Sports Final: Can Patriots Go Undefeated This Season?
BOSTON (CBS) -- The Patriots are off to a 7-0 start for the first time since the 2007 season, and we all know what happened that year.
The Patriots ran the table in the regular season and finished with a 16-0 record, but they couldn't complete the perfect season as they fell to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl. Those wounds are just healing, thanks to New England's latest Super Bowl title, but this season's start has some believing the team could run the table again -- and this time complete the perfect season with a Lombardi Trophy.
While it seemed a little silly to bring up a potential undefeated season in the early weeks of the 2015 campaign, the further we get into the season the louder the conversations get. It was a topic on Sunday night's Sports Final on WBZ-TV, with Mike Reiss and Christian Fauria joining Steve Burton to discuss the prospects of an undefeated season for the Patriots.
Both Reiss and Fauria don't think the Patriots will run the table, highlighting a tough game against the Broncos in Denver coming up at the end of the month. The Broncos are also 7-0 after a 29-10 win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
"They're not a fraud team," Reiss said of Denver. "He's not the same Peyton Manning he once was, but if you put him in a game against the Patriots, at home, that is still a more formidable opponent than Ryan Fitzpatrick. To me, that is the one game I look at and say if you had to circle the most likely loss, it's that."
Reiss and Fauria both think the Giants in Week 10 and the Jets in Week 16 (both on the road) will also be tough games for New England. They also wonder if running the table would be good for the Patriots, given all the pressure the team had to handle back in 2007.
"I think it's good," said a fired-up Burton. "I'm sick of the [1972] Miami Dolphins being the only team to do it."
Watch the entire discussion in the video above, and tune in to Sports Final every Sunday night on WBZ-TV at 11:35pm!
