PostGame Thread 2025 OFFICIAL WEEK 18 POSTGAME THREAD: Patriots beat Dolphins 38-10

[FreeTedWilliams]

Pats -80
Jets/Fins-20

 

[jdlboot14]

Rham was the best he's ever been yesterday. Really great to see.
I'm wondering why they took him out for a large part of the 2nd & 3rd Qtr?
Does that show he's the RB1 and they were spotting him with Hendo?
Or, giving him vet status to start and then play him situationally? Because Hendo got 2x the carries, and was not near as productive as Rham (avg. 18yds per run)
Either way - it's perfect timing to see this RB Duo really work. I hope they are ready to roll these next couple weeks!

 

[Zoomnbyu]

He’s smart enough and experienced enough to know how to give a non-answer.

To be fair though almost all off us ***** and whine when some talking head doesn't say what they're thinking.

I'm the biggest Pats homer here but odds are Stafford over Maye. Old guy whose really good that spent most of his best years on a ****ty team and throws 47 TDs over the next hot thing. It's just how the world works.


Vrabes should absolutely get COTY, Cowen and Wolf should share EOTY, Tet earned OROY.

 

[sb1]

To be fair though almost all off us ***** and whine when some talking head doesn't say what they're thinking.

I'm the biggest Pats homer here but odds are Stafford over Maye. Old guy whose really good that spent most of his best years on a ****ty team and throws 47 TDs over the next hot thing. It's just how the world works.


Vrabes should absolutely get COTY, Cowen and Wolf should share EOTY, Tet earned OROY.

I wonder how many Stat Padford MVP voters will vote for Vrabel as COTY to throw a bone our way.

 

[1960Pats]

Barring a miracle, looks like we're on to the Chargers.

I like that option best. If the Pats can take care of the Chargers then that means that Buf would go to Den and we'd get Hou or Pit.

 

[1960Pats]

14 wins. Amazing.

Twice as many as predicted. Incredible.

 

[jimnance]

Denver has the bye, doesn’t play first round.
Haven’t looked to see how the seedlings would work for second round. Think the one team most likely to beat them would be Texans but not sure what it would take for them to play.

I know. I meant Bills v. Jags, not Broncos.
I think Jags beat Bills then lose to us.

 

[Uptown]

 

[Wingy]

Move over Gibbs and Monty.

Treveyon and Rhamondre are taking over.

 

[n1997y]

And Hunter Henry got 5 catches giving him 60 and another $250K in incentives.

And Chaisson got a sack that earned him a $500k incentive iirc.

 

[1960Pats]

Forecast not great for Pats next weekend. Sunday 51 and rain. Sunday 41. Not go to have the cold advantage vs a warm weather club

It'll be in the 20s or 30s during the game but I don't think they need help from the weather.

 

[Huckleberry1]

i don't blame Brady for this. He's known and respected Stafford for close to 20 years. For Brady this is "lifetime achievement award for a future HOFer and a box to tick off. May will have many years to get his. Brady didn't win his first until his 9th season IIRC

Sorry Ken, but Brady should know better than to give his vote to the guy who brought his talent laden team to the 5th seed in the playoffs. Jimmy Garrapolo could have done that. Brady's take was as lame as it gets.

 

[1960Pats]

Diggs getting his 1000 yd incentive coming off a torn ACL...

Amazing comeback.

I know the guy has been around for years but I didn't realize just how great he was until I saw him up close.

 

[1960Pats]

Sorry Ken, but Brady should know better than to give his vote to the guy who brought his talent laden team to the 5th seed in the playoffs. Jimmy Garrapolo could have done that. Brady's take was as lame as it gets.

I'm Brady's biggest fan but that pissed me off to no end.

If you're looking for a real honest-to-goodness earned MVP it's Maye. If you're playing politics with the MVP you can go with Stafford.

**** sentiment.

 

[1960Pats]

You can thank the new idiotic playoff system for that.

While we're trying to figure that out let's wonder how two NFC teams with better records than Carolina ended up sitting home.

Oh yeah, Carolina only had to have a better record than Atlanta, TB and NO to make the playoffs. Congrats to them and their awesome losing season.

The NYFL playoff spots are still being manufactured rather than earned.

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

While we're trying to figure that out let's wonder how two NFC teams with better records than Carolina ended up sitting home.

Oh yeah, Carolina only had to have a better record than Atlanta, TB and NO to make the playoffs. Congrats to them and their awesome losing season.

The NYFL playoff spots are still being manufactured rather than earned.

This has been brought up several times over the years, and the argument from Godell and others is that winning your division is important, and always will be.
It is what it is, I can’t see it changing.

 

[SlowGettingUp]

And Stephenson's best play may actually have been this blitz pickup:

 

[patfanken]

Sorry Ken, but Brady should know better than to give his vote to the guy who brought his talent laden team to the 5th seed in the playoffs. Jimmy Garrapolo could have done that. Brady's take was as lame as it gets.

I get it. I get both points. Well if I were running Maye's MVP campaign, I would be having my minions screaming "13 ONE YARD TD PASSES" and "MORE WITH LESS" to the rafters on any media outlets I could get on. To my mind those are the two greatest negatives to Stafford position.

Again, I kind of like the idea of a player and his fan base feeling snubbed and robbed going into next season, than a 23 yr old thinking he just reached the top of football world (award wise)

 

[PatsFan2]

Sorry Ken, but Brady should know better than to give his vote to the guy who brought his talent laden team to the 5th seed in the playoffs. Jimmy Garrapolo could have done that. Brady's take was as lame as it gets.

Somebody should ask Tom Brady how many SB's did Dan Marino play in after 1985?? I bet the prevailing thought at the time was that he'll probably play in four more.

 

[PatsFan2]

I get it. I get both points. Well if I were running Maye's MVP campaign, I would be having my minions screaming "13 ONE YARD TD PASSES" and "MORE WITH LESS" to the rafters on any media outlets I could get on. To my mind those are the two greatest negatives to Stafford position.

Again, I kind of like the idea of a player and his fan base feeling snubbed and robbed going into next season, than a 23 yr old thinking he just reached the top of football world (award wise)

The NFL stands for Not For Long nothing is guaranteed. Maye should win the MVP: Stafford had his chance and blew it.