Eugene Wilson had a bad game

[Rob0729]

He did miss a couple tackles. But that's about it. Hardly threadworthy.

Yeah, especially when Harrison got toasted by Crayton for a TD and Samuel and Hobbs ran into each other on a TO TD. Wilson was the only starting secondary players who didn't give up a TD today.

 

[Rob0729]

Uh, sure. He did barely make that second tackle. Harrison didn't play amazingly awesome out there, but I feel Wilson didn't play better than him.

He made the tackle. The only reason he was in position to make either tackle was because Jones smoked our front seven on both those plays. Why aren't you talking about them. The only reason Wilson would be in position to tackle a RB 10 plus yards down the field on a running play is because several other players blew their assignments.

 

[Kdo5]

There are some people who really don't like Geno around here. I can remember a couple of poor tackling performances by our defense(one was the Jets in week 2 of 06) and now today. Blame it all on Geno. Honestly if someone like Sanders missed a couple of tackles like Wilson nobody would have mentioned it.

 

[JackBauer]

He can tackle, unlike Wilson

But he can't cover. Usually Wilson is a pretty reliable tackler.

 

[PatsDeb]

Maybe it had something to do with the scheme they tried today. BB talked about it in his press conference, that they played three safeties a lot today to try to cover their receivers and Witten. It almost seemed like RH and Geno were out of position, or maybe out of their comfort zone on some plays. If that is the case, back to the drawing board.

 

[hobbsownscoles]

But he can't cover. .

He can cover better than harrison, can he not?

 

[patsox23]

I appreciate the insights of those arguing against my singling out Wilson over, say, Rodney. Good points.

I think part of why I let Rodney slide is that he's still a little rusty, there's a bit of a "binky" factor at work here, and he made a couple of big tackles - HE is the one who finally brought down Barber after his scamper through the EZ, and Rodney also saved a KR TD and worked his ASS off to do so.

 

[Rob0729]

There are some people who really don't like Geno around here. I can remember a couple of poor tackling performances by our defense(one was the Jets in week 2 of 06) and now today. Blame it all on Geno. Honestly if someone like Sanders missed a couple of tackles like Wilson nobody would have mentioned it.

I agree. Other than those two Jones running plays, I barely noticed Wilson good or bad. The second Jones tackle it was clear that Jones' elbow hit the ground. How can people still be blaming him for something that he clearly did his job and the refs blew it and Belichick must not have wanted to use a challenge for six yards? Yet, people are blaming him.

 

[Rob0729]

I appreciate the insights of those arguing against my singling out Wilson over, say, Rodney. Good points.

I think part of why I let Rodney slide is that he's still a little rusty, there's a bit of a "binky" factor at work here, and he made a couple of big tackles - HE is the one who finally brought down Barber after his scamper through the EZ, and Rodney also saved a KR TD and worked his ASS off to do so.

But he also cost us a TD against Crayton and we only gave up two TDs. So working his ass off is a relative term. Without knowing what Wilson's and Harrison's responsibilities were this game, it is impossible to know if either were doing their jobs. Many times they have Wilson playing deep to make sure we don't give up a big play and Harrison closer to the line. That means that Wilson could be running around just as much, but you don't see it on TV unless the opposing team goes deep.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Maybe it had something to do with the scheme they tried today. BB talked about it in his press conference, that they played three safeties a lot today to try to cover their receivers and Witten. It almost seemed like RH and Geno were out of position, or maybe out of their comfort zone on some plays. If that is the case, back to the drawing board.

This is what many of the armchair DC's fail to consider - maybe they were where they were supposed to be only that turned out to be an untenable position. There was something odd going on out there at times today, but they changed things up and and eventually found a scheme that worked. For openers they started knocking Witten down or at least off kilter as opposed to loosly shadowing him.

 

[patsox23]

This thread, where so many people are arguing against my initial post, actually makes me happy. I appreciate the fact that my possibly premature or short-sighted post is being argued with SENSE and logic and reasonable analysis. It's a relief from the threads where we're hearing that Maroney is "ALWAYS" hurt, and that Richard Seymour is "dogging it."

So thank you. Thank you for adequately proving my thesis possibly kind of unfair and wrong.

 

[Joker]

Let's face...our team REALLY $UCKS!!!

I didn't know...I thought today's win was great for us Pats fans and 6-0 was as good as it gets...obviously I was SORELY mistaken...thanks for all the savvy enlightenment

 

[patsox23]

Now Joker, people are just pointing out some of what went wrong today, nothing wrong with that. I think we all agree that this team is an F-ing JUGGERNAUT and did a whale of a job against a very tough opponent today.

 

[Joker]

Oh....OK...I feel better now

please....continue all the tearing to pieces and dead horse stomping of this poor dilapidated Patriots squad

 

[sebman2112]

Regardless, pretty soon it's gonna be meriweather time

Yup! The Hitstick is gonna graduate, lol!