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Bruschi on Tap: Tedy Bruschi makes five observations from the New England Patriots' loss to the Cleveland Browns - ESPN Boston

the 96 story of him being in the same situation like gronk is pretty neat

mosi

This is a good read. Bruschi knows football and knows how to communicate the intricacies of football to lay audience.

NYCPatsFan

The third point where he mentions Mangini knowing our plays inside out and how that helped their D to know Brady's counts is fantastic.

Many suspected this to be a tough game given Manigini's knowledge of our O but it is shocking, at least for me, to realize that the words/counts/strategies haven't changed that much since Mangini left and his knowledge was enough for him to teach his D how to stuff our O.

Hope he knows this much about the Jets too.

DefenseRules

Thats a sad indictment of our coaching staff, IMO. Didn't they realize that might be a possibility. There were 3 ex-coaches over there. Why not change some things up?

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PATRIOTSFANINPA

Does anyone think that Rob Ryan's brother Rex had some good talk earlier last week about how to beat a Belichick defense and offense?

I definately think there was some discussion between the two,Rob would be helping his brother out in his division and get his team a win at the same time if it worked to plan...which it did.

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Ochmed Jones

When I was a freshman in college, we were trailing Maryland by 6 late in the fourth when I fumbled less than 10 yards from scoring the winning TD. A pair of whimpy DB's took the ball from me. We ended up losing the game.

That was a humbling experience, looking those sweating and bleeding O line guys in the eye after they had worked their butts off so we could be in a position to score.

I wish Gronkowski the best as he overcomes this. My advise to him is to work harder in practice than everybody else on the field and hold your head up high and look everybody in the eye.

stcjones

Yeah....and wouldn't u think BB would have done more to change/mix up the dummy counts KNOWING that mangina and most of his coaching staff had complete inside knowledge of our system??? BB just got outcoached again.....its not going to get any easier....

stcjones

Amen....a sad indictment indeed....I think kraft needs to step in and force BB's hand on the issue....get some veteran, skilled, and seasoned coordinators in NE again...one man can't do it alone...

BPF

This is an absurd comment. Why would Kraft step in, kind of like Jerry Jones does? How is that working out?

Coahing staff is doing a good job. 6 of 11 starters are either 2nd yr players or rookies and Mayo is in his 3rd year. Oh yeah, the team is 6-2 and in first place in their division. It's one game.

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RoughingthePasser

You bet....they definitely did.

Did you see how excited Cleveland's O-coordinator was?
Wow-I wanted to hit

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