Patriots Reactions To Losing Super Bowl XLVI To Giants

by Joel Thorman on Feb 6, 2012 8:00 AM CST

The New York Giants are your Super Bowl champions after they beat the New England Patriots (again) on Sunday night. The game was as exciting as the one they played four years ago and even though it's not your team you gotta feel for some of those Patriots players as they lose another Super Bowl.

It's never easy to lose. I'm an awful loser. But to lose a Super Bowl has to be a different kind of pain.

I rounded up a few of the initial reactions in the Patriots locker room via Twitter (@RapSheet, @GregABedard, @MikeReiss).

LB Brandon Spikes: "I never want to feel like this again."
TE Aaron Hernandez: "Heart-broken"
Wes Welker really broken up about the missed big play. "It's one I'll have to live with," he said, fighting back tears.
Patriots WR Wes Welker spoke with tears in his eyes. Spikes wore sunglasses. Hernandez choked up. Lots of emotion
Bill Belichick told players after game he was proud of them, and as long as he is head coach, being in this position & winning is the goal.
The agony of defeat

Again, it's not your team so maybe you don't really care but I can't imagine what that feeling's like.

That said, I'd love to be in a position to even have that feeling.

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At least they made it that far

They cant complain,at least they made it to the superbowl again and again,something we all dream about.just keep hoping the chiefs can get their sooner than later.

by chiefsfool on Feb 6, 2012 8:25 AM CST reply actions

Like Brady said...

…during his postgame.

“I’d rather come to this game and lose than not get here”

Sums it up nicely.

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by chai1836 on Feb 6, 2012 8:29 AM CST reply actions

He must've spend some time hangin out with a guy who knows a lot about this feeling

Jim Kelly

RAC City. I predict an AFC West crown in 2012. If Cassel is not the QB, Chiefs will go deep into the playoffs and possibly make some sizable upsets. It all depends how healthy the team gets but Superbowl aspirations for sure.

by 58 was my friend on Feb 6, 2012 10:20 AM CST up reply actions

Sucks to lose the Super Bowl. Sucks even more to lose the Super Bowl because your coach decides to concede the winning touchdown.

For all the talk of Belichick being the best coach ever he sure didn’t live up to that billing yesterday. Between not having his team ready to play, to mismanaging his timeouts before the two minute warning to conceding the game winning points, he had one horrible night in the most important game.

Have to feel for Gronk though. The replay of that hail mary at the end of the game is going to haunt him for awhile. If he keeps running instead of letting up at the goal line the ball falls right in his lap.

"Give them nothing! But take from them everything!"

by GenericBrand on Feb 6, 2012 8:39 AM CST reply actions

Absolutely disagree

The Giants were running the ball at will. They could have milked that clock and won the game had he not let them have that touchdown.

You think it's coincidence that I bleed red?

by Mully on Feb 6, 2012 8:47 AM CST up reply actions

If Palko throws that hail mary its a TD

that’s why the Pats will sign him this offseason and have him come in on hail mary situations

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by KingChief on Feb 6, 2012 8:48 AM CST up reply actions

Get the ball back down 4 with 50 seconds left

Or down 1 with about 15 seconds left and no time outs. He did what any coach should do in that spot. My only gripe is they should have done it on first down.

by Steve_in_RI on Feb 6, 2012 8:57 AM CST up reply actions

he should have ... hmmmmmm, maybe the Great Bill Belichick isn't so great after all

maybe Brady isn’t so great either, that INT was huge … and the safety way back in the first quarter … wow, maybe the Patriots were lucky to be there to begin with …

maybe the Patriots Way is DYING!

someone call Scott and tell him forget it … hurry!

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by upamtn on Feb 6, 2012 9:00 AM CST up reply actions

My bucket list

Includes going out for a drink with you man. You are right though. While their way is tried and true, it’s time for the Chiefs Way.

by Steve_in_RI on Feb 6, 2012 9:11 AM CST up reply actions

Since the original crew broke up

they can still get to the big game, but can’t win it

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
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by KingChief on Feb 6, 2012 9:13 AM CST up reply actions

They were a flawed team this year, like MU's basketball team.

They really shouldn’t have been there with that defense. Only got in because the AFC is down and they got incredibly lucky against the Ravens. I’ll start composing their obit IF their defense doesn’t look any better next year.

When you gotta go in the lion's den, you don't go quiet. You go in loud, kick the door down and say WHERE IS THE SONUVABITCH. -B. Billick

by Brsrkr on Feb 6, 2012 11:17 AM CST up reply actions

Because there was no chance of a fumble on the the two plays before the FG?

Or it wasn’t possible that the FG was blocked or missed? I mean they did get into this game on a missed FG right? I disagree. You do not concede points in the NFL and definitely not in the championship game. It’s not like Brady was marching the ball up and down the field all night that it made sense to take the ball and the time.

"Give them nothing! But take from them everything!"

by GenericBrand on Feb 6, 2012 11:15 AM CST up reply actions

The Giants odds of winning actually decreased with the TD

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7545771/the-patriots-giants-super-bowl-rematch-disappoint

scroll down a ways (or read it, decent article) to find the info

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by MarineChiefsFan on Feb 6, 2012 12:12 PM CST up reply actions

Letting them score

was the smartest move BB made all night. It’s the only way they had any chance at all to win at that point.

by mind the gap on Feb 6, 2012 8:47 AM CST reply actions 1 recs

Up here

I have to deal with Patriot fan arrogance 24/7/365 but I honestly felt bad last night for some of the players. This was actually one of the more likeable Pats teams.

I’m surprised though that the media is giving Brady a free pass on a lot. The safety turned out to be huge. (no safety, Bradshaw’s TD only puts them up 3). And he blew about 3 or 4 easy throws that receivers had to come back to the ball on (including the INT and the Welker drop). Brady is great but I’ll say it again, he has benefited his entire career from being in a system that fits him like a Mike Leach system fits a college QB. I just think this entire season, Brady showed he could be on the back end of his career and last night was no different.

by Steve_in_RI on Feb 6, 2012 9:05 AM CST reply actions

No one doubts

that Brady had a mediocre game, but the Pats won Super Bowls with their defense. This Pats defense sucks outloud.

by mind the gap on Feb 6, 2012 9:08 AM CST up reply actions

True

But I thought they played very well last night against a Giants squad who had been on fire of late. I gotta believe that if you told BB that the Giants would score only 21 he would have felt pretty good about their chances.

Another thing I thought of was that I don’t think the Pats punted all night, yet came out with 17 points. If they did punt, I missed it.

by Steve_in_RI on Feb 6, 2012 9:14 AM CST up reply actions

I think they punted 2 or 3 times

they were all fair catches

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by KingChief on Feb 6, 2012 9:17 AM CST up reply actions

Thanks

it was loud at the party I was at, and I usually make a token Zoltan Mesko comment when he comes out on the field but I probably missed it. Alcohol didn’t help either. Thanks King.

by Steve_in_RI on Feb 6, 2012 9:27 AM CST up reply actions

Only reason it stood out was

my daughter kept asking me why his parents named him that.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
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by KingChief on Feb 6, 2012 9:37 AM CST up reply actions

I think if Hernandez cathes that pass over the middle

they have a real shot at winning the game

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
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by KingChief on Feb 6, 2012 9:15 AM CST up reply actions

You say Brady benefits from being in a system that fits him

Isn’t that the point? When you have a good QB you design a system around him.

When you have a year when you throw 50 TDs and only 8 INTs it’s all downhill from there. If you look has Brady’s numbers he’s been better in the past 3 years than he was in the years preceding the insanity that was his 2007 season statistically, so back end of his career not so much.

In the past 3 years he’s had QB ratings of 96.2, 111, and 105.6, every one of those beat every year of his career except for the 2007 season.

by OmahaNick on Feb 6, 2012 9:41 AM CST up reply actions