Say what you want, the Patriots did not come to play today. All the jabber conducted by the Jets all week must have got to the Pats finally because they did not look in sync for the entire 60 minutes. Mistake after mistake led to Jets scoring points. When is the last time you said mistake by the Patriots? or interception by Tom Brady? Not for a very long time. The Pats looked great on the opening drive before Tom Brady over threw Ben Jarvis on a screen pass. That is where the wheels fell off. The crowd was out of it and the Pats were stunned. A dropped touchdown pass in the hands of Alge Crumpler. A fake punt muffed by a dropped snap by Pat Chung. Dropped pass after dropped pass and under thrown balls to overthrown balls all over the field. The Jets backed their talk this time leaving the Pats packing their bags for not Dallas, but for vacation.
The clock management in the fourth quarter was also questionable. They may have been moving the ball by running it, but down 10 with less than eight minutes to go? Every Patriot was walking to the line of scrimmage with just defeated body language. Brady was sacked five times, the most he has ever been touched all year. The bye week may have put the Pats at a disadvantage because they looked nearly unbeatable two weeks ago and today they may have had trouble beating Foxboro high school. It is a shame that we will have to listen to Rex Ryan for the next week and for the rest of the year, but he outcoached Belichick today. I never thought those words would come out of my mouth, but he did.
Sportscenter is off limits for the time being. 29 days until pitchers and catchers report to Fort Myers. The Celtics are first in the East and the Bruins are steam rolling. We thought we were cueing the duckboats for the 2010-2011 Patriots, but maybe we need to ride the wave of the Cs and Bs until the summer comes along.
broken heart...
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