Official Post Game Thread- Pats with a crazy win against Pitt

[RobertWeathers]

supposedly Leveon bell left the locker room without talking to reporters. Ben a;ready making excuses and throwing coaches under the bus.

we have to be in their head even more now. I mean they were literally game-planning for this regular season game since June. you know ben threw it instead of spiking it to go to OT because Brady was in their head after the last drive

they looked devastated after the pick.

I'll enjoy reading the goings on in Steel Country this week.

We'll see if they recover.

 

[TinhWoodhead]

next four Pats game will be at home

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Cowboys-Steelers; at least their fans get to see their teams wearing...oh, whatever

 

[Bruins29]

"It's just hard to respect a guy that won't just come out and say, 'you know what? I messed up.'"

And raped someone lol

 

[RobertWeathers]

"It's just hard to respect a guy that won't just come out and say, 'you know what? I messed up.'"

.....and I didn't have any respect for him in the first place

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Pitt may go to the SB still but there is no way they are beating the Patriots to get there.

NE already had residency in their heads.

Now they own the whole neighborhood

We're on to Buffalo

 

[RobertWeathers]

We're on to Buffalo

Yep. Enjoy it for a few more hours and turn the page

 

[n6249c]

That’s exactly what hes doing. Could you ever imagine brady saying ‘i wanted to do a, but cosch made me do b ‘ on a game losing play??

This isnt far from his ‘retirement ‘ talk to take the attention from how poorly he played in the afcc. The guys a great player but one heck of an egomaniac.

Watching SNF halftime. Rodney and Dungy called out Ben, saying no way the WR runs the route if Ben was shouting "clock it". They're saying Ben had to have communicated with the WR that it was a fake. I think he was trying to be the hero and win the game instead of going to OT, and it blew up in his face.

 

[Patjew]

1. Patriots were lucky and probably should have lost
2. Patriots were good enough to take advantage of that luck, and that's how luck works when combined with talent and preparation
   
3. "Going to the ground" is the new tuck rule
4. Nothing wrong with the fake spike there, but that play's got to go outside, not over the middle
   
5. Brady to Gronk was like Magic to Kareem and DJ to Bird
6. Gost needs to knock that **** off, even when it's not all his fault, like today (No offense, Gost, and I get it.... Just venting)
   
7. Best regular season finish in how many years?
8. Burkhead injury sucks, but early reports are that it's not severe
9. Best of luck to AB on his recovery
   
10. Either Cooks needs to learn how to beat press, or the Patriots need to start putting him in motion more often
11. It's almost criminal that we have to say "We want KVN!", but "We want KVN!"
12. I thought both, not just one or the other, should have taken a dive/thrown it away on their picks
13. That's the Gilmore we don't ever need to see again
14. He's getting lost in most of the post game chat, but D. Lewis continues to be a huge part of this team's success
15. Holy crap it's obvious as hell what's missing without Edelman. They'd better find his replacement soon, or Brady's next 10 years are going to be disappointing
16. Rowe enjoyed a Wide World of Sports reversal, going from the agony of defeat to the thrill of victory
17. This defense is either going to learn how to defend crossing routes or cost this team a SB win
    
18. All those people who've been denigrating Pittsburgh as a team should never, ever be allowed to post about any team except the Patriots again, for their own sake, because clown show

That seems like enough for a start.

That was a fantastic post!

And it reminded me that I miss DJ.

 

[RIpats88]

could you ever imagine brady throwing bill/josh under the bus after a loss like ben did?

 

[PlanB]

We're on to Buffalo

let's hope that there are no injuries after that game given the Bills rhetoric after the first meeting

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

Watching SNF halftime. Rodney and Dungy called out Ben, saying no way the WR runs the route if Ben was shouting "clock it". They're saying Ben had to have communicated with the WR that it was a fake. I think he was trying to be the hero and win the game instead of going to OT, and it blew up in his face.

Lol! That makes it even worse.

 

[ThatllMoveTheChains!!!]

You're opening another can of worms though. What if a player knocks it out of a player's hands before he makes a football move and falls to the ground?

If you get rid of the rule that you have to complete a catch all the way through, then when is it a catch? Presumably, at some point when the receiver is in the air. But if that's true, knocking it out of his hands can cause a fumble. So when is it called a fumble?

They can change the rule, but it doesn't mean it is going to solve controversies.

Not sure what makes anyone believe the current competition committee would manage to do anything but make the rule worse. I'll take a consistently applied rule that doesn't always feel right over the abortion that is PI.

Any change would likely make the call subjective. It would also likely make the standard for a catch higher when not going to the ground vs when going to the ground, which doesn't make sense. Of all the people saying it's the wrong rule I haven't seen any make a real suggestion to fix it.

 

[RobertWeathers]

could you ever imagine brady throwing bill/josh under the bus after a loss like ben did?

Tom would not survive

 

[Silver Blue&Red]

For th

idk. you have guys jumping over the scram holding the ball for less than a second before its batted away from them but just enough to cross the imaginary end line and thats a TD and this guy firmly catches the ball, falls down on his knee, crosses the imaginary line w ball in his hands and that's not good enough..

something's gotta give..

He never "becomes a runner", because he never maintains control of the ball.
Therefore he cant break the plane.
You have to be a "runner" to break the plane.
It's not rocket science

 

[Bruins29]

And raped someone lol

@dreighver

Nice to see we can agree on something.

 

[RobertWeathers]

That was a fantastic post!

And it reminded me that I miss DJ.

I miss DJ too.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

Man oh man, what a way to win.
What I will say though.. we caught a break. The rule is the rule so I'm not disputing that, but we left that guy wide open on the play. The defense did everything to lose on that play, and the previous disaster of a play. I think anyone who denies that is getting a little delusional.

But man, I gotta give props. This team knows how to take advantage of second chances, and made one Hell of a play on the fake spike.

We caught two MAJOR breaks. The receiver should have cradled that ball and then pushed to the endzone (he was alone and could have done that easy) - instead he lunged and lost control of the ball in the process of the catch. As well Big Ben should never ever ever have tried to force that tight coverage high traffic pass as he did (you are losing by 3, you are at the 7, you have OT all but secured, absolutely no reason for a risky play, only play you try there is low risk). However, let's not forget that Pitt was lucky to turn that less than a minute to go, little crossing route into nearly 70 yards. The Patriots D (who I could have lived with their mostly middling performance if not for that play) gave them 80% of that yardage. Pitt in their wildest dreams wouldn't imagine that pass would go for anything like that. The Patriots D had one job there - keep everything in front of you to make the tackle and don't allow the big play. How friggin hard was that to screw up in a scenario that has every defender stepping way back before the snap?

 

[n6249c]

I would only tease him because he is pretty level headed. The vast majority of the chicken littles are the same people, and they instantly going off at the smallest thing.

And some have 5 digit post counts...

Easy to get 5 digit post counts when you make a couple of hundred sky is falling posts per GDT, and back them up with the same verbose negativity every week.

 

[Mack Herron]