Many of whom were starters? Only 3 were starters.....Hightower, Chung and Cannon. How much of a difference would they have made? Defense wasn’t the issue, not having #12 back there to save the day was.
They downplay the loss of Tom Brady. They talk about the Patriots as if Brady was never there. Watching GMF now and they have Scott Pioli there......he thinks the players opting out is what held them back this season and feels that a good draft and getting those players back will help the Patriots make another Super Bowl run. After watching the Pats this season it's clear that Brady the bigger part of their success. Not once have I seen someone in the media admit that the loss of Brady was huge for the Pats instead they seem to have felt the Pats were going to continue the Patriot way regardless if #12 was there. I'm thinking it'll take next year when they go 9-7 at best before it really starts to sink in.
Willie McGinest probably still thinks the Pats have a chance at the playoffs lol
He’s the ultimate Pats homer......his record picking the Pats this year is 6-8
All the QBs available and the best the Bengals can do is Finley? Bengals right now remind me of the Jeff Tuel/Thad Lewis led Bills offense.....just get any kind of lead, don’t turn the ball over and pray we can shorten the game before the other teams offense figures it out lol
Steelers looking for the refs to bail them out with a flag on every pass play.
I still think they pull this game out.....just feels like one of those games where everything goes the Bengals way and they still find a way to lose.
Tua is headed down the path of Sam Darnold for me as far as the media goes. They will blow up everything positive he does and minimize anything bad that he does and consistently give him the benefit of the doubt because they want to be right about him being the next great QB.
They already have 7 losses.....best they can go is 9-7 and there are already 6 teams ahead of them with 9 wins and 2 with 8.....Pats are playing spoiler this week.
We need a RB with some speed to add to the backfield. I don’t wanna add one in the 1st......rather draft a true starting caliber CB in the 1st round , but this offense desperately needs a game breaker at the RB position for this offense to reach its true potential.