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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.im not sure you know what your talking about cause i deff dont see mayo contributing to coverage as i see him as a good tackling run stuffer. and BB is forcing teams to throw to their recievers?...i guess idk much about football cause thats what i think recievers are for am i wrong?Another moron ... Belichick is making teams beat us by throwing to their receivers. Our secondary is getting better each week. I'm expecting the coverage to tighten now with Mayo back. with Mayo out the coverage has been soft as Belichick has employed the secondary to pick up the slack in tackles.
Every year these idiots talk this crap and every year I say it takes 6-8 games for our defense to get tighter ... it develops as the season goes along. I'm expecting it to get better as Butler and perhaps Chung get more reps. Until then Bill is playing the classic bend but don't break.
I think it was working fine except perhaps that Denver air caught up to our guys in the 4th quater. If the offense had done their job none of this would be a problem with the talking head idiots.
im not sure you know what your talking about cause i deff dont see mayo contributing to coverage as i see him as a good tackling run stuffer. and BB is forcing teams to throw to their recievers?...i guess idk much about football cause thats what i think recievers are for am i wrong?
Ummm ... Mayo has been injured ... that's why the secondary has been making most of the tackles. When Mayo is on the field the secondary has less stress in covering the run.
Another moron ... Belichick is making teams beat us by throwing to their receivers. Our secondary is getting better each week. I'm expecting the coverage to tighten now with Mayo back. with Mayo out the coverage has been soft as Belichick has employed the secondary to pick up the slack in tackles.
Every year these idiots talk this crap and every year I say it takes 6-8 games for our defense to get tighter ... it develops as the season goes along. I'm expecting it to get better as Butler and perhaps Chung get more reps. Until then Bill is playing the classic bend but don't break.
I think it was working fine except perhaps that Denver air caught up to our guys in the 4th quater. If the offense had done their job none of this would be a problem with the talking head idiots.
Hey he makes some good points and has the "COLD HARD FOOTBALL FACTS" to back him up. You can't argue with those can you? But you also can't argue that in the four seasons since Belichick won his last Super Bowl the Pats have gone to the AFCCG twice, and had a 16-0 season. You can break down every statistic there is, but the cold hard football fact that really counts is W or L. And Belichick has not lost is ability to get Ws, even if it is with a suspect D.
CHFF is so far up their own ***es they've lost sight that this is a game that is played on the field, not some number crunching experiment where everything can be explained by mathmatical formulas.
When is the last time that you could say the Patriots really frustrated a good QB?
Good stats tell most of the story, or at least enough of it to perform an educated analysis. QB rating is just a crappy stat, though. And DQR as a defensive stat is even more worthless. It tells you little, bordering on nothing, and the fact that Byrne calls it "the most important defensive stat" just shows that he's an idiot. The Pats' DQR has been below average for exactly two reasons:
1) we don't intercept a lot of balls. It's a problem, sure, but not nearly as huge as DQR makes it seem.
2) Most TDs against us are passing TDs by necessity, because it's really difficult to run TDs in against the Pats. So, because we don't give up easy TDs on the ground, our DQR gets worse.
There are great stats out there that are very informative, but Byrne didn't pick one of them. He picked defensive quarterback rating, which is borderline useless. Not to mention that a whole lot of the dropoff is explainable in simple terms: once McGinest (pass rush) and Law (shutdown corner) were gone, our pass defense got significantly worse. The assumption that the scheme is to blame (if there's any blame to be placed) is a dumb assumption to make in the first place...
I would have like to see the defensive QB rating in the Superbowl years. I agree it isn't that great a stat. Still, Superbowl defenses don't let the Kyle Orton's look that good.
if you ignore all the stats and just look at the replacements for law,samuel and mcginest etc which he points out that bb hasnt been able hasnt been to replace. so maybe bb's scheme is oen thing but the drafts on the defensive side havent been like the 2003 one for e.g