THERE NOT WHO YOU THINK THEY ARE! 5 Reasons why the N.E. Patriots WON'T win like you think they'll win

"If you wanna crown 'em then just crown their ass!" Spoken so eloquently by former Arizona Cardinal coach Dennis Green here in this YouTube clip. Green was so irate because his football team squandered a 20 point second half lead in front of a Monday night crowd.

As hilarious as his outburst was, I can empathize with his discontent. He gets especially angry because he feels that the reporters questioning him are already assuming that DA Bears won the Super Bowl. When in actuality they just beat a horribly coached football team with a putrid offensive line. In football, there are always plays, halves, games, and seasons are literally decided by "inches". Many people would agree that football is the most competitive sport, in terms of how closely matched every team is. Appropriately proven by that Monday night game, where an abysmal Cardinals team completely outplayed an undefeated, and eventual NFC Champ.

SO WHY WOULD ANYONE AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME that the New England Patriots can breeze through the AFC East to eventually play and win in the Super Bowl. I admit, it isn't preposterous to concede that it certainly is possible, but with every team having the same goal, you can't crown them until you have an adequate sample of data is presented to base your assumption on. The only way to get an adequate sample of data is to actually watch them fuckin play a few games. I understand the reasons why everyone (ESPN, annoying Boston sports people, novice football fans, etc.) THINKS that they are going to plow through everyone. Free agent acquisitions, Belichick, Brady, misconceptions of a dynasty, all contribute to peoples reasonings on why they are so convinced that the Pats are going to dominate this year. But let me let you in on a little secret.....THEY'RE NOT. Here's 4 reasons why.

1) Randy Moss is a cancer. As talented as he is, or should I say as talented as he has should been, he has always caused headaches for his QB's, complained if he didn't get good stats, and been an overall distraction to the team. Yes he is a gifted athlete, but this is his 10th year in the league, its not like he is a kicker, 10 years is a lot for any player and he WILL start to show his age. He will be effective but don't expect the dominance he showed in the past. He, and fellow brittle teammate Dante Stallworth, are a couple of Ed Reed hits away from being out for the season.

2) Defensive Backs This is pending whether or not Asante Samuel ever accepts the Patriots franchise tag offer, but even if he does then their secondary doesn't frighten me at all. Rodney Harrison hasn't been the same since a devastating knee injury. Eugene Wilson hasn't been good in 3 years and Randall Gay's name speaks for itself. Oh yeah then you have the hot-headed rookie, Meriweather, who spearheaded the worst Miami U defense in a decade and will bite on the first 6 pump fakes he sees.

3) Skill Position Back Ups Lets face it, arguably the two most important positions in football are the running back and Quarterback. Lawrence Maroney is in his second year, where historically, RB's are prone to injury and/or a fall off. If he gets nicked up, then Kevin Faulk will be getting the carries. Although Faulk has had a decent career, he is hardly a game changer, actually he isn't a game changer the least bit. And even mutter the words "Tom Brady is out for the season" and you would bigger outrage than if Bill Buckner and Bucky Dent bought the Celtics and moved them to Long Island.

4) Parody Does anything ever happen like its supposed to in the NFL? No, ask ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury what happened to the Panthers last year. The guy acts like he knows what he is talking about but he hasn't picked a team in 5 years. Ask Peter King, celebrated writer for Sports Illustrated, what happened to his 2004 preseason Super Bowl prediction, Jaguars vs. Bucs. Neither team got even close to making the playoffs. What about the Colts last year? They had a horrid defense for the first half of the year until for no apparent reason. Pretty much everyone was convinced that they had no chance to make a run. What happened? Their defense was the catalyst that propelled them to become Champs.

5) Colts, Jets, Ravens, Chargers, Bengals and Steelers All these teams are fully capable of beating the Pats on any field on any given Sunday.

Whats the point you ask? There really isn't any. They could be right and the Patriots could go on and be a great team. The only problem with that is that they are usually wrong and until that first kickoff occurs, then each team has the same record. So enough of the Brady love fest and the Belichick Hall of Fame talk cause I am tired of it. Each guy is another number, each game is another game, and each inch is another inch. Besides, "We play to win the game!" I miss old Herms sound bites...