This according to "the Sports Guy"

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PATRIOTS (-8.5) over Jets

It's been fun to see the Jets fans come out of a decade-long hibernation/depression to unleash taunting "you're going down!" e-mails and phone calls to Patriots fans like myself. You guys are cute. It's like having a puppy hump your leg or something. Anyway, here's the lingering question: How does a team with no home-field advantage, no deep threats, a banged-up secondary and one of the worst special teams units in football give 8.5 points to a team that played them tough twice? It makes no sense, right?

Here's the answer: The Pats tipped their hands in a meaningless Tennessee game last week. There's been a nagging sense since the curious Colts defeat that they were better than they were letting on, that they were playing possum to an extent, blessed with an easy schedule that guaranteed them the 4-seed four months ago. When the Titans got them riled up with a couple of chippy plays, the ticked-off Pats switched gears, kept their starters in, opened up both barrels and blew them off the field. It was an awesome performance. For the first time all season, they looked like the physical, nasty, ball-breaking, smashmouth team that won 21 straight and 31 of 33 during the '03 and '04 seasons. I can't imagine that team losing at home, in January, in a do-or-die game, to an opponent that can't run the ball or stop the run. It's not happening.

The Pick: New England 31, New York 10

Dear Bill-

two things...

A) "coming out of a decade-long hibernation/depression to unleash taunting "you're going down!" e-mails and phone calls to Patriot fans such as myself"??? I dont know where you have been for the past 10 years but, obviously, you have not been doing a very good job of checking your answering machine or inbox.

Thanks for the much needed ammo for next weeks editorial....

See you Sunday at the Changing of the Guards ceremony, dont be late as you may miss the show....

Gregg Hayim