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It was a pick-your-poison with the Jets too. But in this case the injuries had a major difference, BB could have played a conventional run defense, and got run into the ground. Sooner or later a RB would breakthrough and run big for a TD. Similarly a Run heavy Defense would have yielded a play action long pass completion for another score.
Doing what you can expect to actually accomplish, is what BB did. He chose the lesser poison, giving up 10 yard max runs on the interior, and no long runs or passes.
We've gone around the block with this debate for awhile, AZ--and I don't think either one of us are going to change our minds very much.
We should probably just let it go. I don't think you're going to find anyone who's going to agree with you that Bill Belichick was a crazy sly fox who replicated his hall of fame gameplan against Jim Kelly and the Bills in SB25 by doing the same to the one-dimensional Jets offense last week.
The truth is that we had a very poor effort coming on a short week with the defensive QB (Mayo) out for his first game. Belichick himself admitted to a very poor gameplan and took responsibility for it not being effective.