Sorry, Boomer, but the Patri-nots are NOT the better team.  They played poorly — again — when it mattered. Tom Brady is a mediocre 8-7 in his last 15 playoff games.  The defense is weak, and has been for several years.  Throws have to made. Catches have to be made. Defense has to stop the opponent. A lot of work to do in Foxboro.

well, whats important now is the Te’o story.  can we all just turn to that story and more foreward, like barak says?

Mediorce? Show me 3 QBs with better records in the last 5 years?

Injuries finally caught up to the Patriots. They needed Gronk, Edelman and others at a near 100% to play competitively against a near perfect Ravens team,

Better record means nothing!! Playoff count was outplayed again play Jie Flacco!!!!!

I’m a huge Pats fan but Boomer your wrong.  Brady looked old and slow.  The play calling is too predictable.  Lots of work for this team.  I believe they will be like 10 – 6 next year and go to the playoffs but lose again to a harder hitting or younger team.

This loss was definitely not all on the defense, rather I believe Brady’s poor performance was the biggest reason for this loss. He had many of run options, where he could have made first downs with ease, but instead fell to the ground way too early (he looked like a girl running out there….no offense to any girls reading this).  He was inaccurate with many of his passes, and from the 2nd quarter on, I just saw a guy who didn’t want to be there, as he sat in silence on the sidelines, rather than “rallying his players on the sidelines” as we had seen throughout the regular season.  His protection was good throughout the game, and there were times when he made bad decisions.  “Ugly” performance by Brady.  The defense did look like the “old Patriots’ secondary” after Talib left the game with an injury, which tells you that signing Talib or another quality corner should be the #1 thing on their agenda in the off season, followed by signing Welker.

Still, a very good season for the Patriots.  Thank you for many exciting and happy Sundays! They will be in the mix again next year, and I believe that Brady still has 1 more shot at winning the Superbowl.  I do believe that they need to give Ryan Mallett many more chances to play next season, when they are blowing out teams, as we need to start preparing him for the future.  I have no idea, what he is capable of, as they didn’t give him any opportunities this season, other than kneeling a few plays at the end of games.  GO BRUINS!

Flacco is one LOL

agree.  The Pats lost too many key guys that you just can’t replace.  Hopefully they learned how valuable Talib is and they sign him.  Gronk’s ability to stay healthy is also a big question mark going into the off season. 

 Excuses are for losers, don’t be one. They were beat by a better team… Period!!! it’s ok to admit that.

Colts are waiting to add WELKER to their offense …. Luck will become elite with WELKER

talib quit.  he is done here. so is fumble ridley……

Pats fan here….quit making excuses, they played a poor game, were out coached and did not execute when they needed to, simple as that. They need to shore up the secondary in the off season, get someone who can actually rush the passer, and hire a good defensive coordinator…do it before Brady hangs up his cleats, time is running out!

I know what is going on…they choked pure and simple…  when you avg 35 per game and get shut out in the 2nd half, what else is it? 

I wouldn’t call 8-7 medicore….. the playoffs are not the regular season….. if that were the case Manning would be one of the worst QBs of all time.

Hey Boomer…they beat us TWICE this year….wake up. Are you on the PATS payroll?

Boomer also thinks Brady is the best quarterback ever.  Great, yes, but best ever?

If we had played Denver we’d be talking Superbowl now….. bad matchup for us…. Ravens are too big and too healthy for us to beat them.

Everytime the Patriots lose somebody has to bring up Brady and his records, Stats mean nothing especially when it comes to the patriots, for 10 years they have played in the weakest division in football, Miami, Bills, Jets, have all sucked for 10 years. And guess what the Patriots haven’t won a Super Bowl in 9 years, maybe its because they play all these cupcake teams and when the teams get much better they are not any better. Where was Vince Wilfork yesterday? Was a no show, the secondary was a joke, Brady was a joke. And lets not leave out Bill the genius who was totally out coached. As we all know the better team doesn’t always win, the team that plays better wins

We take this team for grant it….. Joe Montana didn’t win every playoff game he played in.  He made it to 4 Superbowls Brady made it to 5, and say what you want about the 2 losses, but they were 2 plays from winning those games.  We need to stop being spoiled brats and start appreciating what we have had here in the last 12 years.

The better team won the game. That’s always the case in playoff football. The best team always wins.

it doesn’t matter if you have gronk or edleman if you can’t get the offense on the field and get in a rythym.  They need to look into the mirror at there defense phylosophy.  They need playmakers on defeense with a scheme that pressures the quarterback and the people to do it.

Fumble Ridley?   Dude got concussed.   You can’t blame him for fumbling when he gets knocked out. Also, that play should have been reversed as his legs were down when the ball started to come out.

Anyone else think that the 49ers are going to absolutely eat the Ravens alive?    41-10 San Fran.

That was not a fumble by Ridley.  His legs and butt were on the ground, when the ball started to come loose.  I couldn’t understand why the refs didn’t see that when reviewing the play. The Patriots still would have lost the game though, as they couldn’t get anything going offensively.
 

Esiason is a drunk and heavy drug user. I am reporting him to the FAN. He was always a loser and still is.

baltimore wasnt a young team and second of all injuries hit us at the wrong time.it just wasnt meant to be thats all.and hard hitting dont agree cause mayo put a hit on pitta too.10-6 your wrong too if brady still playing we will be okay.we need to get a big receiver and try to sign ed reed ,i know he is old but he could manage the defense.and of course sign welker and edelman

beleive it or not patriots will be even better next year as long as we stay healthy,are running backs  are set ,te set with gronk,hernandez,and people forget jake ballard that was injured all year,wr need to sign welker and edelman and please trade for a big receiver or draft one which hasnt worked for us lol.defense sign talib and go get a hard hitting safety.the line and lbs are set with hightower and chandler with more experiance.we have three picks in the draft.LETS GO PATS.and people here criticizing patriots,  are not real pats fans.

alot of teams play in a weak division y dont they win raiders ,chargers and so on,what does that have to do with anything .patriots are a good team every year  and its patriots fault that bills ,jets and miami cant win.pats just win.and i bet all these weak teams u are talking about wish they could play in the playoffs.ok sure we havnt won super bowl in 9 years when did cowboys win or any other team who hasnt even won 1.im sorry but us pats fans if u are a pats fan are spoiled.i remember grogan,tony eason bledsoe win or lose we loved our team.we should enjoy brady and belecheck cause after they leave we might be one of those weak teams u are talking about.

I agree with Boomer. PATS are the better team, but not last night. What concerns me more was the beat up look in Bradys eyes and on the defense. Where was their fire?

What you need is a tougher team that doesn’t get scared in crunch time. Brady slid into Ed Reed and tried to spike him. Then he saw Ngata and threw the ball away rather than run for a first down. Vereen dropped a screen pass when he heard footsteps. Sorry but the better, more physical team dominated last night. 

You’re all alone in the Land of Delusion, doofus!  John will beat his younger (and emotionally unstable) brother Jim again and hand the 49ers their first Super Bowl loss.  GO RAVENS!!

Anyone who thinks they should break the bank for Welker is a clown. Guy has terrible hands, and Pro Football Focus agrees. THIRD YEAR in a ROW he was in the top 3 in drops. This year and last year he LEAD THE LEAGUE in DROPS

The Ravens should have won the game last year’s championship game if not for a dropped pass in the end zone.  They beat the Pats during the regular season and they beat them again soundly in the 2012 championship game.  But according to Boomer the Pats are the better team.  Sounds to me like a bunch of sour grapes, by a quarterback who really likes Brady so much that he overlooks that the Ravens made Brady look bad last year and again this year.

So bottom line who cares what Boomer thinks.  Thats why we play the games.

LOL. Ravens beat them twice this year. Guess it was luck both times.

Don’t know where you get your stats–what I see had him tied for 6th, but also tied for 2nd in catches. Last year he was first in catches with 22% more than the number 2.  Taking targets and catches into account, plus the fact that most of his catches are in heavy traffic makes this post kind of silly.  Yes that drop Sunday was about as bad as they come–but I’m not sure his head had completely cleared from that helmet to helmet shot by Pollard.  One can make an argument that the money could be better spent, but terrible hands? (Although I guess that also explains why they have him back there fielding punts.)

We’ll see.   I’m Patriots fan. so I really don’t have a dog in this fight.   I just have this feeling that we’re going to have a blowout superbowl this time.  It’s been a while.

Good point! The more you’re targeted the higher amount of drops (and catches) you’re bound to have.    If we really wanted to be fair with the “drops” stat” we should look at the percentage of his passes that he drops.    Did a quick google search and look what I found?  https://www.profootballfocus.com/blog/2013/01/21/signature-stats-drop-rate-wide-receivers/   Second table shows that Wes doesn’t even make the top ten for the RATE of dropped passes.

What a Kiss Ass….if you listen to him on D&C, that is exactly what he is. Hey Boomer, news flash: when a team beats you TWICE in the same year, THEY are the better team.

I love the Pats, and so I hate to say this, but I think it’s time to say something I’ve been resistant to say for a while now.  It seems Brady’s lost that ice he had in his Veins those first 4 years.  He’s still a great QB, who’s lost none of his skills yet, but he’s perhaps lost the one most important thing that made him so good early on…. that being fearlessness.

When you think abou it it makes sence.  In the begining he had nothing to lose.  However, when you lead your team to win 3 Super Bowls in your first 4 years in the league, and do so in the fashion he did, suddenly you got a very tough act to follow for the rest of your career.  That said, this group can still win a couple more Super Bowls before he’s done, but they gotta get that secondary fixed with some better guys than they got, and fast.  None of these guys are Ty Law or Rodney Harrison, and neither of those guys are walking thru that door any time soon.

Also, one thing few people talk about is injuries.  I know all teams have to contend with injuries, but this team seems to have more injuries than most teams, EVERY year, and to more KEY players (i.e. Gronk 2 years in a row).  That said, might want to look at a new conditioning coach, and sitting some of the injured guys a LITTLE longer and not bring them back so quick (i.e. Gronk in the game against the Texans… we could, and essentially DID beat that team WITHOUT him).  Had we had Gronk against the Ravens the story likely would have been different. 

Brady played his typical one bad playoff game and it is simple as that.  Nobody is perfect and he always has one of those games in the playoffs where you wonder what in the hell he was doing.  In the past our defense could bail us out of those games, this defense can not do that!  We need to sign Talib back for sure.  When he went down, I said this game is over! The defense does not perform the same without him because the entire scheme changes.  The Ravens knew that and took advantage.  Great coaching and game plan on their behalf.  Hats off to them for winning this game.  Its time to lick our wounds and move on to next year…