Originally Posted by AndyJohnson

Your title sounds like we have sucked for years


Branch had 15 receptions in the first 2 games
Welker, Gronk, Hernandez, Branch, Woodhead. Who do you want him to throw the ball to Mankins?


Meriwhether and Sanders weren't making a difference. Its the scheme. We are relying on corners to play man to man when they can't cover for long enough for the pass rush to get there and the pass rush can't get there quick enough to play man.
This is that aggressive defense everyone wanted that gives up the big play. It has been an abject failure. Give me bend but don't break in support of the GOAT QB. We win going away today if we played last years scheme.


Why would you move a corner to safety and start your #4 corner?


Yes that looks like it started today.


Pass rush doesn't come from a player, it comes from a unit. Every team in the NFL is disappointed with its pass rush because the ball comes out so quickly.


Way too early for that. He dropped a pass. He has been in the NFL for years and produced. He wouldn't be here if he couldn't be counted on to catch the ball. Everyone drops passes. He seems to me to be coming along actually.

Originally Posted by MrBigglesWorth

I hope you're right. Maybe I was understating Branch but he seems to disappear at times. Seems like feast or famine.

Originally Posted by MrBigglesWorth

I will say it's early. We are 2-1 and today's game was a Brady train wreck he rarely has and the Pats still could have won, but I see alot of trends I don't like.


1. The Pats are pass happy, but instead of throwing to only welker and moss, now it's welker and the tight ends with the occassional Branch. We need more balance with more rushing attack otherwise defenses are just gonna start teeing off on Brady and not respecting play action or the run.

OC & Coach/GM. Why draft Players like Slater or Price if you never want to throw to them. Remember the days Brady used to throw to 8-9 receivers/RB ?


2. We can blame McCourty for sophomore struggles but I tend to think the safety situation is at the root at it as well as the new style of pressure defense by corners. We all hope that releasing Sanders and Merriwether was not a big mistake.

Coach/GM.....Too late. Ship has left. Now he has to live with it for this season


3. I'm predicting Leigh Bodden will be moved to safety and will be teamed up with Chung. I have to think Arrington is the starter opposite McCourty with Dowling next on the depth chart.

Bodden is not a S. Dowling maybe.


4. Riddley looks more explosive than BJGE. I think Riddley will get the nod very shortly. The trust factor is what's holding him back. He had a heck of a block to protect Brady in today's game.

BJGE > 1100 yards last year. He can't run if focus is to give him 5 attempts a game. OC is an idiot, period. He is killing the D at the expense of O.


5. Pass rush is a consistent theme the past 5 years. It hasn't been good since McGinest and Vrabel. It seems like BB keeps getting guys on the cheap and throws it at the wall and hopes something sticks. I can't blame him because it's such a huge risk to draft a pass rusher or did he just wait too late after the draft to convert to a 4-3?

No risk, no reward. If you draft like a panzie that pass rusher is a risk you get what you get last 5 yrs. Now trying to put same 3-4 players into a 4-3, misguided and results are exposed for the fans, and league.



6. Chad Ocho is looking like another Galloway. I hope he can turn it around and we also need Albert to return to form of his dominating self a couple years back, but will he ever return to that form?

Originally Posted by AndyJohnson

Your title sounds like we have sucked for years


Branch had 15 receptions in the first 2 games
Welker, Gronk, Hernandez, Branch, Woodhead. Who do you want him to throw the ball to Mankins?