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Originally Posted by A Defiant Goose
Correct. The refs helped the Patriots lose that one but honestly I don't think many of us are too bent out of shape about it other than a seeding/record thing. We probably still woulda gotten smoked in the first round, just wasn't our year.
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Sorry, but that's just not the case. What kept the game close enough for the Pats to have a chance in that game last season was Patrick hurting his hand in the 2nd quarter. Mahomes doesn't hurt his hand, and the game would've been out of reach by the end of the 3rd, maybe sooner.
Here's the thing: before Mahomes hurt his hand, he and Andy had scored 17 points on the vaunted Patriots defense in just the 2nd Q. They had figured out Bill after just one quarter. Then fate intervened and Patrick couldn't throw the ball accurately downfield from that point on. If he'd been healthy, they would've just kept scoring until Andy felt safe about the lead. Probably that would've been to carry a 3 score lead into at least the 8 minutes to go in the 4th mark. Something like that.
Point is, that game was never supposed to be close. Before Mahomes injured his throwing hand, they were on pace to score 40+.