Are the Patriots better without Randy Moss?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by packerbacker7964

No Bellicheat is 8-0 or a little better after the Bye week.

And Brady hasn't lost a regular season home game since the week of the 2006 Breeders Cup.

The Pats were favored by a field goal - and clawed their way back from 10 points down in the 4th quarter to force OT. They won late enough in OT that if they missed the kick the game would have probably ended a tie.

They stomped the Ravens in the regular season last year and got smoked in the playoffs when everyone was hurt.

The Ravens were "flying blind" in that they had no idea what the Pats would try to do and how to game plan for them.

They played classic Ravens style defense - and kept a deep safety back in centerfield like they always do (Idiotic now that the Pats have no deep threat) - and they dialed up some of there exotic blitzes like they always do (stupid as hell, why blitz Brady when he holds onto the ball for like a half a second? At least when Moss was there he held it longer and had to step into his throws)

The Pats were rated the #1 team in the NFL by that fancy stats site coming into the game .. now that they've put film on tape and showed their hand offensively .. they lose that element.

I realize the Chargers have lost to the St. Louis Rams and Oakland Raiders in back to back weeks ... I realize the Chargers have just lost their best offensive player Antonio Gates to an injury. They MURDER the Patriots this week though.

This is the game you bet against the Pats. On the road, after a hard fought come from behind win, after exposing the new look offense, and facing a team that everyone is down on. You don't bet against them at home, off a bye week, in a revenge game, with the opposing defense flying blind and having no certainty as to what they might see.

Chargers 27
Pats 13