RayClay
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You are comparing this team to the 2001 team. While they play the same style and have the same head coach, it doesnt mean you can expect to get the same results especially when the '01 team was full of veterans and the '10 is full of mostly first and second year players and a few 3rds. There is a big gap between veterans/rookies in the playoffs. If you want to count on a bunch of young inexperienced players to force turnovers in the playoffs, be my guest, its pretty risky. In order for the '10 defense to succeed in the playoffs I believe that they will need to be able to stop teams without giving up the loads of yards and then counting on turnovers.
I am not comparing them to anyone, except that they have the same coach and are playing the same style of defense that has indeed been very successful in the past.
Instead of beating that dead horse anymore, let's go to what you propose. Bill Belichick has worked a style of offense whereby they keep the ball in front of them, selectively pressure the QB and try to force mistakes.
His defenses have been successful in the regular season, the playoffs, the super bowl, with veteran teams and now (10-2) with a very young team.
My approach is conservative. Keep playing the style of defense he is the master of, that has worked in the past and has worked this season with a very young surprising team (for the basis of any argument I make, worked = WINS, no other measure).
Now, you want to blow up the Belichick defense that has been tremendously successful, in favor of some unknown defense, I assume we will borrow from a less successful team.
What defense? More importantly, why?