But if the defense did everything you and others said they would do then the Patriots would have won. I was also right about the defense depending on the offense too much over the course of the season, and how it might come back to haunt them in the playoffs. The offense struggled Sunday, and the defense didnt play well enough to pick them up and still come out with the win. Failure of the system in which the defense was far too dependent on the offense.
The offense struggled Sunday, and the defense didnt play well enough to pick them up and still come out with the win.
The argument could just as easily be made that the offense was too dependent on the defense to win and when the defense didn't create turnovers for the offense they couldn't come out with the win.