Just some quick hits:
1.) Tremendous second half offensive explosion
2.) McCourty is hailed for making picks, and it's great that he caught them. His game shows how close the line between goat and hero is, though. If Fitzpicksix makes good throws on those plays, they're both big completions for Buffalo because McCourty was beaten.
3.) This defensive backfield still sucks
4.) Sadly, it appears that Gregory is who many of us thought he was. Which leads to....
5.) Tavon "Reach" Wilson may turn out to be the starter with Chung in very short order. While I haven't focused on him, when I've followed him, he seems to be playing at least well enough to compete with Gregory. That may be damning with faint praise, but it's a damned sight better than having Sergio Brown back there.
6.) I still think that this LB group would be better off in the 3-4, because that would allow Spikes to be less of a drawback in the passing game.
7.) Mr. Bolden had an excellent game. A couple more like that and I might be glad they didn't send him to the practice squad.
8.) Wifork - Poet, Statesman, hard hitting safety
9.) I think we're seeing both the good and bad of Mr. Lloyd. Separation issues and some easy drops v. solid ballfighting skills and circus catches. I got the feeling today that Brady started to get a better take on that as this game went on, and I'm very hopeful that we'll see a bit more judiciousness in the throws sent #85's way.
10.) TFB = GOAT, and he played like it in the second half of this game. Keep it up, Tom.
11.) And this may be the most important in the longterm:
It may turn out that the injuries to Hernandez and Edelman, while certainly not something to hope for, have a beneficial effect for the offense in the end. With them sidelined, the offense is much more Welker-centric, and it looks better by orders of magnitude. It's one thing to be diverse, but I seems clear that it's another to alter the basic offensive focus.
