We're on to Miami

[Coolade2]

Hot humid. 81'feels like 91'when you are from the north and not acclimated to it..

Makes the 1:00 pm game time that much more sucky.. because you have the sun also. Should not be excuse for team but it's just football reality when home team has better physical prep for climate. (Think mile high stadium and altitude.)

Gotta overcome that. Be ready as possible. While I'm overcoming difficult 2am streaming on my last weekend in Manila . Would like to win this game.. it really represents a big December challenge on the road.

 

[UFGatorPat]

Hot humid. 81'feels like 91'when you are from the north and not acclimated to it..

Makes the 1:00 pm game time that much more sucky.. because you have the sun also. Should not be excuse for team but it's just football reality when home team has better physical prep for climate. (Think mile high stadium and altitude.)

Gotta overcome that. Be ready as possible. While I'm overcoming difficult 2am streaming on my last weekend in Manila . Would like to win this game.. it really represents a big December challenge on the road.

Sunday could be overcast and/or rainy in Miami it appears but still far off. It’s cooling down tonight but we’re warming up Sunday ahead of that front.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

I believe Gilmore has only allowed 3 TDs

That means Gilmore sucks and should have been immediately cut 3 times this season -- in GDT speak.

 

[Uptown]

 

[Sicilian]

Didn’t seem like it earlier in the year, but that might have just been a failed eyeball test. It sure looked good vs MN though.

Also depends on what they consider a missed tackle. If a guy is out of position or slow to his spot, he may never make contact with the runner and they may not count that as "missed", but the result is the same and it looks bad for sure.

That said, I do feel like tackling hasn't been a problem this year.

 

[tasmlab]

Yup, last 5 games there, we're 1-4.

Dec 2017: L (27-20)
Jan 2017: W (35-14)
Jan 2016: L (20-10)
Sept 2014: L (23-20)
Dec 2013: L (24-20)

I legitimately already forgot that it was Jay ****ing Cutler who beat us last year.

Wow, it's hard to find a trend that makes the Patriots look bad. I think this is it.

 

[tasmlab]

Have we ever lost a potential hat & T-shirt game under TB12 & BB?

From wiki for 2017 season:

"They failed to match their 14–2 record from last season with their Week 14 loss to the Miami Dolphins.[2] Despite that, in Week 15, the Patriots secured their 9th consecutive AFC East title, their 15th of the last 17 seasons, with their victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.[3] "

So, had they won in miami the AFCE title would've been had in week 14 instead of 15.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Wow! Even Tony Eason has a .500 record (1-1 and Grogs had the win)) at MIA in December

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

Hot humid. 81'feels like 91'when you are from the north and not acclimated to it..

I really don't get this. When you been sitting around in cold New England weather for awhile, traveling somewhere in the high 70'-low 80's feels pretty darn awesome to us non athletes even with the humidity.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Also depends on what they consider a missed tackle. If a guy is out of position or slow to his spot, he may never make contact with the runner and they may not count that as "missed", but the result is the same and it looks bad for sure.

That said, I do feel like tackling hasn't been a problem this year.

I recall Van Noy, Roberts, Devin, Jason and Chung having some bad misses but I think those were from a month + ago.

With that said the open field tackling vs MN was elite.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I believe Gilmore has only allowed 3 TDs.

Weird how Gil is the only on from that group with picks

 

[Gronkowski123]

McDaniels will run the ball on third and long!!! Coward football

 

[PatsFan2]

I know its that time of the year but going from Cold to Hot weather usually make people sick I hope the Pats don't suffer in this regard.

 

[sb1]

Yup, last 5 games there, we're 1-4.

Dec 2017: L (27-20)
Jan 2017: W (35-14)
Jan 2016: L (20-10)
Sept 2014: L (23-20)
Dec 2013: L (24-20)

I legitimately already forgot that it was Jay ****ing Cutler who beat us last year.

Last December it wasn't so much Cutler it was Brady playing his worst game of the year by far. Wasn't Miami also the place where Brady threw a game losing INT while he was almost on the ground being sacked?

Weird things happen there but the Dolphins are a lousy team and I expect a Patriots win and clinch this Sunday.

 

[JMC00]

Expecting a similair plan offensively to the Vikings game but more straight up lining up and pounding it with Michel & Burkhead where 1 gets in 20 times and the other gets it 15 and then White and Patterson get 5 carries each.

lolphins run defense is bad. Giving up 5.0 ypc and 144 ypg.

 

[Patjew]

My buddy the Fins fan says Miami is the worst coached team he’s ever seen.

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

Gotta pound michel and burkhead, keep our d as fresh as possible

 

[JMC00]

Brady playing his worst game of the year by far.

Didn't help that the only able body receivers in that game were Cooks & Amendola and there was either no attempt to establish the run game or they abandoned it because they didn't like what they saw.

 

[denverpatsfan]

This defense is playing much better than last year's team. Last year was a nationally televised game for Cutler to show he could still play. He went back to sucking right afterwards.

 

[50-yard-line]

Yup, last 5 games there, we're 1-4.

Dec 2017: L (27-20)
Jan 2017: W (35-14)
Jan 2016: L (20-10)
Sept 2014: L (23-20)
Dec 2013: L (24-20)

I legitimately already forgot that it was Jay ****ing Cutler who beat us last year.

That looks a bit worse than it should, given that the 2015 game was about the strangest thing I've ever seen - the Pats were so unhealthy, Brady threw something like 14 times and Steven Jackson carried the load.

Never easy down there and Brady rarely plays well down there, I agree.