PostGame Discussion Thread

alvinnf said:

He had happy feet and felt ghost pressure. All of course making your point. But, I just thought he looked real poor. He held it allot. Gotta see the all 22, to know if it was all covered. But man he just looked crappy all day. JMD didn't do him any favors. But there were a few times hwhere they just needed to manufacture some yards. JMD just kept going back to the well. He never attacked the fuel horizontally. But, not a great performance by Brady.

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We just don't have a vertical threat.

That play sanders made over butler, going up for the ball was crazy. I remember thinking damn I wish we had a receiver that could do that. Edelman and co make some great catches, but none of our guys seem to be able to make that kind of play down the sideline

Tough game. Some weird coaching decisions which cost the game but the Broncos defense was a real force today and I have no complaints with the refs. I am looking forward to watching the SB.

juny said:

Brady hit a league season high for 20times. There is the main factor for the loss

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I'm hearing league officials have found Brady's RAV4 after the alleged murder at Mile High.

ArchAngel007 said:

I haven't seen him hit that much in a playoff game since the infamous 42 game. He got leveled all game long.

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Your right. I think he held it at times. Guess we got out played.

Conspiracy Theory:
Over in Oz they are talking about a massive fail of the tablets the PATS coaches and players were using to view plays just made. Apparently they all went down in the 3rd qtr and didn't come back till the 4th qtr. And the broncos scored during this. Tt was only the PATS tablets, Denver who were using the same tablets had no problems. Apparently had something to do with the wifi network the pats were using going down
We lost because we didn't play good enough, but gotta love a good conspiracy

Broncos players definitely going for hard hits against heads of our guys (like 2013 game when they knocked Ridley out of the game). Got two penalties out of it (Bolden/Edelman), but it seemed a point of emphasis for their defense, to play on the other side of dirty...

First, I got to congratulate our New England Patriots for a great season, even though they came up a little short of going back to the SB.

The Denver Broncos defense was fantastic and that team deserved to win, and although there are faults on the Patriots side (offensive line/Brady and passing game struggles/PAT/curious coaching decisions down the stretch), the better team won today at Fed Ex Field.

I am now on to 2016. This team, even without the luxury of draft picks and free agency, is loaded with playoff caliber talent returning next season.

I may not be around much between now and August, so I wish each and every one of you nothing but the best during the off season.

alvinnf said:

He had happy feet and felt ghost pressure.

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those were some very hard-hitting ghosts, hitting him 20 times in fact

It may be a small thing, but in retrospect, the Patriots didn't use the snap count well today. To my untrained eye, it seemed like Patriots consistently ran it close to expiry rather than keeping Denver on their heels. Perhaps a little zigzag workmanship may have helped a little.

Brady was getting killed. He had no OL, no RBs, and no WRs. Gronk was the only help he got, and even he had to leave at key points. Chandler, Martin and LaFell were worthless. Amendola, Edelman and White made a handful of routine plays, but no big ones. Jackson, Bolden and White were useless on the ground. Despite this glaring lack of support, he was a missed extra point from tying it, with 3 red zone drives in the fourth quarter that should have been13 points and a win. A couple of different coaching decisions and we are talking about Brady overcoming adversity.

i hope none of our players are involved in the joke known as the pro bowl.

Dr Pain said:

Tough game. Some weird coaching decisions which cost the game but the Broncos defense was a real force today and I have no complaints with the refs. I am looking forward to watching the SB.

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Why the weird coaching decisions? If people can figure this out for themselves it will go a long way to seeing why they lost. The Broncos D wasn't a force. If one has the answer to the above statement it will prove that D wasn't a force.

ausbacker said:

It may be a small thing, but in retrospect, the Patriots didn't use the snap count well today. To my untrained eye, it seemed like Patriots consistently ran it close to expiry rather than keeping Denver on their heels. Perhaps a little zigzag workmanship may have helped a little.

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Hard to know if this was an offensive line issue, wanting to make sure everyone was set properly. You are right though, little surprise to the pass rushers when the snap was happening.

Jangles said:

We just don't have a vertical threat.

That play sanders made over butler, going up for the ball was crazy. I remember thinking damn I wish we had a receiver that could do that. Edelman and co make some great catches, but none of our guys seem to be able to make that kind of play down the sideline

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Having a vertical threat wouldn't have really helped out considering Tom would have had to hold the ball for more than 2 seconds.

2/15 on 3rd down

Wrath Mania said:

Granted easy to see it from up here, but Brady was staring down guys all night when the pressure got tough. Just ugly.

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As I noticed in real time too during the game, Brady has a wide open field of vision to throw a dart to just inside the right pylon as White meets the ball with speed faster than anyone around him. All he has to do is catch the ball and lean forward.
Look, I can forgive not throwing to him on that one play -- lots of mayhem going on. But that we didn't exploit the White vs ??? matchup is just F'n bad football. Denver frequently a point of emphasis on Jules and Gronk. DA and JoJo/Martin out there too. They had no one of equivalent speed and side to side ability to put on White. Yet for some inexplicable reason we didn't attempt to exploit that until desperation time. Damn, to not exploit a lopsided matchup is just plain and simple bad football. White was our most slippery evasive guy on O. Why would we not design a few plays to get him the ball in some open space to see what his speed and evasiveness could do??? I just don't get it....

juny said:

Brady hit a league season high for 20times. There is the main factor for the loss

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Just can't win if your QB is getting planted play after play.

Is Ryan Allen punting flying under the radar?


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Patriot Missile said:

1. The offensive line was terrible in this game and several others this season. Changes must be made in the offseason starting with the draft.

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Why? They're going to get back all those guys on IR next year and they don't have a 1st round pick.

What really hurts though about this loss is that people can say that Manning is 3-2 in the playoffs against Brady.