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Ken, Rob - I don't see your useful game day thoughts yet, and so decided to ask these two queries of mine:
1. Reasons behind the OL shaky play in the first Q especially when there the field was so silent (so no noise to interfere):
- did TB have a whole lot of new audibles and he kept changing it @ the last minute seeing the weird looks of the Bills D,
- or was the OL just not able to deliver,
- or, were Rex's schemes really quite confusing for Brady,
- or is it a combination of all
- or something more that I missed?
2, That 4th Q interception that TB threw when we had about 9 minutes on the clock and he had just completed a great pass to Gronk. I was puzzled because isn't this the first time we were seeing Harper (forgive me if I got the WR wrong; i thought it was him running towards goal line past Gronk) in the game filling in for AD? Why not continue to target short throws to Gronk? Was TB's comfort factor with Harper so high to make that long throw when TB knew that he cannot expect the OL to keep holding back the pressure for more than two/three seconds? I first thought that this was TB going for the killer blow all of a sudden to put the game away, but given the # of times he was hit and was under the pressure, was this a good call?
Would appreciate the experts thoughts.
Thanks!
1. Reasons behind the OL shaky play in the first Q especially when there the field was so silent (so no noise to interfere):
- did TB have a whole lot of new audibles and he kept changing it @ the last minute seeing the weird looks of the Bills D,
- or was the OL just not able to deliver,
- or, were Rex's schemes really quite confusing for Brady,
- or is it a combination of all
- or something more that I missed?
2, That 4th Q interception that TB threw when we had about 9 minutes on the clock and he had just completed a great pass to Gronk. I was puzzled because isn't this the first time we were seeing Harper (forgive me if I got the WR wrong; i thought it was him running towards goal line past Gronk) in the game filling in for AD? Why not continue to target short throws to Gronk? Was TB's comfort factor with Harper so high to make that long throw when TB knew that he cannot expect the OL to keep holding back the pressure for more than two/three seconds? I first thought that this was TB going for the killer blow all of a sudden to put the game away, but given the # of times he was hit and was under the pressure, was this a good call?
Would appreciate the experts thoughts.
Thanks!