Losing 3 in a row....

no, not the Jets.

If we prevail this week, then the Pats will have their own 3 losses in a row implosion to deal with. We pulled out of our tail spin, but we haven't seen the Pats (Brady) in this position in a long, long time.

How will the Pats respond to a 3 game losing streak this late in the season?

 

It's more fun to think about it now.

 

I recall the Steelers being called old and slow early in the season, ppl throwing dirt on their grave.

IF we win sunday, I can't wait to here ppl throwing dirt on Tom Brady. It's been a long time coming.

 

Close, bet even KC can't score 100 points in one game....:metal:

 

I guess we don't have to wait for 3 losses in a row.....their own rag has them 6 feet under.

From the Boston Herald:

http://bostonherald.com/sports/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1378964&position=0

Patriots’ best no longer enough

Ron Borges By Ron Borges
Monday, November 7, 2011 - Updated 5 hours ago

FOXBORO — Sunday is how dynasties end: with small broken pieces, not large ones.

Dynasties do not end in spectacular collapse or fiery conflagration. They end from the corrosive effect of winning, eaten bit by bit until the edge is no longer on your side of the line of scrimmage.

The Patriots [team stats] had many chances yesterday to take control of what eventually became a 24-20 loss to the New York Giants, but could not do it. Quarterback Tom Brady [stats] did not have the kind of spectacularly accurate day so much his norm, too few remember how unusual it is. So, they are shocked when — as has been the case the past several weeks — balls are a little bit too far behind a receiver or a tad too high.

Two turnovers were forced by a defense that continues to make just enough fatal mistakes to hang itself, but its counterparts on offense and special teams combined for four turnovers of their own. When the battle of errors is lost, most often so is the game.

They lost because, when a few voices the past few years kept saying their drafting would come back to haunt them, the multitudes insisted “In Bill We Trust.” Whether the Bill is Bill Belichick or Bill Walsh or “Bill” Einstein, eventually drafts become fallow ground. Down the road, it affects your team in fatal ways, as it did yesterday.

With the game on the line, a former undrafted rookie free agent cornerback named Kyle Arrington was flagged for a critical pass interference call and beaten for a touchdown. Another former undrafted rookie free agent defensive back named Sergio Brown was flagged for pass interference to put the ball on the 1-yard line on what became the Giants’ game-winning drive. A third former undrafted rookie linebacker Tracy White — who has played for five teams in nine years — was beaten for the winning score by Jake Ballard with 15 seconds to play because he was pressed into action after starter Gary Guyton was injured.

Such small things are the corrosion that ends dynasties. They do not mean the Patriots cannot or will not beat the New York Jets [team stats] on Sunday night. They do not mean they are not still a playoff contender, either.

What they mean is the days of dominance are behind them, and there is no scheme on Earth that can change it. Not when too many of your starters are really backups in disguise.

“We did the best we could,” Belichick said after the Giants marched 80 yards in 81 seconds to turn a last-minute, 20-17 lead into the end of the Pats’ 20-game regular-season home winning streak.

Belichick was right. As simple as it sounded, that is what happened yesterday and against the Steekers in Pittsburgh a week earlier. The Patriots have lost back-to-back games for only the third time since the beginning of the 2003 season because their best wasn’t quite enough.

That is how it is because that is how it once was for the Cleveland Browns of the 1950s and the Green Bay Packers of the 1960s and the Steelers of the 1970s and the 49ers of the 1980s and the Cowboys of the 1990s. It is now the Patriots of the 2000s turn.

They can say all they want that they have to execute better, but the real question is, are they capable of it?

“On third-and-1 at the goal line, I have to play the run first,” White said when asked how Ballard beat him for the winning touchdown pass. “There was a little bit of hesitation (on his part) and he got off the line of scrimmage. It was a good read by the quarterback.”

All true, but it’s the kind of thing that seldom happened to the Dynasty Patriots. In those days, it was the opponent who hesitated. It was the opponent who blinked.

“They executed the play better than we did,” Arrington said. “It really doesn’t matter the way we played (defense) in the first half (which is to say magnificently). You have to play 60 minutes.”

When they were winning Super Bowls by field goals, they played for 60 minutes. They made the other team blink not primarily because their coaches were smarter than the other coaches, even though at times they were, but because their players were better. Their players weren’t the ones who hesitated.
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