Game Day Thread Official Game Day Thread- Week 17 Dolphins @ Pats

[Dr Pain]

Flores has done a pretty good job with a team that management did everything they could to gut

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

That was terrible. I don't care how big of a brady defender you are. THAT WAS ALL ON HIM AND IT WAS A TERRIBLE THROW.

How many times have we heard THAT before...

 

[TomPatriot]

Horrible half

 

[pheenix11]

Good call by Bill. This team in a two minute offense is even (somehow) worse than the regular tempo offense. Take the momentum and figure it out.

They’ve had 17 weeks to figure it out. Not sure 12 minutes is going to make a difference unless they have a surgeon on standby to extract their heads from their asses.

 

[goheels22002]

The Dolphins came in to Foxborough ready for revenge after the 43-0 beat down. Hats off to Brian Flores for getting his team ready.

It does not look like the Patriots came in with the same attitude they showed against the Bills last week. Brady has to get on track, and the defensive front seven has to take charge along the line.

 

[BradyFTW!]

I think this team wants to adjust the game plan going into halftime. I'm not super surprised they made that move

It's not an either/or though, they can do both

 

[catent]

Rivers throwing away any hope that we can drop this game. That game in KC should be tied at worst.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Hate the decision to not go for it but love Bellichick sending a message to the team.

I am confused emotionally

His intention exactly

 

[Betterthanmost]

BB had no confidence that they would score. It's SAD that they didn't even try..

I don't think that was his worry, he was worried they will turn the ball over.

 

[Horace's Ivories]

mm just great...
I'm looking forward to the "strategic 3 and out" to start the 2nd half

 

[holyredeemer]

Why are you assuming that the Pats will lose most of their Free Agents?

Thuney is the most likely one lost. But beyond that..

I’m hopeful we can bring back some key guys, but we have over 15 FA’s, and how many are starters? A lot of teams out there are just going to have a lot more money to play with and I have a hard time thinking we can keep up with the bidding wars.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

why...what.....ugh

 

[captain insano]

I'm going to start hanging out at Gillette and see if the players will sign my man boobs.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

Can’t believe the Pats surrendered at the end of the half.

Awful game today, hopefully they can pull this out and have two weeks to prepare for KC.

 

[n6249c]

I guess I filter the “season over” posts out.

So you miss about half the GDT? And much of the flavor.

 

[Todd Bradley]

If they call a TO at 1:45, Miami has all of theirs remaining. Offense would predictably stutter, Miami would burn their TOs and potentially get the ball back with a minute to go.

Okay, so?

Then you punt the ball deep and let the defense go to work.

To just basically give up on the half with the ball in your possession, a little under two minutes on the clock and a full set of timeouts is one of the most passive things I’ve seen from this team.

This is stuff we make fun of other teams for.

 

[ashley]

I think the team is going to get quite the half time speech/yelling at

 

[TheAdultintheRoom]

Horrible half

 

[stcjones]

If they call a TO at 1:45, Miami has all of theirs remaining. Offense would predictably stutter, Miami would burn their TOs and potentially get the ball back with a minute to go.

So BB has NO confidence in his offense whatsoever and doesn’t want to give ball back to opponents with too much time left!?....Got it!

 

[RobertWeathers]

The Dolphins came in to Foxborough ready for revenge after the 43-0 beat down. Hats off to Brian Flores for getting his team ready.

It does not look like the Patriots came in with the same attitude they showed against the Bills last week. Brady has to get on track, and the defensive front seven has to take charge along the line.

Yea they came out flat no question