tombonneau

Obv. the Bruschi injury overshadows any positives and is the big takeaway from this game. Hopefully its nothing serious and he is back for the playoffs.

Outside of that, I thought it was a good effort by the D and that they O did enough when it counted, though certainly wasn't its sharpest performance.

If you think about it, in the first half, if the Brady doesn't throw that INT and they get at least a FG out of it, that's pretty much a near perfect half of football that the Pats put together, on both sides of the ball.

Then the long 9+ min drive in the 2nd half was the backbreaker, a real championship drive. The game was pretty much over at that point, and the somewhat lackadaisacal play of the Pats from then on indicated to me that they were just waiting for the game to end.

No real positives to take from the game IMO, but no real glaring negatives either. A very commonplace perfunctory win, but really that was all that was necessary.

I would have liked to see the ground game look better, though I was happy with the commitment to it.

Brady was good enough considering the conditions.

And the D was its normal smothering self, except for the one garbage TD drive they gave up. (I'm not even couting the Vinnie drive as the backups were in).

I'd say a solid B. You're not going to dominate for a full 60 mins with even the backups as they did vs. Tampa, so you can't really complain.

Box_O_Rocks

There was the one botched hand-off, however as the game went on it looked like a little better timing in the running game.

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skri65

If we get Bruschi back, I think we'll be fine. As long as Artrell Hawkins can limit the big play, which I believe he can do, we can compete with Indy. Asante was playing solid ball before he got hit too, which is a positive. Hobbs has a good game. You cant bang on brady, that TD takes 7 points off the board. We stopped blitzing towards the end of the game and just dropped into a zone coverage, which proved good for the Jets.

Overall a decent game in the eyes of a true pats fan. Of course, I wouldnt be surprised if the media hypes up on the fact that we let the Jets score 21 points. We shut them out in the first half, which is a very good thing.

Just keep your fingers crossed for Bruschi.

tombonneau

Like I said, it wasn't sexy, but the running game had teeth, very Antoine Smith, so to speak.

Just checked stat line: 50 carries for 150 yds. 3.0ypc. Yuck. But when you run the ball 50 times, you usually win. Still, 3ypc is unacceptable, they will have to get that up a full yard to do some damage come playoff time.

jczxohn1

Considering the Jets overloaded against the run, They did pretty well.

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Box_O_Rocks

Let the media hype the Jets, this was a live practice scrimmage for the most part.

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Box_O_Rocks

That's why I call this a practice scrimmage, their practicing some things they want to do better. Emmitt Smith is saying that very thing on Total Access as I type.

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tombonneau

Exactly. Looking at the game play stats, its 28-7 with 5 min to go in the 3rd after that big TD drive.

Like I said, if Brady doesn't throw that pick and they get at least a FG, its a 31-0 game with 20 min to play. That's not bad.

mikey

I thought our D was awful in the second half.

Bollinger was throwing like an All-Pro against our secondary, just like Matt Schaub and Kelly Holcomb.


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Box_O_Rocks

I saw Josh reading some notes handed too him on the sideline and shaking his head no...you were ignoring BB's game plan again weren't you?

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