PatriotSeven
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I'm not going to bother picking this team to death. Yes we made a lot of mistakes. We got our butts kicked on ST, and lots of mental errors and dropped balls on offense. Thought the D played great and easily kept the Giants under average ppg. Our offense let us down, once again, but it's not like the Giants didn't made a ton of errors too. It wasn't one sided and I thought both teams played really sloppy. They weren't stellar either and pass rush was pretty much neutralized by our offensive line.
However, there's one thing that's just become obvious and I have major beef with: we cannot manage the clock when on defense, especially against this Giants O, Eli and Tom Coughlin. I loved the idea of Bill letting them score. Brilliant.
But it came, once again, just a tad bit too late and he was too indecisive in making that decision. It was an obvious score so that decision should have came much sooner. It should have been made after their huge miracle catch instead of throwing the challenge flag which cost us the timeout.
We can't freaking have 4th quarter comebacks when we always got less than under 50 seconds left on the clock and no timeouts. I thought Brady was on point that final drive and the receivers weren't but I'm not going to blame them either. I just hate seeing us go down in this situation, with downs still left, because of poor clock management once again.
I feel we lost this game strategically in that which we used to be best: game management. Other than that, I personally have to accept it for what it is. We got outplayed and got beat once again by the better team today in the Super Bowl.
That's tough to swallow. But it is what it is. I hope you guys hang in there. And I think our guys could use a little bit of support. Perhaps it's time for them to stop trying to be the image of excellence. It's not only no longer fitting but they're no longer having any fun out there and I don't think we are either.
However, there's one thing that's just become obvious and I have major beef with: we cannot manage the clock when on defense, especially against this Giants O, Eli and Tom Coughlin. I loved the idea of Bill letting them score. Brilliant.
But it came, once again, just a tad bit too late and he was too indecisive in making that decision. It was an obvious score so that decision should have came much sooner. It should have been made after their huge miracle catch instead of throwing the challenge flag which cost us the timeout.
We can't freaking have 4th quarter comebacks when we always got less than under 50 seconds left on the clock and no timeouts. I thought Brady was on point that final drive and the receivers weren't but I'm not going to blame them either. I just hate seeing us go down in this situation, with downs still left, because of poor clock management once again.
I feel we lost this game strategically in that which we used to be best: game management. Other than that, I personally have to accept it for what it is. We got outplayed and got beat once again by the better team today in the Super Bowl.
That's tough to swallow. But it is what it is. I hope you guys hang in there. And I think our guys could use a little bit of support. Perhaps it's time for them to stop trying to be the image of excellence. It's not only no longer fitting but they're no longer having any fun out there and I don't think we are either.