TommyD4207
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Good memory. Think I mainly referred to the Dline shutting down the run game. They kinda did, but that was mainly because I think Belichick realized attempting to run was useless. Believe the Pats passed 90% of the time or something crazy like that. Not sure what their gameplan will be this game.
Sure your oline may have been worse then, but ya gotta admit, if Edelman and Amendola are out, that is most likely gonna equate to Brady holding the ball longer. That'll give the big (admittedly not fast) guys up front time to get to Brady. Unless of course the Pats can establish a running threat to slow down the rush. But that doesn't seem likely.
They ran 9 times in the entire game, 4 of them were Brady, two of those were kneeldowns (one was an 11-yd TD run).
I guess in theory you could say they "shut down the run", but in reality, the Patriots didn't bother trying to run, and embarrassed that Jets secondary.