If you played video games in the era before you could just Google how to beat a boss or solve a puzzle, you surely remember the controller-smashing frustration of running into an end boss or something that you just couldn’t crack the code to.
Remember M. Bison in Street Fighter II? Playing against Michael Vick in Madden '04? That Ninja Turtles SNES game with that impossible underwater level? Rainbow Road in Mario Kart 64?
This is a really long-winded and nerdy analogy for the New England Patriots and their infamously difficult offensive playbook that’s both made and broken superstar receivers over the years.