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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.It's a neutral site but the Seahawks fanbase travels well, as he put it. As an example, you can look at last year's superbowl which was held all the way out on the east coast, and yet the 12th man was in full force. Manning had to operate in silent mode from the first snap (which ended up in a safety).
Glendale is a dome, things might be even worse for us than they were for the Broncos last year. In that aspect, the Pats are about the face the worst possible fanbase.
Suppose we win the toss, defer, manage to get Seattle to go 3 and out, or at least not score any points, would you have the Pats come out in the hurry-up? I am nervous about relying on Blount to start things up. He doesn't get any yardage early (at least in my perception) and often just runs into the D line for little or no gain. In fact, if Seattle manages to score any points on the first drive, I think I might go hurry up.
Speaking of the toss, does Seattle always defer? take the ball? mix it up? If they won it against the Pats I assume they would defer in order to screw us up.
Thoughts?
Suppose we win the toss, defer, manage to get Seattle to go 3 and out, or at least not score any points, would you have the Pats come out in the hurry-up? I am nervous about relying on Blount to start things up. He doesn't get any yardage early (at least in my perception) and often just runs into the D line for little or no gain. In fact, if Seattle manages to score any points on the first drive, I think I might go hurry up.
Speaking of the toss, does Seattle always defer? take the ball? mix it up? If they won it against the Pats I assume they would defer in order to screw us up.
Thoughts?
How you could think the Super Bowl will not be loud, no matter who is playing, is beyond me.Don't think that BB would overlook something that Fox overlooked last year. Fox did not practice for a noisy stadium and paid dearly for it.
the only thing I'm sort of in disagreement is the interior DL of the seahawks. No Mebane, No Jordan Hill.....based on their snap count, they're spending most of the time with only one true DT on the field since kevin williams and tony mcdaniel were at about 40% of the snaps and Cohen got 20%....couple that with the fact that against the packers, 7 of their defenders played better than 90% of the snaps, and 2 of those guys (thomas and sherman) are hurting a bit. If anything, I would try to dictate an uptempo pace and try to catch the seahawks in certain personnel groupings and keep them there. I don't think they have the manpower to survive a high snapcount game.
I think guys like edelman and amendola can get their DB's to bite on something and get open deeper.....with
thomas hurting, a combo of those guys and gronk down the middle should provide some openings. I also think that lafell will get open in the middle.
defensively for the pats it will be about discipline and staying with the pass catchers through to the end of the play....especially the broken ones. try to keep wilson in the pocket.....my biggest concern is that both ninkovich and jones seem to get behind the QB alot and that's a nono against wilson.
Hopefully McDaniels and the rest of the Offensive staff are looking closely at the tape from the NFCCG to see what GB was doing that made Seattle D jump offsides 2-3 times. I mean they were playing at home. Doesn't Seattle lead the league in causing false starts?
McD and the O need to concentrate on not crapping the bed like they did in SB42
Yes, I discussed this in the "Who's A-Feared of the Hawks" thread. They are only carrying 3 DTs. If they go to a front with only one DT that seems pretty inviting.
Targeting Thomas makes sense, but you still need to worry about Chancellor and Wagner.
I think the Pats did a good job of this against the Packers (staying with their assignment). Agree about avoiding getting caught behind Wilson.
And you believe we will be everybody's darling?I think part of that was people rooting against the Broncos, no?
Arm tackles are NOT an option