Did a coin toss decide our season? - Page 5 - New England Patriots Forums

Pujo · 12-22-2008, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Va_Pats_Fan

The point I was driving at, and most have missed, is that almost every "bad" luck moment could of been changed by playing smarter, better, harder, etc. In this one case, there was nothing the Pats could of done to influence the outcome of that coin toss. No amount of football skill or preparedness can make a heads a tails.

Nothing could have changed the result of the coin toss once it became necessary, but a slightly better performance could have avoided it entirely.

captain stone · 12-22-2008, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Pujo

Nothing could have changed the result of the coin toss once it became necessary, but a slightly better performance could have avoided it entirely.

Eggs-actly, Batman. What also could have avoided the coin toss would have been a 2-point attempt at the end of regulation, from the 2-yard line, with the Pats rolling & the Jesters reeling. To depend on a coin toss - and his defense - instead of Cassel, Faulk, Welker & Moss seemed short-sighted & foolish both in foresight & in hindsight.

We also wouldn't be in this mess if the HC of the NEP hadn't been outcoached - for the 5th time in the last 6 games - by the HC of the effin Dolts; and if Gaffney had caught the easy TD pass, too.

We also wouldn't be in this mess if Moss had caught a 35-yard pass in the 1st quarter against Pittsburgh to put us in FG range, and a TD pass at the end of the 1st half. Those drops cost us 10 points, and momentum. And Bumblin' Bennie Watson being afraid - again - to catch a pass down the deep seam didn't help, either; as didn't the fact that Matt Slater is even on this team.