That's essentially what Ty Law told Borges when he stated Tom was confused. Ty said if he was he'd have thrown 5 picks. That was what sent Borges back to the film and his conclusion that no one was getting open with any consistency (and when they did it was either too late, in the wrong place or they didn't make a play - including drops). What Brady was was stymied, and he's been conditioned not to make stupid mistakes just for the sake of trying to make something happen... They weren't prepared for the defense the JETS mounted, and they aren't presently built to counter it, let alone on the fly. And in the end they also couldn't play complimentary football because they didn't have a defense that could make multiple stops at critical junctures or a ST unit that could make a gamechanging play (short of negatively).
Bill has to some extent been a little stubborn about adapting to what he likely sees as the handful of teams with the personnel and coaching accumen to do what Spags and Mangini/Ryan or Rex have been able to do because until now you encountered those teams so infrequently outside of the occasional regular season tilt it wasn't necessarily something you couldn't otherwise scheme around. Hopefully encountering them more frequently of late will cause him to rethink his approach.
Moss was a bad fit for our offense it seems, though i appreciate what he did here.
However, a better Branch type receiver, given Branch is not a premier athlete now (still valuable though) and a better or improved Tate, or another receiver and maybe we break that defense.
Also, a RB who could make them pay by breaking the bank, not in easy monthly installments.
This is not a criticism of our current personnel. Before "it is what it is", the Parcells saying was "you are what you are."
Any team can be beat by a good game plan, well executed.
1. We marched down the field easily twice and blew both opportunities. 2. Playing the jets style , a grind it out close game, we encountered the 3. best CB in football and another capable man defender. 4. Rex got to implement one of the many schemes he's been dreaming of because he's obsessed with us (as we have been with the Colts etc over the years).
The individual athletes that might have exploited his scheme were an underachieving (so far) WR (Tate) and a less athletic, older, WR with serious knee injury issues recently.
Or two street free agent RBs/3rd down backs.
Rex gambled those athletes were not going to go wild.
All those factors put together allowed a win still in doubt until the late stages.
The other alternative would have been to eliminate all crossing patterns and our short passing offense and design a new offense at half time. Obviously, a key play here or there would have helped.
Sometimes, when a number of factors in, or beyond your control come together, you simply get beat.
