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RP - you're right, it was just a regular season game. What makes it big and always does with these two is it typically decides the #1 and #2 playoff spots and the Patriots have difficulty playing in Indy and Indy has trouble playing in NE (especially if it's the usual mid/late december weather in new england).
But it is still just regular season, and didn't take either team out of the playoffs.
That being said, you're making excuses for a regular season game you really don't care about... "injuries" and "dropped pass" and "we gave you the game", you can say that about anyone who loses. "They gave the game away" yeah, by not winning.
The Pats have had injuries over the years, sometimes then win, sometimes they lose... but we never use the injuries as an excuses like you're trying to.
Maybe last year if we had Harrison, Maybe if the Refs didn't call pass interferance on Ellis Hobbs which the NFL later apologized for that it was a bad call, maybe if Reche Caldwell knew how to catch... see, we can both play this game... but it's the NFL you play with the team you have.
What you need to worry about is not dropping another game, because then instead of that week 1 bye and homefield advantage, you could be going to Pittsburg the 2nd round of the playoffs, which weather wise ain't much better then New England that time of year.
and last of course everyone is talking about this Pats team as being great, they're undefeated which always starts the "can they go 16-0" crap, and they're set to smash some offensive records, and to top it off they just beat the regining super bowl champs on their homefield. So yeah, that's why everyone is talking Pats.
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