The Loss That Still Baffles Me To This Day:

AndyJohnson said:

Seems you got the last laugh.

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Oh yea. I went medieval on his azz. Still am

PATSYLICIOUS said:

The playoff loss to nyj is the most baffling one to me as getting beat down by a poor team in the regular season is nothing really new.

That playoff game though , while the jets were a tough matchup that year, we did dismantle them, Chicago, and Pittsburgh- 3 of the final 4 teams that year. Our whole team including brady laid an egg. JE is the only one who really showed any kind of life with that punt return and the offense still only got a fg from it. It was a bizarre showing

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One of my pet peeves is when a team slaughters another and then rubs it in afterward. That's what the Pats did when they won 45-3 a few weeks earlier. Even Tom Brady was mocking the Jete by "flying" around Jete style. They should have let the sleeping dog stay laying down.

Actual Pats Fan said:

Ryan got them all fired up about Dennis Byrd and the Pats were flat, and layed an egg.

I am surprised Belichick didn't see it coming, but I guess he figured the team was on a roll and he didn't want to rock the boat and mess with their confidence...he always talks up every opponent, but he didn't have them sharp and ready.

Success just came too easy in that regular season for us. Is it our fault we were too good?

That's football.

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I think a couple of the factors were the way the Pats rubbed it in after the 45-3 win a few weeks earlier and that Belichick decided to punish Welker in the first series, which may have surprsed the team and caused them to go flat.

1960Pats said:

All losses bother me until the Pats win the SB that season. Then I couldn't care less about those losses.

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Ala Miracle in Miami

1960Pats said:

I think a couple of the factors were the way the Pats rubbed it in after the 45-3 win a few weeks earlier and that Belichick decided to punish Welker in the first series, which may have surprsed the team and caused them to go flat.

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Yeah this is the loss that really Really surprised me. I expected nothing less than more of the same from the previous meeting a few weeks ago. Those first two drives looked like they both could've ended with TDs; they instead ended with 3 points total. In addition, Brady & his receivers were not on the same page during a couple of crucial 3rd downs, including one that immediately preceded the botched fake punt.

Joey007 said:

Ala Miracle in Miami

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Great example. At the time I was fuming but I got over it a month or so later. I was especially upset that Jonathan Jones went for the ball instead of the tackle on the first pass.

1960Pats said:

Great example. At the time I was fuming but I got over it a month or so later. I was especially upset that Jonathan Jones went for the ball instead of the tackle on the first pass.

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JC Jackson lacked effort on that play as well.

Elijah said:

I think both of you are conflating the 2012 and 2016 Seattle games, both of which we lost. The 2012 one had the 1st half goal line blunder; I'm pretty sure the 2016 one had us turn over on downs on the Seattle side but not near the goal line.

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2012 was another baffling game. Pats should’ve blown them out. From the run out of the clock prior to halftime to the tipped pass that got intercepted by Earl Thomas which would’ve still blown the game wide open.

Seattle thought they were hot s**t after the game, but they were clearly overmatched during the game and got back into the game by uncharacteristically dumb mistakes by the Pats.

The 2016 game was the one I referring to in my original post. They freaked out near at the end of the game near the goal line running done terrible plays. Then they threw up a Gronk prayer hoping for a flag on Chancellor.

captain stone said:

Yeah this is the loss that really Really surprised me. I expected nothing less than more of the same from the previous meeting a few weeks ago. Those first two drives looked like they both could've ended with TDs; they instead ended with 3 points total. In addition, Brady & his receivers were not on the same page during a couple of crucial 3rd downs, including one that immediately preceded the botched fake punt.

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They also played Q4 of that game like Andy Reid was coaching. Inexplicably slow pace given what they were trailing by.

The most baffling loss for me in the Brady era was the 2017 Super Bowl, but that is all I am going to say about it.

aluminum seats said:

What a great run. But I guess you weren’t really aware of the first Super Bowl. Probably the optimum birth year for a Boston sports fan would be like 1990...

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I was born in 1990. I can't even believe what I've seen in the last 9 years of my 28 year life, let alone 19. The 2001 super bowl is still a little hazy, but the 2003 SB is the furthest game I can remember the most out of.

If you even ignore the pre 2000 era, any area would have had to sell their souls for all that recent success. Including EVERYTHING else too? Embarrassment of riches. NE is one fortunate and amazing sports area.

On subject, that game was annoying, but I think the Jets playoff game was way worse that year - they beat us twice that season.

FCB02062 said:

Philadelphia at home 2015 is MUCH more baffling than that Cleveland loss....

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Especially considering we were up 14-0 in that game.

BradytoMosstoGronk said:

I was born in 1990. I can't even believe what I've seen in the last 9 years of my 28 year life, let alone 19. The 2001 super bowl is still a little hazy, but the 2003 SB is the furthest game I can remember the most out of.

If you even ignore the pre 2000 era, any area would have had to sell their souls for all that recent success. Including EVERYTHING else too? Embarrassment of riches. NE is one fortunate and amazing sports area.

On subject, that game was annoying, but I think the Jets playoff game was way worse that year - they beat us twice that season.

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You have pre-Brady/BB Pats fans like myself who keep waiting for it all to come crumbling down, and fans like yourself who have experienced nothing but greatness most of their lives. I will say this though, you definitely have a good head about you. My 2 oldest boys (15 & 16) though? Spoiled little ****s!!!

I thought this was going to be about last years miami loss.

captain stone said:

Yeah this is the loss that really Really surprised me. I expected nothing less than more of the same from the previous meeting a few weeks ago. Those first two drives looked like they both could've ended with TDs; they instead ended with 3 points total. In addition, Brady & his receivers were not on the same page during a couple of crucial 3rd downs, including one that immediately preceded the botched fake punt.

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I didn’t think that INT on that first drive of the game would set the tone, but it did.

I can accept the Pats struggling on offense against a great game plan by Ryan, but NE not being able to slow Mark Sanchez of all people was unacceptable.

reflexblue said:

I thought this was going to be about last years miami loss.

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TBH that one wasn't really all that baffling. Seemed to me like the play was fairly self explanatory...and thoroughly inexcusable

maust1013 said:

TBH that one wasn't really wasn't all that baffling. Seemed to me like the play was fairly self explanatory...and thoroughly inexcusable

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The coverage was baffaling

reflexblue said:

The coverage was baffaling

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Yeah, last year's last-second Miami loss was genuinely bizarre. If the Patriots just do their generic hail mary defense with anybody but a hobbled Gronk they win 99.9% of the time.

Of course it's all just part of the crazy story of that season now. Like how the 1993 Cowboys team had that wacky loss to the Dolphins in the snow thanks to Leon Lett's massive brain fart with 15 seconds left that has to be seen to be believed.



Bonus points for it being a snow game IN DALLAS, TEXAS of all places.

sean10mm said:

...Of course it's all just part of the crazy story of that season now. Like how the 1993 Cowboys team had that wacky loss to the Dolphins in the snow thanks to Leon Lett's massive brain fart with 15 seconds left that has to be seen to be believed.



Bonus points for it being a snow game IN DALLAS, TEXAS of all places.

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I was there...not at the game, but in Dallas with my future wife from Jan '92 to Aug '95.
I drove past Texas Stadium on my way to work the following day, and cars were skidding all over the place. Half of our crew didn't arrive until later in the morning or not at all. Fortunately, neither the roads nor our business was busy the morning after Thanksgiving.

BTW, after the Cowboys lost to Miami, they won the SB later that season...just like we did.

All I have to say is, "On any given Sunday" crap happens..