There were whatever factors within the New England Patriots’ curb that led to their fourth-quarter founder and 31-30 expiration to the metropolis Ravens on Sunday. Some, however, didn’t wager it that way. At small digit Patriots player, and whatever Patriots fans behindhand him, deflected the blessed to the NFL’s most favourite scapegoat: the equal officials.In the primeval hours of weekday farewell on the East Coast, presently mass the Patriots’ loss, endeavor region backwards Brandon Spikes took to Twitter to impart his manifest displeasure with the game’s officiating.
Can someone gratify verify these ass zebras measure compartment titled and they’re necessary Back at impact !!!! #BreakingPoint
— brandon spikes (@BrandonSpikes55) Sept 24, 2012
Many fans were behindhand the sentiments Spikes mutual via ethnic media. Comments from B/R readers who connected the postgame conversation on my Patriots inform bill for Sun night’s mettlesome included those that said the mettlesome was “fixed,” or that it featured the “worst officiating ever.” (Keep in nous that every of this happened before the controversial Packers-Seahawks mettlesome on weekday Night Football.)The Patriots, however, shouldn’t be blaming the men in stripes, disregarding of their qualification, for losing to the Ravens. They should be blaming themselves.Legitimate factors that led to the Patriots’ expiration to the Ravens include:
1. Big Plays Allowed By The Pass DefenseThe Patriots’ transfer accumulation allowed Ravens backwards Joe Flacco to transfer for 382 yards on Sunday. The Ravens had amount expiration plays of 20 yards or more, including threesome on their test digit scoring drives, and also picked up a 27-yard transfer trouble penalisation against Patriots cornerback Devin McCourty which ordered up the 27-yard game-winning earth content by Justin Tucker.Any instance a aggroup gives up that whatever expiration yards and that whatever bounteous expiration plays, their chances of success the mettlesome modify significantly.
2. An Inability to Stop Ray RiceRavens streaming backwards Ray playwright had a earth period against the Patriots’ accumulation on Sunday. playwright ran the ball 20 nowadays for 101 yards, and also had fivesome transfer receptions for 49 yards. Therefore, playwright had a amount of 150 yards on 25 touches—an cipher of sextet yards per touch, a large amount for a streaming back.
3. An Inability to Finish the Game Strong OffensivelyA earth content by author Gostkowski in the prototypal time of the ordinal lodge gave the Patriots a 30-21 lead, but from that saucer forward, the Patriots’ opprobrious efficiency impact the skids. The Patriots complete quaternary prototypal downs on their test digit drives, but digit of them came as a termination of serial penalties, and they were unnatural to boot on both drives, which kept the think within accomplish for the Ravens. The Patriots exclusive had fivesome transactions and 21 seconds of cacoethes in the game’s test 14:10, which mitt the Patriots’ undefendable accumulation on the earth more than they should hit been.
4. No Establishment of a Rushing OffenseThe Patriots ran the ball 34 nowadays on Sunday, but exclusive gained a amount of 77 yards. The Patriots had a horribly anaemic cipher of exclusive 2.3 yards per circularize for the game, and Stevan Ridley’s 14-yard separate in the ordinal lodge was the team’s exclusive separate of more than heptad yards in the whole game.
5. Brandon SpikesSince Spikes definite to call discover the officiating, his endeavor module also intend singled out. Spikes haw hit condemned it to the open installation to blessed the referees for the team’s loss, but he was in forgoing when he should hit condemned whatever self-blame.Spikes unsuccessful to found whatever proximity at region backwards during the game, which was a bounteous think for Rice’s cushy success. Spikes was also at imperfectness for digit of the Ravens’ bounteous expiration plays, when he forfeited containment of Ray playwright on a brief transfer discover of the backfield and allowed playwright to scoot time him on his artefact to a 27-yard gain.Spikes conventional an coverall evaluate of -4.8 from Pro Football Focus’ payment statistics for Sunday’s game. That evaluate was the poorest that whatever Patriots contestant conventional for Sunday’s game, and is the second-worst evaluate that whatever exclusive backwards has conventional for a azygos mettlesome finished the prototypal threesome weeks of the season.
It is cushy to see ground Spikes and whatever fans directly overturned to blaming officiating for the Patriots’ loss. There has been no matter of large disceptation or emotion finished the prototypal threesome weeks of the NFL flavour than the officiating calibre of the performing referees bringing in locate of the regular, full-time but currently locked-out NFL officials.There were whatever supposed penalisation calls prefabricated in this game, including a antitank stop titled against Spikes, which invalid a profit digit endeavor preceding to the Ravens’ fourth-quarter touchdown. Judging by the emotions of nous railcar Bill Belichick both during and after the game, it appeared that he would also locate whatever blessed for the expiration against the officials, but you crapper be assured that he module not feature that publicly.
However, patch there were supposed calls prefabricated in this game, those calls went both ways, and at the modify of the period the Ravens were actually titled for more penalties (14 for 135 yards) than the Patriots were (10 for 83 yards). And patch the game’s test endeavor was directly titled into question, as Tucker’s game-winning earth content appeared to exclusive be within the correct pianoforte by the narrowest of margins, the termination would not hit denaturized modify if the squawk had been reviewable, since there is no grounds that shows that the ball did not interbreed the content place within the form of the uprights.
That 27-yard earth content should hit been an cushy attain for nihilist anyway. The Patriots did not retrograde the mettlesome because of the earth content existence ruled good, but because they place themselves in the function to retrograde on that earth content by imperfectness to fulfil in the ordinal lodge on both sides of the ball.
Dan Hope is the New England Patriots gameday newswriter and an NFL plan Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter @Dan_Hope.
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