09-26-2011, 10:25 PM
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In the Starting Line-up
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Re: Brady and The Patriots Need to Move on From This 'One Game' and Get Ready For Oak
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Originally Posted by DonBlackmon55
Unless someone can wake up the Defense and inform them that the regular season started 3 weeks ago, and inform the Offense that there is such a thing called running the football, this could be another drubbing.
Unlike the Bills, chargers, Dolphins who don't have much of a running attack, the Raiders possess a duo of DMac and Michael Bush they can pound away at this defense to control the clock.
DMac is running like a man possessed at projected 2100 yard pace.
And if McCourty is still in his funk Denarious Moore and Bey will have a field day.
Raiders are 2-1 and tied with Bolts for AFCW lead, so not a cakewalk.
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I think it's obvious if the Patriots run the same defensive scheme they ran in the first 3 weeks they stand a good chance of losing. They can run it if they have a healthy Chung, Haynseworth and Dowling and squeek by with a bandaid high scoring affair. Or they can try to implement last years defense into the gameplan this week. Yes it gives up a ton of yards over the middle of the field but it stops the run pretty well and enables McCourty to get back into a zone where I think he is better suited.
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