Still didn't get enough pass rush for my liking, the coverage was awesome so it all worked out fine, and we dominated TOP anyways. Fantastic performance by the secondary.
Not too worried about the Wilfork injury- IMO he's pretty overrated across the board, but especially in a 4-3. The way I feel about losing him is probably pretty similar to how most of you felt about losing Seymour: it's certainly not ideal, but we can more or less replace him with what we already have on the roster, so that's that.
Joey Galloway is awful. Up until this game, I was part of the "let's give him some time" crowd, but he's lost Brady's trust, and there's just no excuse for being as bad as he was today.
GREAT job by the offensive line. They were flat-out awesome today. On that first fourth and one conversion, I think they might have pushed the line of scrimmage back a full yard and a half/two yards. Brady had all day.
RBs were great today. I hope Maroney's ok, because he was running great, and we need him to be the feature guy so that we don't wear Taylor out before we need to (I want Taylor at 100% for the playoffs). Morris was great on passing downs too, although his pass blocking is suspect enough that it worries me a little.
Another great game for Watson. With Brady getting his legs back and Welker out, we need Watson, and to his credit he's stepped up very well IMO.
Atlanta's defensive line was awful. Maybe Jerry was more important than we realized, because we absolutely abused the Falcons at the LOS.
Brady's still missing throws that he should make- consistently throwing the ball high, but, like with the Buffalo game, he seemed to get more comfortable as the game went on. He made a few on-the-money deep throws late in the game, even ones that weren't caught, and I was almost as relieved to see those as I would have been to see long catches. IMO, When Brady will be back is a matter of when, not if.
We gotta improve in the red zone, but with Brady, Moss, Watson and Baker on the team, I'm not too worried.
Shutting down Tony Gonzalez was huge. Anyone catch how we played him? Was tough to tell watching the game streamed online. I saw meriweather on him on a few plays, but other than that I don't know what the plan was..
I'm not sold on the Falcons as being a particularly good team. They're alright, definitely, but what do they do well? They certainly couldn't stop the run or run the ball, and since I'm not sold on the Pats being good against the run (especially without Wilfork), for now I figure that the Falcons just aren't that great.
