coolguy

Defense will and always will win championships.

The patriots have not had a real great defense in almost a decade. Sure tom played off, but the patriots or ant team should not be 1 player or bust.

celticboy04

Greetings,
This loss was more about bad special teams play, which gave them great field position , seems they always started drives around or past midfield, and not capitalizing on early scoring opportunities. Though this defense is in no way legendary, I cannot say they are the reason for this loss.

Peace,
Celticboy04

ensoul

I personally think the offense was this issue this game. Too many 3 and outs

deroc5050

The offense had its worst day in 9-10 weeks. I am clearly disappointed in the offense but are team is still young and hopefully Brady won't throw a terrible interception in the playoffs next season.

Patriot Missile

Shocked me. They played better than us today and thats what counts. I'm shocked they played better than us. I'm shocked by the stupid interception. By not taking chances and kicking FG's>Think back to sb42. Why defensive players can't field direct snaps? Why hall of fame hall of fame QB's decide to turn into McNabb in the 4th quarter and hike the ball with 5 seconds left on the play clock with no urgency?

Yeah,so excuse me for being a little shocked by a team that was supposed to be championship caliber,play like the 92 Patriots today. Dumb mistakes and a hint of Vegas seems to get me in a bad mood.

Serafino07

I said going into the playoffs that the only team that could beat us was us, and that was true today. We beat ourselves. We were outcoached and seem unprepared. Brady looked lost out there for some reason. Football is alot about enthusiasm and energy, we had none. Yes it was a good season but the regular season doesnt matter.

CheeseMonkeys

The defense wasn't bad this year and our offense was incredible. This team could have won the Super Bowl this year, no doubt.

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ensoul

14-2 record then losing in the first round? Not shocked but surprised. I am not used to teams talking crap all week then backing it up with a win. I guess the days of the pats putting teams in their places as long over.

Ice_Ice_Brady

This isn't the 80s Niners or the 90s Cowboys. The Pats went waaay against the odds in winning three early this decade. Elite teams no longer have eight Hall of Fame players. A lot of the playoffs comes down to a few momentum swings and wrinkles in the gameplan. That's why we've been so successful, but why we lost today.

Brady did look confused today, and that is because he does not have a bail-out receiver who can always be counted on to beat teams over the top and have the athleticism to burn defenses. This is exactly why the Patriots were successful, but also the reason for their failure.

PATSYLICIOUS

The defense was hung out to dry today. The Jets had 4 possessions start in our territory and the offense didn't sustain drives except when we were down 10 and less than 10 mins to go in the game

This is basically what we saw with last year's defense when our offense couldn't do jack in 2nd halves, you hang em out to dry enough eventually they will look bad. Our defense definitely was better this year, but I still think the 2009 defense gets a bad rap when they were hung out to dry so much, this is what happens. If our offense would have played a half decent game and our special teams/turnovers didn't set up the Jets so well, we give up maybe half as many points and it is a solid outing.

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