This game is just a great example that this offense can't be counted on to win in the playoffs - they have chinks in their armor and to show it this late in the year in a game that has meaning, scary. I have seen some analysis lately suggesting that you have to outscore the Pats, put up 30+ - no, no you don't. You can shut them down. And clearly this defense isn't going to win you anything. Hopes are low, but I suppose you never know.
The phenomenon know as Devin McCourty is about as perplexing a regression as I've seen in the NFL. It's one thing to set the bar high and then not live up, but it's another to be as bad as he's been. I would love to hear a coaches take on what has happened to him because boy he's been bad.