Patspsycho

Brown: Patriots were 'a front-running team'

Troy Brown points out that the Patriots haven't had to play from behind very much at all this season.

I think this is a good point to make considering that in the playoff game they played from behind right away.

convertedpatsfan

I wouldn't necessarily say we were a front-running team. In the first loss to the Jets, we were tied at halftime. We came back against the Dolphins (albeit down 1), the Ravens, the Lions (how did we fall behind???), and the Packers (minus Rogers). We just weren't in that position a lot due to the fast starts. But the few times we were, we responded pretty well.

The Cleveland game was just awful, but we still had our chances. If Gronk holds onto the ball at the end of the first half, that could be a different story entirely. And the play-off loss, we actually started to run the ball after we fell way behind, though perhaps maybe that wasn't the best of ideas.

Disco Volante

vs Ravens: Came back from 4th quarter 10 point deficit
@ Lions: Came back from early 14-3 deficit
vs Packers: Came back from early 17-7 deficit

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ScrewDrvr

next up, Troy Brown explains that water is wet.

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sevengables_2207

In the back of my mind all season was the thought that this young Patriots team did not have a signature comeback win. It seemed like the formula, especially during the second half, was to jump out to a 7+ point lead and dare opposing teams to play a game of "catch-up" which they could not do. The two regular season losses saw this team struggle to come back when trailing for a considerable stretch of time (I do not know if they ever even had a lead in the Browns game).

Hopefully, these young players will be able stage some signature comeback wins in the not too distant future.

Elijah

Took the words out of my mouth. All 3 losses were the same situations, though. Looks like they were 50/50 in that scenario of being down by 2 scores.

sevengables_2207

I stand corrected. Makes me wish I still lived in the New England area since I was unable to see the Ravens game, which is the best example of the team overcoming a 10 point lead in the fourth quarter and dispelling the "front-runner" myth.

Sean Pa Patriot

i like troy ,but that is not why they lost.. the pats beat themselves because they were pshchyed out all week from the jets...

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We going to take it one game at a time

upstater1

When a team jumps on top of you, they can do things like send all their guys into coverage and force you to run the ball.

Patriots should have adjusted, but failed to do so.

Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that if the Patriots had gone into halftime 7-7 or down 10-7 that the Jets would not have been using that defense?

Peyton and the Colts once adjusted to the Patriots jumping out on top of them by running the ball down our throats and holding the ball. But they executed at the end of those drives, and Manning wasn't sacked, and he didn't make big mistakes.

Patspsycho

I would say that the game vs the Ravens was the only genuine comeback.

@ the Lions. The Lions aren't anywhere on our level, and jumped out to a lead on a slow-to-get-going Patriot team that had played a game only four days before.

vs. the Packers, the Patriots again, came out flat-footed and didn't get going until the 2nd half. I think that the knowledge that Rodgers was not playing gave the team some false security.

For those two comebacks, the starting quarterback was out.

So that is one genuine comeback out of 16 games.