Matt Light says AFC championship game was lost because of snap count. Calls it "an abomination."

[titletownpats]

Anyone grading the coaching in that game at a B or better is clearly drunk on the Kool-aid. BB has a responsibility to make sure that the team is 100% prepared before the game and is manahing the game for all game situation implications during the game. Whether fans here want to admit it or not Belichick is responsible for this team not going to Super Bowl 50. It doesn't make him suddenly not one of the greatest coaches of all time but it doesn't leave him off the hook. His coaching post Thanksgiving of this season was questionable on many occasions. I don't remember ever feeling that way as a fan in previous seasons.

I agree he made mistakes but don't forget the players that missed games after Thanksgiving: Mccourty, Collins, Chung, Hightower, Coleman, Chandler Jones, Freeney, Siliga, Easley, Vollmer, Edelman, Amendola, Blount, a couple on the offensive line were playing positions they have never played, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple. The fact they made it as far as they did is amazing to me considering all the injuries this year.

 

[PittPatriot]

This is on McDaniels too he should have been ALL over it not leave it to OL coach only. Brady too ya think would have said something..."ummm guys what's the plan here?"

I was thinking the same thing. Peyton Manning was QB and offensive coordinator of the Colts for many years (so we've been led to believe) and I think TB is just as "smart." I don't think TB just showed up to the game and forgot about the loud, hostile environment and best pass rush that may affect snap counts and communication. Or maybe I'm giving him too much credit? We'll never know.

 

[Drewwho]

I agree he made mistakes but don't forget the players that missed games after Thanksgiving: Mccourty, Collins, Chung, Hightower, Coleman, Chandler Jones, Freeney, Siliga, Easley, Vollmer, Edelman, Amendola, Blount, a couple on the offensive line were playing positions they have never played, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple. The fact they made it as far as they did is amazing to me considering all the injuries this year.

Agree... Although its true that the injuries did pile up - there's no denying that, he made decisions in several games that are suspect and hindered this team for making the SB. The infamous Philly kick off, Jets overtime, Miami game plan... And let's not forget 4th & 1 last week!

 

[QuantumMechanic]

I was thinking the same thing. Peyton Manning was QB and offensive coordinator of the Colts for many years (so we've been led to believe) and I think TB is just as "smart." I don't think TB just showed up to the game and forgot about the loud, hostile environment and best pass rush that may affect snap counts and communication. Or maybe I'm giving him too much credit? We'll never know.

Or perhaps he knew all that (as we would expect) but the OL couldn't handle changing up the snap counts because of bad coaching, lack of talent, etc.

 

[PittPatriot]

Or perhaps he knew all that (as we would expect) but the OL couldn't handle changing up the snap counts because of bad coaching, lack of talent, etc.

I don't think it was quiet in Denver over Thanksgiving. They somehow got through it...even without a strong receiving corps. I am not taking TB off the hook on this. I find it hard to believe our season came down to an OL Coach who didn't teach his guys how to communicate on the road in the 18th game of the season. Doesn't matter now I guess.

 

[PittPatriot]

As I overcome the loss, these 3 thoughts come to mind:

1. Beating good teams on the road in games that count is really really hard (even for our Patriots).
2. Don't let the stats fool you - we have not been a good running team except in 2004. There are only a few teams that can run it year in and year out and we are not one of them. But usually our short passing game trumps that.
3. Denver is our kryptonite. In our history, no team has stunned us like the Donkeys. Flashback - do you remember 1988 when we are 1 win shy of making the Wildcard? All we had to do is beat a 7-8 team in Denver...and we lost 21-10 despite playing well on both sides of the ball. Ugh. I hate that place.

 

[varjao]

"varjao, post: The Pats would blow (AWAY) Denver if this game was in Foxboro.!!!!!

Fixed it for ya!

Tks, too many phrasal verbs with blow, I meant blow up but just googled and saw 3 different meanings for that too. Better not blow anymore...wait, ehh, forget it.

 

[luuked]

Anyone grading the coaching in that game at a B or better is clearly drunk on the Kool-aid. BB has a responsibility to make sure that the team is 100% prepared before the game and is managing the game for all game situation implications during the game. Whether fans here want to admit it or not Belichick is responsible for this team not going to Super Bowl 50. It doesn't make him suddenly not one of the greatest coaches of all time but it doesn't leave him off the hook either. His coaching post Thanksgiving of this season was questionable on many situational instances - which we all know about. I don't remember ever feeling that way as a fan in previous seasons.

First I clicked disagree because you wrote all of that "hindsight coach blaming" drivel that others have written without taking even the slightest amount of effort of going in depth into explaining exactly what those questionable calls were and how any of them supposedly affected games.

But then it dawned on me that you are apparently too lazy to read even half of the posts in this thread (or similar threads) that already dealt in detail with this ******** coach blaming agenda so I changed it to a dislike. I wish there was something even stronger to rate lazy posts like yours... please Ian add a "lazy" emote..

 

[The Brandon Five]

As I overcome the loss, these 3 thoughts come to mind:

1. Beating good teams on the road in games that count is really really hard (even for our Patriots).
2. Don't let the stats fool you - we have not been a good running team except in 2004. There are only a few teams that can run it year in and year out and we are not one of them. But usually our short passing game trumps that.
3. Denver is our kryptonite. In our history, no team has stunned us like the Donkeys. Flashback - do you remember 1988 when we are 1 win shy of making the Wildcard? All we had to do is beat a 7-8 team in Denver...and we lost 21-10 despite playing well on both sides of the ball. Ugh. I hate that place.

That ends in 2016. Like the Giants kryptonite did this year.