Is anyone else on here as p*ssed off at him as I am?
Not punting on a 4 and 2 and wasting timeouts . . .
And to top it all off, I'm stuck in Indiana and will never hear the end of this

 

That PI call was BS as well.

 

I know we can't always see things exactly the way they are from the TV but geesh........it really seemed like the officials spotted that ball in favor of the home team. Just didn't seem to make sense. And the decision to go for it with horrible position like that........what the crap!? No faith in the defense I guess. I really don't know what to think but it almost seems rigged and EVERYONE is in on it. Sad.....

 

What are you guys talking about??

 

I am a HUGE NE fan so here is my take on the game.

The Pats D did a pretty good job during the game against a phenomenal offense HOWEVER...the game is 60 minutes, not 45 and their job was not done when the fourth quarter started. THAT cost the pats the game, not the 4th down call.

The Pats offense did a tremendous job. The short passing game was very strong, the long ball was very strong, yardage after reception was very strong and even their running game was well played (very rare for NE.) If your offense can score 34 points that SHOULD be enough points to win a game. What else can you ask of them? I saw relatively little error in the way the offense played the game.....EXCEPT..The pats called one timeout on FIRST down and called another time out on SECOND down! What in the heck were they thinking?.....which leads me directly into the "Call".

Had the Pats not blown their timeouts in such unneeded situations they would have been able to challenge the spot of the ball. All over ESPN this morning it has been talked about and the Colts got a very generous home team spot. He did bobble the ball for about 1/10th of a second but then had complete possession with forward progress and a foot down in front of or ON the first down line. The ball was spotted 10 inches short, that was a bad spot.

Now...the call to go for it. I thought it was a good call and made a statement. In all reality Bill has a 75% success rate on 4th down conversions and as well all saw he made the right call on this play because he did make it although was not given the spot. You can certainly argue that he did not make it even if they had a challenge but it was a wise play choice and a good call.

As much as I hate to admit it this game was a relative throw away game. The pats should have no problem taking their division with relative ease and will secure a playoff spot and see the Colts again in Indy. Had the Pats won the game and many other stars aligned there would have been a CHANCE of home field advantage but I just do not see that happening. The pats showed that they will back down to no one and got the attention of a few teams in the league.

The pats lost to the Broncos and the Jets but seeing how those teams are playing now and how the pats are playing now it is safe to say that the Broncos and Jets did not play the Pats that are on the field today. We walked away knowing that we CAN beat the Colts who are regarded as the no 1 team in the league today and know that the game that really matters will be when we see them again later in the season. Bill would not have gone for that in a must win game.

Feels good to talk about this...its like a support group. I was less than 5 seconds from throwing the plasma out the window until the wife sat me down for an intervention.

 

My thoughts on this one are that it could be 50/50 depending on how you look at it but here were Bills thoughts.

If they punted the Colts would have had the ball at a position greater than their own 20 yard line with 2 minutes left. The colts would have been HOT after running 11 unanswered points and would have had two timeouts to get the job done. Peyton as we know is a VERY strong 2 minute drill QB and our D was gassed and clearly not getting the job done.

By getting the first down the two minute warning was out of the equation. We then had 4 plays and the Colts would have had 2 timeouts. The timeouts would have been burned after the first two plays since the pats would have run. Even if the Pats would not have gotten the first down the clock would have run down to around 50 seconds or a little less. If they had another first down they would have run the clock out.

NOW...if they did not get a first down they would have punted putting the ball back into at least their 10 yard line (who knows about the run back) leaving the colts with just under 50 seconds to go approx 70-90 yards with no timeouts.

It may not have seemed like their best chance to win but I can see where they were coming from.

 

I think if the Pats get their old OC back they'll do just fine.

 

I dont think we will see Josh Mcdaniels leave his lucrative head coaching position in Denver to come back and be the pats OC.

 

As you probably know I was referring to an over employed college head football coach of a once elite program.

 

Hey it could be worse. You could have Mike Mcarthy for a head coach, Ted Thompson for a GM , and your previous superstar QB could have beat up on you twice this year already. And then you could have lost a fourth quarter lead to the Tampon bay buc's