BradyManny2344 said:
Are you saying there hasn't been games where Faulk wasn't clearly a potential MVP of that game? He's made a ton of huge fourth quarter plays for us over the years. He's also had some killer mistakes. I know there's a gut reaction to get angry with Faulk b/c he's coughed it up too many times in his career - but we can't forget all the huge plays he has made for us in his time here. He has won us games.
No, I'm not saying to forget the plays he made in the past, and no, we won't forget what he has done for us. That isn't the same as saying he still belongs on the team. Go back and read my last post, and you will clearly see what I am saying. It isn't about what Faulk did for us in the past, it is what he is doing to us in the present. Can you say that Faulk was clearly the MVP of any game THIS year? That he made a ton of fourth quarter plays THIS year?
I don't disagree with you and the others who say what a great job he did for us, I only disagree when you say he is still doing it.
Murphys95 said:
Faulk doesn't deserve any more or less blame for this loss than any other player on the Patriots. Singling him out just isn't right.
I didn't single out Kevin Faulk personally, you know. No one did. People are singling out the player who turned two catachable balls into interceptions, both deep in Indy Territory, at the end of half/game.
That guy, what his name might be, may not be the reason we lost, but he is not helping our cause a single bit any more, and IMO we will play better without him on the field. Having a key catch in a drive is meaningless if you later tip a catchable ball into an INT.
Anyway, it isn't Faulk's fault. It the fault of the coaching staff who put him in the game. Faulk's palying as best as he can. It just isn't that good anymore. So why put him in when there are players who are so much better?
At one point we had first and goal at the ten yard line at one point. In goes Faulk and Evans, and they give the ball to Faulk who gets stuffed. Well, duh! You're on the ten yard line, you have Dillon and Maroney on the sdielines and you're running Kevin Faulk out of the I formation? Is that what you would have called? I wouldn't have. I would have called on Dillon or Maroney as a single I back, and would either run him or do a play action.
We didn't draft Maroney to have Kevin Faulk run out of the I in goal line formations. At least he didn't fumble!