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30+ pts = pats offense scoring 80 yard drives for each point.
i wish one analyst of those highly paid ones pointed this out.
"They've captured magic in a bottle this season," Dilfer said. "They used to come at you with four to six different formations. Now, they have so many variations, one tight end, two tight ends, three tight ends. I just broke down the recent Jets game. In their first 27 regular plays -- I excluded three goal-line plays -- they showed 27 different formations and at least a dozen different personnel groupings.
So between posting in the thread about stopping our offense and figuring out the "blueprint" to beating and the Patriots and stopping Brady.... This article was pretty interesting to me.
We have talked about teams and their attempts at executing this and of course, the obvious way by getting to Brady with the pass rush and neutralizing the short pass but I was listening to Dale and Holley and Trent Dilfer mentioned something in this article that I never paid attention to. Maybe all of you pat heads did but this is pretty interesting to me.
Its like our offense is like a virus. It changes so much to where there is no cure for it. Thats why its so hard to stop.
Thoughts?
Read full article here... The New England Patriots seem to be unstoppable, but are they? - ESPN
If they didn't have the right players, all those formations wouldn't mean jack.
The fact they have versatile player like the young TE's, allowing them to change things up and show a lot of different stuff while still being able to execute the run or pass is the key, IMO.
That... and Brady. He is kind of why the offense is so good as well.
The one critical factor here is and has always been Brady. Stop or confuse him, and you stop or sabotage this offense. Ryan confused Brady in week two by how often he was dropping people into coverage (after faking blitz), and when we played Cleveland, their D did such a great job in disguising coverages pre-snap that he just couldn't get them to tip their hand. Their roaming LB's also helped to complicate trying to establish the Mike.
And for some reason the image of the Pats on ESPN associated with this article cracked me up.
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Come to think of it I haven't seen any Born a Patriot artwork recently...you use to do a lot of it. Always top notch too.