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I often think we should make Global Political and Wartime decisions in the same category as going for it on 4th and 2-3 yards, good as long as it works. 🤦‍♂️

There's a world of difference between saying they were great and saying they weren't as bad as people are saying they were. I said they should be better, you need to score TDs in the redzone, though the immediate 10pt deficit definitely made that look worse, even if redzone defense is one of the only things the Patriots are still able to do. We made the Patriots punt 2 times today and the fumble, that's what the defense did today.

They've got like two guys lined up behind him seemingly to eventually take over.

TE3 he was invisible today, probably because he didn't play.

Can he play RT or DT 1 technique or CB1?

So I'm going to make this point again about the offense, it wasn't nearly as terrible today as everyone seems to be making it out to be. Just straight up 1 INT 1 Punt 1 Turnover on downs, also a fumble, but that was the stupid ass 5 second try and do something ridiculous, which apparently we have no actual game plan for. Hell you lop off our first play of the game and we only got stopped twice. Trouble was the Patriots kept us out of the endzone in the first half and we missed a pretty standard FG, weird miss too. Could and should the offense be better, yes, but it wasn't that bad today. Game wise, the Patriots just played a good game, I mean it sucks but our defense, wheeling out in full body cast though so are they, didn't get it done and they took advantage of the moments they needed to. Sure we kept them to a FG at the start, but they get 7 after that INT to jump to a 10pt lead in a very slow moving game.

And then they quickly score and Allen and Diggs high five as they quickly run off the field without celebrating in the endzone like "Yeah we scored who cares we've got ***** do it again." Then proceed to do it again. Yeah I'm sure he's disinterested.

A small consolation for me is the Patriots get a worse draft pick.

They weren't punching it into the endzone in the first half, also instead of having 6 from the second FG the ball spontaneously became possessed and returned to it's own planet or something. Also checks notes the Patriots have the ranked 7th redzone defense....it's like the one thing they ***** do. The team did move the ball all game, a lot of the drives for both teams were long and for them to just end up with a FG attempt, didn't seem like the offenses were succeeding much but they still technically were.

In that game we punted 1 time turned over the ball on downs 1 time and had 1 INT. The Patriots punted 2 times and had a fumble, we also technically had a fumble but I really don't care about a last 5 seconds YOLO play. Other than that we ended every drive kicking FGs or with TDs, and honestly while it might have been much we might have been in FG range on the turnover on downs.

Seriously, if he has a wide open field and no one is a high percentage throw, take the yards. Why would we take that from him he can slide, and he's great at avoiding taking a big hit on the move.

Can't say there haven't been times in previous games where the offense left the defense out to dry, but yeah seeing Allen and the Offense get those back to back TDs, which credit to the defense on the fumble, to get the lead only to watch the defense burn the rest of the game away and give up the TD. It was aggravating as hell.

No not the one where the defender punched the ball out, the one before we took the lead.

Allen and Mahomes didn't ever really run the same, I would love if they got Allen to run only at the times that Mahomes typically does. Allen could probably run a bit more than him but pulling back on that isn't the worst. Right now they've got Allen not really running at all, if he could find the balance of only running when the reward is clear and better than any risk he could take throwing, it'd be so good.

Even in the first half they moved the ball and got into good FG range twice, struggled to punch it in, barring whatever the ***** happened to the ball on that one kick we would have had 6 pts at the half. I wouldn't doubt the Patriots are still somewhat competent in the redzone defense.

It may be easier to come up with a blocking scheme when the interior of the D-line is sitting injured on the bench.

Miller sure even getting back to form he's at the tail end of his career and young guys are becoming solid performers at the position. Knox no, people are prisoners of the moment.

Who'd they throw the ball to on 4th down when they were going for it and they desperately needed to get a TD to have a chance to stay in the game again? I know it's confusing because they have the same initials.

It's not 2 weeks in a row....it's 3 weeks in a row they did the same thing in London. Not saying it'd work but they did. The other teams defense would also have to keep up. Also you only need to be fast when the game is close, if it works well you can slow down. Still a lot of what ifs on if it's a good idea though.

They signed pre Covid break Star Lotulelei and got post Covid break Star Lotulelei.

He got the most receptions today, 2 more than Diggs and twice as many as the guy who came in 3rd. But he didn't have the first target. 🤷‍♂️

Knox is getting a lot of crap right now and I get it, but he's been better than he's shown, he's I'd say a solid mid level TE. He should have made that important catch today, that being said the defender did make a good play knocking it loose, and as much as people might not like to hear that injury he's playing through hasn't just disappeared. Kincaid is definitely looking good definitely showing better consistency as pass catcher and getting open. Especially with Knox's injury he should be the featured TE and was. Should pass him as a looked for target in critical situations and not look back at this point probably.

Losing sucks, and it does hurt our season, but I'll take a loss if our offense actually can figure things out. We need that more down the road if we can get into the dance where it's win or go home.