PatsBoy12
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.People focus too much on Ryan. The zone issues were not all his fault. There was a lot of miscommunications in the secondary. That is on Patricia, McCourty (who calls the assignments), and the defensive coaching staff.
And the fact that the Pats played a soft zone with a two and three man rush, is 100% on Patricia. You can't expect the players to make plays when you put them in a position to fail. I still don't know how you can drop 9 players into coverage and still give receivers a 5-10 yard cushion in gaps in the secondary.
Matt Patricia was the biggest reason the Pats failed last night on defense and there wasn't a close second.
Have you seen McCourty play corner? You must not have...especially considering he hates.Maybe it's time to shake things up. McCourty at corner, Harmon at safety, more aggressive schemes like blitzing Mingo. McCourty can't be worse than Ryan/Coleman/Rowe and he's not making game changing plays at safety.
Simply put, BB just seems to prefer zone whenever they're playing a QB who is a threat to run. It hardly seems to make a difference though.I could not understand why they were playing their WRs so soft in zone all night. I get that Wilson is a mobile QB and BB probably wanted all eyes facing forward, but when you're not putting pressure on him, he's going to pick you apart. And he did....with his very mediocre WR corp.
All we need is an Ellis Hobbs type CB across Butler.