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We measure professional athletes based on how they compare to their peers.
If a baseball player hits .400, this is fantastic because no other player has done this in decades.
If you see a .400 hitter, and you start complaining about the bad pitches he swung at, then you have lost all sense of perspective.
Over the course of this evening, the Patriots offense performed 20% better than any other NFL franchise has over the course of this season. In what universe is this not fantastic?
Ok, to use your analogy:
If a .400 hitter has a 3-10 game and blew an easy hit and run where an entire side of the infield was open because the middle infielder went to cover the bag, he didn't have a fantastic game.
Again, the offense was fine. I've been defending the playcalling and personnel packages on other threads. I'm simply not going to go blindly into the "homer" side of things, either. The offense wasn't fantastic. The false start penalties weren't "fantastic", the dropped balls weren't "fantastic", the offensive line play wasn't "fantastic", etc...
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