The Morning After: Week 11

A week removed from the New England Patriots losing to the Indianapolis Colts and the dust still hasn't settled. Since everyone else in the sports world has an opinion about the loss, the blown lead and, specifically, the epic fourth-and-two failure, I think it's time my voice is heard.

Bottom line: Going for "it" was a good call.

That's right, I said it.

It wasn't just a fourth-and-two, y'all. It was a fourth-and-fuck-you. The Patriots needed 2 yards to blemish Indy's perfect record. So "it" was really going for the win not just a first down. With Brady, Moss & Welker -- the best possession receiver in the NFL -- getting 2 yards should be, as my boy Mr. Moss would say, straight cash.

It just didn't work out on that particular play.

But next time the Patriots are in a game situation where 2 yards is the one thing that stands between them and victory I want Mr. Belichick to make the same call. A call like that doesn't mean he has no faith in his defense. It means he has supreme confidence in his offense.

And he should. The cup is more than half full when it comes to New England's offense, dear readers.

Proactively going for the win, regardless of the yardage, field position or game situation, is better than kicking the ball away and hoping for the best.

So keep coaching your way, Bill. The decision to go for the first down gave your team the best chance to win the game. And, as we all know, that's not the kind of decision you can judge in a vacuum. (Actually, you can't do a lot things in a vacuum. But that's a different story for a different time.)

So that's my 2 cents.

Feel free to keep the change.

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Quick Thinking
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-- I'm starting to learn that secrets only live in the hearts and minds of the foolish.

-- Memo to all the ladies who are in love with those brooding characters found in Stephenie Meyer's and Charlaine Harris' books: vampires and werewolves aren't real.

-- Neither is eternal love.

-- Unless you're Hugh Hefner.

-- Sorry.

-- The chances that any man, especially a vampire, would literally spend an eternity with one woman is the most unrealistic plot line of those stories.

-- It's actually the most unrealistic plot line of ANY story.

-- However, as a vampire, I would at least consider spending an eternity with Jamie Westenhiser:



-- As long as we had some coconut oil.

-- And Gregg's Chocolate Cake.

-- There's no truth to the rumor that the ice skating bear who killed a trainer in the Bishkek circus during rehearsals last week is signing with The Russian National Hockey.

-- For those keeping score at home:
Mother Nature - 1. Training bears to ice skate in the circus - 0.

-- The new marketing campaign for Snickers, featuring Adam Nougatieri & Patrick Chewing, makes me long for the days when their commercials were funny.

-- For example:



-- Or better yet:



-- The WORLD...

-- If I were Jason Varitek I'd be more concerned with why I lost Heidi Watney to Nick Green instead of whether or not the Red Sox would let me keep the "C" on my uniform as a back-up catcher for the 2010 season.

-- Tom Brady set a franchise record for completions on Sunday against the team that propelled him to stardom, the New York Jets, when Mo Lewis hit Drew Bledsoe on September 23rd, 2001.

-- And somewhere in Walla Walla, Washington Drew Bledsoe bottles his Doubleback wine and weeps.

-- The word around Flying B Vineyard is Bledsoe has become an excellent cork soaker.

-- Wakka, wakka, wakka.

-- Watching Kris Brown of the Houston Texans miss critical field goals the past two weeks is another in a long list of examples of just how clutch Adam Vinatieri has been throughout his career.

-- I'd be worried if I were a Steelers fan.

-- Society Makes Me Sad Award of the Week: Khloe & Lamar's wedding spurned a special 2-hour episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

-- Strike that. Society Makes Me Sad Award of the Week: Keeping Up with the Kardashians is in its fourth season.

-- That means people are actually WATCHING it.

-- Good grief.

-- There's no truth to the rumor that following his accusations the Detriot Lions were faking injuries to slow Cleveland's no-huddle offense, Mr. Mangini phoned all his past girlfriends to see what they may have faked.

-- I hope they at least kept the change.