I watched the Patriots-Bills game on Sunday. I don’t think Belichick is necessarily running up the score; I think he is just trying to keep his offense sharp. He wants them to play well from the first possession, until he takes out some of his starters.
That makes perfect sense to me. If they start coasting on offense just to avoid embarassing the weak teams, they might lose their edge, and might not be able to score when they need to against good teams.
They beat the Colts a few weeks ago because of the way their whole team played for 10 minutes in the 4th quarter.
As if they need to be kept sharp in the 4th quarter.
Belichick needs to worry about his kicker doing nothing the whole game. Memo to Bill: you WILL need to rely on Mr. Gostkowski at some point. I suggest you stop going for it on 4th downs and let him take a few shots at the uprights.