Well the offense didn’t look spectacular, but the defense was great, and the Patriots came out on top.  Looking back at our questions from before the game: Thomas started but wasn’t particularly special, Aiken and Tate split time at 3rd WR, and Maroney looked useless as usual running the ball.

Some thoughts:

• Brandon Meriweather played great, flying around, getting those two INTS and a touchdown.
• Tully Banta-Cain also had an impressive game, he had a couple tackles for loss on running backs in the backfield.
• The defense was way more aggressive, blitzing a lot this week, which I liked.
• The offensive line was TERRIBLE.  Brady kept getting pressured and had to scramble, and the O line had way too many penalties.  Vollmer had two holding calls, Mankins had two false starts, and there were a couple other false starts and illegal man downfield calls on the O line.

Looking into the bye week:

• With two weeks of practice, will we see Brandon Tate emerge more as a 3rd WR?
• Will we get any of our players back from injury? (Matt Light, Sammy Morris, Fred Taylor, Julian Edelman)