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I wasn't impressed by flacco. He used the old peyton technique throw it deep until you get a flag. I wish we would do the same. Just throw it to slater or anybody deep and tell them to just jump into the defender like 6 times.
Knowing these refs, they'd actually have called OPI on such a play. Or maybe rule an incomplete pass that hit the turf before bouncing into a defender's hands as an INT.
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On your first point: I think the only people who didn't have fun watching last nights game were Pats fans. The rest of the audience saw a competitive, entertaining game with marquee players on both sides that came down to the wire.
On your second point: I think that's a useful perspective. They make more than their share of bad calls, but they just seem out of control of themselves and the game too often. The Jets-Dolphins game made Pats-Ravens look like a brilliantly officiated game.
Ratbird fans (I know a few) weren't too thrilled with it either. . . .
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* According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Patriots and Ravens combined for 13 penalty first downs, which set a NFL record. The old record was 12 last done by the Ravens and Lions on Oct. 9, 2005.
1) The sky isn't falling, as the Patriots played pretty well for most of last night on both sides of the ball. If we're looking for a competitive team that will be in the hunt for the Division Title until late December, we have it in what we saw last night against a team we knew was good and, indeed, last week against an opponent that was much better than heralded.
2) But executing on "every drive but the last two" (on both sides of the ball) isn't going to win the Conference, let alone the Super Bowl. They have to start winning close games again to do that.
On their last two drives last night, the Pats moved the ball a total of 51 yards (20 on Baltimore Penalties!) and took just 4:32 off the clock; on their last drive, TB was one for four for 11 yards plus a sack.
On their last two drives, the Ravens moved the ball 126 yards (including a net 17 yards from penalties, 27 on McCourty, which was clearly a penalty, net of 10 for Offensive Holding).
3) If we're going to blame the Replacement officiating, it's going to be a long, long season. Every team is dealing with it and last night's officiating was far from yesterday's worst from that perspective.
Or, as Tom Brady put it after the game: "We just don't play well when we need to...Certainly, we've got to play our best when it means the most, and we need to start winning close games."
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On your first point: I think the only people who didn't have fun watching last nights game were Pats fans. The rest of the audience saw a competitive, entertaining game with marquee players on both sides that came down to the wire.
This is absolutely not true. I belong to several Message boards and fans all over are outraged by what happened last night. They don't care about the outcome but they care about how it was achieved. And yes even Ravens fans are upset about how the game was called even though they won. Ray Lewis is complaining about the calls and THEY WON! No one enjoyed that game at all.
This one of the most ridiculously poor officiated games I have ever seen.
I know I am in the minority, but overall I thought McCourty had a really good game with some bad plays. That first INT drop was a great play by him and just broken up by the receiver. Yet fans are killing him for it. I thought for the most part when he covered Smith he shut him out of the game. The Smith TD on him should have been offensive pass interference. He also got a phantom penalty on him too.
No McCourty drinking kool aid for me Rob...he stone single handedly cost the N.E. Patriots the game last night. That's exactly how he played last year a completion waithing to happen...he is terrible and will be BENCHED soon enough. Peyton Manning will be licking his chops playing catch with him. Mark it down Devin in DONE!
No McCourty drinking kool aid for me Rob...he stone single handedly cost the N.E. Patriots the game last night. That's exactly how he played last year a completion waithing to happen...he is terrible and will be BENCHED soon enough. Peyton Manning will be licking his chops playing catch with him. Mark it down Devin in DONE!
Devin is the best CB they have good or bad. Sorry, but Arrington has a better shot at being benched because he is the one who did play horrible last night.
Also, McCourty didn't single handily cost the Pats' the game. No one did.
As for Peyton, he needs to worry about being more than an average QB at this point. The guy completed 50% of his passes yesterday. He got over 300 yards, but much was in garbage time (the Texans were up 31-11 in the fourth) and because the fact he threw 52 times.
Devin is the best CB they have good or bad. Sorry, but Arrington has a better shot at being benched because he is the one who did play horrible last night.
Also, McCourty didn't single handily cost the Pats' the game. No one did.
As for Peyton, he needs to worry about being more than an average QB at this point. The guy completed 50% of his passes yesterday. He got over 300 yards, but much was in garbage time (the Texans were up 31-11 in the fourth) and because the fact he threw 52 times.
Mid way last year Devin was not playing CB i am sure you KNOW that, there was a reason ie...Plays or lack their of like last night. BB have made mistakes before...mark it down the McCourty experiment at CB will be over soon enough we have more CB's with guts on this Team and Devin is not one of them. There was a reason why our pass Defense was ranked DEAD LAST last year. Rob, Devin is simple not that goood last night is not a abberration...but the norm in reference to him.
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