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Great read, lots of good stuff in there, thanks.
Some of the concerns--
A bit concerned about the NYG possibility to drop 8 into coverage with the 5 under/2 deep look.
I watched Solder closely in that game. Cossell was right he did get beat twice on inside moves, one for a sack and one for a hurry. Both were caused when he got too aggressive and reached for his man. But he was flawless on outside moves and power rushes, and was excellent in his run blocking.interesting...
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still wasn't a good place to be throwing the ball with 2-3 db coverage.
SOLDER:
Toward end of season I was kind of sold on Solder over Vollmer; thought he had surpassed him.
But now reading comments like this from experts I am wondering if my eyeball test & recollections were of Vollmer when he was hurting rather than at 100%. Tedy was also saying on podcast that he would put Vollmer over Solder out there (just not for whole game - as he is coming back off injury).
I just hope the coaches get the chance to make that decision (that vollmer is healthy enough to go if required.) But that requires him to be practicing hard this week.
interesting...
Which begs the question, was the throw inaccurate?
The problem I have with all the observations is even the most skilled observers don't know exactly who was supposed to be doing what and if or how that effected a teamates performance.
I thought just based on the broadcast tape that Brady threw that ball right down the hash and Slater drifted a yard inside the hash as he began to look for the ball in the last several yards and that allowed the defender alone to be in position to even get a mitt on that ball not to mention the second db to close on it and land in potision to make a play on it once tipped. A better route runner and/or a more experienced receiver potentially draws PI on that matchup and if not the ball sails incomplete. That's why while in theory there is nothing wrong with the kill shot call, situationally it's not a call we are in position to be making because we don't have the personnel to execute it. Slater is a guy who can occasionally make a play on a perfectly thrown ball if coverage is blown and he's wide open. He has the speed to challenge deep but not the savvy to beat tight coverage. That's why he's a ST player and a 6th WR. And Brady is often in situations where he needs to have the option to make throws into windows in tight coverage. If we'd only had $6m to spend on a guy with that skillset...oh wait, we did, but we spent in on a charismatic binky instead.
I agree with his concern. I don't think the Giants are going to do what everyone expects. I think they may play the stand up D that the Pats used to do vs. Peyton Manning in 2003-2004 to confuse Brady. The Pats already seen the man D vs. the steelers and of course they played the Giants the next week. Hopefully they are prepared to run the ball more because I can also totally seeing them trying to flood the zones and then bringing blitzes on 3rd and long situations.
the giants defense is not the ravens defense......they can't cover like the ravens and their pressure is from DL only with occaisional zone changeups with kiwanuka blitzing and tuck tangling with a TE
I think the giants are prime for a beating