Originally posted by jbond
thanks Cranx, in regards to your pts Dreadlockera, I completely agree with you as far as Jay's screwups have also cost us pts., and sometime those have also helped us to lose a game. However, as far as the Pats are concerned, the NFL and them think they are god's greatest gift to football in decades and they are oh so 'clutch' and all that other bs. So, should Mare be held accountable for missing 2 FG's....well....when that's how the Pats won all year long and won the SB....then yes, I think accountability needs to be spread around to the rest of the team. The Pats are a great example of a consistent team all year (that plus getting what I call 'lucky' many games....but you have to admit it's hard to luck into 15 straight wins...). Brady is a good QB but by NO means is 'great' IMO. What we need is more consistency from our Defense and special teams throughout the year (from our current players)....a solid #2 WR to actually break free to have one thrown his way and a bit of help in the Oline. We really aren't that far off from going to where we want to.
You know what the difference is between us and the Pats? If Mare made 2 FG's in 2 different games (forget the defense here for a sec) we'd be 12-2 (Houston/NE).....if the Defense stepped it up a notch against Philly we'd be 13-3 and possibly 14-2 if u count in how our defense played against the Titans. For the hell of it, throw in Ricky's missed chipshot and we get a TD and beat the colts, now we're 15-1
If you even give us half of that (I'll take a total of 3 plays from 3 games, FG, FG, chipshot) we're 13-3, win the AFCeast, first round bye, play at home, probably wind up in the SB.
Now.....literally 3 plays from our whole season is what seperated us from being the pats? Yes....and if we made those 3 stupid plays the whole league would be talking about how wonderful our team is and how we managed to pull together tight enough to win the games we needed to and how clutch we were and how they want to ride our jocks anytime we ask.....
3 plays!@! Now in reality.....we have a ton of more problems.....but if we made those 3 plays the whole league would be viewing us ALOT differently........including us....