Game Day Thread Official Post Game Thread- Raiders beat the Pats

[Ross12]

I think a few other games need to fall the Pats way, too, with them going 2-1 and Miami going 1-2, in order for the Pats to get in.

But yeah, the gist is that if the Pats finish 3-0, they're in. If they finish 2-1, they need some results to fall their way with the Dolphins, Jets, and Chargers. If they take the route of going 2-1, that one loss cannot be to Miami.

It’s not too complicated, the top two wild card spots will most likely go to whichever team doesn’t win the AFC North between Baltimore/Cincinnati and to the Chargers. So it comes down to the last slot, where the Pats would be jockeying with Miami. If they go 2-1 with a win against Miami and Miami goes 1-2, they’re tied - there’s no head to head tiebreaker because they both beat each other once so it then goes to the other tiebreakers. They’re both 2-2 in division right now so NE winning head to head in this game gives them the advantage. If NE beats MIA and BUF then they win the tiebreaker with a better divisional record. If they beat CIN and MIA but lose to BUF, and MIA loses to NE and NYJ but beats GB, NE still wins the tiebreaker. However, if MIA loses to GB and NE but beats NYJ then you fall down a rabbit hole of deeper tiebreakers.

 

[ensoul]

People actually talking playoffs lol

I mean a couple of things here: any chance the Patriots had of making the playoffs ended on Thanksgiving when they lost to Minnesota.

Secondly does anybody honestly want this team to even make the playoffs?

Let's be honest the Patriots have turned into one of those teams that all of us have made fun of over the past 20 years that's completely undisciplined and makes ridiculous mistakes.

 

[Jlaff]

Another thing overshadowed was our offensive series right before the Raiders game tying TD drive, after our defense had made yet another stop when up 7. Absolutely cowardly and pathetic. Literally one first down ends the game and they just sat on the ball .

Agreed, I said something earlier on if you can't trust Mac to get a first down why is he playing?

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

Bill is definitely an all time great coach. if he stopped coaching today - is he the greatest of all time right now? There are arguments for and against it and that’s one argument against it. I would think the greatest has won the most.

Who do you put ahead of him?

 

[ralmat55]

What this team does the best is run the ball, and its best player is Rhamondre Stevenson. It’s 2nd and goal in the shadow of the goal line, and the Pats run an empty set with the QB in the shotgun. It defies common sense. It defies good coaching. It results in a comedy of errors and meltdowns that results in a FG rather than a TD.

I know less about football than many posters here and, definitely, less than coaches that have made this their life’s work. My standard is whether it’s game strategy or personnel decisions is just whether I can make some sense of what they’re trying to do. Way too often these days I can’t. It’s been that way for awhile, and it’s getting worse not better.

 

[Brick27]

After looking into it, this actually checks out..

 

[Kasmir]

I have to add something Brady made everyone around him better, he had this will to win to never accept defeat which he imbued to his team mates. Its an intangible that only a few have.

How's that working out for Brady this year?

 

[A Defiant Goose]

How's that working out for Brady this year?

Right lol

 

[catent]

Here is the definitive look. 100% out of bounds. F*ck the NFL, their incompetent officials, and their corrupt review room.

 

[Fubby]

People actually talking playoffs lol

As bad as it sounds, nobody should be rooting for this team to make the playoffs unless you have a strong interest in watching the Patriots get trucked in embarrassing fashion.

 

[TBR]

How's that working out for Brady this year?

What type of point do you think you're trying to make? It's worked out well for 99% of his career.

 

[catent]

 

[cmasspatsfan]

What type of point do you think you're trying to make? It's worked out well for 99% of his career.

It's worked out great for BB for 99% of his career.

 

[Ross12]

This is… bizarrely true - they follow all 31 NFL teams EXCEPT the Patriots.

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

Agreed, I said something earlier on if you can't trust Mac to get a first down why is he playing?

They were playing like they were leaving 11 seconds on the clock, not 2:11.

 

[Patsgofor4]

1 - It was so stupid for Meyers to throw that
2 - Mac could have, and should have, grabbed Jones leg and hung on with all his might.
3 - we would have lost in OT anyway, and everyone knew it.
4 - even if we hung on to beat a horrible Raiders team, we're clearly loosing the final 3 games and missing the playoffs

I hate loosing.

 

[ScottishPatriots]

It's pointless going into debating bad calls all week, this game was 2 suckbag teams both trying to give the game away and the Patriots had the final chance to do it.

Hard to have any sympathy for whatever team lost.

 

[Sam Bam Cunningham]

Here is the definitive look. 100% out of bounds. F*ck the NFL, their incompetent officials, and their corrupt review room.

Here is the definitive look. 100% out of bounds. F*ck the NFL, their incompetent officials, and their corrupt review room.

Bad call for sure, but even if they called it right....Raiders still could have scored on subsequent play (it would have been 3rd and 10) to tie it up.

 

[Guts]

As infuriating as the Pats game was along with the Tompa Bay meltdown, it was a truly great weekend of sports.
Greatest WC final of all time
Colts 28-3 moment
Buffalo-Miami game
Pats-Raiders game
TB12 meltdown
Jags beating the Cowgirls

 

[upstater1]

The NFL booth had view of white chalk kicking up: