Quote (Hako @ Jan 24 2018 10:07pm)
Brady had 2 TD.
and I love how you morons claim they went conservative because of Bortles. Bortles was like 13-15 for like 160 yards at one point in that first half. He had 12 straight completions or something like that at one point. Exactly what did he do in that first half for the coaching staff to get conservative, or lose trust in him? Slicing that Pats Defense up and down the field showed that he was a liability? Stupidest shit I've heard in my entire life. They tried to run the ball and run the clock in the 2nd half. Bortles had this team up 10, with 10 minutes to go in the 4th quarter. That's a fact.
Field position and them trying to run clock is what happened in the 2nd half. We had 7 possessions in the 2nd half. All of them but one (our final possession), they ran on first down. For 2 yards, 1 yard, 1 yard, 1 yard, no gain, -1 yards. Our field position on those possessions were from our own 25, our 10, our 9, our 33 (should have been the Myles Jack TD and game over), our 16, our 10 and our 25. They tried to run clock way too soon and it cost them. It had nothing to do with Bortles' ability, or lack there of.
But let me guess, you probably believe the Defense going conservative was because of Bortles also huh?
Lol. They knew a mistake was probably inevitable? Don't forget he overthrew a receiver which almost resulted in a Stephon Gilmore INT (prior to the Gilmore pass breakup on 3rd down). Also we were starting to get pressure late in the game on bortles (tre flowers, james harrison).
A hypothetical Myles Jack TD wouldn't have been gauranteed game over. Patriots overcame a larger deficit vs the falcons in last year's super bowl (we all know how that turned out).
I don't have a good explanation to why the defense played soft zone late in the game other than they didn't want to give up a BIG play. (By BIG play i mean like a 40+ yard play/TD not a 15-20 yard play).
If you guys didn't take out gronk in the first half it couldve been a totally different game so please don't act like everything was against you.