Special Ed teams sucked today, but for crying out loud stop with the onside kick thing already. The Patriots could have just as easily kicked off, had the ball returned to the 30, and had the Eagles there a play or two later. It did not blow the doors open or doom us. It was a good risk/reward play. You recover it, great. You don't recover it, they get the ball at around their 40. It was not the end of the damn world.
James White showed a lot today, glad he started to step up when the Patriots needed him to.
I was consoling myself at 35-14 saying "At least we didn't suffer an injury." Then Kline goes down. There goes that.
The Patriots seem to always have a yearly ass kicking like this where things just go f*cky. It happened in 2010 against the Browns, 2012 against the 49ers (though we did close the gap). Chiefs last year, it was the Eagles this year. The ****ty part about it is that it came this late in the season, and it came after getting robbed in Denver last week. I'd be less frustrated about this loss had they not been jobbed last week.
Anyway, it is what it is. 10-2, sitting at the #3 seed. Good news is that one of Denver or Cincy will lose another, and both still play Pittsburgh. We need that bye week to get healthy. But if they just get the #3 seed I am confident they can win and take it to the #2 seed and beat them there.
The crazy thing about all this? I'm almost sure KC will end up as the 5th seed and beat the AFCS champ.. If the Broncos are #1 and Bengals #2, that could easily set up a NE-KC AFCCG in Foxboro.
Anyway, getting ahead of myself here. But #3 seed really is the worst case scenario for the team it seems and that just might end up being good for them outside of having not had a bye since week dumbass 4
