NFL ASSKISS: YUP, WE WUZZ WRONG: AND SO WERE YOU: HOW WE ALL LOST THE PLOT IN A WILD, DELUSIONAL DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF ROUND

CHARGERS  V. PATRIOTS
     Gimme the name of the creep who claims they saw this one coming: an absolute James White-led beat down, with Patriots tight end Gronkowski sealing outrageously solid edge blocks for big time runs for the Patriots and also making 3rd down catches? When is the last time we saw this? Oh yeah...last time they were charging to another Super Bowl....
     The Chargers offense recycled the ball back to New England nonstop, exposing their James White-gashed defense. They were barely able to collect themselves and make any adjustments on the sidelines, by the time they were rushed out and met the same exact fate: a long, brutal drive from Tom Brady's short passing game and heavy doses of Sony Michel, who tore it up for 129; then, huge numbers and moments from Julian Edelman, finally showing desire...no, the hunger I questioned before the game. He took a direct hit to the knee and the upper chest on a brilliant catch over the middle that sent Foxboro rocking. Before the Chargers could put points on the board themselves, James White nearly had 8 receptions (the former and potentially future Super Bowl hero would finish with a completely crazy 15 catches and 97 yards).

       And, with a young defense like the Chargers have, you need time to make adjustments with your coaches while your offense completes a 4 or 5 minute drive....
       I don't know if the Chargers came out flat, called the wrong plays on offense, or the penalties were killing them in big moments that turned 3rd and 5's into 3rd and 15's or worse.
       Perhaps all of the above.
       I thought Rivers was on a mission today, and maybe he was...but he was all alone in that effort if he was...
       Just like the delusional Cowboys fans who called Dak Prescott the "next Troy Aikman" with the "heart of George H.W Bush" and the "anger of Dick Cheney", yet with the "presence of Ted Nugent" all in one, yet with the "cool of Shug Night". We had to literally hear it all this week from these fiends...the Cowboys fans were everywhere mocking, boasting, laughing it up and celebrating this win over a listless Seattle team undergoing its own self-sabotage like it was the Super Bowl x10 to the 4th power of Christopher Lloyd's brain....we had to hear that Jerry Jones was the next "Jesus of the NFL" and "could be the first owner to be simultaneously the commissioner as well". Yet when all the dust clears, the boasting, the talk all of it dies and football: aka men crashing and flailing into each other's bodies, wins out and decides.
       Violence decides, you bastards.
        It eats us whole. And it is a humbling experience to watch your heroes get obliterated. I can remember RGIII getting his ACL torn to pieces on the rubbish, ice-ridden FedEx Field in the 2012 Wild Card game against the same Seahawks. It was a horrible moment. This wasn't like that for Phillip Rivers, but the obliteration, the humiliation, is just as wounding psychologically.

      Will it take Tom Brady retiring before Rivers for the Chargers to get passed the Patriots and to a Super Bowl???
       The Chargers offensive line was egregiously awful, too, allowing Phillip Rivers zero time in the pocket and letting him get roughed up habitually. Even still, there was a big drop from Mike Williams that could've put the Chargers on the Patriots 10 yard line, yet instead, due to a penalty, the ball is moved back to just inside field goal range. A sack and a tackle for a loss later and you're punting the ball back to Tom Brady to go up 21-7 before the game had even seemed to begin.The all pro safety Devin McCourty, (crazily) his brother Jason McCourty, former Detroit Lion and BYU Cougar Kyle Van Noy and Stephon Gilmore among others in the Patriots defense had 8 passes deflected in the game (with Gilmore recording an interception as well).
       I vastly overlooked the Patriots defense, especially when Bill Belichick coaches them up and they execute against Phillip Rivers as they did. And I bet their level of execution shocked you, too.

       Tom Brady took advantage of the Chargers defense like Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. He absolutely took their non-blitzing "blitzing" type defense (a containment across the front to stop the run, with a plethora of players in the box, but mostly in zone, with maybe one or two rushing the backfield outright) apart.
      It was as if he knew where the few blitzes, the creeping up to the line of scrimmage that the secondary were doing to shut down the screen began freeing up the runs up the middle by running back Sony Michel, or Brady popping it to Julian Edelman for one of his 9 catches.  Brady was eyeing the formation of the secondary (with potentially a safety up to the line to stop the run, too, say Derwin James) and would pick the space left in behind by that safety apart, as the Chargers didn't play a full game as a complete defensive unit: they were outclassed. Brady's receivers Julian Edelman (9 for 157),  Phillip Dorset (4 for 41 and a game-sealing touchdown), his favorite tight end Rob Gronkowski and the rampant tidal wave of Sony Michel torched them today, shocking me and Dan Patrick, among others who picked the Chargers to beat Tom Brady.
        It was stunning how the 14-7 lead grew to 21-7, then 28-7, then 35-7... while the clock slowly ran out, with turnover on downs after turnover on downs or white flag punt after white flag punt....they gave the Patriots this game and folded under the pressure and environment of Foxboro, much like the Colts did against the Chiefs yesterday.
        But the biggest play was on special teams when punt returner Desmond King was about to return a punt with the score 28-7 and a chance for the Chargers to halve the score and make it 28-14 after a 3 down stop by their weary defense. Instead, King insanely fumbled the ball and back-up linebacker and special teams player Albert McClellan recovered the ball deep in Chargers territory, an absolute crippling play to make in an NFL playoff game at any score, let alone when you're about to have a morale rallying chance to get back into the game.
https://www.patriots.com/video/patriots-recover-after-desmond-king-muffs-the-punt

After ripping on Tom Brady in the mid-week with a "he can't read defenses" line to the media, Desmond King committed the stupidest, most costly play of the game with his fumbled punt deep in Chargers territory, basically handing them the game at 28-7.

        I cannot help but feel disgusted and sad for quarterback of the LA Chargers and future Hall of Famer Phillip Rivers and his long time tight end buddy Antonio Gates...with the clock ticking on their window of opportunity in which to win a Super Bowl.  But we can't even begin to talk about that when you get roasted 41-22 like that...after going 9-0 on the road all season long...winning in Pittsburgh, in Kansas City the sight of the AFC Championship game this next Sunday, winning in Seattle, in Baltimore....but no....they let James White torch them like that? Again and again and again on the same play? It's almost unconscionable, though I remember the Falcons coming out in the second half a few Super Bowls ago and letting James White absolutely go to town on them for however, whatever he wanted as the Patriots came from behind and won the game.
        Maybe this means more to the Patriots than we thought.
        Maybe the stars have aligned with Brady and Belichick in the trenches, again? Although, we have seen them cut through the AFC before to get to a Super Bowl without being on the same page (2011/2012), or while not even speaking to each other (2017/2018 aka last season), but both of those Super Bowl runs ended in losses at the end of the Yellow Brick Road.
      If Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are finally on the same page and beyond, perhaps even back to being head coach and quarterback: general and lieutenant, comrade in the foxhole, then these Patriots with what they showed today should be in the Super Bowl, if not winning it again this season. Do not be surprised. And, as a fool, I bet against Tom Brady in Foxboro and ate the rotten cheese for it.
    Affirmed.
    I just didn't know how much it was going to mean to this team that's simply clocked a lot of miles over the last five seasons with the nucleus of Brady, White, Gronkowski, Edelman, Hogan, McCourty, Hightower, etc have been there since before the Super Bowl XLIX victory over the Seahawks. I guess I'm shocked after the well-publicized betrayal of Super Bowl hero Malcolm Butler in last year's game by coach Bill Belichick, that so many players stayed on the team with any interest at all.
       You never know with the Patriots, thanks to their extremely shitty and easy division that gives them the spot in the playoffs annually with as much ease as having a few joints with Bill Maher. But now we see it: they just ran out the hottest team in the NFL out of their stadium and back home to LA to sulk.
       Cry me a rivers, indeed.



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