Mack Hollins Offers Wild Metaphor For Patriots’ Mindset After Ugly Loss
Well, this is one way to put it
The Patriots don’t have time to dwell on last Sunday’s ugly home loss to the Buffalo Bills. They must move on and focus on this Sunday’s road game against the Baltimore Ravens.
Or, as Mack Hollins puts it, treat the entire thing like a trip to the men’s room.
While speaking with WHDH-TV’s Ari Alexander this week, the ever-goofy New England receiver offered an amusing metaphor for his team’s mindset after blowing a chance to clinch the AFC East at Gillette Stadium.
“Once we watch the tape, analyze everything, flush it,” Hollins said. “When you go to the bathroom, you don’t look at the s–t forever. Eventually, you gotta push the handle.”
This week’s Patriots-Ravens matchup originally was scheduled to start at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday. But the game was flexed to the “Sunday Night Football” slot, meaning kickoff will be at 8:20 p.m.
New England can’t clinch the AFC East until Week 17 at the earliest, but it could punch its playoff ticket this weekend. A win against the Ravens would put the Patriots in the postseason for the first time in four years, as would losses from either the Houston Texans (vs. Las Vegas Raiders) or Indianapolis Colts (vs. San Francisco 49ers).
The Patriots will finish the regular season with a road game against the New York Jets and a home matchup with the Miami Dolphins.
