Patriots/Broncos 18 Decenber 2011 @1415

How many ways can the Broncos give points to NE? Makes me want to scream!!

Lots to make up at this point. The Broncos have done much to give this game away with mistakes. Now another one and we start on the 8 yd line. It will be interesting to see if we can still make this game close.

LLIB wrote: How many ways can the Broncos give points to NE? Makes me want to scream!!

Exactly!

So, Fox's strength as a coach is defense?

turn out the light. The party is over. Mistakes and Tom Brady killed us.

Not to worry. Win some, lose some.

Let's face it We played right into NE hands and they did a magnificent job of taking advantage. How many pelalties did NE have? Very few and NO turnovers. I thought we would need one or two interceptions, but that would not have been necessary if we just held onto the ball. We didn't. We loose. If there is one thing to take away. I think this was a great learning lesson for a lot of our young guys. I look forward with anticipation to the playoffs. I still believe we will surprise someone there.

I'm grateful that the final score wasn't more lopsided. Three turnovers, too many yards given away due to penalties, and Broncos defensive players missing assignments and tackles. It certainly could have been worse. Tebow did improve on his passing game and I would have liked to see the Broncos offense on the field more than they were but at the end of the day the Patriots played a better game. 8 and 6 is still a better record than I thought they would have had under Orton this year.

The good news this week? The Raiders lost to the Lions (even if it was only by one point)!

On to Buffalo, don't forget that is a Saturday game on the 24th of December at 1100 on CBS. Will the Broncos bounce back and have a chance of making it into the playoffs? I guess we will know more on Christmas Eve around 1400.

Turnovers is why we have been able to play and win like we have. I hope they learn from it. At least the Raiders lost and hope SD loses and we should still be in good shape. Sorry there were a few 'Brady' calls but special teams and the field goal before half was unforgivable. And the three man rush? What was that supposed to do? Goodman did not play very well either. Rush D was terrible. Let's see how they respond. That will tell everything.

Play calling on D was WAY too conservative. I hate that.

It is time to move on. Indeed next week will be a statement week one way or another. The Broncos ought to win provided they put this game behind them. If we take the Detroit game as an example,the team will respond well and perhaps start the game and play more than 15 minutes.