Schmo

Positive: Meriweather started wearing his cleats on his feet instead of his hands.

JoePats

Moss wouldn't be a negative if Cassel didn't underthrow him by about 10 yards on that deep pass which should have been a TD. I'm not jumping on Cassel I think he was tremendous. He made two bad throws the whole game, that one, and the one at 16-10 in the right corner of the end zone to Welker on 3rd down. Pace got his hands on that, almost picked it off or tipped it to himself.

The thing about Cassel that I liked was he didn't force anything when the pocket was collapsing, which happened maybe a little too much. Jenkins is a beast but he killed Koppen today.

SammyBlueCat

Has anyone seen Jabar?

Patriot_in_NY

No, from what I saw...... He was doubled almost all day. Except the bomb play, which was uncalled, he just blew by the defender, but Cassel couldn't get it to him. Also, not sure if they decoyed him because he's not 100% (he missed some practive time this week).

Jabbar was MIA, but he missed time too. Perhaps he's not all the way back either. Either way.... conservative game plan isn't gonna give anybody to many yards.

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satz

Biggest problem i saw was thomas blocking TE responsiblity.
He absolutely blew up and then the OL was forced to put a tackle on his man which led to dan koppan taking on the jenkins alone.

we missed watson. thomas and spach need to learn to block but it took a few yrs for watson do it good.I think i would like to see heath evans in their at TE but he is our FB . so this needs to be sorted with a blocking TE or a FB who can line up as TE.

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Lloyd_Christmas

Yeah, I saw him making the key blocks on almost every long pass play (Faulk and Welker).

Cassel threw to his binkies (welker and faulk) more than anyone else, including Moss. Don't blame the other WR's completely for their lack of catches/yardage. We also ran the ball a lot more than normal.

Jabar played well IMO.

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Spiral

Add Matt Light to the positives. Looked solid and was downfield on a lot of plays. Also--no drive-killing penalties on the OL.

David Thomas missed at least a couple of blocks that I saw. He looks like a below-average blocker for a tight end. OTOH, there were no dropped passes by a tight end in this game. When was the last time you could say that about a Patriots game in which Watson and/or Graham played?

Rodney is just not fast enough to make any plays anymore. James Sanders doesn't look like he's improved any from last year. This may be as good as it gets with him.

Kevin Faulk had some really good punt returns.