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Big takeaways from the more sober Pats podcasters on Victory Monday. 1. Vrabel's defensive philosophy couldn't stop the run. Belichick's defenses were based on gap integrity and containment, so all runs were funneled to the middle of the field for enormous DTs and ILBs to clean up. Vrabel's are based on penetration and disruption, which the Bills capitalized on to generate displacement. Example: on the go-ahead TD run by Cook, the Pats DT fires upfield and O'Cyrus just waved him by and walled him off, while the rest of the OL works downfield and Cook runs into the space 2. Drake Maye shrank in the moment. 3. DALTON KINCAID IS THEIR ONLY RECEIVER, HOW IS HE RUNNING WIDE OPEN AGAINST A COVER 2 SHELL ON 3-7?!?

Just take care of business and stay healthy.

Didn't watch the game, but I did tempt fate by checking the app score before 4:30 pm.

That would be ideal from the POV of emotional damage.

If they beat the fish, they'll be back and twice as insufferable.

Is anyone else alright with all this New England butthurt? Let's remind them.

The math says they're still favorites...but they had their chance to seal the deal and came up very, very small.

I thought you'd made a typo writing "Cook's injured".

Bosa seems like a high variance player emotionally, but when he makes plays it's at key times. Hopefully the post season sets his ass on fire.

Diggs? Disappear when you need him? You don't say!

Didn't he invent the Bong Cloud too? I'd betcha if you built a time machine, Carlsen would beat Paul Morphy, and handily at that. Leave Sooner alone. He's trolling.

I'm sick of this soft zone, predictable, QB dependent team! Fire Vrabel!

Barring a Road-to-Damascus change in his play... I'd ship him out of town along with candy and a stripper.

But he does offer validation for people who...like repeating what we all already know, and feel the need to discuss ad nauseam.

Our trade deficit drops from $59 billion to $52 billion. China's trade surplus just hit $1 Trillion. I don't have a fancy STEM education, but one of those sets of numbers seems better than the other.

Huh. So he had nothing positive to say about the OL, TEs or James Cook?

Fire him and hire Ian McCollum from Forgotten Weapons. He's got more social media followers and broader outreach to centrists, which makes him more qualified than Hegseth. Gun Jesus couldn't do any worse, and there's no way he'd have let the M7/Sig Spear get off the ground.

Dennis Lock, who's photo doesn't appear on the team website near as I can tell, is "Vice President of Football Research". Maybe you spotted Cole Jacobson, football analytics guy late of the University of Pennsylvania, who is a "Football Research Assistant" for the Bills?

@GunnerBill. How's your "softzone" bingo card looking today?

Ha, yeah. We've got collegial boards like the Stadium Wall...and Xitter spamming dittohead influence operations like PPP.

I loved the Jackson Hawes TD play. It was entirely Hawes using his initiative. He's not supposed to do anything but block. So after he blocks his guy into oblivion for four-ish seconds, he's like, wait, the play is still going on? Something's wrong! So he sort of walks underneath the uprights and shows Josh his numbers. Of course nobody on Cinci is assigned him in coverage because he's been blocking for a football eternity.

I also doubt our RBs will piss away two touchdowns, but I'm a glass half full guy.

The username makes sense! All of the above. Exactly, football is a distraction and a welcome one