CrazyDave
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Yesterday it's hard to complain because we were down double digits most of the game, hard to ground and pound in that situation.
The Buffalo and Dallas games though, there was no excuse for not feeing BJGE and Ridley more. I hope that's addressed come playoff time because Brady can't do it all himself.
Hasn't the game-plan against the Steelers always been to pass?
Isn't this pretty much known for all 31 teams in the NFL?
It seems the concensus is that the secondary, while it may improve, will be a liability for the rest of the year, at least to some degree. That said, ball control would seem to be the best way to protect a suspect defensive secondary. Bad enough to have a 3 and out, but to do it while eating up only 2 minutes of clock time, and putting the D immediately back on the field is not good. We'd all better hopr the ground game gets going by Dec.
How do we know we don't have a home run hitter, if Vereen never gets to be on the field. Same with Price. How can we tell if they NEVER get on the field. Vereen was one of the better all-around backs in college, behind a terrible O-Line, and still produced. Ridley has the 2 longest runs of the season for the Pats, and only has 25 carries all season. If they don't play, we'll never know what they can do for the team. Vereen may be the home run threat, Ridley may be Corey Dillon II, Price may be a deep threat, but we'll never know with them not playing.
Its hard for the 2 backs to see the field when you have 3 other guys ahead of them who split carries. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why can't this team carry 2-3 RBs like everybody else? We have 5 RBs but no one in the secondary...LOL.
This is true, hard to run when you are already in the tank by 10 plus points due to the defense is the worst in the NFL.
Every team from here on out is going to be throwing like mad against us and what do we have rushing the QB? Veteran retreads who need oxygen after every other snap.
And what do we have in the secondary defending the pass. Moulton, Patch Adams, Ivebeenaho and Josh Barrett? Which one of those four puts fear in the hearts of opposing QB's?
We are at our best on offense when we can create mismatches and yesterday the Steelers did not give Brady many. We had Gronk and that was basically all she wrote.
Then you end up with what happened to Tampa Bay. They cross their fingers hoping LeGarrette Blount will be ready to play and he isn't, so they have to go with career special teamer Earnest Graham. Then Graham tears his achilles heel and the only RB on the roster is some JAG named Kregg Lumpkin who has two career rushing attempts as their only RB.Its hard for the 2 backs to see the field when you have 3 other guys ahead of them who split carries. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why can't this team carry 2-3 RBs like everybody else? We have 5 RBs but no one in the secondary...LOL.