s or the 49ers' dominance in the 1980s. And whether I liked it or not, the Cowboys in the 1990s were one of the greatest teams in the history of the NFL and they were must see TV. What the Patriots have done the last ten years and are continuing to do now is something you are going to want to remember because this kind of greatness does not happen often. This current Patriots team is a dynasty if you were having trouble figuring it out and you need to pay attention because this is what every team in the NFL is striving to be.

P.S. Te amo, Tom...

Michael Vick for M.V.P.????

   Yes those are questions marks in the title. The question marks are there because I would like to question the statement before it. Never have I seen NFL fans become so reactionary over one game. Never have I seen fans want something to happen so badly. Maybe that is just the nature of our society. We forgive and forget and want underdogs to succeed and in Vicks case, be redeemed. Yes Michael Vick beat the Redskins two Mondays ago. Yes he beat them bad. He beat them very bad...like really bad. If you did not see it, Vick went left, the 'skins went right, then the game was over. A simple 85 yd flick to begin the game and it was over. But when you get down to it, he beat a bad team on a bad day.

   The problem with Michael Vick giving the M.V.P. is that he is not even in second in the M.V.P. voting. Since that game, people everywhere have been handing the M.V.P. to him like Philip Rivers did not exist. And I would argue that Tom Brady would finish second in the voting right now. If your tallest receiver is Wes Welker and you rely on a 6-yr old boy named Danny Woodhead, game in and game out and you are still 9-2, you get the M.V.P......uhh if Rivers was not doing what he is doing. I could sit here and spew out a bunch of stats but I will not. We all know Rivers is going to break Marino's season yardage record. And once again, he has started a late season run right on cue. He is doing more with nothing. And him and that nothing are going to come back and win the revived AFC West. If you could name the receivers the Chargers were going to have other than Malcolm Floyd, Antonio Gates and Vincent Jackson before the season started, I would have slapped yo mama in the face for raising a liar. What makes Rivers' year so great is that Gates has missed the last several games with injury, Jackson was a hold out and is going to play his first game this week and on top of it all, the Chargers first round draft pick Ryan Mathews has been injured most of the season and they have been relying on undersized Darren Sproles and someone named Mike Tolbert to run the ball. (Incidentally, if you cut Tolbert in half, you would get two Darren Sproles) I still do not know who their receivers are. One of them is a TUTU or something??

   The lesson is this: we again need to separate what we want to happen from what is happening. Look, I am a football fan. I am a Michael Vick fan. I want him to be redeemed and to succeed just has much as the next guy, but that does not mean we can just ignore other greatness. The fact of the matter is that he missed three games but the Eagles still managed without him. In fact Kevin Kolb, the real starter, won two of those games. So you wonder how much of it was Vick and how much of it was really head coach Andy Reid. And the head coaching position is another point in Rivers' favor with the wailing idiot he has coaching him. Michael Vick has been very good this year, and who knows, maybe he will blow us all away these last six weeks and move in front of Rivers and Brady. But given how the Pats and Chargers play in December and January, do not count on it.

  As for my humble M.V.P. picks,

1. Philip Rivers. On top of all the stats and injured teammates, his team is in prime position for a division win
2. Tom Brady. What can I say. Year in and year out he wins. If he did not have Bill Belichick as head coach, he would be number one.
3. Michael Vick. You have seen the tape. You know what he can do. If he can do what he did to the Redskins a couple of more times, he might jump up the list.