Quick Post Game Thoughts, Game 2: Chargers at Pats
 

1.) Another game, another otherworldly performance by Brady. Even with him being a little shaky after he got that bad hit, he was unbelievable.

2.) People are trashing McCourty and the secondary, the real problem today was the pass rush. The Pats barely blitzed and that could be part of it, but Rivers had all day. When you give Rivers four or five seconds throwing to a big receiver like Jackson, he is going to make plays. I will chock this up to the Pats playing conservative on the blitz until the players pick up the schemes. That said, they did dial up the pressure and made the turnovers when they had to.

3.) Not happy with the injuries. Supposably Hernedez was limping badly in the lockerroom. The Pats can't afford to lose him. Hopefully he will be ok.

4.) So much for Branch not having a catch in the preseason. Perhaps he knew he was going to catch so many in the regular season that he wanted to let others get them in the preseason.

5.) Ochocinco is picking up the offense. He had a big catch early, but I saw him get open on other plays but Brady went to other receivers like Gronk on his TD catch.

6.) To think people wanted to cut Mark Anderson. Not a great player, but two games, two sacks.

7.) One of the most underrated thing about the defense in this game was how they shutdown Gates. It was obviously the gameplan.

8.) Kudos to Dan Connolly. He had a bad snap on one of the shotguns, but he hasn't made us miss Dan Koppen just yet.

9.) Gotta like the goal line defense. this is the second game in a row that the Pats made a huge goalline stand.

10>) Even with Mesko out, I thought going on it on 4th and 4 was stupid. Let Brady punt it 20 yards. It would have been a better move.

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What about the 25% chance that Brady/Welker/Ghost gets the punt blocked and possibly returned for a TD?

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Sometimes you have to give credit to the opposition too. I thought Vincent Jackson played unreal. He saved Rivers two more int's. One on that 3RD and long that Barrett mis-judged. And, on the td that made it 28-21. He was awesome. Don't know how you can cover a guy like him. Chargers are a physical team. Their rb's ran very hard.

I thought there were 3 bad calls that hurs. a. Carter's hit can't be a penalty if they want to call it tackle football. b. Bodden illegal contact? WTF?? Revis has his hands all over wr's 15-20 yards down the field and no penalty. 7 yards and a flag. Please. C. The Tom Brady Rule. I guess it doesn't apply to Tom Brady.

Punt at their 37. Go for it at own 45. Don't know about those two decisions BB.

Our offense is ridiculously good. Hope Hernandez ok. Can live for a week or two without him. But, we need him to win big games. OL was fabulous. Receivers were good. What can you say about the offense that isn't good. TFB. Enjoy him while we have him fellow Pats fans. We will never see another like him on our team.

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I said to a friend of mine Brady is going to pooch this inside the 5 just like in 03. I was so sure of it, shocked when he passed.

They can probably get by without a few of the injured players the next two weeks but if they lose Hernandez and Dowling for as long as the Jets game that's going to be trouble.

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animooted for the ages, sir.

Well done!

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Unfortuantely the Carter call was right. It was a good call for a better bad rule. I hate the rule, but it is right.

Also, Revis is not going to get called for PI because there is a star syetm in football. It isn't as bad as in basketball, but it is there,

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No enough pass rush on rivers tonight...he got his yards but also made some key mistakes

Mccourty was so-so tonight..nothing great and not horrible


Pissed when i heard about Hernandez..he was limping in 3rd but stay out there for the game...guess it was bad after the game..not good

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I know its hard to cover Jackson but I thought McCourty was supposed a shutdown corner. Last year Pats fans were saying he was the third best corner in the league. I don't see Revis or Asomugha having that performance. As I don't see Brandon Flowers, Talib, Samuel or Hall having it either.

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Sorry, Rob, but it was not the correct call on Carter. The call the ref announced was for leading with the crown of the helmet. Which was incorrect. Carter led with his facemask.

Also, carter was already in the air by the time that Rivers let go of the ball, there is no way to stop that..

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Well, if you don't think that Samuel would have that issue, you are fooling yourself. Samuel is not a pressure corner. Nor is he a shut-down corner. The problem is that you were having a 5'9, 190 lb Cb try to bumb and run with a 6'5 235 lb WR. It automatically works against McCourty to do that.