Pats win 27-24. All I can say is, WOW!!

Oh. My. God. I just came down off the ceiling after the end of that Patriots / Ravens game. Let me tell you, it's kind of hard to go from writhing on the floor to stuck to the ceiling like a cat. My heart was about to explode at the end of that game. The Patriots beat the Ravens, 27-24 on a MIRACLE come back. Down by 4, the Pats drove the field in the final 5 minutes to take the lead and the win. Brady has done it time and again but it's still amazing, every damn time.

Tom Brady.. (manly swoon).

I'm at a loss for words at the moment so this probably won't be the most sensible thing I've ever posted.

The Pats, honestly, had a lot of help from The Ravens in this game. Penalties against the Ravens really kept things going for The Pats throughout the game, and, in a move that will certainly cause some broken furniture in the Baltimore locker-room, just as it looked like The Ravens had the Pats stopped on 4th and The Game, and it appeared the Ravens had the win all wrapped up, it turns out the Ravens had called a time out from the sideline, just before the play went off, giving the Patriots life and another chance to make a play, which, they made.

Unbelievable.

The Patriots running game, aside from Kevin Faulk, who was a spark, was really ineffective and the Pats run defense was simply terrible. Willis McGahee ran all over the Pats in this game. He ran the ball right down The Patriots throats. Dropped passes all over the place, dropped TD passes... you look at all that and yet somehow, down by four, Tom Brady gets the ball down the field and puts it in the End Zone to Jabbar Gaffney as time runs off the clock. Amazing.

The Ravens still had a chance to potentially tie or win the game with 44 seconds remaining. With about 8 seconds left, a last-ditch Hail Mary was complete at the TWO yard line and was stopped there as time expired. WHEW!!!

The Ravens were really stoked up for this game and the home crowd was into it, huge. The fact that The Pats came into this ultra-hostile environment, during prime-time, with Don Fucking Shula in the booth with the ESPN guys, with a champagne bottle on ice for him somewhere in the background no doubt, played, what could be said was arguably their worst game of the year, practically no run game, horrible run defense, dropped passes.. and somehow The Pats still came out of there with the win, well it's just incredible.

Finally, this stretch of prime-time night games is over. Although some people have described Baltimore as a bad team, I didn't believe it. Like I said in the last post, this team worried me all week and I considered them a huge threat to beat the Pats. The Ravens almost did it and really, it was their own mistakes that did them in. Not that I'm going to complain about it..

Next week is gonna be another tough game with Pittsburgh coming into Foxboro. I'm glad that's a home game and we don't have to worry about Don 'I used to love to kick the Pats when they were down' Shula hanging around somewhere in the background with his unopened champagne bottle. And 4 o'clock games rule.

GO PATS