Kontradiction
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I couldn't care less what our opponents stats are against other teams.
Why? They're totally relevant. The Jets have fielded one of the better run defenses in the league since the beginning of 2013 and that has not changed this year. You may not care about their stats against other teams, but Belichick sure did.
What I like to see from the Pats is a balanced attack, no matter what defense the other team is in.
I'll go ahead and continue to disagree. I'd like to see the Pats formulate a game plan that exploits and attacks their opponents' weaknesses while staying away from attacking their strengths. Again...
1. Jets have a very good run defense.
2. Jets have a terrible secondary.
3. Pats have Tom Brady.
4. Pats have Rob Gronkowski.
5. Pats were fielding a RB promoted from the practice squad.
...why in God's name would you want to run the ball more? Is it because you disagree with any one of the numbered above? If so, which do you disagree with and why? Otherwise, we can conclude that you know all that to be fact but are simply throwing out logic and instead choosing to ignore the obvious.
If the other team knows that Brady is going to be dropping back to pass most of the time, then the Pats are being too predictable, and those are the times when they struggle. When they run the ball more, successful or not, they win more and the passing attack works even better.
I'm fine with them having a balanced attack if the opponent calls for it. The Jets did not, and the result was a close win even though the game plan on defense was absolutely horrific.
The idea is to have the other team actually believe that we might hand the ball off to Jonas Gray instead of them knowing that Brady is dropping back to pass every down. The idea that you and some others don't understand that concept, one so basic to football, leads me to believe that you might not be on drugs or drunk, or even that it's the fantasy affect, but something has you thinking backwards.
I'm interested to see which of the five facts I've outlined are incorrect. Because you must believe at least one of them are if you wish to see the Pats take the ball out of Brady's hands and put it in Gray's.
Since the Pats have changed to the current pass-happy offense they haven't won much in the playoffs.
The Patriots passed more than they ran in both Super Bowl XXXVIII and Super Bowl XXXIX and won. Smith rushed for 3.2 YPC in 2003 and the Pats converted 19 first downs passing the ball compared to 7 running the ball. In 2007, under the current "pass happy" format, multiple missed holding calls and a potential "in the grasp" missed call followed by a helmet catch cost the Pats the game they would have otherwise won.