The Patriots' Prognosticators: Progs Predict Patriots 2017 Season Outcome

The New England Patriots want for nothing.

There isn't much more they could add to their franchise at this point that would make much discernible difference in the grand scheme of things, not if you consider the fact that they've been to six consecutive conference title games, have won two of the last three Super Bowls in as dramatic a fashion as one could conjure in a daydream, and currently have the league's most robust roster, stem to stern.

So much so that a seventh consecutive conference title game appearance appears to be a matter of course, and anything less than a third Super Bowl title in four years would be considered a huge disappointment.

This is not gloating, this is a fact.

Yet, the Patriots don't merely want to beat the teams they play, they want to annihilate them. Just winning is not going to be enough to satiate the hunger that grips this team like blood in the water does a hammerhead shark, not after what this team has been through in the past two seasons - which needn't be revisited as any football fan knows of the dark malfeasance laid upon the Patriots' alter.

Not even Bob Kraft would address it aloud after accepting the franchise's fifth Lombardi Trophy from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, though his remarks during his acceptance speech were rife with the vernacular of the newly avenged - his tempered soliloquy speaking, unequivocally, to the fact that even though he was holding the fingerprint-smudged trophy, it was only part of the payback.

Yet to come is the wrath on the thirty-one other NFL franchise owners who pleaded with Goodell to impose the strictest possible punishment on the Patriots, and then backing it up in federal court, not taking into account the unfettered and unprecedented power that a court-ruling would afford the commissioner's office in meting out discipline...

...something that one of the commissioner's favorite sons, the Dallas Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones, have discovered recently in the Ezekiel Elliott domestic violence case, which appears headed to federal appellate court, where Goodell already has an enormous amount of precedence on his side since the courts have already ruled in his favor in the case against Tom Brady.

But whatever happens in that case is irrelevant.  The Patriots are not going to take solace in any punishment dispensed as a vicarious act by the commissioner's office, as it didn't come at the hands of the the coaches, players and management residing in Foxborough.

That is why, starting with the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday night, the New England Patriots will run roughshod over every single opponent they face this season.

It is intensely personal, though the opposing coaches and players should not take the beatings personally.  The management of these teams, however, should take it as well-deserved medicine for their contribution to commissioner Goodell's actions against the Patriots - and once the beatings are over, the combatants can shake hands and bury the hatchet, so to speak.

But they shouldn't cry and shouldn't be ashamed of their punking and there shouldn't be any hard feelings, for it is something that was destined.

The Prog's picks...

Mike's Prediction:

Patriots 2017 Record 19-0
Beat Tennessee Titans in AFC Title Game
Beat Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 34-14

Randy's Prediction:

Patriots 2017 Record: 15-4
Losses at Dolphins, Raiders, Broncos
Beat Raiders in AFC Championship Game
Lose to Green Bay 31-27 in Super Bowl 52

Sara's Prediction:

Patriots 2017 Record: 17-2
Losses at Denver and Pittsburgh
Beat Steelers in AFC Championship Game
Beat Packers in Super Bowl 34-31

Scott's Prediction:

Patriots' 2017 Record: 19-0
Beat Steelers in AFC Championship Game
Beat Cowboys in Super Bowl 38-27

Michelle's Prediction:

Patriots 2017 Record: 17-2
Losses at Raiders and Steelers
Beat Raiders in AFC Championship Game
Beat Falcons in Super Bowl 34-31

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