After 15 minutes of watching the game I had declared that the Patriots were a much better team than the Panthers. A few hours later the Panthers had made the Pats look terrible. Poor Bill Belichick had to suffer through a press conference and after not having lost in a long time he looked like he was going to cry. Brady didn’t do enough to move the ball. They should have thrown a bean-bag on an early touchdown by the Panthers that looked like a fumble. They couldn’t figure out how to avoid false start calls and didn’t get anything to go their way. It was a low point for the Patriots but it wasn’t as painful as the Washington game two years ago since they weren’t in a position to win. It was more like the Miami game last year; a stupid and bad performance to show how crappy the team could play when it made every mistake in the book. The Pats have to play three division winners in the next three weeks so the games are bound to be intense. Hopefully this game was a good wake-up call and the special teams can start tackling on punt returns and the offense can keep from losing yards before the snap.