Quick Recap: Texans defeat Patriots, 34-27

…you’re looking at 4 weeks recovery, regardless of toughness. He can’t make the cuts he needs to make with even a mild strain…and that did NOT look mild.

hopefully its a mcl spain…wes’s injury looked bad but not as bad as last yr’s injury on TB.

the calling was good on the td drive with taylor, but iunno why they were throwing it long in the last drive. To Aiken out of all people, i mean where was moss in the 4th quarter?

…if you’re not playing to win, DON’T play your starters. If you are, don’t take them out. I was very confused with the coaching decisions re: resting starters. Take Tom out, put him back in, take him back out…made little sense to me. It didn’t seem well thought out, which isn’t characteristic of BB.

If we judged teams by the announcers that called their games, what would we think of the Pats?

Does anyone else think Daryl Johnston sounds like he’s calling a WWF (or WWE..whatever it is now) match?

FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED TAYLORRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRUNNING RRRRRRIGHT THRRRRRROUGH THE DEFENSE FORRRR THE SCORRRRRRRRRRRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

springs and bodden for the play offs is a given. Butler is a good back up but no whilite. brady’s int was bad but once again it’s the play calling sending everyone long for sum reason. Also the fact that the pats gave up 100 yrd to a no name rb was a huge problem, but that has alot to do with no warren or wilfork, sinvce for the year they did decent jobs stopping top rb’s like mjd and etc.

most of the time his’ nt coems from a o-line break down

Because all I’m reading are ridiculous over-exaggerations and completely baseless, “fair weather fan” accusations.

I’m mystified by the 4th quarter collapse or maybe I shouldn’t be; Pats have been doing it all year. Welker out is a bummer; looked bad from my vantage point.

they don’t have a true number 1 wide, springs and bodden can shut them down i believe. On the offensive side we need to stop them from pressuring brady too much. Their secondary aside from ed reed doesn’t match too well to the pats receivers.

no warren or wilfork so they ran all day on the pats. the opening the pass game. and having whilite on Johnson didn;t help. Plus bodden didn;t play. our defense is not as bad as they seem.

jets game..the pats score only 9 points that was all on the offense.
Colts game was the small mistakes like endzone fumble AND TBC and warren going down.
Dolphins game, once again on brady, end zone pick, that other wise would have put the game away.

The saints game was all on defense but loses to the Broncos (we could have scored more than liek what? 17?, no second half offense), Jets, Dolphins AND colts were not all on the defense but also blamed on offense and it’s mistakes.

seriously did u just ignore my post on how it isn’t all trh defense’s fault? Brady has had trouble finishing a game all season. Why don’t you just ship now cuz you sure seem like your ready. forget the play offs. I mean the cardinals last year a had a great defense when we trounced them 49-7. No way they made the superbowl…oh rite..

The cardinals had one of the worst defense that year. it was like middle of the field in pass and last in rushing def. They were lucky to be 9-7 and make the play offs. But you know why they got to the superbowl? They stepped up in the playoffs, which the pats can do too. GOD you act as if brady can do no wrong, but he has had trouble this year. It’s not all on the defense when your offense has trouble to CLOSE OUT a game. The fact the offense make tons of mistakes in the red zone and the end of the game, put the pressure on the defense to stop a team ona short field or a small lead. If you really think like that then jump off the band wagon NOW.

and the Pats defence is very young and inexperienced. The Cards D might be good at the moment, but they’ll only be around for another 2 years or so. The Pats D will have a solid core for another half a decade or more.

But we’re not playing whilite in the play offs hopefully and are using springs and bodden last for the last 3 weeks, (when we won) Spring’’s better than whilite and is a veteran and is smarter than butler. Bodden didn’t play today, and he’s our best corner. The pats had trouble yes but if you stupid enough to believe a team can;t step up in the play offs then stop watching football. See the cardinals and giants from te last two years. No one gave them a chance but the fact their teams stepped up in the post season allowed them to win. And what do you mean big leads? jets we had a 6 point lead, Miami we had a 2 point lead, and broncos we had a 7 point lead. right those are hugeeee leads. Have you seen the pats in the 2nd half? in all threw games the offense scored 0 vs jets, 7 vs maimi and 0 vs the broncos in the second half. I say we’re having more trouble in the second half offense. And in indi we had a key turnover in the redzone by maroney.

For most of the season, the most experienced guy on the field was Meriweather, and he was a rookie only a couple of years ago. The Pats defence has traditionally worked best when it was full of experienced vets (think Ty Law and Rodney Harrison) because it’s complicated; these guys have only had a few seasons at most to absorb it. Even given that inexperience, they’ve performed well. They’re top-5 on scoring defences, they’re pretty good on surrendered yardage, too. Statistically, they’re just not that bad. You’re claiming the sky is falling because a couple of rookie players played… like rookies? Uh…

the main problem this season seems to have been a complete lack of adjustment by the offence in the second half. The opposition defence adjusts to whatever the Pats have been doing in the first, and shuts the Pats down. Bill O’Brien, Brady, etc just haven’t been able to counter the half-time adjustments of the opposition, and find themselves unable to move the ball and eat up game-clock. No matter how good the defence is playing, they’ll give up points if they’re on the field for 80% of the second half and always have poor field position to work with.

Season-ending stuff.