After months of hearing how this year’s training camp made the offense seem somewhere between discombobulated and an affront to God, the New England Patriots putting up a meager seven points when Ty Montgomery did a barrel roll into the end zone didn’t do anything to ally our fears. Matter of fact, at that point it was fair to wonder whether Matt Patricia, whose resume has been pretty exhaustively documented at this point, had FUBAR’ed the whole rest of the season.
We don’t need to run down every game since then, or how much weight should be placed on “moral victories”, but unless you’re the most negative of Nancies, you’d have to admit the offense is at least showing some signs of progress the last couple weeks, and may even be able to hang in there with a decent chunk of the league (MVP-caliber opponents notwithstanding).