PostGame Thread 2025 OFFICIAL Patriots Wild Card PostGame Thread: Patriots win 16-3

[Pape]

I wonder what Jerod Mayo thinks of all this. Mayo takes a 4-13 team and wins 4* games in 2024. Vrabel takes that 4 win team, revamps the coaching staff, attracts FA's, drafts better and turns it into 14 win team and a trip to the Divisional Round.

Not much, i'm sure...

I do wonder if anyone has reached out to him to continue his coaching career as a position coach...

It'd be a shame if he just walked away... get some experience, he might be good...

 

[Rob0729]

I mean, it's mostly for his run blocking.

Even so, he got a better grade than say for Stevenson? Or Boutte?

 

[Pape]

Even so, he got a better grade than say for Stevenson? Or Boutte?

each position must have its own metric...

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

They called TWO false starts. One on Salyer and one on Beckton. That being said, Salyer was moving early all night and should have been flagged like 15 times

Gotcha, i take it sayler was the tackle… can’t remember if that flag was for the same thing he was doing all night or was it a more obvious penalty?

 

[mike_usagisan]

Even so, he got a better grade than say for Stevenson? Or Boutte?

Oh, are the grades comparable with other positions? I figured it was just a way to check grades against the same positions on the same and different teams.

 

[Ring 6]

It's because you're focusing only on the bad things and not on all the things he did really well.

1. Throw to Henry for TD was a great throw not many QBs can make
2. In addition to his passing yards he ran for 50+ and almost accounted for 350 yards of offense against a very good defense
3. They actually throttled down in the 4th quarter after grabbing a 2 score lead
4. He drove the team from their own 1 to SD's 10
5. He constantly moved the team downfield and avoided a lot of 3 and outs with clutch play
6. Made elite throws to Boutte and Henry
7. MOST IMPRESSIVE: on 2nd down against his own end zone, he read the defense's blitz, stood in there and got the ball out quick to Rham. That was a warning to Harbaugh that he could read Ds and he wasn't going to wilt.

With a 9-3 lead in the 4th quarter and the ball the patriots put the game in Mayes hands. Other than 2nd and shorts they threw every play and he drove right down the field to a TD that basically ended the game.

 

[JonBonesJones84]

What? Keenan Allen barely had an impact.

He was left wide open on several plays.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

3 turnovers is not pedestrian or mediocre. It’s bad.

58% is not pedestrian or mediocre either.

If either of those stats were mediocre then average QB’s would have 40+ turnovers each year.

I’m genuinely shocked that such an overall smart fanbase is being so… homerish.

Because you're focusing on two ingredients of a 15 ingredient recipe. I can't believe you really are this daft, I'm pretty sure you're just f***ing with me at this point

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

First 3 drives of half 2-

11 plays , 58 yards , fumble
8 plays , 64 yards, fg
7 plays, 80 yards, td

Then the 2 drives after that is where we went mostly conservative and just trying to run out the clock. So our offense actually did well after halftime, just the bad fumble . If not for that we score a minimum of 13 in half 2, more if Maye doesn’t miss hooper for an easy td or we actually needed to run our real offense the last 2 drives. Great job of adjusting after a rough first half.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

Pats can still win if their star QB isn't at his best. Other teams, not so much (cough-yours-cough)

This isn't an insult to them. They like that about their team. They love that their team blows outside of Josh Allen. Because then, they get to call him the best QB in the league with 52 other built-in excuses for why he can't get it done in the playoffs. They can't lose.

 

[Pape]

They called TWO false starts. One on Salyer and one on Beckton. That being said, Salyer was moving early all night and should have been flagged like 15 times

even collinsworth pointed it out on one play review... "got away with one there" or something of the sort

 

[Uptown]

 

[PatsFan2]

They called TWO false starts. One on Salyer and one on Beckton. That being said, Salyer was moving early all night and should have been flagged like 15 times

I saw that too and had to changed my glasses I thought it was me. I couldn't understand why the Refs weren't calling that.

 

[Rob0729]

each position must have its own metric...

Sure, but everyone are still graded on the same scale of 1-100. So no matter the metrics, the players who played the best should have the best grades. PFF doesn't believe in that. It is a greatly flawed system.

 

[Uptown]

 

[Rob0729]

Oh, are the grades comparable with other positions? I figured it was just a way to check grades against the same positions on the same and different teams.

The best players should have the best grades. They may rank positions against each other, each player is graded independently of other players. I mean if every other tackle this week broke their legs on the first play and not one tackle played, Campbell wouldn't get a perfect score.

 

[Uptown]

The same way you couldn’t dissect coverages in Detroit?…

 

[LightSkinSmurf]

 

[patchick]

If ANY other QB had an INT, 2 fumbles, and 58% completion percentage, you would say it was bad.

Honestly, yeah. He didn’t play like a “Drake Maye,” and I’m sure he’s not happy with his performance.

Yet he also pulled out enough clutch runs and throws to win the game. And of all Maye’s strengths, the greatest might be his learning speed, including learning from mistakes. Playoff Football 101 course completed successfully.

 

[festy1986]

This tweet is missing the fact that they fired two coaches and hired two in that period.