Pats continue to fly under the radar

Ding dong the wicked witch, the wicked witch, the wicked witch. Ding dong the wicked witch is dead..."

On Wednesday the Pats finally got smart, and released the only anchor dragging them down this season... punter Ken Walter. A decision I would have applauded if it happened back on week one. This guy was lucky to be collecting a check from Kraft. He was horrible, and I don't know why the team didn't drop him sooner and have Vinatieri kick punts until a replacement was found. Why wait till he was dead last in the NFL statistics he was getting an undeserved $1.4 million and eating about $925 thousand of cap value? Good friggan riddance, and say hello to new punter Brooks Barnard from Maryland. Hopefully, he can get the ball down for Adam without any problems. K Adam Vinatieri was sorry to see Walter go because they had a work relationship and an off-field friendship.

"It's tough. That's this league. It's a tough situation. Hopefully he will bounce back and he'll be all right. I've seen him hit some amazing balls..."

"Hey Adam? When was that? It wasn't recently, it wasn't last year... As a matter of fact I had to double up on a dose of Focus Factor to remember the last time Walter had a great punt."

Enough of Walter, lets move along...

For the third week in a row the Pats have won in exciting fashion, with what was probably the most riveting moment in sports television on Sunday other than the pregame spit fest between Deion Sanders, Boomer Easion, and Dan Marino about Lawrence Taylor's "60 Minutes'" interview. If you didn't see it, you missed live television at it's best. As for my comments on his interview...

"You will NEVER see players like Lawrence Taylor or any other with that intensity from the '80s just because coke, and steroids was so rampant. Players were on the field playing at a different level. I believe that the NFL knew this and hence the reason for the drug policy. The product they were putting out was exciting, but if it stayed on track it the league was headed for self-destruction."

So the Pats are now 10-2, with four games left, and could actually go 12-4 as I had predicted at the end of this year's preseason and took a small bashing from some of my faithful fans who saw differently. To be honest, the way BB is coaching this team and has their minds set they could go 14-2 with schedule that highly favors them with the Dolphins coming to town this Sunday, and did I mention that this poses two major problems for Miami?

1. It's going to be between 22 & 30 degrees on Sunday with possible snow, and anyone who was in Boston Tuesday morning as I was will tell you... Welcome to New England because it was a typical New England day for 15 long minutes. And it could be that way come Sunday.

2. It's December, and we all know what happens to the Dolphins in December... Granted you can say the same about the Pats going into Miami in October, but the Pats have been to the Promised Land three times in the past 28 years. The Dolphins haven't even gotten to the gates.

Look for the Pats to win this Sunday with some serious crowd support because the division clinch and bye is at stake. As for their game plan, RB Ricky Williams is an obvious target to watch, but the Pats secondary cannot allow QB Jay Fiedler to connect.

Speaking of Jay, what the hell are those things on the sides of his head? If there was a such thing as ear reduction surgery Jay Fiedler would move right to front of the line out of sympathy.

Enough razzing the visiting players it's time for me to wrap things up and give a mention to someone who read my piece about "Gay Marriages and Sports," and had the balls to answer the question I put out there.

"Say your at a Celtics game with seats right behind the Lakers bench. During the game Shaq keeps giving you the eye, and then around the third quarter he silently slips you his number and tells you to call his cell. Out of curiosity you call, during the conversation, he hits on you, offers to buy you an H2, and an apartment overlooking the Charles River to be his "man" when he comes into town. Would you do it?"

My man, Rob Jude takes the cake with this answer...

"If you would have said Danny Ainge, Tiny Archibald or anyone with a conceivably smaller proportionate manhood, I might consider it... But I am quite sure, I would not be "man" enough to a handle a "SHAQ ATTACK."

Until next time kids!

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