Post Game Thread- Pats at Lions

[farn]

Positives ? Very few injuries and hopefully key players returning soon. There is much to improve if they want to be in the convo...

 

[Observer]

After seeing the team throw the Super Bowl last year, I don’t really feel as bad about losses as I used to. Brady is still a joy to watch, even if there’s no one to throw to.

 

[ViperGTS]

We need a dine.

BB needs to swing a trade for Earl Thomas.

 

[BradytoMosstoGronk]

Positives: the game was over in 2:40.

That’s all I got.

NFC loss is the one takeaway for me.

 

[SammyBlueCat]

I'm coughing up fur balls

 

[HailHydra]

They just quit at the end, didn’t even try to score wtf? We’ve won games like this before.

Happened last game too. There were 5 mins on the clock and we're down 2 scores and we start running the clock down.

 

[Angelpats]

Kind of blame Josh McDaniels for this and last weeks loss. They are trying to hard to get Sony involved and it’s just kills any possible rhythm, in addition to giving us big holes to crawl back from.

Second is there is no creativity in the plays. We need something because our receivers really can’t get any kind of separation.

With our low time of possession, our defense just gets gassed out, in addition to being unresponsive and tackling poorly.

 

[Horace's Ivories]

The awfulness of Hightower is shocking

 

[PatriotReign]

On offense, Jules and Gordon needed badly.

On defense, Flores is struggling badly.

What is Flores supposed to do with the **** sandwich Bill is giving him. Slow old safeties, average corners sans Gilmore, young corners with little nfl experience, slow overpaid linebackers, d line that can't rush the passer or stop the run. Also Bill oversees everything which means Flores has little control over what's going on.

Not to mention Bill's methodology for drafting defense is outdated and picking at the pack for 2 decades doesn't help. Not to mention all the wasted picks on second round corners and wide receivers.

 

[HeadHunter]

Third game of the year. Huge risk for injury going all out with a minute or so to go with almost no chance of winning. Live to play another day.

Fair enough and I get that. Just seemed pretty odd not to at least try for a quick score. Shoot TB took his helmet off before the clock ran out. Really really frustrated tonight...

 

[MUFC7]

Miami is a must win now. If they lose to Miami this season is over.

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

Brady has receivers that would be backups on just about every team in the NFL right now - they cannot find separation at all,Anyone could see that tonight - we saw it last week but that was a formidable defense - the Lions are NOT a good defense

As crazy as it sounds,The signing of Gordon could be the reason this offense gets back on track or stays the mess it is - even with the return of Edelman if Gordon messes up and the receivers remain the same then this offense will no longer be able to outscore the opponent and overcome the lack of coverage of our secondary and lack of pressure on the QB - the season will then get long quickly.

Next week the team needs to focus and get back on the win column - a loss to the Dolphins and going 3 games back might begin the inevitable passing the division title torch should they lose again.

 

[Love The Drake]

BB needs to swing a trade for Earl Thomas.

We don't need aging Vets we need young hungry players.
Thomas to me is another vet looking to get paid this isn't Harrison 2.0

 

[PatsFan2]

BB's dollar store grocery shopping not cutting it in Today's NFL. Need somebody not named the GM BB to shop for the groceries. This Team other than the GOAT and Gronk is very paltry in talent.

 

[PatriotReign]

Kind of blame Josh McDaniels for this and last weeks loss. They are trying to hard to get Sony involved and it’s just kills any possible rhythm, in addition to giving us big holes to crawl back from.

Second is there is no creativity in the plays. We need something because our receivers really can’t get any kind of separation.

With our low time of possession, our defense just gets gassed out, in addition to being unresponsive and tackling poorly.

Brady would get killed if they tried to pass more. He can't get rid of the ball because no one's open. It's a sad state of affairs for this group.

 

[Patriots1993]

Putrid. So going back to the Super Bowl, BB has been outcoached 3 out of 4 games. I know he's a "legend" but between his teams poor efforts and his ineptness at putting a roster together you have to start to wonder if the end of his road is near...

 

[Soliel]

At least they looked capable last season

If they swapped jerseys with the browns at this point I don’t think anybody would notice a difference in play

I’d notice. The browns are playing better than us right now

 

[Ross12]

Just wanted to say I haven’t seen BB look as angry as he did at the end of this game in a while... He looked like he was coming for blood on someone... It’s not gonna be a great week in the film room.

Honestly I am just at a bit of a loss offensively. They were getting blown up in the run game too often. Burkhead is hurt yet again, Michel is unproven, White is White. At WR, you’ve got Hogan and Patterson right now. Dorsett got hurt, he game back but who knows if that was just to close out the game or if he’s really injured... No idea where Gordon is at right now. Edelman is still a week away but we don’t really know if we can count on him to be his usual self right away or if there’ll be rust. At TE you’ve got... Gronk.

Theoretically if Dorsett and Burkhead are out next week and Hollister remains hurt then you’ve got a skill position group of Michel, White, Hogan, Patterson, Gordon (maybe), Gronk and Allen. And that’s basically it. Not sure what’s to say about that.

 

[Deus Irae]

The good news is that Danny Shelton has come right in and really turned the run defense into a force to be reckoned with.

 

[PatriotSpy]

I thank BB for his contributions but Brady has been carrying his behind since the parcells boys left. Brady shows more fire and more passion for winning than BB could ever dream of.