It was incredibly annoying how all the homers on this site refused to acknowledge that this team was in danger of losing to the Dolphins and Saints, two winless teams, at home. "They won by double digits, though!"
Sorry, I forgot that the success of the team is almost solely contingent on whether or not Allen can play a flawless game without having a single bad play.
People can see the writing on the wall. Year 8 with the best QB in football - probably the most physically-gifted QB ever - and they can't get to the promised land because the same fatal flaws keep cropping up over and over and over again.
They looked brutal for long stretches during most of their wins, by the way.
It's not the Pats game in and of itself. It is the OBVIOUS reality that the stubborn coaching staff refuses to do anything different, and that the same flaws that bounced us from the playoffs in years past are going to clearly keep them from the Super Bowl yet again.