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How do you know Brady took over the play calling in the 4th Quarter?
Because that's always the case when it works...
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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.How do you know Brady took over the play calling in the 4th Quarter?
Because they did some no huddle and you could see Brady looking at his wrist thing.
There is a reason the o-line looked so bad and it think it is more complicated than all of a sudden they started to suck after being the best in the league for 18 weeks.
How many SB rings does Josh have? How many does Charlie have? I rest my case...
Does that mean Chuck Knoll is a better coach than Belichick? He has more Super Bowl rings. Terry Bradshaw better than Brady?
Come on! Prior to 2004, people wanted to dump Weis as much as they wanted to dump McDaniels now. The Pats had a ton of three and outs in 2003. The Pats had 4 games that year where they didn't score a single TD. The Pats had a 37.0% third down percentage in 2003 and the Pats have never had under a 42.5% third down percentage under McDaniels and that includes last year with Caldwell as the lead WR.
I am sorry, but I think people have skewed their view of Weis and don't give McDaniels enough credit and far too much blame. Yes, he was a part of the problem on Sunday, but far from the biggest.
I seriously doubt McDaniels was steadfast about sticking to his first half gameplan. All year, McDaniels has made radical halftime adjustments when it was neccessary. He even gave up on the deep pass and ran the ball and did short screens against San Deigo in the second half of the AFC Championship game which people claim he never does. Now he was going to stick to a gameplan that wasn't working in this game.
I'm sorry, but the Pats tried short passes and screens with no avail until the fourth quarter. I counted at least a half dozen screens and they had about a dozen short slants to Welker. I think McDaniels did go to the short game although people think he didn't. The problem is that Brady didn't have the time to do even them.
I was always a big Weis backer. I have to admit, I'm agnostic about McDaniels. Weis proved himself with the Jets, as he took a pathetic offense and made them good.
OK they tried some screens and short passes but then inevitably they woul dget impatient and send brady for a 7 step drop or a deep pass and that would either be a drive killing sack or a wasted down setting them up into third and long.
And Parcells took the reigns away from him and told him to stand in the corner and not get in his way during games. Parcells thought so highly of Weis' work with the Jets that he stripped him of playcalling abilities.
Our o-line did not have its best game I agree.
But one of the reasons our o-line looked so bad is because the giants came at us from every angle in a very aggresive way. When teams do that there are things offense can do to make them pay. Specifically, short passes, intermediate passes, screen passes, delay traps, wide reciever screens, and i think the no huddle offense can put an aggressive defense on it's heels.
We did none of those things until the fourth quarter when Brady took over the play calling.
Is it any coincidence that we finally scored then?
The real goat of this game was Josh McDaniels. He let the Giants play this game on their terms and he hung Brady and offensive line out to dry. Make those adjustments at the half or sooner and we win easily.
Weis has rings on his fingers won in the new millenium.
Parcells doesn't.
we knew Giants would use pass rush against us and we did not thing to STOP it.
we had 4 quarters to fix whatever problem we had. Why didn't we.?
Ultimately, it comes down to a fight in the trenches and we lost that battle... No amount of scheming on paper is going to help. The O Line could not match the intensity of the G Men as they rushed on TB
we matched them in game 16. We also matched Steeler, Jag, and Chargers and we defeated them all. They are physical teams. What's up with this time.?
But one of the reasons our o-line looked so bad is because the giants came at us from every angle in a very aggresive way. When teams do that there are things offense can do to make them pay. Specifically, short passes, intermediate passes, screen passes, delay traps, wide reciever screens, and i think the no huddle offense can put an aggressive defense on it's heels.
I was always a big Weis backer. I have to admit, I'm agnostic about McDaniels. Weis proved himself with the Jets, as he took a pathetic offense and made them good.