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Greetings,
Thanks for passing this along. I think the team really likes him and just wants to give him time to develop. He really hasn't been that necessary to this point in the season.
Greetings,
This is one of those arguments in sports that's weird to me. At times, it does make sense, like when a player busts a big run or catch early in a game and does nothing the rest of the game really (think Odell Bekham Jr - WR). At other times, it feels more like a cop out (not attacking you). If you subtract the 49 yards you're talking about, for instance, it's still 130 yards on 29 carries, which still averages out to be 4.4 ypc. That's still pretty bad, especially considering NE has been in the top five rushing D's for the past several weeks now. Again, I'm not attacking you. But when a team gives up that many yards on the ground, though there were obvious reasons that can explain it this time, one huge run doesn't skew the numbers that much.
I was simply saying that his argument became somewhat different as we continued to discuss. He went from talking about things to me that we don't know (like Edelman's timetable or other guys get back by the playoffs) to things that we can expect to see as early as next week. We can fix the things we can. Whether or not Edelman comes back and how will he look, etc. are things that we should really talk about at this point with so much certainty, when the reality is we don't know what will happen with some of the injured guys down the line. I don't know. I guess you have to read all the back-and-forths between us to get the proper context of that singular post.
You can say that and maybe it's all true, but it doesn't change the fact that it happened. Holding happens on every play that doesn't get called, including NE runs. It doesn't mean that those runs never happened. I agree with you 100 percent that we got hosed. That's all we've been talking about for the better part of a whole day now, and it will continue to be a topic of discussion until we win the next game. But to point at something like that as the reason is just slightly a cop out to me. Again, I say I agree we they got a lot of home cooking, especially in that fourth quarter. But there were many runs in that game where holding was not the reason for the big run. It was simply they outplayed us because they outgunned us. Look at the numbers I posted pre and post Hightower. Holding alone does not account for the disparity.
) but boy what a shot in the arm for that D.
Probably took a shot directly on some nerve bundle where he got bruised. Hopefully they'll quiet down and he'll heal quickly.
