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Former Pat, Matt Chatham, wrote a pretty good piece for the Herald today breaking down the "new" Flacco and how he may have problems with the Pats' two deep safety, rarely blitzing defense.
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Unfortunately, he still forces the ball into dangerous and ill-advised places a little too much. Case in point, the interception by Philadelphia’s DeMeco Ryans, thrown into basically triple coverage, would’ve made even Brett Favre blush. His two game films thus far are littered with interception-worthy balls that weren’t. With the glut of man-to-man defense and single deep-middle safety that they’ve seen against Cincinnati and Philadelphia, Flacco has gotten away with some Dick Bavettas — just tossing up jump balls as is the typical read against those coverages.
Some have worked swimmingly, like the double-move touchdown to Jones against pressure in the Philly game. Others were very fortunate to have not been returned for touchdowns in the other direction, like the 25-yard completion to Jones in the Cincy game where the corner wasn’t fooled by the double-move at all, but badly mistimed his jump on the ball.
These are “faith throws,” which I’m not convinced makes this offense better in the long run. As I watched Flacco as his better self, moving the free safety wide with his shoulders and throwing a perfect laser to Anquan Boldin down the middle of the field for a 34-yard touchdown against Cincy, I’m even less convinced the George Michael quarterbacking concept makes sense for this team.
If Flacco continues to make risky intermediate decisions, the “go-get-its” only add another layer of risk, an unnecessary development for a team with one of the better offensive weapons in the NFL in Ray Rice, and a defense that continues to get turnovers.
The problem for the Ravens, as this stuff relates to the Pats, is they’ll see very little single-high safety or blitz packages, if any at all. If they still choose to throw “go-get-its,” they’ll likely be to an area with two defenders.
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The Patriots have been overachievers the past two years. It doesn't have the talent to compensate for injuries, and it wins so much because it puts in 99% effort in the regular season and plays with terrific schemes to mask its deficiencies.
But in the playoffs a good team at 99% will not beat emotional, talented teams that play at 100%. It's what happened against the Giants in 2011 and the Ravens in 2012.
Former Pat, Matt Chatham, wrote a pretty good piece for the Herald today breaking down the "new" Flacco and how he may have problems with the Pats' two deep safety, rarely blitzing defense.
I kinda liked his breakdown of their hurry up, which really isn't as dynamic as what our defense faces in practice. I like Chattham's keen eye.
But to the main point about the Chuck It Up For Grabs tactic, yeh, they may have some trouble doing that against the non blitzing Pats (who seem to cover a whole lot better than even the AFCCG.) Also we should be showing some new looks from Wilson who can line up in places Flacco has not seen yet.
To me the crowd is a big deal and they need to not let it get too revved up, although that does make for some great tension. The last two minutes of that 2007 game were unforgettable. We'll be lucky to duplicate that.
I miss the days ... the Super bowl days when we did CB blitzes and S blitzes here and there. Yeah sure the rules were different then but those plays were great for keeping the opponent honest. When was the last time we did a CB blitz?
I miss the days ... the Super bowl days when we did CB blitzes and S blitzes here and there. Yeah sure the rules were different then but those plays were great for keeping the opponent honest. When was the last time we did a CB blitz?
Ihedigbo the S and Edelman the CB both blitzed last year.
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The Patriots have been overachievers the past two years. It doesn't have the talent to compensate for injuries, and it wins so much because it puts in 99% effort in the regular season and plays with terrific schemes to mask its deficiencies.
But in the playoffs a good team at 99% will not beat emotional, talented teams that play at 100%. It's what happened against the Giants in 2011 and the Ravens in 2012.
Last edited by DocHoliday; 09-21-2012 at 08:03 PM..
Flacco looks absolutely brilliant at times, I watched both games this year and of course the AFCC and he made incredible throws, some under great pressure. It's not a product of anything but outstanding QB'ing on his part.
That said, he and the Ravens have had similar stretches before but haven't consistently kept it. Like I pointed out in another thread in 2009 they started 3-0, PPG in the mid 30's and Flacco had #'s way above his average output then eventually fizzled over the course of the season. Until he keeps this up I'm just going to chalk it up as another of his hot streaks and he'll finish the season as a borderline top 10 QB if that. He's a decent QB and they've been a great team but still a notch below Brady and the Pats (the Flacco-Brady gap is wider of course).
flacco looks great one game and terrible the next. and it never seems to have anything to do with the defense...its him, and a bit of terrible playcalling at times...
dont use ray rice...hes only one of the best rb's in the league...
I said before the week 1 game that people were going to overreact to his domination, even though it was against the worst pass defense in the NFL. Everybody did. There's one good player in the Bengals secondary, and he's coming off an Achilles injury that would have put most guys on PUP to start the season. The two safeties are fast guys with no coverage skills and they're also trying to get some snaps out of three over the hill CBs. Now I don't expect Flacco to bomb as badly against the Pats as he did against the Eagles, but it'll be closer to that than what he did to the Bengals.
Week 1:
Flacco vs the Bengals: 72.4%, 10.3 YPA, 2 TDs, 0 INT, 128.4 Rating
Weeden vs the Eagles: 34.3%, 3.4 YPA, 0 TDs, 4 INT, 5.1 Rating
Week 1's headlines: "Flacco has taken the next step." "Weeden is the worst QB in the NFL."
Week 2:
Flacco vs the Eagles: 52.4%, 5.5 YPA, 1 TD, 1 INT, 66.8 Rating
Weeden vs the Bengals: 70.3%, 8.7 YPA, 2 TD, 0 INT
Based on those numbers, I'm pretty confident saying that Flacco's week 1 performance was more of the defense's doing than Flacco's. Now I just hope the Pats are closer to the Eagles than to the Bengals.
It would be very nice to see the Defense put a beat down on the Ravens. I'm living vicariously through the D after the O's performance against the Cardinals.
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