What was the biggest upset loss for the Patriots ever in the post-season?

[john4psu]

What was the biggest upset/most surprising loss for the Patriots ever in the post-season?

The 2007 Patriots loss to the Giants? Are there other contenders?

 

[Lansdowne]

Super Bowl 42 easily. The only other loss that comes remotely close is the other Giants loss in Super Bowl 46 because that Giants team was 9-7 and came within a game of not even making the playoffs that year. But because we’ve seen what the Giants are capable of (and the fact they had already come into Foxboro and beat us that season) it wasn’t as shocking to me.

And if you want to exclude any Giants-related game, the playoff loss to the Jets in Foxboro was a shocker to me. That 2010 team was on fire for two months straight headed into the playoffs and then just completely face-planted.

 

[Zarozzor]

Super Bowl 42 easily. The only other loss that comes remotely close is the other Giants loss in Super Bowl 46 because that Giants team was 9-7 and came within a game of not even making the playoffs that year. But because we’ve seen what the Giants are capable of (and the fact they had already come into Foxboro and beat us that season) it wasn’t as shocking to me.

And if you want to exclude any Giants-related game, the playoff loss to the Jets in Foxboro was a shocker to me. That 2010 team was on fire for two months straight headed into the playoffs and then just completely face-planted.

2010 was awful. 2007 was the greatest team in NFL history by basically every measure (DVOA, SRS, ELO, margin of victory, point differential) but the 2010 team was a top 5-10 team in history, at least in the regular season. The 2010 Patriots were the #4 team in DVOA history (1978-2024) and the #7 team in SRS of the Super Bowl era (1966-2024)

 

[maust]

 

[Uptown]

Easy..

1) 2007
2) 2010

 

[sb1]

Agreed with 07 and 10. Also most annoying losses: SB 31, 52.

 

[The Brandon Five]

What was the biggest upset/most surprising loss for the Patriots ever in the post-season?

The 2007 Patriots loss to the Giants? Are there other contenders?

Nothing else comes close to that fiasco