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Do you actually sit in front of a computer and "laugh out loud"? If so, you're even weirder than I thought. Question: who do you think should be playing quarterback for the Patriots? Because, if Brady truly is the over-the-hill choking tool you suggest he is, you must have an alternative in mind. Or is it the offensive coordinator you have a problem with? Hard to tell from your rambles.
Baltimore is clearly not inferior in terms of talent on both sides of the ball. That allowed them to overcome the injuries you sighted. We don't have that margin here apparently by design. Belichick is the one who plays carefully. Eschews emotion too. He made an exception early in Moss' time here and Brady adapted. The exception was short lived because by 2009 he realized Moss was no longer a consistent game changer. Yet he continued to lean on an offense that covered for his defense now in belated transition despite being given little more to work with (rookie rb's BB struggled to trust, old cerebral pal buddy whose legs were heading down the back 9, a BB binky who was an impossible fit for this offense, a McD binky who fancies himself a #1 but is barely a #3, his ever growing collection of swiss army knives who are situationally intriguing but limited and not effective when overused).
If that's your issue than Belichick is the guy you should be addressing it to. He admires talent but he's devoted to scheme above all else. Some of the talent he has had here over the years even bristled over that. Some making the chicken and egg analogy. Scheme has increasingly carried the day here, to a point. That point seems to be come playoff time, particularly when talent matchups just don't clearly jive. Baltimores talent struggles against TE's and against speed. We have little of either functionally when Gronk is out and Vereen isn't utilized. On defense we struggle with pass rush and deep balls. Absent a healthy Jones and once Talib went down all the scheming in the world became moot as it just exposed the middle of the field in a panic to avoid being beat deep.
all that verbiage, and not one word about the throws brady failed to make yesterday. flacco made better short throws than brady did......and flacco sucks in the short game.....well, maybe not anymore
the pats threw the ball 640 times over the regular season....alot of that had to do with the fact that brady likes it that way......sure you can blame the scheme, but I can guarantee you that brady has something to say about it.....a backfield full of RB's who can run the ball, and the pats are throwing the ball as much as they did when they couldn't run the ball at all.
you can blame the scheme if you like, but the QB is a part of the scheming process....the schem is his fault, too
mcclain started 13 games this year, so it wasn't that early...the pats had plenty of games without gronk and edelman, so there should have been plenty of offense cooked up with the guys that they had.
face it, they just didn't show up last night.......from a player perspective I put that primarily on their MVP....you can certainly say that he did not go down swinging.......the accepted their fate the moment it was 28-13......
the defense wasn't the problem until the offense could not hold onto the ball in the 2nd half. how many games would the pats have won this year only scoring 13 points?
Tom brady did not choke....his receivers simply got abused mentality.
The refs let ravens abuse the hernandez/welker/lloyd pass 5 yards all game long and it began take a toll on them.
The patriots receivers are not physical enough to take those hits like the steelers.
Brady's short passing was disrupted when the refs choose to not call illegal contact on cornerbacks..........The patriots cornerbacks didn't get that memo.
Do you actually sit in front of a computer and "laugh out loud"? If so, you're even weirder than I thought. Question: who do you think should be playing quarterback for the Patriots? Because, if Brady truly is the over-the-hill choking tool you suggest he is, you must have an alternative in mind. Or is it the offensive coordinator you have a problem with? Hard to tell from your rambles.
all that verbiage, and not one word about the throws brady failed to make yesterday. flacco made better short throws than brady did......and flacco sucks in the short game.....well, maybe not anymore
the pats threw the ball 640 times over the regular season....alot of that had to do with the fact that brady likes it that way......sure you can blame the scheme, but I can guarantee you that brady has something to say about it.....a backfield full of RB's who can run the ball, and the pats are throwing the ball as much as they did when they couldn't run the ball at all.
you can blame the scheme if you like, but the QB is a part of the scheming process....the schem is his fault, too
Perhaps we shouldn't be structure our offense off those kinds of passes.
Time management is on the sideline. Belichick acknowledged that in his curt presser. "They" believed they'd have time to clock it. Poor assumption. Decisions were made prior to the snap, including another one to let the clock run out prior to 2 minute. We see that a lot lately, must be some crazy Ernie trend. Simms claimed it was smart until he claimed it was stupid in hindsight.
Several my ass. And what we see as misses are generally at least 50/50 split between receiver and QB let alone in this offense. High throws/low/ are made for a reason. Brady may miscalculate on occasion but coverage largely dictates what he does because no one is ever really open on this offense unless the defense blows coverage. That's just a sad reality Brady has to continue to deal with. Vereen had a breakout game last week only hereabouts that doesn't count for enough to feature you in the next week's game plan. Maybe he practiced like crap. More likely a conservative BB just squashed any ideas that might have percolated otherwise. He was the only legit speed that had and they failed to utilize it against a team that would have struggled against it. The Ravens didn't have to double anyone, single coverage negates Brady's 3 options most of the time (save Welker who gets over targeted as a result) and that allows opponents to stuff the run.
What you suspect is driven by what you chose to believe. The tape all season has told a different tale.
There was no excuse for the team not to call a TO After the Hernandez catch. For some reason, BB, and he has done this many times in the past seems to like to watch precious seconds tick of the clock to keep timeouts in his pocket when he is better off using the timeout quickly to preserve the clock. It was BB clock mismanagement at it's finest before the half and it cost us huge momentum heading into half time. We score a TD there and go up 17 7 and we are riding high coming into the second half. BB has to correct the clock management issue, it's gone on too long.
The weird part of the whole thing was Brady's unawareness of the clock after he ran, it was like he was in a fog and blanked out. He never used to do this crap in the early days.
Your last sentence is so true. This team spends so much time focusing on easy mismatches and ways to scheme defensive confusion that it forgets how to execute when those are taken away.
Two words
Mike Martz.