Mounting frustration in Denver locker room: "Any time we hold Brady to 16 points, we expect to win!"

[fightingirish595]

God forbid the NEP isn't up 37-3 in the Q4.

Sorry I meant 1st quarter not 4th

 

[RobertWeathers]

Sorry I meant 1st quarter not 4th

That too. I pick my spots with the GD tread. I try to watch the game and not read people *****ing

 

[Soul_Survivor88]

They forced one, but Dion got a very lucky bounce and was all over it.

Yeah, he has to stop putting the ball on the ground....sometimes fighting for that extra yard isn't worth it

 

[Dr Pain]

It's not just the D that's whining.

The responses to this in twitter are great

 

[The Scrizz]

So I'll play the other angle. The Denver O-Line did stink and I don't blame the D-Backs for shouting him down. It also was a winnable game for Denver at points. They just didn't make all of the plays and Pats got a few nice bounces (sack right to Thuney, Dion Lewis - although that was a TD and probably would have been called one on replay).

I think it's sour grapes on Denver's part but they were the better team for most of the 1st half. Thank God for Logan Ryan.

 

[ViperGTS]

He acts like Malcolm doesn't do this on the regular. Ask Antonio Brown or OBJ what it feels like to be erased by Strap. He got Strapped, is all.

Antonio Brown isn't doing a Visa commercial with a scrub DB I can tell you that much.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

I think it's sour grapes on Denver's part but they were the better team for most of the 1st half. Thank God for Logan Ryan.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one. What made them better? They moved the ball a little bit? That's literally the only answer. If receivers don't drop a few passes, then we would have had similar yardage. Do special teams plays not count? We recovered a fumble and scored. Then our defense stopped them (who cares if a drive is -5 yards or 95 yards, as long as it ends in 0 points).

This game was never in question. We were in control from start to finish.

 

[The Scrizz]

I'll disagree about from start to finish but potentially being down 10-3 at Denver is a hell of a lot different than being up. The Ryan play turned everything around.

 

[Bill Lee]

Remember Lomardis quote. They came off the field saying the one thing they had to fix was that Denver dared them to run and they still couldn't run effectively, and that when teams give them the run, they need to be able to take it.

At least the run first approach made it easy for me to depart the game day thread very early. It seems the GD thread intelligentsia aren't happy unless Brady is throwing bombs each and every play.

So I'll play the other angle. The Denver O-Line did stink and I don't blame the D-Backs for shouting him down. It also was a winnable game for Denver at points. They just didn't make all of the plays and Pats got a few nice bounces (sack right to Thuney, Dion Lewis - although that was a TD and probably would have been called one on replay).

I think it's sour grapes on Denver's part but they were the better team for most of the 1st half. Thank God for Logan Ryan.

Does that 'better team' include the quarterback who threw the ball short and inside that resulted in Ryan's pick?

 

[The Scrizz]

At least the run first approach made it easy for me to depart the game day thread very early. It seems the GD thread intelligentsia aren't happy unless Brady is throwing bombs each and every play.

Does that 'better team' include the quarterback who threw the ball short and inside that resulted in Ryan's pick?

Considering that I said right up until that play, I would make that a no.

 

[Ring 6]

I'll disagree about from start to finish but potentially being down 10-3 at Denver is a hell of a lot different than being up. The Ryan play turned everything around.

Potentially being down 10-3? Meaning the score a td when they couldn't do that all day?

I guess we were potentially up 35-3 also.

 

[TomPatriot]

I'll disagree about from start to finish but potentially being down 10-3 at Denver is a hell of a lot different than being up. The Ryan play turned everything around.

Ryan learned (or was told by Boyer?) from his hesitation on the Heuerman play that he could jump the route.

 

[TBR]

Lewis fumble occured as he was reaching out the ball to break the plane. If the Broncos had recovered it, it would have ended as a Patriots TD.

Huge uncalled facemask.

I would've been furious if Lewis didn't break the plane & Denver wound up with the ball.

 

[long distance]

Found video of Denvers locker room after today's game:

Is this funny .. or just baffling .. to the animals watching The Human Planet ..?
-

 

[EddardSnow67]

Ward should at least take 30 seconds to check the box score before making claims... The Patriots had 32 pass attempts yesterday - two fewer than their 34 attempts per game average.

No opportunities to make plays, eh? Except the 32 you actually had.

 

[The Scrizz]

Potentially being down 10-3? Meaning the score a td when they couldn't do that all day?

I guess we were potentially up 35-3 also.

Sorry for watching the game at 3am and not feeling it was in the bag in the 1st quarter. Denver was moving the ball and the Pats weren't. Momentum is a big factor and Ryan gave it to the Pats. You're acting like the Pats scored 10 TD's. They scored 1 (coming off that INT I believe, but again I was sick all weekend and watched at 3am so I may be thinking of a different drive). Either way, I'm thrilled about how they played in quarters 2-4 and that they got a win against a great D in an inhospitable environment.

I apologize for actually thinking that Denver had a chance to win the game.

 

[Ring 6]

Sorry for watching the game at 3am and not feeling it was in the bag in the 1st quarter. Denver was moving the ball and the Pats weren't. Momentum is a big factor and Ryan gave it to the Pats. You're acting like the Pats scored 10 TD's. They scored 1 (coming off that INT I believe, but again I was sick all weekend and watched at 3am so I may be thinking of a different drive). Either way, I'm thrilled about how they played in quarters 2-4 and that they got a win against a great D in an inhospitable environment.

I apologize for actually thinking that Denver had a chance to win the game.

You said they were the better team for most of the first half.
Almost ahead 10-3 is a silly comment.

 

[HawaiianPatsfan]

Anyone else see the Broncos trading for Romo in the offseason?

I hope they're dumb enough to trade a first for him. Then he pulls a typical Romo and gets hurt on the first drive of the season.

Talk about setting the market for a Jimmy trade.

 

[HawaiianPatsfan]

We pretty much ended their season last night.
Good. Elway got all this praise for being a genius, but in fact he got lucky that Manning chose DEN. Elway wants the narrative to be about him, so much so that he was willing to go into the year with Mark Sanchez at QB. He's been lucky that Simian has emerged, but as we saw yesterday, he's no Manning. The reason why Manning kept getting the ball even when he was clearly diminished was because he could still make the short throws and was excellent at protecting the ball. Yesterday we saw how a key interception could change a game.

And now, DEN has a lot of big money spent on "superstars" but outside of the well paid players the rest of the team is weak. The SB success made it easy for other teams to overpay for their 2nd tier players and their 3rd tier players haven't stepped up. Elway is going to see that you need more than a pen to develop a team. As we know around here, it's about building a team, not about acquiring talent.

It also shows why you some times need to let go of the Jamie Collins and Chandler Jones of the world to build a more balanced team.

Excellent at protecting the ball? You do realize he had more Int's than TD's last season right?

They got lucky because they scored TD's off their picks and fumbles last season, which is almost an entirely different type of luck.

 

[Lavictoire]

We could have scored more points on the final drive but killed the clock and took a knee.