richpats

I wouldn't call yesterday's game perfect execution by any means. The first 20 minutes were sloppy - we are capable of doing better.

mgteich

This team will get lots better by November.

danny88

What are we supposed to hold back and lose games? They are playing well , not showing to much. Honestly they played kinda sloppy yesterday.

JJDChE

"Peaking too early" is a nice way of saying you couldn't keep your focus for the whole season.

desi-patsfan

Another sports saying that makes no sense. I got a question for you, say we are "peaking too soon". What exactly is the remedy? Only let Brady throw with his left hand? Moss isnt allowed to run only walk? How exactly do you stop from peaking too early?

TeamPats

I'm not 100% sure of the stats, but I believe our Red-Zone defense is last in the NFL. I believe in 5 trips within our 20, opposing teams have scored 5 out of 5 times and all for TD's. This is a very un-Patriot like statistic, so I believe there is plenty room for improvement. I recognize that some of this is when we are ahead and are simply trying to run down the clock, but I have been disappointed with our inability to stop them within our 20. In years past, this was often our single greatest strength on this team. Gotta nitpick somewhere

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Patsfanin Philly

Absolutely but I have to believe that the 5 opportunities in three games must be a league low so from that perspective, it's a positive.
At least it gives BB something to improve on......

Pats726

There are always things to improve on...as was mentioned besides red zone D...and 20 min of sloppy play...this team WILL get MUCH better!!!

All_Around_Brown

I think the playbook is much much thicker than weve seen yet. Think about all the possible situations we have yet to find ourselves in...like trailing in the second half.

Nah...theres much more to come.

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stattry

I think the thinking is that by playing this well this early that eventually you're going to run into teams that either have success stopping the Pats offense or success scoring on the defense.

When/if that happens, opposing teams will have a "template" they can use whether it's personnel or schemes or whatever.

If, on the other hand, the pats went throught this super hot stretch at the very end of the season, there would be very little film/study that teams could do to figure out how to counter the pats.

I'm very interested to see how the Pats D fares against the Bengals O. I think the Pats will win overall because the matchup on the other side of the ball appears so one-sided, but it will be good to see the pats go up against a top unit on one side of the ball as it looks like the chargers aren't turning out to be the level of competition everyone thought they'd be.