PostGame Thread 2025 OFFICIAL POSTGAME THREAD: Patriots fall 29-13 to the Seahawks

[Vindicate]

************, seriously? I've never read that.

Is it the people who watch the NFL convinced that their Madden GM skills could deliver a trophy every year?!

You'd be surprised howany people called for Gonzo's head all season. Half the time it was on snaps where he wasn't even the responsible player, but just happened to be close to the play. It was ridiculous.

Not a majority of people by anyeans, but a very vocal minority.

 

[Ring 6]

It's called being a fan...do you know fan is short for? Fanatic. Why do you care? Why do you get your Pats panties in a bunch when people rip the team. It’s what fans do.

No. Fans support the team. Fans identify with the team. Fans are hopeful.
You **** on the team.

I guess the answer you didn’t give us the one I really thought. Despite criticizing everything as if you were better than everyone, you really are a failure in life who takes out the frustration of being a loser by typing ******* comments ripping people who accomplished more by 25 years old than you did in your entire miserable life. Why don’t you stick to slurping 40s and crying to your trailer trade neighbors.

 

[GaryfromTO]

You learn, you improve the teams weaknesses (OL, TE, etc) and you move on. A 14-3 season and a Super Bowl appearance after a 4-13 season is still a pretty damn good turnaround

 

[bormio]

I've said it time and time again. Look up the play by plays...when Maye plays great he throws on early downs and gets into a rhythm. All ****ing playoffs he was a run first OC when regular season they threw way more on first down.

There is a good deal of truth in this. We seemed predictable on first down in the playoffs - especially on the first series of a drive. I thought we would run the ball well in the playoffs - we did not.

 

[VrabelJr]

You'd be surprised howany people called for Gonzo's head all season. Half the time it was on snaps where he wasn't even the responsible player, but just happened to be close to the play. It was ridiculous.

Not a majority of people by anyeans, but a very vocal minority.

Yes people were saying he wouldn’t be worth whatever we pay him. Some even said they hope he struggled so his price tag would go down. Weird logic. Gonzo is a stud.

 

[Ring 6]

Agreed. Ideally this is a good building point and we improve, but that isn't guaranteed at all and other teams make their own moves.

The only “building” is young players improving ( more than the old ones decline or the loss of player that leave) and more importantly making good personnel decisions and doin h a good job coaching players.
If you have the right people in place you make better decisions than the competition.

 

[PatsfanTN]

There is no such thing as house money.

Every season is its own. What happens next year has nothing to do with what happened this year.
32 teams will be competing to get better relative to each other by competing for all of the resources.
Where you were this year has nothing to do with whether you improve or decline next year ( nor does the direction you appear to heading in). Thr decisions you make next year will determine if you are one of the 16 improvers or 16 decliners.

The concept of an incremental improvement curve comes from the says before free agency when you added 7 or 8 draft choices and the rest of your team remained the same and young players got better while old players dropped off. The NFL now is nowhere near that. As they said tonight we had 30 new players out of 53.

I hear you. Then we didn’t do what needed to be done at the trade deadline.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

And defenses know how to attack Maye. If Maye does not have check down charlie mode next season , he is dead in water.

This is a bit overblown. It's not like he is literally always looking for the kill shot; as a rule only about 10 passes a game travel more than 10 yards downfield. The problem is that he does look for it too often.

 

[letekro]

Campbell doesn’t have arm length problems. He has strength issues. He got bull rushed all playoffs.

The lack of arm length allows defenders to get their hands on him and push him back.

 

[NFL Mystique]

Maybe Maye really is dealing with a somewhat serious injury.

 

[mgteich]

Offensive line needs better scheming. .

ROFL
The OL coaches deserve awards for best position coaches in the league

 

[The Gr8est]

It was a disgrace after the 3rd when it was 12-0.

It wasn’t a disgrace for our defense.

 

[FCB02062]

Josh mcdaniels wasted a great defensive performance.

 

[JonBonesJones84]

There was a one play where Maye had a ton of time and just sort of kept inching up into the blocking until he leaned right into a defender who sacked him. I really don't get stuff like that.

Maye is more talented than Darnold, but we probably have a good shot at winning that game if Maye had the same pocket awareness Darnold showed when he was under pressure

I just don’t understand what the problem was? Maye was like this even the afccg. Was this something he just couldn’t overcome during practice and was kept a secret from?

On the Reddit post game thread, you even have Ravens’ fans questioning whether Maye switched bodies with Darnold and turned into the said pumpkin Darold has been known to become.

 

[Joey007]

I wasn’t alive for it but this had Super Bowl 20 vibes. But not quite as bad.

I kinda had more Super Bowl 31 vibes, minus the coach with a foot half out the door.

Showed flashes of life at times, but ultimately just couldn’t protect the QB.

 

[Vindicate]

If we’re going to keep Josh around I at least want to run the same offense from the 2nd Super Bowl run era. Maye gets the ball out in 2.5 seconds or less to a group of 5’10” shifty WRs with YAC ability. Oh yeah get a dominant TE that can block too.

Again, all personnel demands. McDaniels will call based on his personnel. And Maye is included in that; it's a very special few who can do both very well.

Also it's just straight up extremely difficult to build an offense with receivers that both are explosive and big like ours, but also surgical options like Welker or Edelman, AND keep Rham and Hendo.

That statement essentially becomes "We need a perfect offense with no weaknesses"

 

[Stu Pidassle]

Unfortunately the game played out as predicted. The better team won. The Pats OL was overwhelmed all game, the WR group was not able to consistently get separation and the inexperienced QB was never able to get comfortable. A sad end to an otherwise incredible season. Congrats to the team for getting to the championship game.

There is little time to reflect with the team getting a late start on year 2 of the rebuild. The upside is that this experience should make it clear where better talent is needed going into the compressed off season.

 

[Delicate Genius]

Drake sounded good in his postgame presser at least. I mean as in he's not destroying himself or anything.

 

[Lansdowne]

************, seriously? I've never read that.

Is it the people who watch the NFL convinced that their Madden GM skills could deliver a trophy every year?!

I saw someone in the gameday thread of the Broncos game get angry after the Mims catch in the 1st quarter and suggested Gonzalez isn’t worth the money he was going to command. I attribute that to the poster having the emotional maturity of a kindergartener. So basically, it’s been said, but not by anyone who needs to be taken seriously.

 

[Guts]

Me right now