I just want to preface this AFC East preview with a disclaimer. I do have a questionably large amount of love for Brett Favre right now, but I refuse to let this crush lead to any sort of biases towards Brett or any of the New York Jets players in this extremely unbiased article. Thank you, and let's get on with the fun. I know that by now any lazy Sunday football fan has already picked up an NFL Preview issue, but I would like to put my own two sense in. That's the beauty of open source sports writing people. I'm going to do a little offense, defense, special teams preview action for all 4 teams followed by my prediction for where they will finish, closely followed by my "Very Voyeuristic" Award for players i'm keeping a close watch on, and top it all off with the "Big Bad Bold Prediction" award just for purposes of pure unadulterated fun. I will write about one team per day, I have class to attend people. Let us begin with the New England Patriots, shall we?
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS:
- Offense- You're looking at essentially the same absolutely dominating, record breaking offense from last years (almost) perfect season. Tom Brady, the Golden Boy who threw for a record breaking 50 TD's does have a bit of injury speculation surrounding him, but I don't see that as any sort of problem. The Mystery Man from Marshall, Randy Moss is back to show everyone that he wasn't just a one-hit wonder, and unfortunately for the rest of this division, the one two punch of Brady to Moss doesn't show any signs of stopping. I expect Brady to throw for 42 touchdowns and Moss to catch 19 of them this year. Oh and wait, let's not forget about arguably the best 3rd down receiver in the game last year, Wes Welker. It's crazy to me how successful Jabar Gaffney has been as a third option, and lookfor him to get more touches now that Donte' Stallworth is a Brown. The offensive line has an average weight of 300 pounds and with a huge chip on their shoulder, it doesn't bode well for opponents. If you think Nick Kaczur's drug arrest is going to stand in the way of this behemoth's, think again. I'm not a huge Laurence Maroney fan this year, after he only averaged 4.5 YPC on 189 touches last year, but all the "experts" are saying that this could be his monster year. I really think that new addition Lamont Jordan is going to steal some touches and TD's from Maroney in goal line/short yardage situations. Ben Watson, stay healthy buddy, it can only help.
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Bruce Dickenson 10 months ago
I like the whole article except for the prediction. Nice job not being a homer.
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Tyler Clugston 10 months ago
Thanks a lot for the read Bruce, I appreciate it. I just threw in the prediction for fun, not so sure if I'm going to do it for the rest of the AFC East teams, might be too much.
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