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Micah Hyde. Except for that sort of broken coverage on the TD to Bourne, that has to probably be the best game I have seen from Hyde. That pick was ridiculous.

This game came down to execution. The Bills just did everything better— caught passes, made tackles, threw passes, made blocks, hit on runs, finished plays. the only thing the pats did better on was kicking!

That was like re-living my wildest dream— right down to BB storming off the field.

Interesting that Cam is active and Ankou and Obada are not. I wonder if they think the pats will Be coming out throwing.

Still waiting in inactives?

That’s pretty much the best compliment I have gotten on this board!!

This is very unfair. There is not much more work he really could have done. He already mastered the 4-yard pass.

it was a super quick trip over the long weekend. So we are basically hitting magic Kingdom only on 1 day, and sea world the other day, and then hanging at the hotel the third day. I am just glad the timing of the game worked out well, so I wouldn’t be stressing about missing it and having to avoid media and watch it late at night or something.

I’m going to Disney World! (For real. My first time there too).

the patriot way!

great job. Love the quip about Zach Wilson not being able to scramble forward— haha. I think you saw what I saw, which is that anytime Wilson scrambled, he would like run 20 yards backwards. Very odd.

yes. I would encourage him to think of his future.

i am surprised that Barmore is practicing. The dude was Carted off crying last game.

Agreed. They were in 10 games; won 4; almost beat the pats and titans. Culley developed Mills into the best rookie QB prospect this year. All the while, the Texans were trading away or releasing their best players. i don’t think Culley “signed up for this”— being a stop gap and quick fire. From what I have read, he has a lot of character and integrity, and was trying to build a positive culture there— going to a place to just hold a title for a year doesn’t seem like his MO. He was Duped. see above. I honestly think he didn’t know.

This is so unfair. It is clear now that they hired him as some stop gap In a lost season, who they could just throw away. So disrespectful. He actually did a heck of a job— those guys played better and better and played hard for him. Just very unfair.

Beasley looks particularly bad. I don’t know what it is— may be those ribs still. He doesn’t look right. i actually am predicting that Sanders is going to have a huge game this week. He will have a huge matchup advantage of Mills is out.

It’s sort of true. It’s not like he can’t make the lay-ups— he just doesn’t take them. I do wonder what Warner thought though of Josh in the last Bills/Pats game, because I have never seen Josh execute those check downs so well before.

i hear ya. But McKenzie gives us a chance to actually take one to the house. Plus, I worry about Hyde getting injured back there. It’s tough because we cannot have a muff.

So, who do you all got for the PR/KR this game? Does McD trust either McKenzie or Stevenson? i would actually go back to McKenzie on punt returns, as scary as that might be.

i get where you are coming from. The pats started that game playing a lot of zone and 2 high. Then Singletary was just ripping off 10 yards in every dump down, and the pats had to adjust. if you go back and watch the game, you will be surprised at both the amount of pressure that BB later sent, and how smooth josh was at evading it. I think BB even said after the game that Josh just avoided the pressure they sent:

I don’t mean to be all philosophical. But I believe that if one unpeels all the layers of any thread on here, at the very center is just one simple common point: build a dome.

Same. It’s actually sort of painful to re-watch. Just want to get passed the bad parts to the good parts of the game.

the difference between 33 and 5 degrees is so stark. i remember working out with a group of guys outside one winter in like 0 degree weather. Couldn’t even concentrate— it was so painful. Every part of me hurt.

I don’t understand the comments about the patriots not blitzing much last game. They did. They tried everything. They played 2-high shell, they played man, they played zone, they brought pressure, etc. Nothing worked.