Let's Not Push The Patriots Panic Button Quite Yet

The rumor of the New England Patriots demise is greatly exaggerated. Let's look at the issues at hand that contributed to last Sunday's game results and discuss just how much we should be worried.   Tom Brady is visibly not over his knee injury This was evident on a number of plays, but extremely visible on a third quarter play in which Joey Galloway came across the field right to left on a short post pattern and was open by two strides. Brady faced an overload blitz from the right side and adjusted by quickly moving three steps out of the still formed pocket to his right and immediately threw off his back foot, causing the ball to float high and behind Galloway. In 2007, during the Ravens game, he would have stepped up in the pocket and floated that same ball to a spot so Galloway could run under it. The mind is still not free of that knee injury. How long until and under what circumstances he returns, no one knows. But Ron Jaworski, during the game, shared about h...