6:30 3rd Qtr
1st and 10 Wash 35: Wash 3-wide, 2 R, TE R.
-- NE 3-4 L-R Burgess, Wilfork, Seymour; Thomas, Bruschi, Guyton, Ninkovich
-- Thomas over inside shoulder of slot receiver, starts to blitz and pulls up, then does blitz on the snap.
-- Burgess drew two men, though the RT didn't need help. Burgess stayed on his feet (no pancake) and penetrated to slow the runner.
-- Wash ran at Burgess, they pulled the LG, Bur and Bru collapsed the hole allowing Thomas' run blitz to get around the edge and wrap up the runner who fell forward for 4 yds.
2nd & 6: Wash I form, 3-wide, 2 right.
-- NE 3-4 L-R Burgess, Wilfork, Seymour; Thomas, Bruschi, Guyton, Ninkovich
-- Thomas slides out over the inside shoulder of the slot receiver, then comes back inside showing blitz just before the snap.
-- Man-free coverage.
-- Five-man pass rush with both OLBs coming; NE playing pass on that down & distance.
-- False Start LT. -5 yds.
2nd & 11: Wash 3-wide, 2 L, TE R, TB offset R
-- NE 4-3 L-R Burgess, Warren, Wilfork, TBC; Ninkovich, Bruschi, Guyton
-- Bru and Guyton showing blitz then bring it.
-- Burgess covers the RB in the flat, Ninkovich man on the TE; they shut down the dump-off options.
-- Wilfork and TBC slant L off the snap surprising the O-line, TBC draws both LG & LT with his speed opening the way for Guyton and Bru around the left edge, Guyton wins the foot race for the sack. -5 yds.
3rd & 16: Wash 3-wide, 2 L.
-- NE 4-2 Nickel L-R Burgess, Wright, Green, TBC; Mayo, Guyton
-- Cover-2, man under.
-- 4-man rush, Burgess, Green, and TBC draw double-teams with TE & RB staying in to help against the edge duo before releasing into late routes, Wright gets inside leverage on RG and collapses the pocket forcing the QB to scramble, dragged down by Burgess.
4th & 14: Punt
-- -5 yds for illegal formation. Kick over.
-- Fair catch
In the 4th Qtr NE lined up in a 3-4 'over' with Ninkovich at LDE and Woods on his feet at ROLB, but that was more of a slight twist off a 4-3 pass rush front. They used this formation several times in the 4th Quarter. What's interesting, with Burgess at LDE for two plays NE was in a straight up 3-4 look, with Ninkovich at LDE they played a 3-4 'over' (DL shifted to the strongside).
NE was experimenting with some looks in the second half, 9:44 in the 4th they shift from a 3-4 with Ninkovich at LDE to a 2-5 that was more of a 2-6 with Chung down in the box - I'm not sure who had what assignment out of that formation as Woods at ROLB played his man straight up and gave up outside contain*, Lenon was also on that side and may have been assigned run force outside - Pees getting squirrelly mixing me up.
* Woods did the same thing on the first play in that series out of a 3-4 'over' look and it looks like Lenon acted as run force outside that time, so he might have been responsible on the later play.