Greg Cosell's Super Bowl Preview: Patriots D has specific challenges, including defending Julio Jone

[yopats]

Worth the time to read.. very informative especially the insights on personnel packages that will be employed

Greg Cosell's Super Bowl Preview: Patriots D has specific challenges, including defending Julio Jones

 

[BobDigital]

It was pretty good but I hate the use of GB to demonstrate much of those things.

Also this showed only problems and no solutions. You see that from most sites. They bring up the issues teams will face but can offer nothing on how each team may look to solve them. That is not horrible but when you read something really good it gives you counter options.

So here is how you deal with Jones and many of Atlanta's pass catches

#1 Be physical at the line. You don't need to try to stone them just delay their route a tic and see if you can make them go a longer way to their route aside. After you give them 1 good hit you need to get defensive fall back. Over investing too much trying to stay on the line with them will only get you beat.

#2 Take away deeper routes. Give up the underneath. You can't defend everything against this team but the idea is get them into 3rd down as much as possible. On Jones focus on taking away the longer stuff particularly. his 2 favorite routes are the 20 yards crossing (as this guy said) and the 20 yard out route where he breaks to the sideline. Focus on stopping those and over the top and see what happens.

#3 Sanu/Gabriel are the guys you look to stop. You can't stop Jones and to invest too much to stop the RBs will get you beat down the field. Invest in stopping Sanu/Gabriel. If you succeed their offense will not be near as scary. Do that and use your DEs to knock their RBs off their routes when you get a chance. It won't stop them but it can turn a 10 yard catch into a 5-6 yard catch.

 

[RobertWeathers]

It was pretty good but I hate the use of GB to demonstrate much of those things.

No kidding.

GB's D and secondary sucks eggs.

That is not the case with NE

 

[mosi]

No kidding.

GB's D and secondary sucks eggs.

That is not the case with NE

That is true except in the game day threads!

 

[SVN]

Worth the time to read.. very informative especially the insights on personnel packages that will be employed

Greg Cosell's Super Bowl Preview: Patriots D has specific challenges, including defending Julio Jones

These type of articles put my little confidence about the game in its place

 

[everlong]

I think they'll use Chung not McCourty on the RBs. I also think Rowe gets Sanu at least to start.

 

[RobertWeathers]

That is true except in the game day threads!

Im not touching this Sunday's game day thread with a 10-ft pole....except with 2 min remaining.

 

[stinkypete]

#3 Sanu/Gabriel are the guys you look to stop. You can't stop Jones and to invest too much to stop the RBs will get you beat down the field. Invest in stopping Sanu/Gabriel. If you succeed their offense will not be near as scary. Do that and use your DEs to knock their RBs off their routes when you get a chance. It won't stop them but it can turn a 10 yard catch into a 5-6 yard catch.

Footballoutsiders ran a piece last week that broke down the Falcons losses. In 4 out of 5 losses, Jones averaged something like 18 targets per game, and Ryan's efficiency was way down. Their point was the same, you can't stop Jones, but you can slow down the offense and force Ryan into mistakes if you eliminate the other weapons.

Thankfully, Atlanta's TEs are non-factors, so the Pats biggest defensive weakness should not be exploited.