Week 4 Post-Game Thread: Patriots 38, Dolphins 7

[QuantumMechanic]

Dorsett was better, they finally had a good looking deep ball but he dropped it. Still its getting there. Another nice open field move today. Like him as a 5th option, passable as a 4th if Gordon doesn’t pan out.

It's definitely Dorsett's fault he didn't catch it, but it wasn't really a drop.

If you watch the slomo replay closely you'll see that he doesn't catch it cleanly and bobbles it. In mid-bobble the DB alertly punches it away.

If the DB was further away Dorsett probably would have hauled it in. It wasn't like it clanged off his hands.

However, he should have caught it cleanly and not bobbled it in the first place.

 

[fnordcircle]

Ugh...I missed it. I thought he was picking on me.

@fnordcircle knows I love him

It's ok man, I've learned that the best jokes include disclaimers to cover any civics questions.

 

[Jackson 2]

We need to destroy Indi and get to 3-2. Stay laser focused .

In other news...

Dolphins fan forum thread creators are losing it:
Start Brock Osweiller
Absolutely Disgusting Game By The Nfl

Throwing Tannehill under the bus? Classless. They were just praising him last three weeks. Also, rigged? Pathetic hot take.

Throwing players under the bus...jeez, where have we seen this before?

 

[Kdo5]

I legit watched a LOTR porn parody with that character. Not joking

I know which one you are talking about. The Gandalf character was a drunk who liked Smirnoff vodka.

 

[patsinthesnow]

I said similar in the game day thread. Weird how he’s gone from a potential CB2 when the teams traded for him to a potential safety convert & now back to CB2. Looks good.

 

[TomPatriot]

I rewound and isolated on JMac about 5 times. Blanket.

 

[cmasspatsfan]

It was a really bad call. First, do no harm. Giving the opponent the ball with time and only a few yards to FG range was very harmful to chances of winning. As subsequent events showed.

Plus I thought Houston had 1 timeout.

 

[PScottman]

There's nothing sneaky about it. If I may "he is what we thought he was". Steady veteran, not going to totally shut anyone down most days, but a good tackler, run supporter and can integrate into a team defense.

 

[Oswlek]

They were two really bad decisions by Brady

The first one, yes, the second was a really good play by the DB. Dorsett broke into a space that would ordinarily have been vacated by a clear out route, but the DB read the play and dropped off Patterson (?) in perfect time to make the pick.

 

[PScottman]

a really good play by the DB

Yeah that was a great read by the Phins CB, but he also had help if I remember correctly so he could break off and not worry about getting burned over the top.

 

[PatsWSB47]

We made it through 2-2 and Julian had 4 more weeks of convalescing. I'd say that glass is more than half full

 

[DaBruinz]

It should help, as there will be just two receivers he'll trust enough to force feed: Jules and Gronk.

You don't think Brady trusts Hogan and White enough to force the ball to them??

 

[TomPatriot]

idgi

He’s saying their going to mesh so the rest of the NFL had better be scared.

 

[fnordcircle]

He’s saying their going to mesh so the rest of the NFL had better be scared.

I meant the 'journalistic integrity' comment. Especially given that Chatham isn't a journalist.

 

[JMC00]

If you take away the the lolphins last drive when Pats were just basically playing straight up and letting clock get run they had 97 total net yards

 

[TomPatriot]

With the nags and trolls and pinkies, this thread would already be 30 pages.

 

[Deus Irae]

Has it ever been "mathematically too late?" Brady missed playoffs in 2002 but lost out on tiebreaker but I don't think he was ever played a game where he wasn't in contention for playoffs or Super Bowl...
And as for mathematically too late during the game. I think the number of games where Brady has lost by more than a touchdown is.....(26/293-- 22 regular season, 4 post season)

Brady still has never played an NFL game where his team was eliminated before game time.

 

[Oswlek]

Marsh had a couple of good games last year

I beg to differ. Marsh had a couple decent plays, but he was otherwise terrible. Couldn't even figure out how to rush without being 10 yards behind the QB, and that's supposed to be the one thing he did alright.

arguably the first was just a good defensive play, but he usually throws it so it's only catch-able by his receiver

There quite literally was no way to throw that pass where it was only catchable by the receiver. Brady just got baited on that play.

 

[102 Pat]

I had to work today so I watched a decent amount on my phone, how was the GDT? Did the usual All-Stars reach to find things to be worried and concerned about?

 

[farn]

Brady still has never played an NFL game where his team was eliminated before game time.

That is an insane stat. Doubly so when you consider the amount of seasons...