The Patriots are 10-3. They have three games left--at home vs. the Dolphins, at the Jets and home vs. the Bills. At this point people expect them to finish 13-3 and claim the top seed in the AFC. Confidence is through the roof.Even when they fell behind the Chargers 14-3 in San Diego on Sunday night, I still fully expected them to win the game:
I'm strangely not even the least bit concerned after that LaFell fumble/TD
— Mark Vandeusen (@LucidSportsFan) December 8, 2014
After Week 4 when everybody thought the sky was falling following a 41-14 blowout loss in Kansas City, I posted a blog titled Postponing the Premature Patriots Panic. I'm not going to say "I told you so" though, because even I never would have predicted this. To me New England looked like a 9-7 team.
I was very concerned about their brutal out of division schedule, but in their last five games the Pats just went 4-1 against the Broncos, Colts, Lions, Packer and Chargers. Those five teams have a combined record of 47-15 (a .758 winning percentage) against the rest of the NFL.
In Week 5 the Patriots knocked off the then 3-0 Bengals, and I wrote a piece sarcastically called The dropped interception that saved Tom Brady's career and extended the Patriots dynasty. It's worth going back and reading again, because what was a joke could end up being 100% true.
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