The official Patriots Chargers POST game thread.

[ScottishPat]

I've got a feeling that with the D as poor as it is just now with the stats, Bill is thinking, you score 1 (i.e. TD's), we'll score 2.

[zimmy]

McCourty had a rough day but not only did Rivers have all day on a number of the completions but he got almost no safety help as far as I could see.

The pass defence wasn't great but I think it was more caused by a lack of pressure than poor coverage. We missed Mike Wright a bit.

[reflexblue]

Originally Posted by DaBruinz

Guys - When Rivers is forced to dump it to his RBs the way he was doing, it was because of the pressure the Pats were putting on him. The Pats were regularly pushing the pocket back and forcing him to dump it or to throw on the run. I think that Rivers only had 5 or 6 throws where he wasn't pressured.. Even on the one-handed TD grab by Jackson, there was pressure on Rivers.

I looked to me he had a clean pocket quite a bit of the time, i think it was the Down field coverage more than it was pressure. Especially after Dowling went out, but thats a whole nuther kettle of fish by golly.

[Froob]

Man just remembered bob sanders played today, dude was invisible out there.

[lawrence welker]

Originally Posted by The Scrizz

The defense has been taking a beating after the 1st 2 weeks, but once again the red zone defense was immense.

Plus One, Good Sir. Is that ten characters?

[patsfan13]

Originally Posted by PATSYLICIOUS

Our team overcame some very shady officiating, something to be very proud of alot of teams let that tear them down. Especially after the 'injuries' by Chargers defenders and diving at Brady's knee. Amazing composure. Great team win today, defense helped out the O when they were in a slight funk and then the O picked up the defense when they started to break.

I was really mad about all the calls against our DB's, Then on the other side they mugged Branch on the 4th down no call, in the 3rd qtr, there was a 3rd down pass to Welker that was overthrown (the play before Mesko was hurt) on the play Gronk was tackled ....... no call outrageous given the calls on Bodden away from the play. I thought the PI on Arrington was pretty bad to he was playing the ball and reaching back...

I am good with the win of course and loved Big Vince's Int.

[102 Pat]

I know it's common as a fan to complain about penalties against your team, but c'mon those were some bad calls. Two weeks in a row at that. Also, some bad replays by ESPN and CBS. Seems like there were late penalties being called against the Pats but it was just because of bad TV coverage.

[DaBruinz]

Originally Posted by condon84

Our pass D still sucks. Henne last week and now Rivers this week. No pressure at all on Rivers besides three times by my count. One caused an INT and the other on Andersen's sack. Another on Ninko's blitz. Our run D also looked awful for the most part.

On the positive note, we did get turnovers and that goal line stand was great. That's twice now in two weeks we stopped teams at the goal line.

McCourty got beat like a red headed step child again. Some were great plays by Jackson/Rivers, but a good amount of them he should have made. McCourty set expectations pretty high based on his rookie season. He has yet to come close to live up to them. The season's young, so let's hope he turns it around.

You clearly have some warped definition of what constitutes pressure on a QB. As I said, I lost track of the number of dump offs to the RB and the number of times that Rivers was flushed from the pocket..

You're evaluation of McCourty also leaves a lot to be desired.

[PATSNUTme]

Here is one of my gripe against the NFL officials today. They call a ticky-tacky d-holding on Bodden.

Then Gronk gets pulled to the ground well beyond 5 yards and no call?

[patchick]

Originally Posted by Kid~Brady

How bout Ocho getting involved?

HE caught 2 passes. The crowd went crazy

45 yards receiving...which was only good for 5th on the team! That's a sure sign of a good day for the offense.