PostGame Thread OFFICIAL POST GAME THREAD: Patriots beat Bengals 26-20

[farn]

Fingers crossed

Fingers so so crossed. Losing those guys and watching Lowe in the playoffs would be challenging.

 

[festy1986]

This was a horrendous game for injuries. For both teams.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

I was having nightmares of the last preseason game in 1989 when Andre Tippett, defensive end Garin Veris and cornerback Ronnie Lippett had all suffered season-ending injuries ......

 

[Ring 6]

The rest of the season doesn't matter. W Lowe starting at LT Maye will get killed

Impossible. He’s already dead because Lowe was his LT last year

 

[Rob0729]

This was a horrendous game for injuries. For both teams.

But only one team is playing for the playoffs.

 

[cmasspatsfan]

Plus the Bills lost and it's looking like the Colts will lose too. There are some bright spots to this weekend.

Let's hope the injuries are not serious, we've been lucky this year until this week.

 

[VectorPrime]

Impossible. He’s already dead because Lowe was his LT last year

Maye got knocked out of games last year if you'll recall.

 

[Patjew]

I hope that next week Josh and Drake remember that they have wide receivers on the team.

 

[bakes781]

Shout out to CD for making some big plays late. Those extra long arms of his are the reason I was excited about his signing.

 

[maust]

Why? They and the Broncos are battling us for the no 1 seed. We're 4 games up on the Broncos.

Uhhh... the Donks are 9-2

 

[NE_Zealot]

LOL! Actually, I think he is on Houston's roster. Who would know? He is as valuable to the Texans as a street free agent as he is on their roster.

I think you’re right. I googled available FA LTs and his name popped up. Then I googled just his name and it said he’s in Houston

 

[ctpatsfan77]

I was having nightmares of the last preseason game in 1989 when Andre Tippett, defensive end Garin Veris and cornerback Ronnie Lippett had all suffered season-ending injuries ......

I was reminded of the 2004 game where they lost Matt Light and Rodney Harrison against the Squealers on Halloween (also ending their win streak).

I remember that vividly because I was driving home from work that afternoon, and about 5 minutes after Rodney got injured, my car died for good when the timing belt broke.

 

[ViperGTS]

Uhhh... the Donks are 9-2

Think he meant the Queefs.

 

[bresna]

You know, for all the crap Belichick got while he was here, one of the things I thought was smart was when he made his entire OL wear knee braces on both knees after several lineman went down. Now that he's gone, I don't think any of them wear any knee protection, which seems dumb in retrospect.

 

[Ring 6]

I didn’t think so UNTIL he got hurt.

I don’t see a path to playoff success with Vedarian Lowe and Ben Brown on the left.

But would love to be wrong

You’ve been so many times already, it’s almost a guarantee

 

[manxman2601]

Uhhh... the Donks are 9-2

Yes, only half a game behind us. so what I said is right.

Edit. Oh I see what I did there. Of course I meant the Chiefs are 4 games behind.

 

[Tunescribe]

Bullsh.it.

You can say that a Win is a Win after an ugly 13-10 slogging match so long as everyone is healthy. Not after you appear to lose two of your most important players to devastating injuries.

This is a gut punch. Make no mistake.

You can be happy about winning and going 10-2 while feeling crappy about the injuries. Losing on top of the injuries would've felt much worse.

The positive thing is this win was needed to maintain an advantageous playoff trajectory. We'll see what this coaching staff can do scheming around personnel holes.

 

[Rob0729]

The rest of the season doesn't matter. W Lowe starting at LT Maye will get killed

Lowe played pretty well today. He isn't a good player, but with better coaching than last year they might be able to coach him up and scheme to make him serviceable.

I think people vastly under rate the awful coaching's impact on the play of the o-line from 2022-2024.

 

[reflexblue]

I was having nightmares of the last preseason game in 1989 when Andre Tippett, defensive end Garin Veris and cornerback Ronnie Lippett had all suffered season-ending injuries ......

I vaguely remember that, and only because of you posing it. But that team was going no where before they got hurt

 

[TommyD4207]

Fans are allowed to be irritated after a subpar performance against backups after we also lost our two both offensive lineman to injury.

Yeah, this team won 8 games the last two seasons combined.
Forgive me for not jumping off the Tobin for going 10-2. 6-0 on the road. Even WITH all that happening.