What I dislike the most about the Patriots is their coach. He's a bloody rules lawyer who pushes every rule to its absolute limit and beyond, and tries to wipe away what he and his henchpeople have done by whining, "there's no rule against it", or "if you read it this way, what we did was within the rules".

Coaches I respect understand that the rules are what they are in the interest of establishing a fair contest decided by the players and their skills.

For that reason, the Patriots deserve an earlier start to their offseason.