Pat McAfee gets one last shot in at Patriots despite Colts’ playoff absence

While the Indianapolis Colts are gearing up for what projects to be a franchise-altering offseason, the teams that didn’t choke their season away in the final two weeks are competing for a spot in the Super Bowl.

The Colts should have a role in Super Wild Card Weekend, but consecutive losses to the Raiders at home and the 2-14 Jaguars on the road to close out the year solidified perhaps the single-worst collapse in franchise history.

While Indy should take no solace in watching from home, it had to be somewhat satisfying watching the Patriots get steamrolled by Buffalo, no?

We get it. The Colts are in no position to talk down on another team.

However, don’t tell that to Pat McAfee. Clearly still recovering from Indy’s own implosion, McAfee decided to poke fun at the Pats’ humiliating loss.

Former Colts punter Pat McAfee is still taking shots at the Patriots.

If we had to choose between making the playoffs only to get drubbed by a division rival (the Titans) or losing to the worst team in the NFL to get knocked out of contention, we’d probably side with the former scenario.

Then again, it’s hard not to see the humor in McAfee’s troll job. Deep down, the former Pro Bowl punter probably knows it’s ALWAYS better to make the playoffs than to not, but can you really blame him for taking one last dig at the Pats after their season went up in flames in freezing temperatures at Orchard Park?

It’d be one thing if New England lost by two touchdowns. No harm in that, especially against a team of Buffalo’s caliber. But to not even put up a fight en route to the most lopsided defeat of the Bill Belichick era?

If you can’t laugh at that, what can you laugh at? Let’s not forget there was real buzz behind a Patriots Super Bowl run during their seven-game win streak, too. Like McAfee’s tweet implied, though, they were always pretenders.

Yes, New England is still revamping its roster following Tom Brady’s departure, but there’s no excuse for not showing any resistance against a division rival. When the dust settled on this 47-17 beatdown, the Bills scored on every single drive until their kneel downs and they didn’t punt or turn the ball over.

We know it’s dark times in Indianapolis right now, but the Patriots hemorrhaging in their biggest game of the year was its own form of therapy.

All we need now is the Titans to get their tails whooped.

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