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Curran, Johnson react to Pats’ abysmal performance vs. Jets originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Nothing went right for the New England Patriots in Thursday night’s Week 3 showdown with the New York Jets.
As head coach Jerod Mayo put it after his team’s 24-3 loss, they were “not good in any phase of the game.” They totaled just 139 yards while the Jets tallied 400. The porous offensive line allowed 15 quarterback hits, including seven sacks.
Now 1-2 on the season, the Patriots have crashed back down to earth since their surprising Week 1 win over the Cincinnati Bengals. NBC Sports Boston’s Patriots insider Tom E. Curran believes the last two weeks are a more accurate representation of who they are: a deeply flawed team that must play a perfect game to have a shot at a victory.
“The Patriots are not a good enough team to play anything less than perfect football and have a chance of winning,” Curran said on Patriots Postgame Live. “And even if they play almost perfect football, they might still lose, last week being a perfect example of it. Two mistakes cost them the game.
“Tonight, they showed up at about 60, 50, 40 percent capacity? And then got their asses handed to them. So that’s about the size of it. This is a team that I think a lot of us fairly started to reconfigure their expectations on after Week 1. But that was a perfect performance and a bad performance by Cincy. This was a very good performance by the Jets and a poor one by the Patriots, and you have now a 24-3 loss.”
Former Pats linebacker Ted Johnson was among those buying in after the Bengals game. He even considered Sunday’s loss to Seattle a moral victory. But after witnessing Thursday’s abysmal performance, that Cincinnati win feels like a distant memory.
“I wasn’t expecting this, guys. I really wasn’t,” Johnson said. “I was expecting a closer game, a more competitive game. I gave high marks to Jerod Mayo in the pregame show. I said it’s because he has his team ready to go even though they lost to…
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Publish date : 2024-09-20 04:31:45
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