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mayoclinic

Stop it! You are a delusional crazed, maniac, and you should be ashamed of corrupting others into drinking the same brand of cool aid.

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"OVER Loading at ANY position can create a Fatal Advantage. THAT is what interests ME. Attacking With Concentrated Force. THAT is what WINS. In the words ~ more or less ~ of General Patton: 'I'm fighting a WAR, here. Let the B*****ES worry about their FLANKS.' " - Off the Grid

"The key to any successful organization is to anticipate things, not react to them." - Michael Lombardi

1960Pats

As Professor Terguson said to Thornton Mellon, "I like the way you think."

It's all about the balance.

To put it in numbers, the Pats have now played 61 games since 2009 began.

Their record in games in which 40% of the plays were running plays is 36-5.
Their record in games with less than 40% running plays is 8-12.

The amount of yards per carry has been mostly meaningless. There are +40% games in which they ran for less than 2 ypc but still won and -40% games in which they ran for more than 4 ypc but still lost. It's the number of running plays that keep the defense off balance (there's that word again).

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The Pats may have a defense to go along with their offense.

TommyBrady12

Im not trying to sound pessimistic, but it's 1 win against an inferior opponent. No doubt the team played great yesterday - offense, special teams and defense. However, I'm going to save my enthusiasm for if they beat Houston and SF. Right now I don't want to be too high or too low.

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"He’s the greatest quarterback to ever play the game. He goes from being a rookie that nobody is expecting anything from, to taking over with people saying he can’t do it, to winning three Super Bowls....It should already be obvious he’s the greatest quarterback to ever have played. "

- Steelers S Troy Polamalu on Tom Brady

Gumby

Although I agree with Mayo and your point, some of that data is potentially suspect as to whether it actually supports the point.

In any game where a team gets up by a large margin (say 2+ tds); the team is going to start running the ball more to burn clock and get it over with. In a couple of the 4Q collapses this season it was actually either too much run or at least mis-timed runs that led to 3 and outs and giving the other team a chance to come back.

Not sure how to blow into more detail to figure out which came first chicken or the egg (maybe w/L by games that had 40% of runs in Q1-Q3), but I dont think your stat is truly conclusive.

ctpatsfan77

Well, it's fairly convincing evidence of a correlation, but which way the causality goes is clearly an open question.

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patfanken

You might also want to point out to the "imperious one" that fully half the Rams passing yardage for the game was attained in just 2 drives. The first one and the last one

AndyJohnson

Nah, I've made my point, no need to belabor it.

everlong

I don't know why everybody is so bent each week on the extremes. Bottom line they held the Rams to ten points less than their season average and held Bradford to under his season's average in passing yards. It's a sign of progress and growing not a signal they've arrived. Just like last week vs the Jets wasn't a sign of the impending apocalypse.

If they can build on this every week and we get to the Houston game and they hold them to ten points under their season average and under their average yards and then we're really looking at something.

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There's only two conclusions for Patriots fans on rookies. They are either a bust or being fitted for their bust in Canton.


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goheels22002

Great statistic!

One of those losses was the most recent Super Bowl when the Patriots passed 41 times (68%) and rushed 19 times (32%). Five more rushing plays and, more likely than not, the Patriots would have won.