State of the Patriots' Nation: Projected 53 man Roster

The draft is done and training camp is two and a half months off...and that sucks.

On the flip side, it gives all of us twice the time that Jesus had in the wild alone with his thoughts, and the damnable game of football taunting us and tempting us on top of it. But we have things that Jesus didn't.

Logan Ryan has a great opportunity ahead of him at corner

Food, for one, and we have the Red Sox to distract our attention from the long NFL off-season. Hell we even have the Celtics and Bruins playoff runs to occupy our time, so if Jesus can pull of 40 days in the woods fighting off temptation, surely we can endure twice that long fighting off boredom.

But for those obsessive / compulsive few of us that stem on the game of football, these "Dog days" of spring taunts us and tempt us. We pretend to care what the other Boston teams are doing but, out of sheer due diligence, we can name the starting lineups for all teams in addition to save and power play percentages for the hockey perverts and ERA's and batting averages for the Boys of Summer.

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