Pats have rust on their armor?
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by Cougar2000
Don't look now... the New England Patriots may be in trouble. Sort of like Popeye without the spinach as Bluto is beating the snot out of him or Superman after Lex Luthor gives him kryptonite. The Baltimore Ravens were the closest to beating Team Brady-Moss and they best watch themselves against the Steel Curtain next Sunday in Pittsburgh.
In order for the Pats to win, they have to do a better job on 3rd downs, 2-12, which is 16%. If this were baseball with that average, they would be sent down to Rookie league for the rest of their lives, never to see the show again. Teams like New England, with Brady and Moss and the cast of thousands have to do better than than. I will give them credit for doing what teams need to do in the Red Zone, they went 3-3, this according to the NFL website. This is not to say that Baltimore is without sin. They had the Pats on the ropes and should have gone for the kill when they had the chance. They would have been the Liberty Valence of the 2007 NFL season. Another analogy is this: when you have your foot on a rattlesnake, don't pick your foot up to see if it's still breathing!
So if New England is to beat Pittsburgh and Ben Roethlisberger in Foxboro next Sunday at 4:15 on CBS (a plug for a network and I better see a check, Jim Nance!), meltdowns like they have had the last two games are as welcome as root canals, tax audits, inlaws and the plague. They have no place on the football field. The Pats have to step it up or as Emeril Lagasse would say, "kick it up a notch!"
