Bronco Freak

Yeah, tell him, Sauerbraunasaurus Rex did!!!!

pats1

Faulk's fumble does fall under that category, but watch from there.

First play after, totally bogus pass interference call. Broncos get THIRTY NINE YARDS. 7-3.

New England is now playing with the pressure of being behind. They're still mad, Hobbs makes his mistake. 10-3.

Brady throws the INT trying to force it in there to take the lead, playing from behind. The Broncos game plan has also benefited from the lead - they can rush Brady more now knowing the Pats will have to pass more to get back ahead.

Bailey almost screws the Broncos season after Watson's great play. After the ball is seen going forward into the endzone, Triplette refuses to reverse it. The Patriots should have gotten the ball back on their own 20, but now it's 17-6.

Now the Patriots are really down. Brady has to forcefully pass it downfield, Vinatieri misses the field goal.

Now with time ticking down and a deep hole to climb back through, Troy Brown crumbles under the pressure. 24-6.

Finally, at the end of the game, having to pass downfield at all costs to win, Brady is forced to throw it into triple coverage, INT, game over.

lobster

To protest the ref. who was obviously bought off to throw the game to Denver, I'm not watching any more NFL football this season.

chunkypony

Ok, if you watch the replay, you'll see....

Bailey is running, his foot hits the pylon. This is the last foot he gets down. His body goes out of bound at that same point. The ball goes out of bounds in front of him. If the ball goes out of bounds in front of the pylon, how did it go out of bounds before the endzone?

I'm not making excuses, I'm just saying, watching the replay, it is pretty clear to me. We may not have won the game anyway, but had we gotten the ball back here, it could have been a different game.

dante828

Though I would add the lack of call on the offensive offside on the long field goal by Denver at the end of the half, it could have been 7-3, not 10-3. Officiating changed the face of this game in the Bronco's favor, plain and simple. Congrats for Denver for taking advantage of it.

pats1

Mindset and gameplan execution are the keys to winning football games. Jeff Triplette prevented the Patriots from doing such.

The Gr8est

Did anyone else notice that immediately after the play on Bailey that the ref stepped in to mark the spot and after about 1 second stepped about 1 foot back upfield?

That spot makes it easier to defend the call of the ball not going out of the end zone.

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The Gr8est

...and this is after the Pats survived horrible field position the entire game to take the lead and momentum.

The bogus PI DID play a major effect on the tenor of the game.

As an example of how important that is to the Pats, consider last week when they passed up a makeable FG to pooch punt and pin the Jaguars deep.

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