It turns out the Patriots were frauds and actually were schedule merchants. With their first place schedule next year they will be 7-10. Drake Maye is a terrible quarterback. I can't believe he almost won an MVP.
I was very happy to see them get blown out...Seattle's defense played incredible. I was also happy to see that the only guy for the Pats that could catch the ball was a former Dolphin!
Since I’m an AFC man, I hadn’t followed the Seahawks closely enough to realize their defense was as dominant as they were. For some reason I thought they were just an offensive powerhouse with the re-born Sam Darnold. It was a GOOD game in the first half with defenses setting the tone but with New England unable to move the ball into any position to score, the game was basically over once Seattle went up 9-0. While the Patriots benefited from an easier strength of schedule, the did virtually shut out the Chargers, played dominantly against the Texans and did win against the Broncos in Denver, albeit without Bo Nix but the Broncos did have a stout defense. The Patriots deserved to be in the Super Bowl. They won against playoff and Super Bowl caliber teams. It was just too much for the young quarterback, much like Marino’s age and inexperience prevented him from prevailing at the age of 23. With Mike McDonald being such a young coach and with how dominantly they played, we could be seeing the birth of a Super Bowl dynasty for this decade. Congratulations Seattle.
At the end of the day they won so in that sense they did deserve to be there but they beat Houston without their best offensive player and Denver without their QB all while benefitting from the historically easy regular season schedule to set them up with a nice seed so its still pretty fraudulent. This was just a throwback to the 90s when you would get random AFC teams in the SB who weren't in the same class as the NFC champ and would get smoked.
Interesting, I cant stand the Pats but were they really frauds? You do know they beat top AFC teams in the playoffs. As far as Maye he had a very rough night, the OL and Maye was not prepared for the Seahawks. I can almost guarantee Maye is better than any QB on the Dolphins roster right now, If Ewers gets a shot next season I hope he proves my statement very wrong. We may not have liked the results of the season but being delusional about the Patriots doesnt change it.
I don't subscribe to Maye being terrible but he was bad in every playoff game and not just last night They certainly would have lost to Denver if Nix played.
Right? I wonder what he would say if a Tua led dolphins team made it to the Super bowl and lost in similar fashion.
They had the easiest strength of schedule in the regular season and one of the easiest of ALL-TIME. Not just in the last five years. EVER. Their schedule was a joke. Literally teams with the top 12 picks in the NFL draft was their schedule. Drake Maye wasn't just bad yesterday. He was bad all playoffs. Historically bad. Like the worst quarterback in the history of the NFL playoffs. Also, anyone bringing up Tua for some reason and defending Maye in this thread is just a flat out loser.
