Angelus said: I took a gamble on the Raiders, so I'm not super surprised that one isn't quite panning out, but I have to say that I expected more from NE. Very poor showing by them. |
Initially I wanted to keep the same faith of, 'there's no way they lose back-to-back in Foxboro', but I spent some time looking closer at their team recently and how people were talking about them.
The people who were saying "I'm not worried about the patriots at all", were all the dumb people. That pushed me over. I also watched some of their 'better' performances, and while I started to believe they could be a playoff team, I wasn't drinking the same kool aid others were.
After following them for years, I knew their offense had no talent. Those 300yds in the second half against Seattle were all against a soft zone, with the Hawks up multiple scores. They have the worst pass defense in the league. They also gave NE an immediate 7pt lead, and were still up multiple TDs early in the 3rd, which is why they were in prevent for so much of that half.
It was still hard to take the Niners, but I somewhat felt this would happen.