Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, thank you.
But I’ll elaborate.
“As Bill Parcells put it, ‘You are what your record says you are.'”
Which is, of course, true.
What you are not is required to be what your record says you are in perpetuity.
Every year is different.
Group dynamics get better.
Where the Giants teams that won 10 and 9 games what their records said they were?
Or are they Super Bowl champions?
What about the Texas Rangers who went from 60 wins to 62 wins to a Wild Card?
Where would they be if they’d knocked the Jenga tower over and started over?
Moreover, they were not competitive in two games all season, both coming at the beginning of October.
Their only other loss by two scores was a 10-pointer against the Super Bowl champions.
That makes 8 one-point losses.
Which, contradictory as this may be, is both frustrating and encouraging.
Ordinarily in that situation, once the losing starts, business decisions start being made.
This team never stopped fighting.
The results across the board are not what anyone expected.
That is rare in this league.
Even down to what we cant do, and then we end up fing doing it.
Consider this most recent game at Buffalo.
And hold the QB with 27 passing TDs to zero.
Despite a four turnovers and three Buffalo drives starting inside their 30.
The offense is a genocide of wrong.
Of that there is no dispute.
It needs a major infusion of talent.
But even yoked to a non-existent attack, they’re still just 6th in the league in yards allowed.
I repeat, without their two best defenders.
There is Young Talent All Over This Roster
The prosecution outlined the problems of recent drafts.
Douglas has had the best rookie season of any wideout in the Belichick Epoch.
Two rookie guards have settled in on opposite sides of David Andrews to improve a chaotic O-line.
While Michael Onwenu has been one of the great late round finds of the last decade at RT.
They need help, but there is much to work with here.
Who time and time and time again has found the diamonds others overlooked.
Who signed veterans no one thought much of for short money and brought out their hidden greatness.
And who has the universal respect of every player and agent in the league.
The choice, ladies and gentlemen, is yours.
But just to make one last argument:
He’s Bill fucking Belichick.
