The Official Patriots vs Ravens AFC Championship Game thread

[CaliPatsFan12]

lol nice leg kick by brady

 

[PatriotFan77]

pathetic clock management

 

[Pats1989]

That my friends is how games are lost. No way this should only be a 6 point lead. Why the **** did nobody call a timeout after the slide? WTF...

 

[Hardboiled]

Ahern should have gone out of bounds. TB should have throw it away.

I'll take the 3 though.

 

[patsrulenfl]

Why the **** did Hernandez stay in bounds

 

[gtfanboy]

OK. Happy with the clock management. 3 points is 3 points.

Could have been handled better. Probably missed out on a play or two.

 

[PatriotSpy]

Pats always try and get cute with the time. And sometimes like this it costs them.

Just stupid.

 

[Sfpat]

ugh. Rare bad clock management.

Unfortunately, wouldn't say rare. It's happened several times this season. See Seattle game

 

[Stoke city patriots]

We could of had 17 seconds on the clock then, and ended up with 4..

I'll take a 6 point lead though, apart from 1 strong drive they didn't trouble us all half. We will control this next half and ray Lewis can drift away into sadness.

 

[PatsSweFan]

Feck, not good enough so many points left out :bricks:

 

[buile]

I'm glad that the Patriots simply refuse to do those stupid halftime camera interviews. They might say something to a commentator, but they don't go on camera to do it.

 

[SVN]

thats a win for the ravens . 13-7 only after having bad field position and pats running so many plays.

 

[Keyser Söze]

my god that was ******* stupid. Not the first time they've ****ed up with clock management.

 

[upstater1]

I'm not blaming them for not calling a timeout after the Brady run. You use your last time out, then you're sacked, you lose 3 points. Hernandez is the one who screwed up.

 

[Gumby]

if pats (bb) have a repetitive issue it seems to be time mgmt like this at the end of halfs in championship games. Otherwise he is such a legend - these type errors seem so out of place. (more on brady than him; but bb could have called that TO 5-8 sec earlier.

 

[ausbacker]

OK, I may be getting ahead of myself but I got the distinct impression that the Ravens D looked tired toward the end of the half. If the Patriots D can hold, hopefully that time on ground through the first two matches for Baltimore becomes telling.

 

[DOGWARZ]

Let's hope the defense can get another 3 n out to turnover at the start of the half. Can't allow ravens any points to start the half.

 

[Brady2Gronk]

That my friends is how games are lost. No way this should only be a 6 point lead. Why the **** did nobody call a timeout after the slide? WTF...

The pats will come out with guns blazing in the seconds half. if the D hold up t will be a 10+ pt victory

 

[fumbrunner]

half way there.

 

[patfanken]

The bad news about this half is that the Pats have been in the red zone 3 times with only 1 TD. The Ravens have gotten in there only once, but have a TD.

This is all about the red zone efficiency. The Pats made 2 critical mistakes on that drive. Hernandez didn't go out of bound on his catch. He gained an extra 2 yds but we lost the TD. And the obvious one, Brady not take the TO, we lost 2 shots at the endzone.