running game was great, but the win means nothing. They usually split anyway. Pats need to show they can protect Brady against the good teams particulary the jets. With the offense, the pats will manage to get 11-13 wins but again will do nothing in the playoffs unless the jets, steelers and ravens dont make it. There defense just sucks too much.

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Hey Mcnally, today the Pats had a good D effort. But the reality is this. Everyone talks about how many yards Pats gives up per game but the points they give up per game is not all that bad. ONLY the Fins have given up less points per game game in the AFC East. Per look reasonably favorable in points allowed compared outside the dicision. Last I checked games are won by points and not yards given up. And the win DOES mean alot. 4-1 or 2-2, what do you thin? Lets face it, the Jets do match up well and blitz well but when push came to shove Brady WAS protected when necessary. Don’t think we should be worried too much about the Steelers as they likely won’t make the playoffs and Pats will beat the Ravens.

your clearly not objective at all. T^he steelers always play like this early and somehow manage to be there in the end. Probably because, oh I dont know they have a defense as do the ravens. What did the 45-3 win against the jets mean last year, absolutely nothing. The patriots have shown they can play in the regular season but there offense has been shut down over the last few years in the playoffs because thats where defense wins. Remember our superbowl wins. It wasnt because of our offense. The patriots can beat all of those teams, but will they in the playoffs?

What does ” protected when necessary” even mean. Its my opinion, he needs to be protected all the time. It wasnt like he was sacked once or twice. He made the plays when he needed to because he was protected. Don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but these have been the issues in the playoffs for the patriots, protecting Brady.

Devito couldn’t have played that well against Mankins. The Pats ran by him like a turnstyle. The Pats running over Light and Mankins was the difference in the game.

I was suprised that the stats were that good, it did not seem so watching game. Brady played well, but there about three throws that should of been caught, and that interception should not of happened. Offensive line looked week at times, Brady got sacked 4 times and there was a lot of pressure on him; somehow this did not effect the tempo. No one seemed to have got hurt which is good news. We had a lot of penalties in the begginning but hardly any in the second half which on one level is good, because the game was still kind of close in 4th.

I still don’t get it with this defense. I am not an expert, but they had like one sack on last play of the game. It seems like they hardly blitz and when they did it seemed effective so why don’t they do it more. They seem very conservative. Sanchez receivers also were dropping the ball in the beginning which is not a reflection on how good Pats defense is. They seem to have a lot of secondary standing around as jets make catches. Why not do some man to man? They did better today though, but I don’t thing this defense can win in playoffs if they don’t changes some fundamentals.

I dont understand the uproar about the yards New England gives up. Points against is all that counts. Yards against isnt listed on the scoreboard. Bill Belichick has never had a strong defense in terms of yards allowed. Bend but dont break gives up lots of yards, and not lots of points. If NE gives up 400 yards a game and wins 38-31, I dont care.

Aside from the stats, look at New England’s last 2 games, looking past the 7 that Oakland got at the end, the Pats gave up 13 to the Raiders. Against the Jets they gave up 21. I have no problem with that. They looked really bad against the Dolphins, played solid agaisnt the Chargers, looked bad against Buffalo (thanks to the offense forcing them into bad positions with turnovers), then they looked good against Oakland and good against the Jets. And from here, they can only get better. Just my 2 cents.

Sanchez is horrible

Here it is. Brady isn’t 100% on this season with his accuracy. The defense bends quite a bit. The offense creates too Many turn overs thus far with simple mistakes and good execution when it matters by opposing defenses. Regardless of this the pats will most likely reach the playoffs and finish at the top of their division. The point is if they could get their defense together and if Brady was totally on point with his passing game, NO ONE could stop them. That being said this has been the Patriots for the past few years. They just seem to lack one or 2 ingredients to make them great. Until they win a playoff game…. All bets are off. Don’t get me wrong I’ll take 14-2 every year over what the Pats were pre Bledsoe and Parcells… But this team and it’s fans need to face the reality.. These guys aren’t winning superbowls anymore and there are legitimate reasons. Brady is the best, but until the Pats get a defense better than bottom of the barrel they will not go further than 14-2. An offense can only take you so far.

The difference between this game and the last was the ability to run the ball and Welker being 100%. With the improved play from the tight ends, plus Solder, plus an actual running game, plus a healthy Haynesworth, Bodden and Dowling, plus Ellis and Anderson and a better rotation on the D-line, plus a “I’m not joking anymore” Brady, plus the legacy of Mrs. Kraft and best not forget Ochocinco, no team in the AFC can really hang.

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