PatsBoy12
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.You're right; Belichick has such a long history of doing things and making decision based on fan polls, media reactions, PR advice and whatever else the popular sentiment is at the moment.
Playing a safe and conservative defense is absolutely asinine especially with our style of offense. When you play the conservative bend but dont break defense like we have been doing for quite some time, what you essentially do is keep Brady and our explosive offense off the field because opposing QB's can easily find the first downs due to soft coverage.
The mantra of our defensive philosophy should be the complete opposite. Make it extremely hard for them to get first downs due to constant pressure. Knowing that we have such a high octane offense means we can keep up with any team offensively. Defensively speaking, we can afford to take more risks even if that means giving up the big play!
The true enemy is, allowing opposing offenses to eat precious clock time with the hopes that they make mistakes as opposed to US creating them. In effect what you see are easy to read vanilla yet safe schemes. Yes we do risk the chance of getting beat with the big plays (but heck we have been getting beat with them regardless) but our offense has more than enough weapons to trade blow by blow if need to and more importantly the time to do it!
Bottom line: We need to effin blitz the crap out of every team here on out!! :rocker:
When you blitz and have fewer defenders in coverage you expand the area each defender must cover, increasing the chance of misplaying a route. Wilson had him inside and to the corner, and guessed wrong. Making him guess was a fucntion of the blitz.
Chung did not play in that game. Neither did Gregory. Our secondary play also looked remarkably improved. Coincidence?
Serious question- why is blitzing with the linebackers considered risky vs the pass when all of the big plays happen way down the field where our lbs are not active anyway?
Leaves open underneath routes?
Brady eats those for breakfast.
You do realize we blitzed in the first 7 games and were often burned when we did, right?
Leaves open underneath routes?
Brady eats those for breakfast.
I posted this query on Ken's thread but this is also a good one to check: how much did Josh's familiarity with his former team help us in putting up such a commanding performance? (If you think zero, think about how Gruden and the Bucs demolished his former team, Raiders, in the SB a few years back; some Raiders mentioned that it was as if the Bucs knew every single play the second it was called out.)
Thanks!
But underneath routes are not what we are having trouble with. For example the rams touchdown was on a deep pass. I don't understand what harm the blitz itself caused on that particular play( and other deep plays).
Yes, but when haven't we been burned?
The point is that I think its better to atleast try and get some pressure by the blitz rather than let these dopey defensive backs sit there and get scorched all season.
It think you missed the point. Being deep in 8 man coverage and being deep in 5 man coverage but totally different stress levels on the area you are assigned.Uh! Even with the blitz, the Patriots had both safeties deep on the play. I'm not sure there are many times when even the too-conservative Pats D play 3 deep.
It think you missed the point. Being deep in 8 man coverage and being deep in 5 man coverage but totally different stress levels on the area you are assigned.