Quick Recap: Patriots defeat Bills, 17-10
by MaPatsFan on Dec 20, 2009 3:59 PM EST
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The Patriots offense didn't light up the field. There weren't any gaudy numbers that make you think Tom Brady is back to his 2007 self. But we did see, at times, a defense that did its job. I was worried given the injuries to our starting defensive 300 pounders. Ron Brace, struggling all season, was our primary guy and struggled in the beginning, but seemed to settle in. The star of the defense? Tully Banta-Cain contributed to 6 sacks with 2 sacks and consistent pressure. What interested me the most was how creative the defense was called. At times, they looked to be milling around, but didn't give the Bills offense a formation until the last possible second.
On offense, Laurence Maroney did not have crazy numbers, but he did show some true grit by absolutely pounding the rock down the Bills' throats. Don't get your hopes too high; Buffalo is the 32nd ranked run D. At any rate, we saw some good downfield vision and good turns of the shoulder to slice through.
A win is a win and puts us tied in the division at 4-2 with Miami, but with a better record. The Bills are officially out of it. They've been through a tough year and I gotta give them lots of credit for getting this far.
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I would also like to preemptively thank the media for Randy Moss's performance...
…because it is only because of their criticism that he was able to perform well enough this game.
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Tully Banta-Cain looks like a nice guy
He looks like just a regular dude in his street clothes. Doesn’t look like an NFL player at all.
This eliminates the Jets from winning the division. If the Patriots lose out the season and Miami wins out the season we’ll tie in every tiebreaker down to “Strength of Victory”.
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great day for the Pats
We won and everyone else in the division lost. Looks like Christmas came 5 days early. :)
finally we brought back that 1-5-5 and 2-4-5 prowl Defense...i love that
btw there goes wes’s attempt to reach 140 rec this year.
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That would be amazing.
“And Brady completes ALL of his attempts to Welker…”
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by Richard Hill on Dec 20, 2009 5:09 PM EST up reply actions
Wes is my man but...
it was good to see the ball going to Randy. The critics should be silenced on all the BS they were spewing about Moss last week.
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Au contraire...
…Go to Yahoo! Sports. Charles Robinson says “Moss has overcome a controversy… what’s next for him?” Yeah. A controversy that he (and the media as a whole) created.
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by Richard Hill on Dec 20, 2009 7:14 PM EST up reply actions
How did Moss create the controversy?
He’s had a tough few weeks, he was sent home for being late, and acted like a class player by keeping his mouth shut. In my opinion, this “controversy” was created by pundits and talking heads to give themselves something to talk about. The second Moss’s production dips below super human, he’s labeled a malcontent and is dogging it. I don’t buy it.
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I think he's saying that Charles Robinson created the controversy
Not Moss. We’re all on the same page.
Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth, and prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth--oh, I wonder what would happen to this world.
by LegendaryTadpole on Dec 20, 2009 8:14 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, what you said.
Robinson and the media created the whole issue and now they’re going to try and claim credit for his “redemption game.” It’s absurd.
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by Richard Hill on Dec 20, 2009 8:23 PM EST up reply actions
They've probably been sitting on "Moss has done it again!" stories
since 2007. Pre-typed crap that they’ve been waiting to bust out, right alongside their 2007 ‘predictions’ of the same.
Two bad games a locker room controversy does not make.
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by Comedic.Sans on Dec 20, 2009 8:31 PM EST up reply actions
He's a running back...
…the Bills have a running game. The weather was supposed to be terrible (negating the pass attacks) and we have a pretty mediocre at best rushing defense and THAT defense is injured. We beat them by a miracle in Week 1. It’s a reasonable prediction, considering those facts.
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by Richard Hill on Dec 20, 2009 8:26 PM EST up reply actions
To be fair
they arguably had a better shot at it now than they did in the first week – bad weather + good running game; Wilfork and the Pats D-line being injured and/or out; the Bills being a reinvigorated team post-Jauron firing; the Bills sporting a QB that can throw +6 yards; TO getting a little form; Moss having a bad streak before this game.
If he’d justified it on the basis of “The Pats offence has been bad, particularly in the second half, and the Bills run game is good against a very depleted Pats run defence”, I would give him a little credit for making a viable prediction.
However, it’s Marshall Faulk. It’s odds-on to be a “I hate the Pats soooooooo much” pick of the Bills.
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by Comedic.Sans on Dec 20, 2009 8:35 PM EST up reply actions
at least Bristol still loves ya
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by Patssuck456 on Dec 20, 2009 10:47 PM EST up reply actions
i was out to dinner so didn't see it until now
Part of me loved it.
Part of me thinks the critics he was responding to really aren’t worth acknowledging.
Exactly
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Dec 21, 2009 10:34 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah
It actually seemed to me that he was ready to let loose with a bit more but tuned it down after a quick re-think.
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by JohnHannahRules on Dec 21, 2009 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
Tony Massarotti
of course played the clueless card last night, saying “i don’t know who Moss was referring to” and then adding that “Randy Moss is responsible for Randy Moss”. He’s so useless, I don’t know why he’s paid to talk.
Keep the faith!
"Back to his 2007 self"
Are there any pats fans out there willing to say that it’s unlikely he’ll ever get even close to that again, and that what we are seeing now is actually who he has always been.
Statistically he’s the same as any other year, bar one absolutely phenomenal year, right?
What Brady did then was unheard of...
…as was what Manning did the few years prior. In ’07, everything was clicking. Our O-Line was in their prime and apparently immune to injury (funny thought now). Our Defense was doing its job. Our receivers were unmatched and our running game was there when needed.
This year, our O-Line is a skeleton, as we’re scratching the last of our back-ups. Our defense is injured, which means that we have to force a lot of throws to keep the scores up instead of, in ’07, other teams had to worry about how our offense would dictate the game.
Unless all of the positional planets align for a team, no one will hit the Brady and Manning numbers of those years. Ever.
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by Richard Hill on Dec 21, 2009 12:55 AM EST up reply actions
If Randy (or anyone else) could put out years like that regularly
the overall record for TD receptions would be higher than 190-something, and there would be more than what, 10? 15? guys with 100+ receiving TDs.
In saying that, the guy has put out a phenomenal number of 1000+ yard seasons, and this is another one of them. He’s around his average for TD receptions, too – 10 a year or so.
Those are Hall of Fame numbers over a dozen-year career, though. Even if it’s “only” average Randy Moss numbers.
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by Comedic.Sans on Dec 21, 2009 4:29 AM EST up reply actions
Palmer took a few years to get back into the groove after a similar injury
and Brady’s got a few years left in him – his arm strength doesn’t seem to have dropped too much, if anything, he’s sailing them too deep. Once he’s right physically he ought to be in form again, although I doubt anybody will repeat 2007 for a while, not the Pats, the Saints or even the Colts. Too many good D Co-ordinators, for one thing – I bet they all rushed into their little huts and pencilled out ways to stop a 2007 style offence. The Saints might come close – they’ve got too many weapons to cover effectively – but even then it’s still dependant on Brees, who can be temperamental.
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by Comedic.Sans on Dec 22, 2009 12:04 AM EST up reply actions
Brady's 2006 season was also really good
Specially when you consider that he was working with an all new receiving corp and that his favorite receiver, Deion Branch, had been traded away. The 2006 Patriots had NO BUSINESS being one dropped pass away from reaching the Super Bowl but Brady’s spectacular play was a large reason why they had that chance.
yep...just a TE, a normal 3rd WR Gaffeny, and the bug eyed idiot
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I still...
…Think the injury is bothering him some, in terms he didn’t have as much prep time this season as other seasons. Combine that with the finger injury and the rib injury, and Brady is just a bit off target this year. For anyone else we probably would not notice, but Brady’s trademark is accurate throws, so it spotlights the sub-par passes.
He will never have another 2007 season. I mean come on how many records did they set that year? No one has done it before the 07 Pats, and most of them will stand for a decade or more.
Brady is back to normal Brady numbers
People were just expecting Super-Brady numbers. Will probably never happen again.
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Dec 21, 2009 11:45 PM EST up reply actions
yes but...
Specifically since the finger and Rib injuries, he is 59.4 and 47.8 in the last two games.
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