Armen Da Pats Fan

Laurence was, again, the only negative in an otherwise all-around positive night. I am afraid at some point this lack of a running game is going to come back to bite us on the arse.

I truly believe Laurence can develop into a nice third-down, change of pace type back, catching screens and picking up blocks, similar to what Faulk is now, after Kevin retires. His two catches for big yardage and first downs vs. the Ravens were beautiful and a glimpse of what he could become.

But to date, Laurence just has not shown me he has what it takes to be an every down back.

Yesterday, twice, he ran directly into the line, when he could have bounced out to his right a couple of steps and picked up 6-7-8 yards or more. He just does not see the field well.

The Pats are now well positioned to have a serious shot at Darren McFadden, because Miami is not going to draft him, seeing as how they already have Ronnie Brown.

I mean, I watched the Pats prefer to throw screen passes to Wes Welker for first downs (a play that works very well, by the way) as opposed to handing off to their "feature" back.

Belichick keeps defending Maroney, but I am convinced that is smoke and mirrors to keep Maroney's confidence up until he can find another solution.

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Tyler.Durden

I doesn't look like lawrence is the answer right now, and i doubt we keep the pick, i think we will try to get multiple picks to sure up the aging defence.

Perhaps we take a shot at Michael Turner?

Armen Da Pats Fan

Trading the pick would be interesting, but McFadden is such a rare talent that I truly hope the Pats make a push to grab him.

He reminds me of Emmitt Smith @ Florida.

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Consider LoMo's longest run consisted of a scrum aided by the OLine pushing him from behind for 10 yards, I will only examine his other 7 runs...7 carries for 8 yards...1.14 yds/carry....examination over. Can't wait for the excuse makers today.

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A.C Vegas

Ok i don't get it either he doesn't hit the hole hard enough or he can't bounce it outside which is it people. He carried the Ball 8 times that is it. and that was the coaches choice because Faulk didn't at all. Stop trying to find fault with this team already and jsut enjoy it.

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MrBigglesWorth

they only ran 8 times. For the rest of the season the Pats are gonna win or lose by throwing the ball IMO

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pats1

Slick. It's always a good idea to spell a player's name right when you want to criticize him.

Brady'sButtBoy

Number One defense against the run.... maybe, just maybe, another team has enough talent in one area to effect how the Patriots play. You guys act like the Pats should be able to do anything they want, whenever they want. The run blocking was horrendous when they tried it mostly because Pitt was blitzing so many guys on nearly every play that they just jammed up the blockers - show me some plays where there were big holes LoMo missed.

As BB says, everyone could improve and LoMo's on that list for certain. But this is just another thread started by fans who apparently don't want to undertand that the Pats find something they can exploit and go for it. You could tell from the get go that running the ball was not something that BB had decided to focus on, evidently because he correctly estimated that Brady could burn Pitt big time with the pass. I mean, did you watch the game??????

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sebman2112

Really, I can't believe anyone would make this comparison. Entirely different styles, and body builds.

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FrontSeven

With a first round running back and a beaten defense on its heels in the fourth quarter? Yep. Is that like an unusual request?