And the refs, once again, completely blow a fumble return for a TD by blowing the play dead. Have they not learned to keep the play going yet? How many times are they going to screw this up?
And the refs, once again, completely blow a fumble return for a TD by blowing the play dead. Have they not learned to keep the play going yet? How many times are they going to screw this up?
And now robbed of a possible TD cause the refs blew a play dead that should never be called dead. Just great.
He definitely wasn't at the 40 at least. About the first down though, there was not enough to overturn it. It was close though.
If we're talking about bullshit ref calls....That late hit running out of bounds into the cooler just before it. Hmm.
Also doesn't matter. Even that call went in the Patriots favor, they still need a miracle to win.
The Patriots have no offense. They aren't going anywhere.
These aren't the Patriots of 2007 or even last year. They have a decent defense, but no offense.
The Ravens are going to basically walk to the Super Bowl as there is no AFC team capable of beating them in their home stadium right now. Maybe if the were in Foxboro or Buffalo in the middle of January, they could lose. But, even if somehow they don't host (which is nearly impossible as they have beaten all 3 other division leaders, plus Buffalo who will win the AFC East if the Patriots don't).
Ravens are going to win the AFC this season, unless Lamar breaks a leg or something to that affect.
Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power.
Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
–The Sith Code
Yeah, a 10 and 2 team can suck. Just like a 2 and 10 team can be great team.
I don't just look at records. The Patriots won with their defense, but if their defense isn't playing their best, their offense is struggling ... therefor, they suck.
Yes, bad calls will happen, but the Patriots offense sucks right now and their defense isn't playing to their best.
So yes, they suck. Even if they manage to pull out a win, they still will not beat Baltimore in Baltimore.
Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power.
Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
–The Sith Code
If the Chiefs hold on suddenly the AFC picture looks a lot more open. Bills suddenly have life in the division race, Chiefs suddenly have life in the race for a bye, Pats suddenly look... Bad?
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They have a 10-2 record because the beginning of their schedule was front loaded with dumpster fire teams incapable of exploiting the offensive issues they have. Even accounting the past few games, a lot of metrics still rate the patriots favorably because of the shitty teams they killed at the start of the season.
Eh. If the refs hadn;t screwed us out of a TD, we could have had a FG at the end here to tie it up, which would have put it in Mahomes hands to win the game. They still might have won, but we held them to a FG all half so that's not a given. I would have liked our chances.
The offense is incremently looking better these past few weeks. Hopefully we can get better the next few weeks too and we might have a presentable offense by the time the playoffs roll around.
That game in 2 weeks against Buffalo looms large though. HAVE to win that one.
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We also didn't have a million injuries at that point yet.
Not with Belichick coaching.
Just funny to think a few weeks ago people on twitter were meming on Belichick and Brady saying in interviews that they had a lot of work to do. They were lossless at the time, but just weird how fans think that because you're a winning team you can kick back and relax.
Yeah they also doesn't have Gronk, but never count the Patriots out.
The NBC announcer on the Seahawks: "They lead the league in nail biters."
Yuuuup.
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-Louis Brandeis
Man this camera is way too close to the field. Making me sick.
Bandwagon sports fans can eat a bag of http://www.ddir.com/ .
That's fair for sure. It is like the Cowboys bandwagoners in the 90s and the America's Team crap. Some of the Pats fans might not be old enough to even remember bad times though!
Do I think some of the people spouting off shit like "we suck" and booing are fairweather fans? Sure. A majority? Not likely either really.
I think in some ways you truly have to suffer through some bad times to appreciate just how amazing your team can be when they are good though. I've seen some horrid Saints teams but damn if watching them now isn't fun as hell.
Defense has reverted to its September/October self. Gonna be a dumb game.
Patriots are still a game ahead, they'd need to a) lose to the Bills, and then b) somehow lose a game to the Bengals/Dolphins. And we'd need to run the table @ the Steelers, @ the Patriots, and the Jets.
We really needed to win against Baltimore to be even with them this week, so we could move ahead if we beat them.