Yeah, I mean, I'm happy. I'm excited, but also we're not here just to, you know, get here.

You know, we have to be able to host games and compete for championship.

So there's not going to be any consolation prize for anybody.

You know, we understand what we have to do.

Mike Vrable, the second-seated Patriots, what a year they had after two straight seasons of

four and 13. They go 14 and three. And this is where it all changes. Nothing you did in the

regular season matters. It's 60 minutes. It's single elimination. You either advance or you lose,

and everything you did is viewed as a failure. We've seen the Vikings do that twice over the

past couple of years, 14 wins. Yeah, 13, 1 year and 14 another year, because Kevin O'Connell's one of

the few guys to have multiple 13 win seasons that early in his career.

You go one and done, it makes it look even more glaring.

That's the risk that the Patriots face on Sunday night when the Chargers come to town.

If the Patriots lose that game, everything they did this year will be regarded as a failure because they set us all up to make us think they were good.

And here comes a Chargers team that possibly could knock them off.

And I think they do need to be concerned about that simply because – and look, I don't like the easy schedule talk because it's not like the Patriots put together their schedule like a college team does.

They got the schedule that they got.

But, yeah, here comes the Chargers team that maybe when it's working is much better than a normal seven seed would be.

Except, Mike, on the schedule, you have to, you have to factor it in.

And I don't think it's going to determine who wins this game.

But the fact is, it is a historically easy schedule. it's one of the easiest schedules in the history

of football since the merger and so I know a lot of Patriots fans get a lot of get annoyed by that

because it they think you are knocking down their accomplishments and And it's not a knock on their accomplishments

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