SEA_Pat
Rotational Player and Threatening Starter's Job
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Don't have the time to read through the whole thread, but three pages in and all I see is talking about WR and skill positions. Don't know if y'all watched the game or not, but...we got our azzes handed to us on both lines of scrimmage and that is what wins or loses football games. We had the OL as healthy as they'd been all season, and they were dreadful when it mattered; guys standing around ahead of the play while the Titan who had knifed through to tackle the RB behind the line of scrimmage was untouched. Roberts made a terrible choice on a key 3rd and 1 and that was the end of the FB/Sony combo for the rest of the game.
And on Defense? Don't even want to talk about it. I thought our thing was taking away the opponents' strength. Hadn't realized it was Tannehill's passing.
Couldn't even punt it within their 20 when we needed to. We lost on all the margins where we used to win.
We needed to reinvent ourselves on the fly and couldn't do it. We used to be able to.
Don't want to sound too negative, these games happen and we had run out of ideas toward the end of this year. There probably does need to be a shakeup in the braintrust; we need some fresh minds and ideas and the inevitable braindrain to other teams has taken its toll both in terms of our losing creativity and those other teams understanding what we're doing now that they're with the opposition. Not a surprise that the year ended with losses to former Patriot coaches and players. Dante is going to retire, and probably should given how badly they were exposed today. Josh will get a head coaching gig elsewhere, and that will be good too. Possible even BB sees the writing is on the wall and doesn't want to do a rebuild, just wants to sail around Nantucket. Life goes on.
What a ride, couldn't believe it when we won the first, never mind the sixth. No anger, small sadness. Father time remains undefeated. Love this team, and still will when we suck again as we did for most of my Patriot fandom.
And on Defense? Don't even want to talk about it. I thought our thing was taking away the opponents' strength. Hadn't realized it was Tannehill's passing.
Couldn't even punt it within their 20 when we needed to. We lost on all the margins where we used to win.
We needed to reinvent ourselves on the fly and couldn't do it. We used to be able to.
Don't want to sound too negative, these games happen and we had run out of ideas toward the end of this year. There probably does need to be a shakeup in the braintrust; we need some fresh minds and ideas and the inevitable braindrain to other teams has taken its toll both in terms of our losing creativity and those other teams understanding what we're doing now that they're with the opposition. Not a surprise that the year ended with losses to former Patriot coaches and players. Dante is going to retire, and probably should given how badly they were exposed today. Josh will get a head coaching gig elsewhere, and that will be good too. Possible even BB sees the writing is on the wall and doesn't want to do a rebuild, just wants to sail around Nantucket. Life goes on.
What a ride, couldn't believe it when we won the first, never mind the sixth. No anger, small sadness. Father time remains undefeated. Love this team, and still will when we suck again as we did for most of my Patriot fandom.