Most of the time, coming up with the intro to an article is the hardest part. Some days, though, the Pats Pulpit team comes through with something so perfect that you’ve gotta just roll with it.
In this case, our venerable SlotMachinePlayer put it about as succinctly as anyone could:
“Running a marathon couldn’t be any harder than this”
And you know what? Although as someone who’s been training for a marathon myself, I have to say it boiled my blood a bit, SMP probably has a point.
For those who may not know James Develin’s, let’s call it, unusual path to the NFL and eventually winning 3 Super Bowl rings, he had to sign on with a pair of AFL teams called the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz and the Florida Tuskers to get the attention of the Cincinnati Bengals, converting from defensive end to fullback in the process, and finally got to sign with the New England Patriots in 2012.