The So-So Holidays

Yes the holiday itself was nice. Seeing family, having downtime from work, college football bowl games. But the long weekend ended on a sour note as the Patriots were eliminated from the playoffs by the ineptitude of the Brett Farve and the NY Jets. If there was ever any question that Farve needs to hang it up it should have been answered by his performance yesterday. That final interception probably cost him a win in his final game as a professional and cost the Pats the post season.

I could get mad that 8-8 San Diego gets to go to the playoffs and the 11-5 Patriots do not (though San Diego did had a decent ass-whooping on the Pats earlier this year). Or I could bemoan the fact that 9-7 Arizona (who the Pats soundly destroyed when they went head to head) gets to go to the playoffs and they don't. But I'm not going to do that. Let's face it, this team was not going to win the Super Bowl with the patchwork linebacker corps and secondary. The better teams were all able to exploit those weaknesses and the same would have happened had they faced any of those better teams in the playoffs.

The Pats had a great year considering all the adversity they faced and if not for the fact that he is probably the most hated man in football, Belichick just might be a candidate for coach of the year. He may get tested again next year as word as come out that Brady may not be able to play in 2009 either. They need to get Cassel signed just so they have someone viable to start next year should that happen.