brabirschorr

I was stunned at the lack of noise in Gillette when the Eagles were on offense last night. I know this is not a new issue, but it was more glaring than ever last night in my opinion. Could have been the broadcast, but I doubt it. This was a close game from start to finish and from my seat in front of the TV the crowd never really contributed. It's unfortunate because the Razor can truly be a 12th man when the effort is there (see Week 2).

Fixit

That crowd was a D+ at best.

PatsSox363804

The crowd was asleep last night, it was embarrassing.

DaBruinz

What is embarrassing is how many people ***** and moan about the crowd yet don't realize that the stadium wasn't build to be conducive to crowd noise.

Its one of the few blemishes on what Kraft has done with the team.

Fixit

You can tell when the crowd gets loud relative to its baseline noise during a normal game. Last night, they rarely got totally up for anything.

brabirschorr

The stadium deficiencies when it comes to noise are well documented. But the fans have shown that they can be loud when they want to be. Pointing out the lack of noise last night is not ****ing and moaning.

Tunescribe

This sums it up pretty well. I go to all the Pats' home games and have been to enough rival stadiums (Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Meadowlands, Buffalo) to see and hear the difference. Gillette is unique in the way it's laid out compared all these places, being all spread out and open and with the club seats in a prime mid-field location. The building simply does not contain sound and I believe that was a big mistake when the Krafts had it designed.

I also think a contributing factor last night was that no one took the Eagles as a serious threat going in and in a way, we've gotten conditioned not to have to fulfill that "12th man" function because of the way the Pats have been blowing teams out. It did get loud on third down in crucial situations, I thought, though. It seemed that when we did yell, the defense laid an egg every time.

Mogamedogz

The stadium had nothing to do with it last night. The crowd was awful. It was the worst i have ever seen, and I have been going to games for a looonnng time. One too many "Pink hats" and "wagon jumpers" walking around that place last night.

That crowd just isnt the same. Seems like it gets worse and worse with every win.

There were a few groups of obnoxious Eagle fans walking up the Ramps with flags, drowning out everyone with their E-A-G-L-E-S chants. Pats fans were just walking past them with their noses in the air and a smirk... Seems like our fanbase has gone soft and arrogant IMO.

PatsDeb

Agree with this post. Gillette is just not built to showcase a loud crowd. In my area the crowd was pretty good when the Eagles were on "O", particularly on 3rd down, but there was a little bit of "stunned-ness" if that's a word, that the Eagles were doing so well. I have come to the conclusion also that New England fans, while passionate, are just not that loud all the time. Everyone stayed until the end of the game, though, and when they showed Richard Seymour on the JumboTron in the 4th and he raised his arms, urging the crowd to get into it, it was thunderous. The long tv time-outs at critical moments didn't help either.

VJCPatriot

The crowd was pretty bad. I suppose it doesn't help that we don't "pipe in" extra noise like the Colts do.

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