Titans - Patriots postgame discussion

Brian tells me that the Pats were riled up, PO'd, and giving away UC penalties to us. Whassupwidat? A month ago he was giving props to the Pats for just being a great team, and now he's declared himself an official hater. Were they that bad?

 

Our best offensive play for a while there was in drawing a personal foul...

 

Brucshi was crying like a baby about Wad'e cut block on cheapest player in the league, Rodey Harrison (karma, right?). It was a simple cut block, nothing dirty. But Brusci and the rest of the Pats have been known to cry like little girls in the past.

 

Young should really work on his accuracy. I thought he was getting better after each game, but he kind of regressed against the Pats... not to mention that he almost gets Jones killed. He also took a few sacks that he really shouldn't have, like the play at the Pats 2 yard line where he rolled out to the right and get caught for a loss instead of just throwing the ball away.

 

i didnt see anything wrong with that block. wade hit harrison at the waste.

 

This kinda reminds me of last years last game

 

Why We Lost:

1) VY played like ****. He had a bad game, even great players do. But he was putting the ball in bad places all day. I recall 3 good to excellent throws today; that ain't enough if you want to beat a team as talented as the Pats. The running TD was his greatest highlight, and perhaps his only saving grace.

2) The defense continued to give up big plays and struggled to get off the field, and it's the same damn culprits. Lamont Thompson played poorly, and Hill played about as poorly as is his par lately. Both need to be either replaced or sunk deeper into the depth chart next year; they are NOT good starters.

3) Simply outcoached. Maybe the gameplan was solid going in, I have no idea. But the offense never clicked, and the defense played fairly poorly. In all fairness, I truely believe that the Patriots are the best coached, best prepared team in the NFL, bar-none.

All in all, there's no shame losing to a team as good at the Patriots. The Patriots are going to be superb, as they always are, in the playoffs, and this is exactly the time when the team starts to roll. We were in their way, and we got beat as the inferior team.

This season can be considered a success; we've found that we have a couple of absolute star players in the making in Young and Jones, along with many other solid pieces at other positions. The mold to be a better team has been set; it remains to be seen if Reese and the organization can fix the rest of our problems to be a better next year...

 

These guys were fired up, and this was a somewhat sloppy game penalties and disipline wise. From Wade's block on Harrison, to Young getting in the face of a defender, to PacMan shoving the helmet of a tackler after the play, both teams were playing with a great deal of intensity at times; I can count over 10 or so incidents of arguing or players getting in each others face that was on camera, I'm sure there was more.

 

Bad game that we could have won. Great season with many surprises. Lots of hope for the future. Shame that the door to the playoffs was wide open for us to practically walk through.