We’re moving on. San Diego.
Those were New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s words during his press conference the week leading up to the game against San Diego in week two of the regular season, when all the reporters asked about was the ridiculous Spygate and the grotesquely excessive fine levied by the National Football League on Belichick. The enraged Patriots stomped the San Diego Chargers, who were looking for some measure of revenge for their embarrassing loss to New England in the playoffs in the previous season, 31-14.
And now the Patriots are about to play the Chargers gain, this time in the AFC Championship game, after San Diego shockingly beat the Indianapolis Colts on the road in the divisional round. In spite of that accomplishment the Chargers seem a bit fraudulent to me. They beat only two play off teams in the regular season - the Colts the week after they had lost a bruising game to the Patriots and the Tennessee Titans, whom they defeated gin in the Wild Card game - and lost to Jacksonville and Green Bay.
