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- The Pats' philosophy of playing a soft defense on the other team's opening drive to allow them to tip their hand really blew up in the Patriots' face this time. Usually they tighten up when the ball crosses mid field and hold the opposing defense to 3 or no points and then tighten up on the next drive. That TD really cost them. It really set the tone of the game.
- That said, for all the ball washing for the Broncos' defense (deservedly so), the Patriots defense played lights out for most of the rest of the game. Even though Collins did a poor job covering Daniels on that TD, that second TD was on Brady. It is too bad because the defense's solid performance was overshadows by the dumpster fire that was the offense.
- I think Brady is more hurt than they were letting on. I heard on the radio yesterday that under the radar that Brady needed a lot of treatment on his ankle leading up to the KC game. His throws were way off yesterday even when he wasn't under pressure. Didn't look like he was stepping into his throws correctly.
- For all the people who have killed Nate Solder over the years, you need to give him a big apology. It hasn't been more apparent how good he is protecting Brady's blindside (and allowing Vollmer to protect his other side) than yesterday and this season after he went down.
- That o-line was awful. I don't even know where to begin. So I will leave it there.
- I don't get why Kubiak challenged that Amendola incomplete pass. Stupid decision. If the call was overturned, the only possible outcome would have been a reception and down by contact. The ball wasn't stripped until Amendola's knee was on the ground.
- This team needs to invest in a real road grader RB this offseason. The inability to even show a half hearted running game in the past two months has really hurt them. Yes, a large part of this was the o-line, but it was also because they did not have a RB who could hit the hole fast and hard. Stephen Jackson took like 15 minutes to hit the hole. He was really done and I think was a mistake for the Pats to add him rather than another street free agent.
- I think people are looking at the fact the Pats didn't kick field goals on the last two drives prior to th TD as hindsight being a bit of 20/20. Sure the first one you can definitely argue that they should have kicked a field goal and I would agree with you. I didn't have a problem going for it the second time just because there was no guarantee that they could have scored again.