PostGame Thread OFFICIAL POST GAME THREAD: Patriots Lose to Steelers 21-14

[Grogan14]

Vrabel going for it on his own 15 in first half was complete insanity. Did not impact the game but what was he thinking???

 

[TommyD4207]

Turnovers obviously killed us, but the refs were calling some horrible penalties on NE. They had every reason to lay down, but they fought it out. I’m excited about this team going forward despite the loss.

You're playing A-aron. He still gets refball calls. Comes with the territory.

 

[upstater1]

You don’t need to play hero ball in a tie game in the opposition territory on 1st down.

He still hasn’t learn, will he ever?

He's 22. He has years to learn.

This was his 17th game.

 

[PatsfanTN]

Vrabel going fir it on his own 15 in first half was complete insanity. Did not impact the game but what was he thinking???

Really?

 

[TommyD4207]

Vrabel going fir it on his own 15 in first half was complete insanity. Did not impact the game but what was he thinking???

He was thinking 'We can pick up a yard'. And they did.

 

[Drunken Cicerone]

Turnovers obviously killed us, but the refs were calling some horrible penalties on NE. They had every reason to lay down, but they fought it out. I’m excited about this team going forward despite the loss.

They didn’t let being down 14-0 cause them to sit back and just let this one go.

They still played stupid

 

[GaryfromTO]

need to make a trade for a bucket of stickum

 

[TommyD4207]

Really?

@Sam Bam Cunningham is just Asking Grok for talking points.

 

[reflexblue]

Its been a sunday ritual for over fifty years to watch the patriots on sunday afternoon. I don't know how much longer i can put up with the ineptness and unprofessionalism of this team. I had high hopes when vrable took over because even if the team consisted mostly of JAGs at least they'ed be disciplined JAGs . So far its like Mayo never left in that regard.

 

[Lagaffe_07]

Curran is ridiculous, blaming Maye for the end zone int. **** Curran

It was 100% Maye’s fault. He telegraphed the pass by staring down Boutte and you have to throw the ball on a arc in the back in the EZ not throw a low ball

 

[WhatJustHappened]

Mondre is a fkn CHUMP, I've finally admitted that.

 

[Rob0729]

Maye was the most responsible for the loss, we know Stevenson blows but we had survived all the RB fumbles and had the ball 14-14 in Steelers territory with a chance to take the lead and he had plenty of chances to throw the ball away.

People point to young Josh Allen but he was also winning games by his second season, that was a young Jameis Winston type play where the obvious talent even when he was playing well was being crippled by dumb decisions, he's basically got the season to grow out of that kind of regular mistake if you're still doing that during your third season you're just a losing quarterback.

Any Josh Allen comparisons are way too premature, but Maye doesn’t look like Winston at all. Winston’s completion percentage always sucked. He had a great arm but no accuracy. Maye went 13 throws without incompletion in the second half. Winston would have games in his second season where he barely completed 13 passes. He had four games in his second season where he completed 17 or less passes. Only one game did have less than 35 passing attempts.

 

[JayNM]

The good news is that with all the Turnovers, we barely remember the flags we had

 

[VectorPrime]

I’m just so exhausted having watched that. But hey at least I felt something unlike in every game last year.

 

[Real fan 02]

Like I said in the GDT. Cut Douglas. Cut Stevenson.

You can't turn the ball over 5 times and expect to win. A waste of a fantastic defensive effort, and another pretty damn decent day by Drake Mate.

The problem is the roster isn't good enough to cut them...

 

[ViperGTS]

You don’t need to play hero ball in a tie game in the opposition territory on 1st down.

He still hasn’t learn, will he ever?

12 minutes, Bears are on. What are you still doing here?

 

[Lagaffe_07]

Today was his 13th start.

He had a complete offseason to work. He keep making the same mistakes. He is an error repeater

 

[FCB02062]

Another thing about this game, and it was driving me ****ing nuts the first game...nothing deep. No deep throws other than one to boutte that drew a PI. Maye (and the rest of the team for that matter) is way too mistake prone to expect them to consistently drive 10, 12, 14 clean plays for touchdowns. They have absolutely got to throw deep and try to generate some chunk plays.

 

[TommyD4207]

The problem is the roster isn't good enough to cut them...

Nah, we're at the point where any ******* on their couch with football experience is better.

 

[festy1986]

Pretty sure they weren't coaching them to turn the ball over 5 times.

Pretty sure it was this dumb ass coach who put Stevenson out there. Even after his first horrendous fumble.

And what about all those ridiculous penalties?

It's ok to call Vrabel out for when they play this bad.