This looks off to me, no running game for 3 quarters and the Oline scores a high score?? They were stonewalled.
I'd love to try his wine, but it's a bit above my price point.
Here’s a sad fact:this. so much this. if tb had anything to lord over bb about being the reason for the pats success it would be this year.
i used to pray for 3rd and short because they were better on that down and distance than they were on 3rd and long.
they did tighten up somewhat in the playoffs though.
Hightower is back. Bentley is now allowedBentley's improvement this year is astronomical. I thought he might get cut in preseason.
This looks off to me, no running game for 3 quarters and the Oline scores a high score?? They were stonewalled.
Bentley's improvement this year is astronomical. I thought he might get cut in preseason.
Ron Brace was a fucking STARTER on that team.I got to Ron Brace and began laughing.
Wes Welker makes that catch, the game's over.Agreed except they got them there and they played to their ceiling winning the game, allowing 13 points until the end. It was literally the greatest coaching job of BB's career coming off a Lockout with no camps, a rushed preseason and a rebuild. Who goes to a SB on the front of a rebuild? Just incredible in an offensive era to hold a team in a SB to 13 points.
The Pats offense played far below their ceiling. This happened in both SB losses to the Giants. You can't tell me you walk into a SB and say "14 points should be enough, no problem". It's just preposterous to think that in this era.
The Andre Carter injury was the blow they couldn't absorb as it weakened their rush badly and made Mark Anderson basically the key pass rusher, where it would have been a lot better if he was a sub rusher. I remember when he went down and I was like "that can't happen if they're going to go deep into a postseason"..
They spent the year playing mostly 4-3 and just didn't a 3-4 capability which hurt them during the rebuild. It just wasn't there. But, that has nothing to do with the D outperforming the offense in that postseason, because that's what happened. Ironically, in the game when they struggled vs Tebow in November in December,Carter went down in a heap in the 3-4, but th3 faster 4-3 is what worked better vs the Tebow crap and they shut the door with it in the second half of that game, and then obviously blasted him again the postseason with it. But, it would have been nice to use the 3-4 vs the Giants RBs in the SB, sure.
13 points allowed if Brady isn't lazy to take that Safety, throw an INT on 1st down to start the 1st qtr on an irresponsible throw to Gronk on one leg, almost in FG range, or the slightly off throw to Welker off his back foot with him wide open. All 3 were just horrendoys gaffes which allowed NY to take more clock than what should have been NE's clock since these occurred on 1st downs. Ugh. Even typing this makes me annoyed.
If just 1 of those god awful bad plays/mental miscues does not occur, and BJGE gets like 5 more carries, NE wins the SB with 3 points allowed in the 2nd half. They played brilliantly considering the lack of overall talent and depth. The latter was more the issue in a game like that.
This is really where the lack of accountability started with Brady, too. Giselle came down after the game pointing fingers as Brady was trying to hush her all embarrassed. The undermining of BB the GM and Coach, was already in play then when our best players on offense were letting us down (Brady, Mankins, Welker).
They ran for a lot of yards against us. Thankfully yards don't win games, points do. But 240 yards rushing, if that were Henry, this game might have been very different.Umm, err, well, Vrabel needs to get over it. That was almost 15 years ago. He and Seymour weren't getting one last big deal here heading into a Lockout at their age.
I am expecting a bludgeoning of Ryan Tannehill and that tepid offense that Tenn has after stupidly drafting Corey Davis in the top 5, overpaying for old Julio Jones and losing their offensive centerpiece in Derrick Henry.
It's a top heavy roster. This team should be fresh and ready to get a lead and keep it with a swarming defense. It's time to slap down these hotshot coaches who once were affiliated with NE and try to make it seem like their shit doesn't stink. They've achieved nothing in this league other than being in a weak division or taking advantage during a pandemic.
I think we split with Buffalo, we beat Jax and Miami. Indy is a guessing game right now. I still think we take the East, I think Buffalo falls apart a little in the December.It doesn't really matter, though. As long as we beat Buffalo twice and TCB against Jax & Miami, we can actually lose to both TEN and IND and still take the East.
McDermott and Flores are cocky, IMO, and it's showing up in their teams' seasons with poor leadership and players thinking they've arrived, all because of a pandemic that caught people off guard in 2020.I think any of the top 6 teams can beat the other on any given Sunday. Turnovers, penalties, officiating and weather can change a game quickly.
So can coaching and BB is far and away the best of the bunch. He's the X Factor we have going for us to tilt the scales. McDermott and Flores are
pretty good though. Give them an extra advantage (TO, penalty, bad call, etc.) and a W can become an L real quick.
I think the coaches out-thought themselves on this one. If you look at my pregame comments I mentioned they have no WRs, so it's going to be all Hilliard/Foreman, both with running and throwing to them. Literally the whole game was to scheme against the backs and they didn't do a great job against it, which his is surprsing.They ran for a lot of yards against us. Thankfully yards don't win games, points do. But 240 yards rushing, if that were Henry, this game might have been very different.