A true measuring stick?

Okay football fans week two is in the books and the Pats are now 2-0. Few of us have let out our breath we have been holding since the reigning MVP and SB savior Tom Brady went down in the first series of week one against the Chiefs...let it out...you're turning blue. I was among many who became sweaty with disbelief as our QB was taken to the locker room hoping for the best but expecting the worst...and then came the news..."Brady will be out for the season!!!" A season ended...dreams of another undefeated season dashed...a different outcome in the championship game on the horizon were over...or were they? Enter Matt Cassell...a player who hasn't started a game since high school, rode the bench through college behind current pro QB's Carson Palmer and Matt Leinhart and the last four years behind the seemingly indestructible Tom Brady. Well, as I told those of the remaining "Flying Elvis Faithful" last week...this weekend was going to be the measuring stick for the remainder of the season...why? In the off season nobody did more retooling than the Jets. It was like Theo Epstein was in charge in New York and he was building one team with the only intent of beating "one" other... The defense beefed up, the offensive line got bigger and younger...and last but not least in comes the last of a dying breed of gridiron gunslingers...Brett Favre. It seemed like this week was going to be do or die for the Pats...even the guys on pregame shows on each of the networks claimed that for New York it was..."If not now...when?" They picked one after the other for the patsies to lose...but as we all know when the ball hits the turf, that is when games are decided not when has been ballers and wannabe commentators claim the defeat before opening kick off. It was not the most impressive win, it wasn't the most dominating one...but it was a team effort and it was a win. Matt Cassell looked comfortable...and guess what fans...we have a running game? Who would have predicted that? In the end there was no Lambeau miracle left in the arm of the gunslinger and there was no glory in mudville...the Pats won again. This week we prepare to face off against the 0-2 Dolphins with our former nemesis Chad Pennington as the field general under the "Big Tuna" another name from Patriots Past... The measuring stick hasn't necessarily been past by...but as we inch closer to the end of it...we just might have a chance. Have faith...until next time.

The Bonedriver.

Observations...

How are you this fine day? Doing good I hope... I was sitting on the veranda this morning enjoying my java and surveying the Murphy Hacienda...just soaking in the beautiful morning, the birds chirping...breeze blowing in through the pines...the occasional uninvited guest attempting to land in my coffee...you know, just and average beginning to a seemingly perfect day. As I sat there I just could not get my mind off of the current political landscape and the "perfect storm" that seems to be brewing on the horizon as the trenches are being dug for a battle between Democratic candidates Barack Obama/Joe Biden and Republican candidates John McCain/Sarah Palin. It seems since Dan Quail made his "clown like" appearance in one of the highest elected offices in the world that every four years we search for someone in the limelight to say or do something "Qualish" to make more fodder for late night talk show hosts and stand up comics to use as material for days on end...and last night it happened. It happened almost without attention...in what seemed like a harmless conversation between Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos and the lovely wife of Senator John McCain...Cindy McCain. When the topic of Sarah Palin's "National Security Experience" came up...Cindy McCain reminded George that "Sarah has been the Governor of Alaska...which is the closest part of our country to Russia...so she is no stranger to what is at stake..." What? Huh? Urrr? After the shock of ineptitude faded...I couldn't help but laugh. We have our "quail" and all is well in the world once again... This is just my observation...thanks to youtube.com you can view the interview yourself ad nauseum...and laugh along with me. This is going to be one interesting race...and who knows...maybe even the Banana Splits might show up or Joe Biden will announce he is pregnant...either way we all win because laughter is the best medicine...and now I have to get this flying thing out of my coffee so until next time.

The Bonedriver,

p.s. I know it is Quayle...but potatoe...potato