Bill Simmons

If I had the lead and the Pats can't do anything, I'm doing what the Patriots did in the second half.

And this is why I wanted to talk about this because I thought Vrabel in the second half, he just managed...

the situation, right?

We have a lead.

We don't think that they can go 40 yards.

They're not going to be able to kick a field goal that's more than 37.

And we don't think they can make plays.

I'm not taking any chances.

They had that third down.

It was third and eight.

And May just rolled out and threw it out of bounds.

They didn't even go for it because he didn't want to commit a turnover.

I thought that was so smart.

I thought he did a great, I didn't think he did a great job in the first half, but I thought second half, he was great.

So he did.

I wrote in my notes, Stidham kind of sucked them in a little bit thinking that maybe he could do a little more.

I thought he made the key point on Peyton.

This was a hero ball performance by him.

Like, if you're actually just trying to win the game, take the points, go up 10-0, don't have Stidham do anything that could put himself in harm's way for the rest of the game until we have proven that we can do a long drive.

Even the beginning of the third half, or the second half, third quarter, we have like a 10-minute drive to chew up the clock.