Tom Brady?? Not anymore

Never recovered after losing Talib

Ouch.

Talib? The offense scored 13 points….in the first half!

how that countdown to ray lewis retirement party workin out —-hahahahahahaha

Congrats Baltimore, you definitely proved you’re the better team.  The Welker drop was very big…the Pats had the momentum at that point, and after the drop, never got it back again.  For all you Welker lover posters, another season ends with a big Welker drop.  I personally hope we let him leave as a free agent.  Yeah, he catches a bunch of balls in the regular season, but you can’t count on him in the big games.

13 points?? Thats not welkers fault…take a look at number 12

Kudos to the Ravens. They were simply better. It’s hard to criticize Wes Welker after all he’s done, but there seems to be an agonizing tendency to make critical mistakes in the big games.  In fairness, we haven’t had a legitimate deep threat to take the pressure off of him since Moss; Lloyd was not the answer.   As tough as it is to look on the bright side of this, there are are 30 other teams and fan bases who would take the Pats’ performance year in and year out.  Great season Pats and best of luck to the Ravens.

 I wondering when someone will have the stones to whisper “BLITZ” into Belichick’s ear. 

NA NA NA NA, NA NA NA NA, HEY HEY HEY, GOODBYE!!!

Disappointing loss.   I guess the football gods were going to have their Harbaugh bowl!  Too many key loses for the Pats?  No Gronk, no Talib, no Edleman, no super bowl…

An easily winnable game. The clock management at the end of the 2nd quarter was shameful
for a high school team. The offensive game plan in the second half was awful and yes the Ravens
caught all the breaks including the invisible holding call on Nate Solder. BTW, how did the Ravens
manage to go through an entire game without an offensive holding call. That said, Steve Gregory
is just terrible and this game demonstrates why the defensive secondary and the defensive staff
needs to find work elsewhere.

I don’t EVEN want to hear anyone, and I mean anyone, who this week kept spewing over and over “this team has really learned how to play without Gronk.” Let’s see, almost lost to Buffalo, crushed the Texans, got crushed by the 49ers until their best defensive player went out, almost lost to the Jaguars, and beat a dejected Miami team who didn’t want to play in the cold – I don’t want to hear anyone tomorrow going “well, I guess we underestimated how much Gronk means to this team.

brady sucks in the playoffs.  its pretty obv since 2004.  

The Patriots are a good team not a great team. Once again, they couldn’t get it done in a big game. This is another big game in what now is a string of games since spygate that the Patriots fail. Let us stop all the hype and resign ourselves to the fact that when it counts the Patriots can’t get it done. 

WEEI is going to be GREAT to listen to TOMORROW and for the next 2 weeks!!!

You are right about the 30 other teams…for sure.But this game had a bad note of finality to it. Brady is not what he once was in big games either.It happens to the best of them.just the way it is.But it was a amazing run

This loss was not on Tom Brady. Congrats Ravens.

It wasn’t????????????????????????????????

It got extended two weeks! Awesome. Everyone loves an extended party.

136 yards passing

Well, the Pats moved the ball at will and totally owned Ray Lewis and “his” D so I’ll give them a mulligan on this. They were the better team but a few dropped passes and injuries conspired to cheat NE out of another SB birth. Baltimore only had 2 real drives and Flacco had his “throw it up and hope for the best” jump balls. Well, they’re still the Ravens and we’re still the Patriots so…we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.

I told all my Pats Fan friends all week that this game wasn’t gonna be a cakewalk. But they didn’t wanna listen. It’s easier to listen to Dale Arnold and Pete Shepherd wax poetic about how Brady is the G.O.A.T.

Unfortunately, he’s just a goat.

How are things in Fantasyland?

Worst game of season for wilfork and will Michael “DB” Felger finally shut up about Flacco?! How many times must he be proven wrong.

Sometimes you just get beat. The Pats looked sluggish and lacked explosiveness on both sides of the ball. Add that to the fact that the ball bounced the way of the Ravens a couple of times and it adds up to a trip to the golf course and not the superbowl. 

At will? 

Some of you guys would defend Tom Brady if he murdered someone in cold blood. Seriously, blaming it on Welker dropping a pass? It was overthrown, even worse than the one in the Super Bowl. Why doesn’t the person who overthrew it get any blame (including last year – that was overthrown – a ball Welker catches most of the time, yes, but it was still overthrown)?

There’s no way that the pats can lose… There’s no way the ravens can win… I guess that’s why you play the game!

320 total yards … 136 was the 2nd half

“136 yards passing” Who are you talking about? Brady? He had 320 yards passing. Again, please be more pacific.

Overthrown? Are you blind, he was wide open and it hit him in the chest you idiot.

Wilfork was bad but Wes can’t catch a ball when he’s open.

My bad…..Still Brady really stepped up when it mattered.

One thing you can certainly count on is the Pats re-arming for next year. So here’s to looking forward to the playoffs again next year. :-}

Hahahaha. They what the rock said they were. An average defense and an offense that had an easy regular season. If you smell what the rock is cookin

I wouldn’t know. With all the psychotropics you must be on to come up with a ZINGER like that, I’d like you to tell me.

Never got into any flow, any time they started to move the ball down the field, they’d get sloppy and end up punting. Not what you’d expect from this team. A major disappointment.

Where is uncle buck? Lets hear what ur punk… has to say. Lmao

Actually dude it hit him right in the chest

The curse of spygate… Brady QB rating 52.3 wow hahahaha 10 yrs and nothing they suck!! Wooooo I love it and I live in mass with my GMEN gear.. Come get some!!

Let me see – in the late 80′s and the early 90′s the Pats were lucky to pull off a few victories in a season (especially the early 90′s). Now, people complain if they don’t make the superbowl every year. I will take the opportunity to see my team be perennial contenders over those horrific seasons any day of the week. 

 It’s an expression meaning to do what you what, when you want to. They only stalled out in the red zone because they didn’t have Gronk- but they were there six times and Brady was cornholing Lewis and Suggs.

Rather lose this week than get blown out by the 49ers. We live and die with Welker who makes great plays but continues to have drive killing drops. Brady can no longer carry this team, Wonder if it’s time to dump him for a basket of 1st round picks….

 Felger picked the Ravens to win.

Brady will retire here. The Ravens have ALWAYS been a tough team for the Pats and I seem to remember seeing some missed catches that could have changed the course of the game. I also know that if Talib doesn’t get hurt, the Ravens don’t score 28

Flacco didn’t actually outplay Brady at all, statistically he did, but not if you watched the game.  The Raven’s receivers, however, were light years better than the Pats.  Brady is unbelievably good and he drags this pile of garbage around until the fact that the can’t make even the plays that hit them in the hands catch up with them.  The d was fine for a 2013 NFL game, Brady was Fine – Welker killed the Pats again and should not be allowed within 1000 yards of the Patriots organization next year.  Please get a playmaker, please – before Brady’s career is wasted.  

There was plenty of blame to go around in this one, Brady included.  Pats fans sure sounded a lot like St Louis fans in ’01 when the Greatest Show on Turf could not lose.  Guess what, defense wins championships and the Pats haven’t had a championship caliber D since  2004. 

Take that Ray Lewis retirement party countdown billboard down and tell girlie Tom Brady that likes to kick players in the groin, he can now attend the pro bowl

Sure it’s great to get to the big game or close to it however, is it worse to get so close and lose or just be happy to get there? Everyone looks for a closer and Brady hasn’t finished off a game since 04!
I’m so damn tired of all of the Brady lovers in denial for the past 5 years. This game and the last 2 superbowl losses are on him. 11 guys stacked on the goal line knowing full well this guy(Brady) isn’t about to move his grandfather like legs out of the pocket. Embarrassing. Has anyone else been dared at such a time, uh ..nope.He’s as frustrating for me to watch as it was for me to watch Tim Wakefield pitch. The offense can’t be all that creative because of his incredible lack of mobility. The guy, only 36 if that, moves like a 75 yr old with bad ankles. Does anyone else in the league run sideways while watching the defender chasing instead of looking to make a play? Nope!!! Teams know all they have to do is put a litle pressure him and he’ll fold like an umbrella. He’s obviously terrified of being hit. Has anyone seen this guy shed a tackle when it really mattered? Nope! I’m confident the era of slow moving, non athletic QB’s is just about over.

Most people know the areas Brady is weak, flawed… mobility and throwing down fiield.  With all that is available to athletes regarding agility drills, quick twitch muscle drills, strength and conditioning institutes etc., how does this guy show up every year the same?? He’s nobviously NOT training to increase  his agility, strength, quickness..anything that will allow him to move better. He’s incredibly predictable…This guy can’t move 6 flipping feet!!

I’m ready for him to walk away with his 3 rings and retire. People are actually getting on Welker, what the??? If Brady had a fraction of one of his testies, they’d have won 3 more superbowls.

Welker and alike have made rady’s numbers what they are. Take a long look at yards after the catrch and without Welker, Tommy Boys numbers are significantly down. He’s a lot like Eason..pretty and terrified of shedding a tackle. Sign a guy like Flacco when the chance is there.

Great season as a team!

trade brady

PATS are a tad soft vs physical teams (especially from AFC North), and it showed. They got hit in the mouth and couldn’t recover. Talib loss was big, but what happened to the RUN defense and middle coverage–Brandon SPIKES can’t cover a bed with a sheet. He may be the SANDMAN against the run, but he is RIP VAN WINKLE in coverage…

My bad…..The pacific line? Kudos  :)

Tom deserves most of the blame for this game, and many other previous playoff losses.  The thing is, even the greats (Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Joe Montana, etc.) have had relatively playoff games and series where you can primarily blame them for the team loss.  It is what it is.  The Patriots will either be the #1 or #2 team favored to win it all next year.  Patriot fans have become more entitled than Yankee fans, gain some perspective, the two teams in the SB this year haven’t been there in a long time…you’ve been there 6 times since the last SF trip, and 5 times since the last BAL trip.  Stop being crybabies, these are pro athletes, your favorite team won’t win every year.

I now find Brady and Bill to be rather shallow and pedantic

 Yeah, Brady outplayed Flacco. Baltimore only really had 2 drives- otherwise they were bottled up. Flacco is just not deeply heroic the way Brady is. He’s got that “deer in the headlights” look, that unibrow, he went to Delaware, the New Jersey provenance. His form is bad, he just throws it up for grabs hopes his players can go get it or a PI will be called. Brady makes average/middling receivers BETTER and he always has. That’s what separate the all-time greats like Brady and first ballot HOFers from guys who bang around the game for a few years and who are soon forgotten, like Flacco.

 Oh, you’re completely off. Brady takes us deep in the playoffs or SB nearly EVERY year with little to no top-tier offensive talent. Even today he was the better QB. Flacco’s team just has a better defense that can protect him. Brady cannot “manage” the game and win like Flacco; he has to win it nearly by himself.

Deer in the headlights? all the way too the SB. Brady has the deer in the headlights…cement feet will do that

“Brady has the deer in the headlights..” Keep those brilliant rejoinders COMING! When you take what I write and assert the opposite……I am SO impressed. I can’t believe what a compelling argument you make.

But seriously, Flacco has a low football IQ, makes dumb throws [2 of which should have been picked tonight] and just does not have the bearing of a SB QB.

Neither does Brady…for 8 years…Face facts…his day has come and gone…I don’t like it…but it is what it is. no need for attacks…I just honestly think Brady is well on the downside

 He’s been IN 2 SBs, played well enough to win and got his team to the conf. championship 4 times! Brady IS on the downside of his career but his downside is better than Flacco could ever play [along with 99% of the rest of the NFL].

Teams like the Jets are fond of saying they went to 2 straight afc championships…Not the Pats….and everyone hates super Bowl losses. 8 years is a long time…and it’s, I fear, done

When Talib went out the game was over. Welker’s drop was huge. The team should get rid of Welker who for the second year in a row had a KEY drop in a huge game. For the second year in a row Gronkowski was out when needed. Trade him for a HIGH first rounder. Talib came up weak when most needed don’t resign him.

Get rid of players who are not there when most needed.

Have the Jets won the division 10 times in 12 years? Won 3 SBs? Won 5 conference championships? Have a perfect regular season? Break offensive records nearly every year? Scoop, we got unlucky and lost to a team we should have beat. Playoffs are a one-off and stuff happens. The Patriots are still the best team in football and the Ravens are still…………well, the Ravens No need to lose your swagger and condescension towards other teams!

Great if you like losing. Patriots wasted another season for Brady who can’t both throw the ball and CATCH it. Too many dropped passes.

Get rid of Talib who weakdicked out.

Great accomplishments for sure..a unbelievable run. But they are not the best team in football. They are the 3rd best team…still damm good…but not a championship team.

Flacco was okay to good but only AFTER Talib went out.  Brady would have put up 40 if he was throwing against the Patriot’s defense. 

Welker choked again.

I don’t want Talib back. Now we know why nobody else wanted him. You have to question his heart after crapping out in today’s game. 

I agree. If Gronkowski is injury prone I don’t want him either. Talib weakdicked out. Welker, Gronk and Talib have trade value….use it !

Ravens beat Patriots who played the second half without Eldelman, Gronkowski, Talib, Ridley, Love and a limited Woodhead.

TOM BRADY PLAYED LIKE GARBAGE why don’t u blame him?

the hell it wasn’t

 The off season challenge will be to find backups or alternate schemes to replace key players when they go down. For the second year in a row Gronk isn’t avail;able for the big show. Either BB drafts or signs a free agent who can reasonably replace Gronk or they ditch Lloyd abd replace him with a tall fast wide receiver. In any case Brady needs three big credible targets to win a championship.

Same holds true for Talib ( assuming Pats sign him … he’s got injury issues … tonight he wasn’t even hit when he left the game) … in any case Pats have to find a big physical CB who can step in for Talib. (Will Ras-I Dowling ever stay on the field?)

Chandler Jones never recovered form his mid-season injury … Pats need to find someone who can get that DL surge.

If they can find the answers this off-season they’ll be back… if not, the team will continue to disappoint.

 Give Brady three good targets the way Eli had last year or Flacco had tonight and he usually wins. Hernandez and a small possession guy like Welker who can be bottled up and no QB wins. The PATS need either a credible replacement for Gronk at TE or an alternate scheme with a big, fast WR.

ridley put his down into Pollard’s. Pollard had him lined up for a huge hit and Ridley led with his head. Took himself out.

Personally think those blaming any particular player is off base; yes the injuries didn’t help but look at the last 2 SB losses and this…not only do you have these high-power offenses, you have very talented defenses.  Despite blowing doors off, all of the sudden we’re playing chess as if it is last possession wins.  That’s not how they got they’re.  Too many 3 and 2 passes not converting.  Did we forget our Bolden the FB??  How about a second line-up for a fake punt and actually doing it??  Conservative play calling needs to come with killer clock management and stifling defense.

BTW – Run Tom Run!  You can’t outrun Ngata?

I think one play that everyone is overlooking is the strip fumble that the pats had on Leach. It it doesn’t hit mayo’s knee and roll out of bounds, it is probably a td for the Pats. The Ravens played better no doubt but they got the breaks too and that is just how it goes sometimes. Ridley’s fumble was nearly not a fumble, the tipped pick went 15 yards in the air, Hernandez didn’t run out of bounds, Welker always makes crazy catches yet can’t seem to catch the key passes, all these kind of things add up.

I don’t agree with the same fans who every year say the Pats are done and will never get back. There is no doubt in my mind that the Pats will be back in this position next year and may get it done. The NFL is a tough league to excel at for a long period of time and no one is better than the Pats. People seem to think the great qbs of the past never had a stinker in the playoffs but they all did. When Brady has been retired as long a Joe Montana has, people will think he never had a bad game either especially with his playoff record and even more so if he manages to get that elusive fourth ring. The AFC isn’t exactly stacked with a bunch of powerhouse teams other than the Pats so don’t be surprised when the Pats are favored to be in the superbowl again in the preseason.

All you haters can suck it.

See ya Welker. No way Pats resign you. You were great, but it’s over.