Bruins29
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What did Cyrus Jones do? I didn't see the game. Makes the game feel less real that I didn't see it, probably a good thing lol...
That's basically what it's been, another preseason. There wasn't going to be any way that Brissett could run anything resembling our usual offense, as seen by the lack of passes even thrown to the core WRs. It was going to take a full team effort with our STs/defense/running game taking over, with the hopes of a pass or two that led to a big play or conversion.A lot of mistakes everywhere....but I think ST takes the cake (with the exception of Allen). The D didn't play the best, but well enough to win.... we were giving up some pretty good field position from the start.
O wasn't broken or anything, but a car needs a driver to get anywhere. Plus, a Rex Ryan defense is admittedly a tough one for a rookie QB to go against.
TFB can routinely lead our offense to 17 points in a quarter against a defense like that. Bennett looks like gronk, and gronk will be up to form any week now, plus Lewis is gonna jump in the mix for the stretch run.
2nd preseason of 2016 is over.
c. I'll say it right now, I do not think we are going to see a 100% Tom Brady for at least a month. That is not saying that what we do get for this month won't be better than what we had at the position so far, but Brady isn't a guy who can just jump in and play. There is a reason he loves practice so much. He NEEDS it and he hasn't had it the past month and didn't get the all the snaps he needed in the preseason for the obvious reasons. So while I'm sure he's be "ok" the next few week, I believe we won't get VINTAGE Tom Brady until November. Hope I'm wrong here.
Oh, I was so angry at that one when I saw them rushing three and Taylor having like 10 seconds of time to find somebody. You can't expect your secondary to hold up for 10 seconds, no matter how good it is (and I surely don't trust Ryan or Coleman to hold their coverage that long). There are certain situations when it's reasonable to rush three and drop eight. But on a 2nd and long in the opponent's half while you are playing with a very limited offense? Would've rather blitzed six guys than drop eight in that kind of situation.I still feel our defense could be more aggresive. Maybe we just don't have the personnel. I remember a 2 and 22 and they when zone and it went for 23 yards. Still worried about these corners.
Yeah I'm with @JMC00 on having to disagree with this. No Brady has not had actual "practices" with his teammates, but he's been throwing the ball almost seemingly every day for 4 weeks. At least it seems that way with all the videos that have come out. Heck, even DURING THE GAME he was on a field throwing lasers:
I think he'll be ready to go.
The problem is the D was all wrong. When you play contain up frot, you generally play some sort of man behind it because decent receivers will find the soft spots and sit down, which the Bills receivers did.
well Rodney Harrison just said the pats defense was simply not good today.
against a better offense, this D would have been smoked.
Seems a bit odd that Brady wouldn't be watching his teammates during a game, doesn't it? If the footage was really within an hour of the 3:42 pm time stamp, there's a good chance the game was still 13-0 early in the second half when he left.
Seems a bit odd that Brady wouldn't be watching his teammates during a game, doesn't it? If the footage was really within an hour of the 3:42 pm time stamp, there's a good chance the game was still 13-0 early in the second half when he left.
Either way, I'm going to cautiously side with Ken here. I think it takes him a couple of weeks (not quite the month that Ken predicted) to get back into the rhythm of practicing and timing. I do think that's been one aspect that's been overlooked a bit. Luckily, the dude is still a full blown superstar even at 70-75 percent, so I'll still expect an awesome performance while he works through it.
There is a thing called DVR.
But seriously, I understand your point. I'll even give a qualification that this was even earlier in the day, but the post was timed when it was. Of course we will never know for certain but this is what we have for now.
The reason I am confident about him not having "rust" or whatever the buzzword that I'm sure the media will use is because his training camp (yes 2 months ago but still) was otherworldly with a full compliment of players sans Lewis. The connections certainly won't be 100%, but I feel confident to say 80% based on that camp. Time will tell though.
The main reason I am less worried about Brady and "rust" than some people here is that I don't see how his decision making and quick release could be significantly affected by that 4 week break.
Will some passes be off the mark ? Sure..
Will we get the usual overthrown deep, homerun shots once a game for a while ? Most probably..
Will he eat up opponents with quick passes to Edelman/Dola and take advantage of Gronk/Bennett in the redzone ? Definitely..
What’s Brady been up to? Mixing family time and working out. He’s routinely spent four hours a day training, I’m told, presumably with his body coach Alex Guerrero at TB12 Sports Performance at Patriot Place. Also, aside from his Sunday session with Wes Welker, Brady’s been throwing to young college players at undisclosed locations, eschewing the opportunity to bring in some of the “name” former players who’ve reached out and offered their services.
Last year they got destroyed by KC and look what happened after.
In other words, he let the Bills beat the Pats at their own game? Good for them. Bad, very bad, for our guys.Opening kickoff, he took it about 2 yards deep in the end zone. He ran it out to the 1, realized it was a mistake, and decided to try to down it. Then he realized he was out of the end zone and can't down it at that point. So then he started to run forward again. Got tackled at the 9. Just really poor awareness of his surroundings.
2nd kickoff he also took 2 yards deep. This time he didn't hesitate in deciding to take it out, but Buffalo's kick coverage team was already deep down the field. He got tackled at the 13. He shouldn't have taken this one out at all either, Buffalo was too far down the field.
In other words, he let the Bills beat the Pats at their own game? Good for them. Bad, very bad, for our guys.
a lot of the sucker kicks that the pats execute are one or two yards "deep" into the end zone.No. The Pats don't kick it into the end zone forcing the player to run it. Jones has an opportunity to kneel on both kicks and decided to run it out both times.