Is Sunday A Must Win?

[Bruins29]

Since when does winning stop the whining?

Ya know, sometimes I forget. Did you know that there is a poster here that posted "if the Pats win the Superbowl and Cooks dosent get like 100 catches and 1200 yards it was a bad trade"

I mean like WTF?????

 

[tasmlab]

My dream 2017 season:

Patriots start off 0-5. No team has ever made the playoffs going 0-5. Brady's and Belichick's "Mission Impossible"!!!

Then they win ELEVEN STRAIGHT EFFIN' GAMES.

Pats eke out the #2 seed on tie-breakers... which they could do based on the early schedule...

...they win the Division game at home, win the AFCCG on the road...

...IN KANSAS CITY... ...and go on to grab Lombardi #6.

Imagine it! It'd be like the SEASON version of coming back from 28-3!

Only one teensy downside... 5 weeks of...

While we're making stuff up, let's have them play wildcard weekend and win that one too. That way we get an extra Patriots game this year instead of the usual 19.

 

[Boomer B]

We're basically mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, so stepmom incest porn is all I have left of value in this world.

I like to see someone with their priorities straight. Pats and Stepmom porn. Kudos to you Mr. Fnordcircle!

 

[oldrover]

I like to see someone with their priorities straight. Pats and Stepmom porn. Kudos to you Mr. Fnordcircle!

Sounds like he may not necessarily put them in that order.

 

[PatsFan2]

Well I'll just say Drew Brees is not what a Transition Defense wants to see right now. I hope Brady and our Offense figures it out Sunday because I don't expect our Defense to get alot of stops. We are going to have to outscore people to win until the transition Defense gets better.

 

[fnordcircle]

Season isn't over with a loss. SB chances? In the toilet waiting to be flushed.

That's what the posters I now call reverse trolls can't fathom. Such as some in this thread.

Reverse troll checking in.

I apologize for taking the far-out, wacko stance that the most successful franchise in any similar length of time in NFL history is going to turn it around after a single loss.

 

[ViperGTS]

Reverse troll checking in.

I apologize for taking the far-out, wacko stance that the most successful franchise in any similar length of time in NFL history is going to turn it around after a single loss.

Past performance doesn't predict future success.

Especially with injury questions.

 

[fnordcircle]

Past performance doesn't predict future success.

Your posting history certainly suggests you'll go on posting this crap.

 

[fourhour]

While we're making stuff up, let's have them play wildcard weekend and win that one too. That way we get an extra Patriots game this year instead of the usual 19.

I prefer we go 18 and one now!

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

I would rather lose the first game of the year, than the last game.....

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

It wouldn't be the end of the world but it would be difficult to get one of those byes. They would have to just focus on winning the division.

 

[Pats1989]

It wouldn't be the end of the world but it would be difficult to get one of those byes. They would have to just focus on winning the division.

No guarantee they'd win the division either.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Is the season over if we lose? No. Based on that, it's not a must win. Based on that, it's basically impossible for week 2 to be a must win.

If anything, it's one of the less important games we'll play this season since it's out-of-conference. It is important, though. Every game is important.

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

No guarantee they'd win the division either.

They would win the division unless they start 0-5. This team's a good football team and you can't write them off in one week or two.

 

[BradyFTW!]

No guarantee they'd win the division either.

At the risk of sounding unbearably ****y... it's close enough to guaranteed that I'm not sweating it at all even if we lose on Sunday. The rest of the division sucks badly enough that Brady could retire tomorrow and we'd still be the overwhelming favorites to take it.

 

[Clonamery]

We're basically mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, so stepmom incest porn is all I have left of value in this world.

Wait....you're Ted Cruz?

 

[fnordcircle]

Wait....you're Ted Cruz?

Yes, I am the Zodiac Killer.

hashtag old memes

 

[BradyFTW!]

It's silly to argue that our season is done if we start 0-2. But starting the season with back-to-back losses would be dramatic for this franchise, considering Brady and Belichick (since 2001) have never started the season 0-2 or been under .500 at any point in the season.

Mike Reiss does a great job explaining why avoiding 0-2 is seemingly more of a concern for the Patriots, than most others teams around the league

Bill Belichick sets tone as Patriots look to avoid first 0-2 start since 2001

"If they don’t [win] Sunday in New Orleans, one of the more impressive early-season marks in the NFL will be in jeopardy of ending.

The Patriots haven’t started a season 0-2 since 2001, which was when Drew Bledsoe was still the team’s starting quarterback. Only the Denver Broncos have a longer active streak of seasons without an 0-2 start (since 1999). So it’s no surprise that the urgency is rising at Patriots headquarters, with the team’s fourth-quarter fade against the Chiefs a point of emphasis.

In addition to attempting to avoid an 0-2 start for the first time since 2001, the Patriots are also hoping to avoid falling two games below .500 at any point in any season since they were 1-3 on Oct. 13, 2001. At that point, quarterback Tom Brady had only two career NFL starts and Belichick had just completed his 100th game as an NFL head coach."​

Also, found this pretty amusing. Reiss lists all the things from the last time (5,812 days ago) the Patriots were two games below .500 in a season. Here are just a couple that stood out:

• The Red Sox hadn't won a World Series since 1918.
• Jim O’Brien was the head coach of the Boston Celtics.
• The average price of gas was $1.31 per gallon.

Stated a little differently, the last time we started 0-2 we won the Super Bowl. But we're supposed to be panicking if that happens because... reasons.

I'm confident we'll win on Sunday, and if we don't that'll be a pretty bad sign. But good teams go on losing streaks and we've had a lot of turnover. If it happens (which I don't think it will), it'll be cause for alarm but it won't be the end of the world. We really don't need to go crazy over this stuff.

 

[PatriotsNumero1Fan]

Is the season over if we lose? No. Based on that, it's not a must win. Based on that, it's basically impossible for week 2 to be a must win.

If anything, it's one of the less important games we'll play this season since it's out-of-conference. It is important, though. Every game is important.

It would suck considering the brutal schedule they have ahead. I just wanna see some positive signs. I saw nothing positive against Kansas City.

 

[mosslost]

Obviously it's not a " Must win" in the literal sense. But do you fear the season could be in jeopardy with a loss @ NO?

Keep in mind that Hou, TB, Carolina are up next. They'd have to go on a big win streak.

I don't put any stock into what happened in 01,03,2014. That said, I also don't put any stock into what occured in 09 @ NO.

not a must win but very helpful to win.