this team is not showing me any desire.

I don’t want to mike light of your loss, it sucks and I well know it…. but it was a great game, great emotions, and we should have many more great ones to come.
I can say with no equivocation that I look forward to the next match-up. You are a classy group of fans, and your team isn’t too shabby either. Best of luck the rest of the way!

Offensive and defensive plays were very conservative. Not going full tilt. D-backs looked winded on a 30 yard sprint. Not pretty, but we definitely didn’t do enough to win.

I’m sort of looking forward to them kicking ass in a revenge win next week against TEN, but honestly I haven’t seen anything this year to make me think they will step up. I’m a little worried because if they lose that, things will be looking bad.

Our biggest asset is Tom Brady and he is playing at about half of what he used to be.

I’m not putting Tom down, but he isn’t the Hall of Fame QB we have seen for years. I hope he gets back to being himself, but I’m having a few doubts. It’s been 5 games and the misses are still aplenty.

Nailbiting to say the least!!!

Ugliest jerseys EVER

That was an exciting game! Thanks for sharing your blog with us this week and best of luck for the rest of this season.

I won’t say anything about the outcome because I wouldn’t expect you guys to come talk crap after one of our games, but good played game on both sides. I love nail biters and I’m glad this game was one, regardless of the outcome.

Any chance of that happening? We Know they have a good defense. How is Chad#2 doing? Seems to be doing okay. Geez. I was just checking out the Dolphon roster for grins, and they actually post player salaries. Friggin Jaso Taylor is making $8milllion, not $1million. Man, they seem to be over paying a lot of guys.

Wacky.

Brady is all over the place, Welker saved a few but Brady will admit that it was on him. The defense can give up 17pts a game and with our offense we should still win by 10pts.
I hope its just rust a year out is along time but I think the guys hurt.

Ya know, I’m sitting here trying to write the postgame recap and I can’t even think straight. I’ll have to sleep on it, gang. Maybe by lunchtime tomorrow.

guys dont worry u stall are great we will meet again

Long time reader, just decided to sign up because of this game. To be perfectly honest, I’m not surprised we lost this game. Disappointed? Of course. We held the lead the majority of the game. Regardless, we didn’t really what was needed for us to win. We were lucky to hold the lead after the 1st quarter mark. First quarter was all Pats. Last 3 quarters were all Broncos.

K. Orton: 35-48 330 72.9 6.9 2TD 1 INT (Shouldn’t even count the pick because it was the end of the half) 96.7.

That’s unacceptable. We went into the game focusing on stopping the run and forcing Orton to make plays and he did everything needed to win the game. We couldn’t stop Knowshon until the Red Zone, which I guess is a “plus” if you want to look at glass half full. There were WAAAY too many missed tackles at the line of scrimmage.

What I saw the whole game was a whole bunch of cushions on the receivers, asking Orton to force passes. Unfortunately, his receivers are much too good and much too numerous (6 players with 3 or more catches) for us to pretend to play defense. I saw waaaay too little QB pressure and waaaaay too much space for receivers to make plays.

Basically, I just want to see the DBs be a little more forceful, the DEs be a little more disruptive and the LBs to be better at wrapping up their man (I think I saw AT miss 5+ tackles).

Pros:
Brady- Seemed alright for the first half. Appeared tired towards the end and was missing some passes, but he’s still getting in the swing and he’s performing better for longer periods of time now.
Mayo- He’s back for some plays and makes the most of them. Great forced fumble.
McGowan- Surprise of the defense continues to make great plays.
Big Vince- It seemed like he was the only person making plays at the line.
Slater- Good job on that Punt.

Cons:
Everything I complained about/everyone else will complain about.

Please get us a pass rusher?

Anyone want to take bets on the fact that these teams could meet again this year?

Great interactions all week, you guys are a class act over here. I hope we MHR guys are as gracious in victory as you guys have been! Best of luck from here on out…. till we meet again. Feel free to stop on in at MHR anytime, glad to have you.

Brady: Obviously, he’s not the same quarterback. Whether his shoulder hurts now or whether he just hasn’t gotten his rhythm back, I don’t know. But, I hate to say it, he’s the core of the problem right now. Missed touchdown passes and losing the ball behind the line of scrimmage are game breakers. Period. Just think, in the Denver game if he’d hit those easy touchdown passes to Randy and Wes the game would have been a blow out. Yes, blow out.

Coaches: Lackluster play-calling on offense. I don’t pretend to be an X&O’s guy, but the predictability is obvious. Hmm, what’s wrong with that offensive coordinator? Oh wait, he’s the Broncos head coach! Bill could have hired someone new during the off season, rather than take the duties himself. I suspect a little arrogance there, but it’s hard to tell. See defensive play-calling below.

Defense: It’s not the defensive backs fault that they are playing so far off the wide-outs; that’s being called from the sideline… It’s Belichick’s, “bend don’t break” defense and it’s been excruciating to watch at times over the last decade, but in all truth it’s usually worked. Despite those pathetic 90yd and 98yd drive debacles yesterday, the defense did what it was supposed to do: Only 17 points in regulation time. Not bad at all. As a matter of fact, the defense has given up 17, 16, 10, 14 and 17 in regulation during their last five games. With their “high powered offense” the Pat’s should easily be 5-0.

Prognosis: Not good. Brady looks mostly like a middle-of-the-packer. If that doesn’t change the Pat’s are not only out of Super Bowl contention, they may not even make the playoffs. Defense needs some tightening up and the play-calling must improve, but those things seem to be fixable. Tennessee, Tampa and then the Bye week, looks like good medicine right now.

Someone please tell me when the hands to the face call was dropped for the linemen. I can think of about 8 plays when a Denver player had either one or both hands on a Pats facemask, including on Matt Light the play he was hurt. I’m not saying that cost us the game; it didn’t. But Matt might not have gotten hurt if he hadn’t been forced to look at the sky instead of what was around him. If the rule still exists, it should be enforced for all.