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Out of both ends you mean?
He was cool when he first came out with his diff stats and what not... he is just annoyingnow and trys too hard
I hate their "quality opponent" stats. The Giants are a quality opponent because they are 9-7. The Pats won 7 games against teams that ended with an 8-8 record. If the Pats lost all those games and those teams had the same record against their other games, the Pats would have played 9 games against "quality opponents" rather than 2. So the Pats are being penalized by their record.
Also, the idea the Broncos' "gave away" a game where they lost by 18 points is laughable. Yes, the Broncos did have some costly turnovers but other than the muffed punts, don't the Pats get some credit for causing those turnovers? Anderson clearly stripped the ball from Tebow, but he gets no credit for it? How about on the Broncos' first TD, Ninkovitch clearly had Tebow wrapped up to try to sack him but was unable to bring him down. So by Byrnes stupid logic, the Pats gave Tebow that rushing TD and he didn't earn it.
Sorry, this article is absolute crap. I have never been a fan of quality stats and the reality of the argument is there isn't much difference between an 9-7 and an 8-8 team yet it does in FO's stats.
Being “battle-tested” is largely a myth, at least when defined by playing against teams with winning records. Still, the results here are interesting, as people always thought the teams that get through the tougher schedules are better suited to win in the playoffs. Not true.
But then Denver simply fell apart in the second quarter -- against a New England team famed for making its opponents pay for their mistakes. Running back Lance Ball, who otherwise had a good day (11 carries, 64 yards), fumbled with 8:31 to play in the first half. The Patriots turned that fumble into a Stephen Gostkowski field goal and their first lead of the game, 17-16.
Tebow fumbled on the very next drive. The Patriots turned that mistake into a one-yard Brady touchdown run and a 24-16 lead.
Then, with just three seconds to play in the half, Quan Cosby muffed a punt return. The Patriots again recovered, this time at the Denver 16. Gostkowski booted a gift field goal and New England entered intermission with a commanding 27-16 lead.
It was a devastating series of events that killed the Broncos in a game in which they were surprisingly competitive before shooting themselves in the foot three times in the span of eight game-changing minutes.
This article is no good and the writer sucks because this is negative about the Pats. The best writers only write positive stories about the Pats.