Patriots 49, Bills 21: Season-Ending Symmetry Reminiscent Of 2003

Might as well do whatever it takes to stock pile draft picks….this team still lacks significant playmakers on both sides of the ball…

…I have got nothing. How do you explain that?

does he?

umm well that’s about what score I expected.

same old same old.

“Fitz sucks and Ralph is cheap”

That is all folks.

Seriously though, I’m a pretty patient fan, and roll with the punches type of fan, but it is getting downright difficult to root for my team. 12yrs is a long time. And I have only been a fan since the mid 80’s. I’m just at a lost for words with this team.

And folks, if there are any doubters, left, please oust yourself. Do you really feel that Ryan Fitzpacktrick is the answer? If so, can you pleeeeeaaaze ask a different question?

I don’t blame Fitz nearly as much as the defense…not even close in my eyes. I know that he’s the QB and he’s ultimately responsible, but the defense was pathetic. That 3rd down conversion at about 6:00 left in the 3rd quarter when Welker ran down to the 3 yard line uncontested made me almost throw up.

Fitz threw one bad interception (I don’t count the garbage time one), and he had another glance off of Spiller’s hands (VERY catchable ball) and into the hands of the defense, but he had nothing to do with the Patriots running like 10 plays in the 4th quarter and amounting 21 points. Seriously, can we PLEASE get someone that can guard a TE? Hernandez had his way with the defense all day.

This was some bad luck, horrible defensive play, and the offense that grabbed an early lead to watch the momentum switch wildly the other direction and then felt the need to play catch up which, as we all know, they are not very good at.

Pathetic.

Benching your #1 wideout?

Abandoning the run game?

Keeping Fitz in so late?

Okay, that last 1 is a mute point but he’d hardly have so many interceptions if we didn’t keep trotting him out there when we’re getting killed. 2 today. 2 against Dallas that i can recall offhand. He needs to be better, sure, but if we’re having him throw 46 passes expecting to win we’re seriously misguided.

George Wilson and Dayton Florence both need to be replaced too so add that to off-season needs.

both are slow with poor to awful change of direction

What players stood out for good performances today? I saw the stat lines but those don’t always tell the whole truth, and did Jasper actually play today?

in 3…2…1…

I’ve really grown to hate this team. Not just because they are bad but because they are going nowhere. And I’m not just talking about hating this particular group of guys; I’m talking about the Bills organization. They are just spinning their wheels. We have no young, developing QB. We have a young WR who can’t stop costing the team penalty yards. We have a putrid defense. We can’t stay healthy. We don’t have depth. We can’t get good coaches. On and on!

I have been cheering for this team since the early 80’s. I have been through downs and ups (more downs). I feel like the organization doesn’t care. Why should I? Why should I keep buying gear? Why should I spend hard earned money to buy shirts, hats, and things? It’s not going to anything; it’s not going to a successful team.

I have given this team blind support for years, but I don’t know how much more of this I can take.

IF we had a couple good OLBs and another good CB this team would be good. We also should have ran the ball much more once we were up 21-0. Fitz was not great but he was good, he definitely is not very accurate but he can lead us to the playoffs, and with a good defense who knows? but I still don’t think this team is that far away. 2 OLBs, a CB, a WR,and resign Stevie. If we do that and don’t make the playoffs then either get rid of Fitz, fire Gailey or Both. I am actually excited for the off season, and next year.

Disappointing end to a season – we’re bottom of the AFC East and even worse, 12 years outta the playoffs.

I guess Ralph can rationalize the 3 extra wins this year as “improvement” but, given the 1-7 end-of-season-slide, it’d be hollow.

Fact is, Buddy and Chan have staked their future on Fitz and they’ll be given at least one more year to see if their plan pans out – I’ll be shocked if they pull his deal before March and go for a franchise QB.

Play-makers are needed everywhere – hope Doug Whaley and the scouting team can bring us some hope this draft.

Whoops! My bad.

I decided to head out and smell the roses a little today, and since my Android is in the shop (or more literally sitting on my shelf with a busted screen while I save up enough money to invoke insurance on it) I couldn’t even hear the broadcast, which was annoying when I saw how closely we were playing the Pats for three quarters. Then the collapse happened.

So my thoughts:
1. Fitz needs two things — to learn how to thread the needle between players better, and confidence. No picks til the last quarter, then four in the fourth? Something’s wrong there. Regardless, we’re getting Wilson or Tannehill next year in the draft, most likely, unless Griff — or Luck if the Colts really do pass on Luck for Griffin, as some have suggested — slips to us, and either Fitz will wake up, or he’ll be backup somewhere in 2013. In which case it all depends on if I’m my target weight whether I fulfill my signature exactly or switch it to a Yale helmet and nothing else. (Pray for Fitz’s career. Trust me.)

2. How the hell is Steve Johnson such a frigging prima donna? I give Chan full credit for sitting him and keeping him sat after that. God, I was hoping he’d learn something from TO, but he learned all the wrong stuff, with this and the fall-down at Jersey. I’m really looking forward to him and Floyd if not … whoever Poz was mentioning earlier … on the ends, but I do hate seeing a man who ‘thinks who he is’, according to my mother.

3. I think our D is built right. But it needs conditioning and depth. That’s another trademark of this D, it runs out of steam. I’m confident next year we’ll do better with a full proper training regiment in the offseason, but we need to pick up solid backups in the latter half of the draft.

That’s about it. Kind of unnerved by the collapse, but we did stay with them for three. And that was better than last year’s finale, just like this was better than last year in general. The team needs to make 9-7 and squeak the playoffs next year to keep up the pattern, though.

I might even take tony romo over fitz

Fitz arm is too weak to handle the strain of being the starter. As his arm tired, his throws lost their accuracy, and touch. A productive offense compliments a mediocre defense by keeping them off the field.

He’s just not consistently accurate on the deep ball. With a competent receiving corp., Fitz can move the chains (and he’s proven he can this year with the dinks and dunks) but we don’t scare any team with a deep threat.

A fitting end to a sorry season.

Only the Bills could go into Foxboro with an apparently good. aggressive, game plan – then piss down their collective leg, and crap themselves in craptastic fashion at the same time. They don’t even deserve a colostomy bag or a tissue to clean themselves up with.

Embarrassing.

Lead 21-0 and then give up 49 unanswered points. Yep. Not 28, not 34, not 38 – 49 flippin’ unanswered points. They could have left the field entirely and given up less. If there were a few more minutes on the clock, the Patriots would have scored 89.

Another year – another joke. After a while – it just gets unbearable and a person finds something else that at least might have a light at the end of the tunnel. The Bills? Eck.