Time to finally pay some respect on this Bill

What Bill Belichick should do now is put on a size 15 boot. One with spikes on it. Good and sharp.

When the sycophants and suck-ups begin to try to leap onto the New England bandwagon, Belichick needs to use that spiked heel, and smack them right off.

Take a good look: This is the standard brooding boring image of Bill Belichick kicking every team's ass. (US PRESSWIRE)

"If you want to crown their asses, then crown them," he should say before the Indianapolis Colts game this Sunday.

He would never admit it, and the season is indeed just halfway over so it is too early to put them in the Super Bowl, but Belichick would love to grab a megaphone and scream to the world: I told you so.

Like he has been so many times before as head coach of the Patriots, he was right, and we knuckleheaded buffoons in the media, including me, were dead wrong.

In fact, just about everyone was suckered when it came to the Patriots, weren't they?

The media, the rest of the league and even New England fans were silly with predictions of the S.S. Patriot striking an iceberg.

Patriots players, too. They had their doubts. You could sense it.

Belichick played us all for fools, bamboozled us, the old three-card Monte.

Because weren't the New England Patriots supposed to stink this year? Yeah, they look just awful. Crapola on a stick, those bums.

At least this is what we were told they were going to be. Over and over again. The Patriots were going to get smoked. The Patriots were going to get blasted. The Patriots were going to get passed over by the Miami Dolphins. That is the one that makes me belly-ache laugh the most.

Even quarterback Tom Brady wondered what was happening. He moped around the Patriots like someone stole his Halloween candy after his favorite wide receiver, Deion Branch, was traded.

Their talent drained, their receivers gone, their momentum sluggish, they were going to be vulnerable and naked.