PostGame Thread OFFICIAL POSTGAME THREAD: Patriots Beat the Dolphins 33-27

[Love The Drake]

Scared **** out of me.

Where are the Milton is better crowd.
I also saw someone say last week Dobbs would of been a improvement

 

[The Gr8est]

This is a win this team can build on.

Everyone, players and coaches, are a work in progress.

 

[Sect140]

Team looked incredible at times and awful at times.

The offense looked overall good. The only issues were the penalties which really killed them, and were mostly on Moses. But the good news is that he will probably clean that up, and he’s not the long term guy at RT anyway. In all likelihood Bryant will take over at some point. Drake Maye played beautifully and I think he’s in for a big year.

The defense had some really bad series but also got their crap together when it mattered. Huge INT by Mapu. Huge clutch fourth down sack to seal the game. Considering the DC wasn’t even at the game, that’s big.

Special teams - Borregales was shaky as hell early but got that clutch 53 yarder to give the needed cushion. I would still bring another kicker in, but… hopefully he can even out. The blown punt return sucked but was washed away by Gibson immediately returning the favor. Barigner was a total monster, I wonder if the criticism from Vrabel about his bad kick last week pushed him today.

I would add LB tackling to the issues list.

 

[Grogan14]

Borregales redeemed himself with 53 yard fg

 

[Toofy]

What a game ... So many see saw.. not recommended.fkr the faint of heart .

Best part with this win is everyone redeemed themselves. That's important.

Pluses

1. Drake maye - flawless

Josh playcalling - near perfect
Rham - MVP
Gibson - Saviour
Offensive line - rookies were excellent, everyone else was great barring penalties.

Wide receivers - well spread out . Need to find a field stretcher. I feel teams are gonna play zone more against us. We need to get Chism in. Pop is not effective.

Defense pass rush - Milton williams , landry, chaisson. Were brilliant.

Negatives

1. Penalties especially by the vets - Henry, Moses and Bradbury
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3. Special teams - 2 missed goals and punt return and crucial point
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5. Open field tackling - piss poor
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7. Cornerbacks - rank bad sans Marcus Jones
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9. Linebacker tackling - rank bad especially Spillane who had a horrible game
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11. Outside zone run defense - improved only after 3rd quarter.
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13. Zak kuhr def se playcalling - needs wholesale improvement

Having said that in the end a win like this energizes the team and brings in a new ardent fervor for entire season. Go pats !

 

[Love The Drake]

Campbell had a clean game. Cant ask for much more than that. Well done, rook.

He had a false start I think twice

 

[TommyD4207]

Campbell had a clean game. Cant ask for much more than that. Well done, rook.

Except the one false start which will get forgotten because Moses had like 12.

 

[patsinthesnow]

Will Campbell’s been awesome through 2 weeks. He deserves props for his start so far.

 

[Ross12]

Next few weeks:

Steelers - looked poor today
Panthers - suck
Bills - that’s a loss
Saints - suck
Titans - suck
Browns - suck

 

[Grogan14]

Boutte had a hell of a clutch catch

 

[The Gr8est]

Borregales redeemed himself with 53 yard fg

And that was huge.

A miss could have been devastating for him.

 

[TommyD4207]

Will Campbell’s been awesome through 2 weeks. He deserves props for his start so far.

He was much better today. Did a really good job against Chubb and Robinson for the most part.

 

[turkeyneck]

What's with all the false starts? Does Maye have a difficult cadence?

 

[JayNM]

We have to talk about our safeties

I dont know if Peppers would be much better in Coverage

But if we are going Cover 2 in 70% of our playes, those two NEED to be A LOT better. They were atrocious in the back of the defense

 

[TommyD4207]

And that was huge.

A miss could have been devastating for him.

A miss they would have left him there.

 

[jdlboot14]

It's getting a bit worrisome with Pop. Totally invisible.
Seriously, how long until Chism gets a chance?
And, I have to say, seeing Bourne be effective with 3/32 today with Mac in SF...
Hollins had the one TD, but is he enough after Diggs & Boutte?

 

[Love The Drake]

Next few weeks:

Steelers - looked poor today
Panthers - suck
Bills - that’s a loss
Saints - suck
Titans - suck
Browns - suck

You forget we kind of suck too.
So much so we may get Weaver fired.

 

[denverpatsfan]

Biggest win since the 2nd Rams Super Bowl victory.
Mac Jones with the W today!!!!

 

[TommyD4207]

What's with all the false starts? Does Maye have a difficult cadence?

Miami was doing pre-snap shifts a *lot* trying to confuse the young linemen not used to stuff like that.

It doesn't explain why Morgan Moses was seeing ghosts.

 

[mayoclinic]

My criteria for a good defense is whether they can make a stop when the game is on the line. Despite all the mistakes, they did that twice.