ORLANDO – Few people want to hear it. Even fewer really want to accept it. But the Patriots probably won’t be “good” for a while.
You don’t like that fact? Understandable. You get used to living your fan’s life a certain way. It’s not easy to come to grips with waking up in Siberia. But that’s kind of where New England is right now.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. And neither were the dynastic Patriots, even though it seemed like they were, going from 8-8 to 5-11 to three Super Bowls in four seasons from 1999 to 2004.