Defensive snaps, Game 9

[Fencer]

Snaps: Sopoaga chips in with 26 - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

Most noteworthy to me, besides what Reiss covered in the text: 237 CB snaps in 75 plays equals 3.16 CBs/play.

 

[Brady6]

Re: Re: Defensive snaps, Game 9

Snaps: Sopoaga chips in with 26 - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

Most noteworthy to me, besides what Reiss covered in the text: 237 CB snaps in 75 plays equals 3.16 CBs/play.

Carter playing 45 snaps in his second game is a bit surprising.

 

[Fencer]

Carter playing 45 snaps in his second game is a bit surprising.

Injury replacement; next man up.

 

[Brady6]

Re: Re: Defensive snaps, Game 9

Snaps: Sopoaga chips in with 26 - New England Patriots Blog - ESPN Boston

Most noteworthy to me, besides what Reiss covered in the text: 237 CB snaps in 75 plays equals 3.16 CBs/play.

Chris Jones must keep himself in remarkable condition for a 300+ pound man, he has played about 95% of the snaps over the last 3 games.

 

[manxman2601]

So, not much rest for Chris Jones then after the Sopoaga trade. Only missed three plays. That's every play bar 3 in the last 3 weeks. Incredible for a DT.

 

[manxman2601]

Chris Jones must keep himself in remarkable condition for a 300+ pound man, he has played about 95% of the snaps over the last 3 games.

So, not much rest for Chris Jones then after the Sopoaga trade. Only missed three plays. That's every play bar 3 in the last 3 weeks. Incredible for a DT.

Snap. Like minds and all that.

 

[Marinlik]

Carter playing 45 snaps in his second game is a bit surprising.

He got a lot of playing time when Ninko went down, right? I think that BB knows what he gets in Carter from his last time here, and that he trust Carter in putting up a decent pass rush but most of all not giving up the outside.

 

[kennyb]

I didn't think Carter looked that good. Kind of sluggish. I wanted to see Buchanon play more.

I wonder what is the deal-io with Ninkovich's foot and the Gregory's thumb.

 

[DarrylS]

Jamie Collins is either slow to develop, having bad practices or is just a mistake... thought he would be playing more by now.

 

[Fencer]

Fletcher had 16 snaps, which suggests about 16 plays in dime. There were 12 more CB snaps that would be required for an average of 3.0 CBs/play. There were plenty of snaps in the base defense.

I'm confused here, and look forward to Reiss' weekly post on personnel groupings.

 

[Fencer]

There were only 124 snaps total for Hightower, Spikes, Fletcher and Collins, on 75 plays. So, disregarding Jones and Ninkovich playing 3-4 OLB, that's an average of well less than 2 LBs per play. This presumably helps explain why there was room on the field for so many CBs.