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So if Welker had made the catch, then the OL blocking would have suddenly become more effective? If the defense had made ONE stop after the Welker "drop", would that have made the OL more effective?
The Pats lost those 2 superbowls, but the fact is there are several reasons that have nothing to do with how the OL blocked those days that helped cause those results, including Steven Neal's injury on the first series of the game. Despite any flaws we might have had on the OL in those 2 losing superbowls, making it seem like that was the ONLY reason we lost them is simply ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as trying to convince us that the team who, prior to this game, gave up the 3rd fewest sacks in the league, made a mistake in trading Logan Mankins despite the OVERWHELMING evidence against that position.
Taking this one game example as a representation of the OL's play is just as ridiculous as rating the Dallas OL on their Thanksgiving game against Philly. I mean didn't they give up 4 sacks and allow the Eagles to hold the top rushing game in the league to 88 yds. It was a horrendous OL performance.
I wonder if they had some dallas fan jackasses who posted on their boards what idiots their FO's were for building that OL. instead of getting more WR's
Exactly. What Deus Irae does not understand in his simplistic reasoning on why the Patriots were not good enough in SB's 42 and 46 is that those two losses by 3 and 4 points respectively, were no more or less the fault of the team any more than the 3 SB wins by 3 points were proof that the 2001, 2003 or 2004 Patriots were built any better.
3 or 4 points one way or the other, or a last minute dropped pass or dropped interception does not settle any argument over how a FO built a team built a team.
The fact that Vinatieri hit crucial FG's in the 3 wins does not indict the FO's of the 2007 and 2011 teams.
Sometimes the pellet falls into the lottery slot and sometimes it doesn't. The fact that the Patriots are always in the playoffs and get first round byes is all that is needed. The rest is how the ball bounces.