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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.Brady may not extend if he can't get a promise of upgrades at WR, the OL and in schemes. His body likely won't last past another year with what we have now, so what is the point of extending, other than to collect a higher 2010 paycheck? Brady has his turn at leverage now.
Uhh there is not a single indication that Brady will be leaving the Patriots anytime soon. It's more of your projection on how you think Brady should feel/operate. Plus there's no doubt that they will be working to fix the WR depth.
No, there is no indication that Brady will not accept being beat up for another 3-5 years.
Perhaps if Brady doesn't want to get hit he'll just start throwing the ball as quickly as most other quarterbacks do instead of holding it forever in order to wait for longer routes to open up? That would mean more focus on shorter routes, but it's not as if that would be a bad thing: it's how the team won earlier in the decade.
If nothing else, it would get people to stop blaming the offensive line for poor pass protection when that's not always the case.
Perhaps if Brady doesn't want to get hit he'll just start throwing the ball as quickly as most other quarterbacks do instead of holding it forever in order to wait for longer routes to open up? That would mean more focus on shorter routes, but it's not as if that would be a bad thing: it's how the team won earlier in the decade.
If nothing else, it would get people to stop blaming the offensive line for poor pass protection when that's not always the case.
Perhaps if Brady doesn't want to get hit he'll just start throwing the ball as quickly as most other quarterbacks do instead of holding it forever in order to wait for longer routes to open up? That would mean more focus on shorter routes, but it's not as if that would be a bad thing: it's how the team won earlier in the decade.
If nothing else, it would get people to stop blaming the offensive line for poor pass protection when that's not always the case.
This takes an inclination to favor the short game, an OC who calls those schemes and plays, and more than two WR's.
. The Patriots call plays based upon the strengths and weaknesses of the personnel, after all.
Come on, Deus. First off, most of the routes the Patriots run are slower-developing ones - we don't run the quick stuff like the Colts do, slants, quick outs and all that. We run a lot of crossing, a lot of deep, a lot of vertical routes. Second, did you watch the Ravens game on Saturday? Manning had infinitely more time to throw than Brady did, against the same D-Line. Our O-Line has been having trouble against 4 man rushes for quite some time now. And it starts in the middle with Koppen.
When we run quick stuff, it's almost always screens. If you have an issue with the type of plays we call and routes we run, then you should direct that at BB, BOB, and yes, even Brady, but as an offensive mind who contributes to the scheme of this offense, not Brady the quarterback.
This takes an inclination to favor the short game, an OC who calls those schemes and plays, and more than two WR's.
No, there is no indication that Brady will not accept being beat up for another 3-5 years. There is also evidence that Brady would actually use the leverage that he has at the time of extension. Perhaps his agents will simply not require anything but a discounted contract and no assurances. And then again, it might snow during Training Camp.
No, it doesn't. It merely takes a QB who doesn't hold onto the ball in order to clear throwing lanes, especially on slow developing plays. This became a "bad thing" the moment people started pretending that Maverick wasn't insane. Sadly, that insanity is now spreading throughout the message board and infecting previous normal posters. What was once considered to be one of Brady's best assets has been turned into a liability by posters here pushing an agenda.
Brady doesn't generally get hit as a result of the line not holding. The sack numbers are pretty conclusive in demonstrating that. Brady gets hit because his style as a QB is to hold onto the ball until the routes clear. The Patriots call plays based upon the strengths and weaknesses of the personnel, after all.
Come on, Deus. First off, most of the routes the Patriots run are slower-developing ones - we don't run the quick stuff like the Colts do, slants, quick outs and all that. We run a lot of crossing, a lot of deep, a lot of vertical routes. Second, did you watch the Ravens game on Saturday? Manning had infinitely more time to throw than Brady did, against the same D-Line. Our O-Line has been having trouble against 4 man rushes for quite some time now. And it starts in the middle with Koppen.
When we run quick stuff, it's almost always screens. If you have an issue with the type of plays we call and routes we run, then you should direct that at BB, BOB, and yes, even Brady, but as an offensive mind who contributes to the scheme of this offense, not Brady the quarterback.
Doesn't this include calling plays where Brady is most likely to succeed?
Manning runs timing patterns and throws the football to 5 legitimate receivers on any and all downs (3 WRS, a TE and a RB).
Brady runs read routes, and chooses to focus on just 2 receivers, except on 3rd down where he focuses on 3 receviers (2 WRs and a RB). There's no question that the Patriots were very weak at WR this season. The schemes and OL, however, were not the problem.
Also, Brady wasn't Brady this season, with regards to his work in the pocket, as the Suggs strip sack in the Baltimore playoff game demonstrated.
Given that Brady has input on plays and designs, I'd expect that it does. Are you of the belief that Brady is calling for plays that are designed for him to fail?
This comment deserves another whole thread. But you have indeed hit an important point. TOM BRADY deserves a lot of the congrats and blame for offensive schemes and playcalling, perhaps more than Obrien, his lapdog that we criticize because we don't have the cajones to consider any fault on Brady's part.
It's a pretty big assumption to call Obrien (or anyone), Brady's lapdog.
I'm not sure exactly what everyone thinks went wrong in the overall design of the schemes. Yea there were some issues in the 4th quarter, but overall the offense had a very good year given all the circumstances.