Typical spoiled fan post..... great Defensive game today for the Pats. The offense struggled no doubt....but I do not expect 300+ yards and 4+ TDs every week. Cmon....get over the homerness.
What I expect from a "great team's offense" or "the greatest offense of all time" is EFFICIENCY when facing a HORRIBLE DEFENSE with ONE element to contend against. Particularly when it's likely to encouter said element in the playoffs against MUCH BETTER defenses. The Jets have the 27th ranked offense, were playing against the 4th ranked defense, lost their STARTING QB AND were playing in the same weather conditions as the Pats and yet THEIR OFFENSIVE OUTPUT didn't decline by over 100 yards. The Jets total yards today was a mere 60 yards less than their season's average. The Pats #1 offense, which is supposedly the "greatest ever", playing against the 28th ranked defense, with supposedly the "greatest QB ever" and the "greatest WR ever" could only manage a palty 265 yards, a full 160 YARDS below their season average. The Pats got a gift TD from the special teams. Their offense actually came up with 6 points against a TERRIBLE D. This isn't the "greatest offense ever". It's just an offense that plays well against poor defenses and struggles to score against good defenses. I'll take the 2004 offense over this shoddy inconsistent crew any day.
"What a pathetic performance".....by the Jets. The Pats were good. The offense held the ball for most of the game. The defense played great. Don't bother complaining about the offense because we know what they are capable of.
Yeah, they are capable of great things against pathetic defenses/teams and not much against good defenses/teams. Unfortunately, we'll be see a lot of the latter, and not the former, once the playoffs begin.
A win is a win, but that game left very little to build on going into the post season, especially in a game where everyone was assuming the team was seeking blood. The defense played well, but this was the Jets and it was a poor field. What we saw was an offense that couldn't muster much of anything in bad weather and Tom looking to Randy WAY too often - he was locking in on him and was essentially a crutch. I mean, the Jets and Pennington's 6 year old girl arm managed some precision on his passes to sustain drives, why couldn't we do it? I'm not sure it was even so much the weather. Maroney ran the ball good enough, but I would never call that the kind of running attack that you can rely on to win a game. So I'll agree with the original poster - worst game of the year. In the Eagles games and the Ravens games, we saw other teams that came out and played really well and we saw the Pats stare them in the face and win.
Side note - Peyton's record looks much less likely with a donut today. Tom needs 5 in the next two weeks in meaningless games and who knows about the weather - this is December.
Finally, a sane, objective Pats fans. Using the weather as an excuse would be more plausible if Pennington and the Jets weren't completing passes at will in THE SAME CONDITIONS with far more PRESSURE ON THE POCKET than Brady felt all day. Pennington completed 66% of his passes while the "greatest QB ever" could only manage a paltry 52%. Maroney ran well but it was against one of the worst run defenses in the league. I doubt we see a repeat of that performance in the playoffs. Most in here seem to forget that the ultimate goal isn't to win a regular season game against a bad Jets team but to win the frigging SB. We don't play in a dome and if this is the best we can manage against a bad team just because there was some "wind" then we are screwed against Indy or Jacksonville.
Brady doesn't deserve the record though it's a shame that Manning will retain it.
Could someone explain this crap to me? Everyone knew the game wasn't going to be a blowout because of the weather, and guess what? Everyone was right. And then the Patriots are terrible and Brady sucks because they didn't exceed expectations and score 50 in the middle of a Nor'easter. Give me a break man, maybe you should go be a Colts fan and watch the game in a dome.
Hmmm... 27th offense against 4th defense vs 1st offense against 28th defense. This should have been a blowout (i.e. 34/3) and would have been had the "greatest offense ever" been able to manage more than a measely 6 pts (not counting the gift TD). No, the Pats are terrible because they managed 6/16 third downs against a bad defense and Brady sucks because he managed 52% passing/134 yards/1 INT against a bad defense. No one expected them to score 50.
This may be the worst post of the year....did you even watch the game....the Patriots were playing close to the vest not only because of the weather but because they didn't want to give anything away for the playoffs, which is what they do every year. I expect to see this run heavy offense next week against Miami as well, and probably another low scoring game thats the Patriots control from start to finish. Why open up your offense on a crappy weather day against a team with no offense who kept running into themselves. When the Jets got within one score that's when the Pats went deep and opened it, for that one series and it was enough. This was a practice game warm up for the playoffs, I would not base my judgment of this team, their offense and their quartback on this game, that would be ignorant and stupid, just like the overreaction in this post.
Are you related to "MoLewis" because that excuse sounds just like the ones he makes when the D plays terribly. You're right, Belichick told the offense to go out there and fail to execute and let the Jets keep it close
Here's a tip - go back and watch the game if you can and you'll see an offense that COULDN'T EXECUTE (regardless of the playcalling, unless you believe the purpose of the playcalling was to go 3/out).
