Quarterback Play - The Key Was Boyce

[Deus Irae]

It sure did hamper that offense in the final game

Injuries did that. Let's not pretend it was anything else. That same offense had lit up the Giants just a couple of weeks earlier.

 

[captain stone]

Injuries, piss-poor protection and gobshite coaching by Skippy.

 

[supafly]

I've had Boyce on my PatsPicker 53…until yesterday. I can no longer take it with him. He was simply
awful Thursday night. What a(nother) waste of a draft pick. Whoever is scouting and recommending
WRs for the past dozen years simply must be fired. This is beyond ridiculous.

It's hard to disagree with you here, as great as Belichick has been at drafting (particularly from a low spot every year). WR has been a miserable failure though, at least when it comes to scouting new youth via the draft.

Fun fact = decided to re-read "War Room" recently, and they point to Belichick's assessment of receiver Julio Jones as being way overhyped and possibly not even a first round talent due to his tendency to drop balls at Alabama. Instead, he was all over WR Jonathan Baldwin, a first round bust who has bounced around a couple of different teams so far.