Brownfan80
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Pretty good read about the Patriots WR situation this season:
http://www.courant.com/sports/footb...20,0,4240647.story?coll=hc-headlines-patriots
I don't necessarily agree with every angle that the author takes, I think he's far too on the 'the WR's aren't any good' side of the camp (I'm much more on the 'they need time' camp), but the article surely illuminates that there is more going on with this passing game than Bad playcalling.
http://www.courant.com/sports/footb...20,0,4240647.story?coll=hc-headlines-patriots
"I just don't think we've been overall as good as we'd like to have been ... short, medium, long," Brady said. "It's not one thing. It's a bunch of things. The passing game is timing and, as we talked about, we're trying to get up to speed and we're trying to get familiar with each other. It's not going to look like we've been playing together six years when we've been playing together for six weeks. That's part of it. Part of it is ... we've played some teams that can play pretty good defense: Buffalo, Denver, Miami and the Jets."
Five games into the 2006 season, Brady and his receivers have completed just two passes of 30 yards or more, and tight end Benjamin Watson caught both.
Want to go really deep? The 2006 Patriots can't. They don't have one completion of more than 35 yards. Last season, they had 13. And five were for more than 50 yards.
The longest reception by a Patriots wide receiver this season is rookie Chad Jackson's 29-yarder against the Jets. Four of the five longest receptions were made by tight ends.
I don't necessarily agree with every angle that the author takes, I think he's far too on the 'the WR's aren't any good' side of the camp (I'm much more on the 'they need time' camp), but the article surely illuminates that there is more going on with this passing game than Bad playcalling.
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