If you had told me before the game that the Patriots would finish the game with 24 points scored, I would have said that I feel pretty good about our chances to win with that many. The offense played superb game. Brady's performance was nothing short of heroic. I give the blame for this game to the Pats defense. Yes, I understand they lost Hightower and a fumble put them in a bad position once. But those are not spectacular excuses. They were playing a QB making his second career start in bad weather and ended up giving up 30 points. They had an opportunity to protect a late 14pt lead and couldn't. I think the defense may have been affected by the altitude because at the end they just couldn't stop the Broncos at all. The defense played a decent game on a night when the team really needed them to play a great game.

This leaves our 10-1 team in what feels like a state of shambles. The fact that the Pats had the earliest possible bye week was a big disadvantage, we could really use one now. Getting the Texans game pushed to primetime does not help matters at all, it keeps the pressure up. Things look like they could easily slide into oblivion very quickly. Right now, Tom Brady is Mufasa hanging on the edge of the cliff. The rest of the league would love nothing more than to get their shots in at him, and all they really need to do is come along, slap him down and let the wildebeest herd trample him.

Therefore, if I was Belichick, here's what I'd do:
*Take the whole first time offense off the active roster and replace their spots with practice squad guys. Let Jimmy and the 2nd team offense run the show this week.
*Tell the defense that they need to score more points than they allow this week against Philly.

Essentially, send a message that the defense needs to start outplaying the offense. The offense is in a really bad place right now, they need a chance to gather themselves.

Oh yeah man the chance choked big time last night.
Obviously Chris Harper made the biggest mistake, but the run d only died because Hightower left the game.

Team will grow a lot these next few weeks if we suffered more major injuries....

This post was edited by ZxFamily-GuyxZ on Nov 30 2015 06:14am

Not a bad idea vs philly

It's just time to move on to the next week.

Regardless of how upset I am, or how much I want to rage about what happened last night, there's nothing any of our bitching will do to make it different.

Our secondary looked better last night than it had in awhile, our defense should be alright once Collins gets back. Offensively we've got Gronk + Amendola hopefully coming back soon, and we're guaranteed a spot in the playoffs, meaning that we should see Edelman then. We've still got a chance at getting healthy and being real contenders by January.

PANTHERS >>>>> PATRIOTS

Still a very real possibility we could play in the SB. We'll see if NE can be the ones to wreck someone else's perfect season this time .

Let's see if we can get healthy first LOL

Gronk is alright and amwndola I think might miss one more gsme

Collins should be back too

Which means we should be alright for the rest of the regular season. With any luck we'll have Edelman back for our first playoff game. Who knows though, maybe Edelman will pull a Harvin and show up just for the SB to shit on someone .

After the 1st loss, the rest of the losses will come EZ.