Reply With QuoteTheir High powered offense and no defense may get the job done in regular season..but strong defense will beat them in the playoffs.. That and a qb who doesn't turn the ball over. Every team you mentioned beating the pats had stellar D.
The Patriots have developed a fatal pattern of playing their best football in the regular season and their worst football in the playoffs.
Here's the evidence.
In 2007, the Patriots averaged 36.8 points per game in the regular season and finished with a 16-0 record. But they imploded during Super Bowl XLII; the Giants sacked Tom Brady five times and held him to a single passing touchdown. The Patriots only scored 14 points.
In 2009, during a playoff game against the Ravens in the Wild Card Round, the Patriots allowed Ray Rice to burn them for an 83-yard touchdown on the first play of the game. The Ravens scored again on their next possession, too, going up 14-0 after five minutes. The Patriots didn't sack Joe Flacco once all day. The Ravens sacked Tom Brady three times and they also intercepted him three times. The Patriots only scored 14 points.
In 2010, the Patriots averaged 32.4 points per game and finished the season with a 14-2 record. Then, during a playoff game against the Jets in the divisional round, the Patriots allowed Mark Sanchez to throw three touchdowns without a single interception. They didn't sack Sanchez once. Meanwhile, the Jets sacked Tom Brady five times, intercepted him once and held him to two touchdowns.
In 2011, the Patriots averaged 32.1 points per game and finished the season with a 13-3 record. Then came the ghosts. During Super Bowl XLVI, the Patriots were hit with a safety on Tom Brady's first throw of the game. The Giants sacked Brady twice and hit him eight times. New England's high-powered offense only produced 17 points all night. The Patriots lost, despite the fact that Eli Manning only threw one touchdown in the game.
In 2012, the Patriots averaged 34.8 points per game and earned a playoff bye. And, yet again, they imploded in the playoffs. They scored a dismal 13 points against the Ravens in the AFC Championship. They let Joe Flacco throw three touchdowns without an interception. Worst of all: The Patriots went scoreless in the second half.
This pattern is too clear to ignore. This isn't a lack of talent, this is a lack of leadership and preparation, starting at the top.
Bill Belichick should have his team ready to play their best football in the most important games of the postseason. Instead, the Patriots regularly look passive and baffled in these big games.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but the head coach gets the bulk
Their High powered offense and no defense may get the job done in regular season..but strong defense will beat them in the playoffs.. That and a qb who doesn't turn the ball over. Every team you mentioned beating the pats had stellar D.
Considering there offensive prowess in the regular season they won all there SB's by 3 points and I believe lost them by the same. The Bills went 4 times after dominating the regular season and lost all of them. Even the great HC's lose the big ones it's the NFL.
I hate defending the Pats but I'd much rather win the division every friggin year and make the playoffs than have no shot half the time.
That would make the draft so boring thoughOriginally Posted by Beerfish
Again it comes down to that idiom.
Even in an offensive league, defense wins championships.
The Patriots have never been able to replace the great defensive players they used to have: Vrabel, Bruschi, Law, Harrison, Seymour, Samuel, McGinest. These guys were not only great players but they were leaders. The Patriots still do not have a great leader on defense. Wilfork and Mayo are good, but they are not the true leaders on that defense.
And that's all you can ask for as a fan of any NFL team.
Put a quality team on the field year after year, win the division, get a #1 or #2 seed, and take your chances in the playoffs.
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Last edited by JonEJet; 01-21-2013 at 11:12 AM.
How's you back-to-back non-winning seasons working out for you JonE?
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Brady lives in LA Football just isn't as important as it used to be
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I really hate that expression "Non-winning season". The opposite of winning is losing. So a non winning season by logic should be a losing season.
They should call it an even or neutral season.
Come now, you just need to know how to 'manipulate the draft' like Belichick does each year.
You do relaize that Brady has more playoff wins than the Jets have appearances in their entire existance in the NFL?
Do you mean playoff games played? Or number of times played in the playoffs? Because a lot of teams have less appearances in the playoffs than Brady has wins?
Those guys were cheating big time! stealing signals, spygate, etc...
+1 They have their flaws but for their fans they mostly see Ws.
Never mind, I screwed that up.
Brady has 17 wins, Jets have played in 25 playoff games.
Only bitter, jealous JET FANS are capable of taking everything that the pats have done (virtually dominating at best, extremely successful at worst) and dismiss it.
Well take away Spygate and you're the McNabb Philadelphia Eagles. Lots of games won, Conference Championship games, Division Titles... but, NO PARADE
without Spygate, the Pats are the McNabb Philadelphia Eagles
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