Ex-pat's Pats: Which Week Is It?

Watching game from new watering hole this week:

Okay, important stuff: welcome back Vereen and Talib! :)

 Where he'll that sack come from?!

Update 2: come on, Talib. Don't need that shit (or extra 15 yards)!

Update 3: f#<k!  7-0 also, Talib's gotta suck it up and remember the Patriot Way.

Update 4: bench Ridley. That's it...

Update 5: thanks for extra 3-point deficit, Ridley. 

Update 6: 2 minute warning and something stupid breaks the drive again!

Update 7: good job Gostowski!

Update 8: and there's Gronk!

Update 9: OK, WTF with getting Cam?!

Crow Tastes Yummy: 17-all. Good job (and much surprise, Ridley)! Redemption???

BULLSHIT! Flag was thrown and penalty should've been enforced !!! Munch-munch-munch, the Ref is out to lunch... Hey Ref, get off your knees as you're blowing the game!

Still, haven't felt so heartened by as loss I long. Good play by Pats despite my earlier bitching.

Post-Game Deliriums: Back home and probably a little too bombed (thanks to the lady offering us the pitcher of Sam Adams that she didn't like), but I actually feel jazzed by this loss. Here's why:

1. Overall, the Pats historically bomb on 1st game after bye week. Despite my bitching, I didn't think that was the overall case tonight.
2. Missing 5 key defensive players, they still kept a "hot" (sorry, but the post-game fawning over Cam reminds me of the fawning over Obama)offense rather limited, mistakes aside.
3.  Overall, the boys are making their plays and catches. They looked much like teams of yore.
4. Out of all but the game against the Saints that I've been able to watch, Brady looked like his old self again.
5. Did I mention that despite the loss, they're starting to look like team rosters of yore?
6. Final.Play.ASTERISK! 'Nuff Said?

 If pass interference was called, the Patriots would have received one final do-or-die play to win the game from the 1-yard line. There's no guarantee they would have won the game, although it would have been fun to find out.

I just keep hoping that the point of that Chumbawumba song ("I get knocked down. But I get up again.) keeps playing out and the Pats peak and pull it out when it counts. No more strong starts with a post-season fizzle.

Losing disappointment aside, it was a fun game for me and Fishing Buddy to watch.

Here's positive hoping for the rest of the season...