Part III: If Gisele could have Played and Belichick would have Coached

By now, Gisele, you should have cooled off some. By now you should have studied the films of the game. Thus, you should have come to realize that Wes Welker, Aaron Hernandez, and Deion Branch are all and all arguably pretty good receivers. Perhaps, you still feel that they should have caught every pass near them. No argument! The truth, however, is that nary a receiver in the NFL is quite so good. So rather than summarily cut them in the off-season, let’s first examine why they fell considerably short of your high standards. Let’s look at Gronk Gronkowski. He’s great! As you know, Gronk didn’t drop a single pass in the game. Why is this? The odds were in his favor, Tom threw only three passes his way. Why wasn’t he thrown to more often? The reason, as you know, he was playing hurt. Gisele, why did Gronk play at all? Why did he play one single play? Had he been tackled again like he was tackled once before - in the Ravens game when his ...