Really?

From Charles Robinson, over at Yahoo (who decided that last week's big winner was Belichick): 'The team has allowed a combined 51 points in its last four games...'

By 'the team,' of course, he is talking about the Patriots. I couldn't make that clear without creating a grammatical faux pas.

Really?

Okay, that would be impressive for any team. But let's think that over for a second:

1) Last week we played the Colts, who have apparently decided it is worth showing up to play. The Colts beat the Steelers (who have a pretty darned good defense) with 24 points. We held them to 15, and it would have been less if it hadn't been for that Vinatieri guy.

2) The week before, we played the Rams and held them, plus (despite some earlier questions) stopped the long ball. Okay, sure, we needed two members of our defense to run into each other first, but at least they only did that once.

3) The week before that, we played the Broncos, who were blowing teams out at the start of the season.

4) As we've gone along, we've seen more and more injuries, including Harrison and now it looks like Thomas is out. But we're still holding teams to an average of 12.75 points over the last four games.

5) Remember when we played San Diego and it got all ugly with the long ball and we were all, like, 'Dude, our season is TOTALLY over,' and we all started thinking about who we should draft for next year and whether that knee thing was really going to be fixed by the fall and we all wondered why, why, WHY is this happening to us? I would say an average of 12.75 points shows a pretty good mastery over not letting teams take advantage of the long ball. Which is great.

Season isn't over yet. Now I just hope that there is a really really good game plan for Thursday. I would love to see the Jets held to 12.75 points (actually I would love even more to see them held to less than that, but we shall see).