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1. Protect & Serve-Must protect Brady from the outside rusher,Suggs and Johnson. Blitz pickup is vital and, by the way, don't let them get a push in the middle. The OL, TE, RB's have to make this priority #1.
2. Taylor Made Driver- The Ravens have not given up 100 yards rushing since 200. That's OK, all things must come to an end. Taylor and Co. don't have to get 100 yards, just get enough so they have to respect the run. That will make play action effective.
3. Heaping Helping of Heap- Got to shut Heap off and limit his YAC's. I look for Brandon to be his watch dog.
4.Dink and Dunk- Nothing hurts a good pass rush like a quick release. So, hit quick short passes all the way done the field and don't let Reed get a pick on a long or medium range pass. Welker, if he plays, and endleman would be keys here.
5. Take the Flack- Limit the running game of Willis and Rice and make Flacco beat you with his arm, without Heap.
How does that sound?
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1. Protect & Serve-Must protect Brady from the outside rusher,Suggs and Johnson. Blitz pickup is vital and, by the way, don't let them get a push in the middle. The OL, TE, RB's have to make this priority #1.
2. Taylor Made Driver- The Ravens have not given up 100 yards rushing since 200. That's OK, all things must come to an end. Taylor and Co. don't have to get 100 yards, just get enough so they have to respect the run. That will make play action effective.
3. Heaping Helping of Heap- Got to shut Heap off and limit his YAC's. I look for Brandon to be his watch dog.
4.Dink and Dunk- Nothing hurts a good pass rush like a quick release. So, hit quick short passes all the way done the field and don't let Reed get a pick on a long or medium range pass. Welker, if he plays, and endleman would be keys here.
5. Take the Flack- Limit the running game of Willis and Rice and make Flacco beat you with his arm, without Heap.
I might add limiting or stopping the Ravens on first down when they have the ball. They've been doing well on first downs so far this season, usually with a passing play. Put them in a 2nd-and-10 rather than 2nd-and-3.
The other part of that equation is third down defense. Last year it was the Pats' Achille's Heel, but so far this season the Pats rank among the best in the NFL on third down defense (9/30, 30%.) That needs to continue because the Ravens are currently the league's best in converting on third and long (11/23, 48%) through the first three weeks of the season.
1. Protect & Serve-Must protect Brady from the outside rusher,Suggs and Johnson. Blitz pickup is vital and, by the way, don't let them get a push in the middle. The OL, TE, RB's have to make this priority #1
100% agree.
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2. Taylor Made Driver- The Ravens have not given up 100 yards rushing since 200. That's OK, all things must come to an end. Taylor and Co. don't have to get 100 yards, just get enough so they have to respect the run. That will make play action effective.
I think most of the rushing yards will come off of draws. I think they'll spread the Ravens out meaning Faulk will get a lot of snaps.
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3. Heaping Helping of Heap- Got to shut Heap off and limit his YAC's. I look for Brandon to be his watch dog.
McGowen based on Atlanta and Gonzalez.
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4.Dink and Dunk- Nothing hurts a good pass rush like a quick release. So, hit quick short passes all the way done the field and don't let Reed get a pick on a long or medium range pass. Welker, if he plays, and endleman would be keys here.
They held Welker in 07 literally on every play and he has the gimpy knee. They need others to help carry this load but I agree with the basic premise.
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5. Take the Flack- Limit the running game of Willis and Rice and make Flacco beat you with his arm, without Heap.
I would add to point 5 stopping the quick pass. The Ravens have done a great job on first down with play action setting up 2nd and short.
I would also add no turnovers. I know this is true every week but the Ravens are a different team when they don't get turnovers.
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#1 Key: Have the Pats offense score more points than the Pats D allows
Both these variables are within the Patriots' control. Man, stratigizing in the NFL is SO easy.
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#1 Key: Have the Pats offense score more points than the Pats D allows
Both these variables are within the Patriots' control. Man, stratigizing in the NFL is SO easy.
So the Pats D only allows 13 points, and the Pats offense scores 17 but throws a pic6.
You might want to qualify your Key to the Game.
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1. Protect & Serve-Must protect Brady from the outside rusher,Suggs and Johnson. Blitz pickup is vital and, by the way, don't let them get a push in the middle. The OL, TE, RB's have to make this priority #1.
Check. Brady needs to have enough time to find his receivers.
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2. Taylor Made Driver- The Ravens have not given up 100 yards rushing since 200. That's OK, all things must come to an end. Taylor and Co. don't have to get 100 yards, just get enough so they have to respect the run. That will make play action effective.
Check. I don't expect the rush to be particularly effective, but, as you say, we have to be able to run enough to make them respect it and enable play action. I would be thrilled to get 80+ tough yards - about half of it on Fred Taylor and Sammie Morris pounding the ball, and the other half on draw plays runs from Faulk and Maroney.
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3.Dink and Dunk- Nothing hurts a good pass rush like a quick release. So, hit quick short passes all the way done the field and don't let Reed get a pick on a long or medium range pass. Welker, if he plays, and Edelman would be keys here.
Check. We don't have to be able to run effectively to control the ball, but our short passing game must allow us to dominate the TOP and to keep the pass rush at bay. Besides Welker and Edelman I see our TEs and RBs (mainly Maroney and Faulk) also being key to the short passing game.
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4. Heaping Helping of Heap- Got to shut Heap off and limit his YAC's. I look for Brandon to be his watch dog.
Check. Baltimore's WRs don't worry me too much. I think our secondary will be able to keep them from breaking the big play. But I worry about Heap and Ray Rice piling up YAC. McGowan and Meriweather will be key here, along with Adalius Thomas.
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5. Take the Flack- Limit the running game of Willis and Rice and make Flacco beat you with his arm, without Heap.
Check. We're in trouble in Baltimore can control the ball with their running game and dominate the TOP. If we can control (not shut down, but control) the run and the short passing game and make Flacco beat us deep, then I think we are in good shape. I would also predict a couple of INTs if that occurs.
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How does that sound?
Darn near perfect. I rearranged the order of your items to group them in terms of offensive (1-3) and defensive (4-5) goals.
I would only add that we need to get some decent pressure on Flacco to limit his options. Not necessarily sacks, but enough pressure that he makes some mistakes.
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1. Protect & Serve-Must protect Brady from the outside rusher,Suggs and Johnson. Blitz pickup is vital and, by the way, don't let them get a push in the middle. The OL, TE, RB's have to make this priority #1.
2. Taylor Made Driver- The Ravens have not given up 100 yards rushing since 200. That's OK, all things must come to an end. Taylor and Co. don't have to get 100 yards, just get enough so they have to respect the run. That will make play action effective.
3. Heaping Helping of Heap- Got to shut Heap off and limit his YAC's. I look for Brandon to be his watch dog.
4.Dink and Dunk- Nothing hurts a good pass rush like a quick release. So, hit quick short passes all the way done the field and don't let Reed get a pick on a long or medium range pass. Welker, if he plays, and endleman would be keys here.
5. Take the Flack- Limit the running game of Willis and Rice and make Flacco beat you with his arm, without Heap.
How does that sound?
6. Score more points than they do.
(Actually you can just scrap 1-5 as long as you do #6)
(Actually you can just scrap 1-5 as long as you do #6)
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Pass rush? Uneccessary when you have 72 CBS playing.
Lbs? What for, we have no pass rush, they gonna chuck it at our lousy CBS...all 72 of them bums
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