PostGame Thread Official PostGame Thread - 2023 Week 7 - Patriots Win 29-25

[Rob0729]

It is all about the o-line.

 

[Froob]

Mac has gotta just throw it away instead of extending plays. Seems that where he gets into trouble, either pick, fumble or steps into a sack.

 

[Rob0729]

Mac has gotta just throw it away instead of extending plays. Seems that where he gets into trouble, either pick, fumble or steps into a sack.

Why are you posting this after a game where he completed 83.3% of his passes, threw no picks, the only near pick was not a play where he extended the play, and one fumble that happened inside the pocket?

It was a fair criticism for other games, but not this one. For the most part, Jones stayed in the pocket and made the throws this week.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Mac has gotta just throw it away instead of extending plays. Seems that where he gets into trouble, either pick, fumble or steps into a sack.

He really doesn't extend plays. He gets into trouble when hes pressured and/or makes bad decisions.

It's not like he trying to be Jalen Hurts out there

 

[Real fan 02]

Peppers signed a 2 year deal this offseason, so he’ll be on the team for 2024.

I thought he signed a 1y?

 

[Real fan 02]

Broncos with a chance to get a wild card at 2-5. Amazing.

Wow! It's also mind blowing that we are 2-1 in the division.

 

[TomPatriot]

It is all about the o-line.

WR too. WR and OL were much improved yesterday and that led to a win. I know they weren’t facing the Eagles DL, but OL technique and coordination was shockingly better.

 

[Brewskies]

Congrats Patriots, Mac Jones, & Bill Belichick.

They won. Next

 

[Real fan 02]

2-5 teams don’t get an oh yeah. Earn it.

And it just makes the raiders loss feel so tough to swallow. We should have had that one. 12 points for them yesterday against the bears with no fields...

 

[sb1]

And it just makes the raiders loss feel so tough to swallow. We should have had that one. 12 points for them yesterday against the bears with no fields...

And 3-4 feels a lot different than 2-5 if we are thinking playoff contention..

 

[Stu Pidassle]

I think his mechanics have been spotty for a long time.

Jittery Mac is disastrous combination of bad footwork and poor decision making. At this point in his career he needs a consistent OL to be successful.

 

[PP2]

And it just makes the raiders loss feel so tough to swallow. We should have had that one. 12 points for them yesterday against the bears with no fields...

Hoyer came back down to earth. He was unfortunately on fire against us, and that almost never happens.

 

[Ross12]

On almost all of these, he throws his head backwards to fake like his head got hit, knowing the league is extremely sensitive about hits to the head. This is definitely some LeBron level stuff, maybe worse

 

[PaulThePat]

Clear from reading this thread that there are one or two (one in particular) posters on here who were hoping Mac would throw an int instead of a TD on the last drive. These jerks don't deserve to be Pat's fans...which is handy, because they probably aren't.

 

[Jim Beankie]

Snap counts. TT with only 3. I wonder if it's an injury thing or just wasn't part of the gameplan.

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[Sciz]

I thought he signed a 1y?

His first contract with the Pats was for one year. When that expired this past March, he signed a new two year contract.

 

[PatsWSB47]

Buffalo didn't play their best game, that's true.

BUT.

The Patriots had a much better gameplan in this game.

Their defense started strong, causing the Bills turnover that led to our first offensive TD and a 10 point lead.

Before the game the Bills said they had to avoid a slow start, but that's exactly what we did to them. They were playing from behind the whole game.

The defense eventually gave up plays and the Bills came back from a 12 point deficit to take a 3 point lead.

But that's when the offense pulled its own weight and scored the game-winning TD in the clutch.

I really can't complain about today's performance as each unit, defense and offense, fed off the other unit, resulting in the win.

Have we turned the corner? Too early to say. But today's performance was an all-around team win rather than the usual, defense pulls it out again but the offense looked like hot garbage. So that at least is a good sign going forward.

It was a good sign but show us again. I thought I'd lost my half glass full guy status to a half glass empty one but yesterday has me reconsidering that. Let's hope that it wasn't our Superbowl this year. This season might be salvaged after all.

 

[cmasspatsfan]

On almost all of these, he throws his head backwards to fake like his head got hit, knowing the league is extremely sensitive about hits to the head. This is definitely some LeBron level stuff, maybe worse

Yeah, he's got his act down to a science, the second he's touched, the head goes back like he got shot in the forehead.

 

[Triumph]

The Pats don't have any good offensive players thanks to GM Bill Belichick.

The Pats RBs ran for 4.0 ypc.
All 3 TEs made big plays including that Bust from Florida Gesicki.
Douglas gave the Buffalo defense all they handle.
Bourne had a good game sans fumble.

 

[sb1]

The Pats don't have any good offensive players thanks to GM Bill Belichick.

The Pats RBs ran for 4.0 ypc.
All 3 TEs made big plays including that Bust from Florida Gesicki.
Douglas gave the Buffalo defense all they handle.
Bourne had a good game sans fumble.

If your smurf was QB they would have won by 60. 2-0 last year and did you see that throw at the combine? Wow!