Losing the Denver game was brutal because of they way the Pats lost.
* Leading 3-0 with the ball, the pats should have gone into half-time up, not down 10-3
* Brady doesn’t throw the pick and the game is 10-9 and all the momentum is on the Pats side.
* Even after the pick, if the refs call that fumble a touchback – as it should have been – the Pats have the ball on their own 20 still only down 10-6.
* Troy Brown doesn’t fumble the punt – which led to a Bronco TD – and the Pats are only down 17-6 instead of 24-6 and they are still in the game.
I would rather have the Steelers come here and “beat†the Pats than have the Pats give the game away they did in Denver.
Now if I had to choose between the Pats losing in Denver (playing the way they played) or losing to the Steelers in NE with the Pats playing like they did in Denver – 5 turnovers – I would rather have lost in Denver.