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Pro Bowl Player
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The Patriots didn't make many bad decisions in their shellacking of the Colts, but we can still talk about the few exceptions. My thoughts start:
1. Brady very rarely runs in the open field. So we shouldn't be surprised that he slightly misjudged the first down marker and slid just short of it.
2. Hypersquirrel is enthusiastic and mobile. Ball security isn't as top-of-mind for him as we might perhaps wish. Fortunately, he's lucky in terms of retaining or regaining the ball, or else makes his own luck in that regard.
3. Brady sometimes forces the ball to Gronk and relies on him to make plays. Gronk is a great, great receiver, but he doesn't have Randy Moss adaptability to the flight of the ball, and anyhow he tends to be in patterns where a mis-thrown ball can easily turn into an INT.
4. An attempted bomb by the franchise QB late in the fourth quarter with a huge lead -- why??
1. Brady very rarely runs in the open field. So we shouldn't be surprised that he slightly misjudged the first down marker and slid just short of it.
2. Hypersquirrel is enthusiastic and mobile. Ball security isn't as top-of-mind for him as we might perhaps wish. Fortunately, he's lucky in terms of retaining or regaining the ball, or else makes his own luck in that regard.
3. Brady sometimes forces the ball to Gronk and relies on him to make plays. Gronk is a great, great receiver, but he doesn't have Randy Moss adaptability to the flight of the ball, and anyhow he tends to be in patterns where a mis-thrown ball can easily turn into an INT.
4. An attempted bomb by the franchise QB late in the fourth quarter with a huge lead -- why??