QUOTE(antigravity @ Jun 4 2007, 11:25 PM) [snapback]1709453[/snapback]
How can anyone actually get excited for their team this season when we all know my Patriots are going to dominate?
Careful, bad karma can go a loooooooooooong way if you invite it, and remember, as great as The Pats are, they're only one freak knee-injury from an 8-8 or 6-10 season. Dan Marino tore his achilles tendon in 1993 and was untouched, strange things can happen, they were heavily favored to win they're division that year and possibly make a Superbowl run....they lost they're final 5 games and missed the playoffs.
I don't think I can remember a team that was considered such a preseason shoe-in to be the AFC representative in the Superbowl, which is why I think that anything less will be considered a COLOSSAL failure on they're part, that's ALOT of pressure to have to shoulder.
I'm a Dolphins fan, have been for some time(since I was old enough to understand and play the game), and I seem to remember in 1994-95(Don Shulas last year as head coach before he was run-off and replaced by Jimmy Johnson) when The Fins tried to "buy" a championship by buying-up contracts left and right...Eric Green, Steve Emntman, Dan Mcguire, etc.....all it ended-up being was a collection of "guys" with talent, not a team, and they ended-up getting booted right outta the playoffs by The Bill in the opening round, a MAJOR disappointment, even as great as Marino and Shula were, even they couldn't make a team outta those guys with only a year together. As great as Tom Brady is, he's gonna need time to get acclimated to his new receivers, something that you truly can't do in the preseason alone...it'll be a work in progress in the regular season. By the way, are The Pats gonna actually pay Asante Samuel, or are they gonna do another Deion Branch with him?