Shockt327

Peyton almost scored 3 late TDs? Must be his usual magic, right?

Well, after getting three score leads against CIN and PIT - that Patriots D allowed both Roethlisberger and Carson Palmer's offenses to score an additional three TDs late in the game.

A 31-3 game against CIN (halfway through the 3rd) ended up being 38 - 24.

A 23-3 game against Pit (in the 4th quarter) ended up being 39 - 26

Also, A 14 -10 game against the Jets (late in the 3rd) ended up being a 28-14 loss

I won't even mention the 30 points that a Ryan Fitzpatrick lead Bills team managed to score against the Pats. Or the CLE game.

Again, the biggest difference between being up 21 (Steelers) or being up 3 (Colts) or losing the game (Jets) is whether the O can keep scoring -- which they always have to -- which is why they are ranked #1 in points (out of bare necessity). The D keeps leaking like a sieve.

Turnovers are nice, but they don't happen often enough to hang your hat on 'em...

KontradictioN

Ladies and gentlemen of the court, I call to the stand the prevent defense.

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PATSYLICIOUS

This wasn't the same as the Cincinatti/Pittsburgh games. Cincinatti game was over on the 2nd half kickoff. The Pittsburgh game was over on the Sanders TD early in the 4th quarter.

This game was never over until the final seconds, those TD's he scored were far from garbage time, that was him getting his team back into the game and having a legit shot to WIN the game at the end.

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Box_O_Rocks

Your honor, I call to the stand the NE Offense with one 3 and out and one 4 play drive back to back while the defense forced Indy on 7, 7, and a 9 play drive (for the final interception) to end the game. Anyone miss Mike Wright sitting on the bench to end the game with an injury? Or Myron Pryor inactive? Wilfork and Warren as your interior pass rush is going to wear down fairly quickly.

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KontradictioN

Complaining that the offense couldn't execute drives in crunch time doesn't exactly speak highly for your defense. If we have to rely on the offense to keep the defense off of the field because the following happens...

7 plays, 73 yds, 2:26, TD
7 plays, 73 yds, 2:18, TD
9 plays, 50 yds, 1:48, INT

...then that, IMO, speaks volumes about the style of defense that we began to run in the fourth quarter more than the offense. And yes, I missed both Wright and Pryor. But Roethlisberger shredded the prevent defense a week before even WITH Mike Wright in.

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apple strudel

Oh hey, another thread about our defense, 2010's Laurence Maroney.

Shockt327

Actually PIT cameback and was in the game right up until the botched onside kick....

It was a 10 point game at that time.

Shockt327

Nothing sucks as bad as Laurence Maroney....

SoonerPatriot

Nail meet head. Agreed. Tiring. Very tiring, especially after a big win. Or did we win?

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PATSYLICIOUS

Eh, I'd have to disagree there. The fact that needed to try an onsides tells you the game wasn't as close. Indy was able to kick to to us twice and on the last drive we even picked up a first down. Different situations IMO, especially considering Peyton did it to us last year too. Gotta give him some credit for that.

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