It's huge that the Patriots have been tested this way for two consecutive weeks

[VietCowboy]

The Pats have older players on defense. As the season wears on, the age starts to show.

Belichick is a great defensive coordinator, which is why the Pats tend to adjust. But they're helped by their offense and because they've played quarterbacks like Feeley and Boller.

I think this is very encouraging to teams like the Colts, Steelers, Chargers and Jags - teams that have a good running game or a good/great quarterback (or at least better than Feeley and Boller) and a solid defense capable of putting pressure on the Pats.

If Feeley or Boller can make just one play, the Pats are looking at two losses.

And if Dallas gets to the Super Bowl to play the Pats, I'm no longer scared of the Pats. Romo will make the plays that Feeley and Boller couldn't. And I expect Wade Phillips' defensive design to be just as crafty as Jim Johnson's and Rex Ryan's.

or not force plays against an opportunistic defense

 

[VietCowboy]

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi

every body dies. so too Voldemort and rest his soul Dumbledore

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

Yes, but not everyone lives.

Anyways back to the game tonight. You saw the energy that Baltimore brought. It was free and strong. No holding back. Patriots at the end, they just had more.

every body dies. so too Voldemort and rest his soul Dumbledore

 

[VietCowboy]

Yes, but not everyone lives.

good and truth only wins because the winners proclaim themselves good and truth. it's not like they will go and tell everyone they are evil and full of lies....

 

[VietCowboy]

yeppppp. i want all the opponents of pats to play with that intensity, even if they lose in the end. for the fins and the jets and giants, it should be their superbowl...play like it! pretty please. with a on top

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple

 

[VietCowboy]

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple

there's always the tooth fairy and the easter bunny...

 

[DBoys]

I don't think the patriots will make it to the superbowl.

They play the Steelers next week and that should be real interesting.

 

[Woods]

This team is going down, they peaked way too early.

I am starting to thing that as well.

Let's also remember, the Pats are a fairly old team, esp at positions like LB.

 

[Doomsday101]

From the efficient studios of Air Cowboys America, in Farmers Branch where we like to barbecue, the 50,000-watt bulldozer of truth, justice and the Armenian way.
Next up, Cooking with Arlene and Bayou Gardening in FB.

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Now, men, suddenly the Patriots have looked like mere mortals.
The perfect team coached by the genius coach with all the right pieces purring like the engine of a German speedster.​

What I would like to know from you miscreants, parolees, heroes, anarchists and good men is:​

Are the Patriots tired?
Are they believing their press clippings?
Are teams playing up to them suddenly?
Is Brady beginning to hit a wall of expectation?​

Hard to say
But it is telling that an elite team like the Patriots has been pushed around by so-so teams suddenly.​

If the Cowboys defense can keep improving, bending a lot sometimes like a sieve, but not break. If the 'Boys can learn to love their secondary, as it, and give Roy more chances and Canty and Spears awaken from their draft hype reverie, it might be able to pull it off.​

The Cowboys offense is ready
The defense is a work in progress but it could take the Patriots Ratt Now!​

New England looks human. And vulnerable.​

Wish the Super Bowl was today!!!​

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I think it is just hard to win every game. Pats know that every team is gunning for them wanting to be the team who breaks the undefeated mark. Lastnights game was the best outing I have seen from the Ravens all season long.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Its not like its a stretch to say they peaked early. No one isnt saying they arent a very good football team, but its hard to play at an extremely high level for 16 weeks.

There defense is pretty old, its not really that far fetched that they are wearing down a bit, is it?

I think its more of an old defense than it is peaking early.

Moreso than that... I think the fact that they were running the scored up before.... teams are REALLY gunning for them... oh yeah... you gonna run up the score.... so by doing so... they forced teams to gameplan for keeping the offense off the field or atleast less time than before.

I think Belichick brought this on. Its not Karma... its other teams taking things into their own hands..