Im already over the loss. Next year is the year.
 

The Patriots got outplayed, it sucks but its what it is. At least it was tonight and not in the SB since they clearly weren't going to beat the 49ers at half strength like they were. Nothing we can do about that now so stop worrying about it.

Anyway, aside from Brady who will unfortunately get a year older, the rest of the team is young on both sides of the ball. Brady still has 3 to 4 great years left. Thats a fact, his strength has always been in football smarts. Never his legs (lol) and never his arm. That isn't going away.

With Ridley and Vereen (and Woodhead/Bolden depending on what happens there) the running game will be fully utilized. Its for real and its not going anywhere. The defense is 1 or 2 pieces away (perhaps an additional safety or defensive end) from being great as long as they resign Talib, which I suspect they will. A healthy Chandler Jones and Hightower will be an additional force on the defense. Seriously, go down the list on defense, everyone is young and signed aside from Talib.

On offense they need to resign Welker and I bet they do. Maybe the Pats can take a look at Greg Jennings to go opposite lloyd on the outside. With Gronk and Hernandez having a fresh start at health it can only get better on that end. The o-line is extremely young and an additional offseason will finally give them some continuity.

Basically people need to calm down and realize how good the Pats have it going forward. The AFC will only get weaker around the Pats (aside from the Texans who are a complete toss up at this point). The Broncos and Steelers are stagnating and this really is the Ravens last hurrah for a while. Look forward to minicamp in May.

PS: Id really appreciate it if this thread is not merged since all the other threads are currently ranting about the perceived downfall of our team.

Re: Im already over the loss. Next year is the year.
 

well said sir, could not agree more... alot to look forward too; Pats still have a great team. They will be back

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Well said my friend, well said. I gave up hope when Talib was out ,because lets admit it we were literally back to being the team which was 3-3 / 1-2 at the start of the season. Flacco (or even tim tebow for that matter) had his way with the D from there on. It would have hurt more if we would have lost the SB to the niners.

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Entering today, we had a 1:4 chance of winning the Lombardi. Next year's odds are much lower.

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Too true.

We were never going to beat the 49ers. Better to lose now than in back to back SBs. That would have broken the team's back.

Re: Im already over the loss. Next year is the year.
 

Over it? Or just getting used to it?

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Another "Next Year" thread...can't we just sticky one? In 05 it was Wait till we don't get a screwy DPI and end zone pick. In 06 it was wait till our WR's are top notch and the D gets better. In 07 wait till we get revenge from 42. In 08 it was wait till Brady's back. In 09 it was wait till this D gets better. In 10 it was wait till this D gets better. In 11 it was wait till this D gets better. And now in 12 I am supposed to believe THIS be the D's turning point? Please.

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Is it weird that after the loss I was hoping we would squeak into the playoffs and be the underdog rather than get HFA again?

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ill be over it the minute those **** ravens get their **** kicked by the 49'ers