Patriots keep failing the assignment, and more lessons learned from the Steelers loss

The New England Patriots played one of the worst games you’ll see a team play on Sunday. They out-gained the Steelers, had more first downs, had a significantly higher time of possession, but turned the ball over give times and ended up losing 21-14 to the visiting Pittsburgh Steelers.

Let’s get into the lessons learned from Sunday.

The Patriots keep failing the assignment

Mike Vrabel had said from the very beginning of his tenure as Patriots head coach that he wanted his team to take advantage of bad football. Well, it’s tough to do that when you’re playing bad football yourself.

The Patriots turned the ball over five times, including twice from the Steelers’ 2-yard line. You just simply cannot do that and expect to win in the NFL, as Vrabel himself said after the game.

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