AFC EAST 1. Pats 4-1 2. Jets 3-3 3. Bills 2-4 4. Fins 1-5 The Jets are only 1 1/2 games out of first, and with 2 easy games coming up and a bye, I can see the jets taking the AFCE lead if they can find a way to beat the Pats after the bye. That game will probably decide who will have sole position of the AFCE at that point.
I agree, we almost lost to Miami this week and we shouldnt be counting the Lions as a win. They have a good RB who I'm sure will go over 100 yards and Roy Williams who is a great playmaker.
We can win all our games, but it wouldent matter if NE doesnt lose some too. True we have two very winnable games but NE probably does too(Well I know they got Bufallo next, I dont know whos right after them).
There's something up with Detroit, and I don't know what it is. Don't let their record fool you... 1-5 is bad... but they're playing harder than a regular 1-5 team. Don't sell them short... play them as hard as we would Indy or NE
They have bene in some close ones(against Minn and GB noteably), which woulda made them a 3-3 team like us....they just couldent close the deal.
Teams the Jets have beat this year: Tennessee (1-5), Buffalo (2-4), Miami (1-5). Teams that have beat the Jets this year: New England (4-1), Indianapolis (5-0), Jacksonville (3-2). The only way the Jets take the AFC East this year is if the Pat's team plane goes down somewhere bad...
The point he is making is that we have a lot of those teams with bad records like Tennessee, buffalo, miami on our schedule.
If we win 8 games I will consider Mangini's first season and the first year of rebuilding a total success. 9 games would be amazing. Winning 5 or 6 games means we go into next year not sure if we're competing for a playoff spot yet or not. Winning 8 or 9 makes it clear that we're competing next year, especially if it's a solid season that does not include any weird streaky play.
thats like when the jets went 1-15....they were a much better team than their record indicated. (it was great to watch them beat the cards that year!) i think we have a great chance of beting the lions though. they're still struggling just to find out who they are and how good they can be. I don't see them solving that puzzle against us next week though.
I just hate the fact that we can't even be comfortable on a 3-score lead with less than 10 minutes to play against a 1-4 opponent. I can't count any game as a win yet, not until I see signs of a defensive stiffening. Played: 5 Games in which the opposition walked downfield on us in the Fourth Quarter: 5 Go check if you don't believe me.
for some strange reason it always seems like when we have a lead in the 4th qtr the defense starts giving the other teams wr's a big cushion underneath. it makes me nuts. i cant even count on both hands how many times i see db's giving the wide outs a 4-5 yd cushion. they really need to play more aggressively at that point instead of softening up like we do.
Patriots remaining schedule: @ Buffalo, @ Minnesota, vs Indy, vs JETS, @ Green Bay, vs Bears, vs Detroit, @ Miami, vs Houston, @ Jacksonville, @ Tennessee. Then: bye, 2nd round playoff game, AFCCG, SB!
I'm not even looking at this season in terms of the Patriots. I don't think they are anything special this year but we still are not in their class right now. Let's see the team play a complete game first before we talk about winning the division or making the playoffs.
