Well like BT said, I have now had chance to calm down and think about the situation and although there are still several very bad aspects to that loss, it's not the end of the world. If we lose against The Colts this Sunday, then we have a problem. It's all about how you respond to adversity...
Like Brad Davies just said though, its concerning that we have now been carved up by 2 elite quarterbacks. That's exactly what we will face in the playoffs fellas. The national media is killing us right now, so I beg to ask the question "are we really an elite Superbowl caliber team"? I'm not so sure of the answer to that question right now to be honest.
We were out-played, out-coached, out-hustled,out-everything. Its one thing to get beat, but to get embarrassed is unacceptable. Brady didn't even have his best game and Gronkowski was out. It could have been worse. Yes, the Pats have lost 3 games, but by a TOTAL of 4 points!!! Elite teams don't get blown out.....twice like that.
Here are key plays/moments that sealed our doom in my opinion:
1. Jean misses that long catch that would have given us a first down. Instead we have to punt.
2. KJ gets abused again, and was also too dumb to bother to touch the receiver down. Hasn't he been in the league long enough to know that? Huge mental mistake.
3. Kareem has a chance to recover a fumble to keep the Pats from scoring. Instead he tries to pick it up and the Pats get it back and score again. Another idiotic play from him.
4. Dopey throws to Walter in double coverage in the end zone while Foster was WIDE fucking open waving and begging for the ball and would have had a nice gain. Instead he throws an INT which took away a TD we could have scored.
5. We get a pass interference call on us which was really good Defense and instead of the Pats punting, they get a first down and score again. That was huge.
A LOT of mental mistakes, bad coaching from Kubes. We were down in the 3rd quarter and he runs the ball 3 times times in a fucking row and we have to punt?!! WTF!!!
The sad part is I honestly don't think we can beat the Pats if we face them again in the playoffs. The coach is better, QB is better and they have too many matchup problems for us. Our secondary is weak, LB are too slow, OL is over-matched, and noone on our DL will show up but JJ. We would have to play a perfect game and the Pats would have to have a bad game in order to win. I just don't see that happening....