The Eye Test Thread.

[Tony2046]

Take off your eye patches and put away your excel sheets. Throw away your biased objectivity and stuff your Felgerisms where he himself would enjoy it most.

As the saying goes, a picture is worth a million blind eye tests and 1 x 10^6 statistical analysis or something like that.

The last few weeks this team has cooked up your crows and sent your mules to the glue factory but still you find ways to drivel. Can't wait to hear how the remains of a rusty fuselage trucked in on the back of a red bearded genius or a can of rotten cod is going to show us the wisdom behind your beloved "eye test".

Until then and in true X-mas spirit: Do you see what I see?


Special Teams play? Check Btw: Ghost 4 for 4 including a couple of 40+ yarders.

Image of a Hooved punt.



Hard hitting Defense? Check




A nice pick pic for the Ryan haters.


Sometimes you've just got to throw a squirrel a nut.


Bulls like nuts too. First and Goal!!


What should have been....


What was.


Hey Doomy Gloomies...wake up and smell the Flowers... SACKED or POTTED ??


Definitions of Sheard Force : "Unaligned forces pushing one part of a body in one direction, and another part of the body in the opposite direction." Yep that sums it up just about right. Yes Sah.


Von Miller Sighting! Cannon Fodder. Hell of a Game Cannon.


To Be Con't.

 

[oldrover]

"No! No! Look away! Don't trust your eyes!"

"But didn't you say we SHOULD trust our eyes?!"

"Yes but that was different! Now you CAN'T trust your eyes! Run! Run! The Patriots suck! The sky is still falling!"

 

[RelocatedPatFan]

Cheeky and sets the right tone. I like it.

Need a still of Edleman (I think it was him) saying what we all heard so clearly over the broadcast. Even if it adds no context.

 

[WinstonSmith]

P E Z O L C F T D ??

How'd I do? Wasn't sure about the last 2.

 

[Tony2046]

Sandy's Shove pushed himself out of bounds. Butler frustrated him all day. CB#1 ??? Is that still a question?


I wonder what an Elite defense could do?? One can only dream....



Two Browning actions going on here. One is the act of Brown sacking Semian and other is Semian browning his thong.


Was this the dagger? Sometimes you love to see a guy who spends a game in the trenches get some big play action. What an asset he has been to this team.


Ever thrown a football in the woods? I know...I know ....those damn Branches. (Too Corny??)


Semian feeling a little Vannoyed. (Geez Corny alarms going off all over my house)


KABOOM!! The 4th and 2 Dagger delivered by Captain McCourty. The hit heard 'round the league.


And just to show the Ghost some love. Right down the middle all day.

 

[Tony2046]

Cheeky and sets the right tone. I like it.

Need a still of Edleman (I think it was him) saying what we all heard so clearly over the broadcast. Even if it adds no context.

They edited that out of the replay. Those MF'ers.

 

[fightingirish595]

The Patriots clearly have been better on defense the last month. That's what my eyes tell me. They've been great. Like another poster said, I think the way they have been playing matches their numbers more than it did before

 

[Tony2046]

The Patriots clearly have been better on defense the last month. That's what my eyes tell me. They've been great. Like another poster said, I think the way they have been playing matches their numbers more than it did before

How is that possible? Haha I know what you mean.

But isn't that just a result of a defense getting better as they go?

I once read that the first four games of a season are tough to predict because teams don't have tape on anyone or enough to gameplan for. IOW a team's tendencies and personnel change from year to year. Anyways it was also said that a BB defense takes time to mature. Whether that's because of schematics or because of player continuity I wouldn't know but I suspect it's a little of both and would include having game tape on your opponents is a key. So while other teams may have better athletes which show better results at the beginning of the year, BB game plans better which would show better results at the end of the year.

So maybe they focused on Red Zone D at the beginning of the year while adding to the between the 20's scheme as the season progressed.

Add to that personnel changes along the way and the results are what they are.

So I think you will see variances of success from the first weeks to the final weeks each year but the fact remains that they have kept points off the board better than any of the other defenses in the league.

 

[fightingirish595]

How is that possible? Haha I know what you mean.

But isn't that just a result of a defense getting better as they go?

I once read that the first four games of a season are tough to predict because teams don't have tape on anyone or enough to gameplan for. IOW a team's tendencies and personnel change from year to year. Anyways it was also said that a BB defense takes time to mature. Whether that's because of schematics or because of player continuity I wouldn't know but I suspect it's a little of both and would include having game tape on your opponents is a key. So while other teams may have better athletes which show better results at the beginning of the year, BB game plans better which would show better results at the end of the year.

So maybe they focused on Red Zone D at the beginning of the year while adding to the between the 20's scheme as the season progressed.

Add to that personnel changes along the way and the results are what they are.

So I think you will see variances of success from the first weeks to the final weeks each year but the fact remains that they have kept points off the board better than any of the other defenses in the league.

Exactly

 

[willard]

My eye says this is one tough football team, both mentally and physically. Baltimore and Denver both thought they were tough, but the Patriots showed them who the tougher team was.

 

[long distance]

How is that possible? Haha I know what you mean.

But isn't that just a result of a defense getting better as they go?

I once read that the first four games of a season are tough to predict because teams don't have tape on anyone or enough to gameplan for. IOW a team's tendencies and personnel change from year to year. Anyways it was also said that a BB defense takes time to mature. Whether that's because of schematics or because of player continuity I wouldn't know but I suspect it's a little of both and would include having game tape on your opponents is a key. So while other teams may have better athletes which show better results at the beginning of the year, BB game plans better which would show better results at the end of the year.

So maybe they focused on Red Zone D at the beginning of the year while adding to the between the 20's scheme as the season progressed.

Add to that personnel changes along the way and the results are what they are.

So I think you will see variances of success from the first weeks to the final weeks each year but the fact remains that they have kept points off the board better than any of the other defenses in the league.

Thanks for this monumental tribute to the eye test.

The sentence of the other poster - “the way they have been playing matches their numbers more than it did before“ - as funny as it sounds, its quite true though ..

The D started out well enough in so called bend dont brake mode to support inexperienced QBs. After the home Buffalo tackling fiasco first measures by BB were taken, benchings and rotations started. PA statistics stayed more or less the same but BB saw (if I may use this bad word) differently. Finally he took some pretty drastic measures for the middle of the season, sent away Collins, benched Sheard, brought Van Noy, put McClellin at starting LB (to everyone's disgust here), stopped revolving doors at CB .. and clearly got everyone's attention. Finally everyone was on the same page, the energy showed up and was enhanced by some big plays, they became more comfortable as a unit on the field and Matt could start playing his D game. They are still improving, still adding the energy (hope Jets don't lull them to sleep) hopefully peaking in playoffs.

So lets not completely forget what brought this D to the situation where this beautiful pictures could be made.

 

[AvocadoIceCream]

They've passed my eye test post Seattle

Prior to that, they didn't pass my eye test.

 

[Triumph]

They've passed my eye test post Seattle

Prior to that, they didn't pass my eye test.

The Pats could beat Seattle right now.

 

[deroc5050]

My eye says this is one tough football team, both mentally and physically. Baltimore and Denver both thought they were tough, but the Patriots showed them who the tougher team was.

You hit the nail on the head, the Patriots are a ****ing tough team. Thats the biggest thing I have taken out of the last 2 games.

 

[oldrover]

Awesome job, Tony! Hey, where do you get those stills? Those are fabulous.

 

[Tony2046]

Awesome job, Tony! Hey, where do you get those stills? Those are fabulous.

Thanks Rover. I subscribed to game pass and take screenshots. The reason I broke down and subscribed was so that I could watch the coaches film and see the whole defense/offense of each play. Good stuff.

 

[Tony2046]

Thanks for this monumental tribute to the eye test.

The sentence of the other poster - “the way they have been playing matches their numbers more than it did before“ - as funny as it sounds, its quite true though ..

The D started out well enough in so called bend dont brake mode to support inexperienced QBs. After the home Buffalo tackling fiasco first measures by BB were taken, benchings and rotations started. PA statistics stayed more or less the same but BB saw (if I may use this bad word) differently. Finally he took some pretty drastic measures for the middle of the season, sent away Collins, benched Sheard, brought Van Noy, put McClellin at starting LB (to everyone's disgust here), stopped revolving doors at CB .. and clearly got everyone's attention. Finally everyone was on the same page, the energy showed up and was enhanced by some big plays, they became more comfortable as a unit on the field and Matt could start playing his D game. They are still improving, still adding the energy (hope Jets don't lull them to sleep) hopefully peaking in playoffs.

So lets not completely forget what brought this D to the situation where this beautiful pictures could be made.

That's a nice way of saying I was right and you were wrong.

Juuust Kidding.

Sure the defense evolves from week to week. I have no problem with those that insisted the defense needed to improve but to say the defense "sucked" when leading in ppg wasn't accurate either.

Every year it takes a BB/Patricia Defense time to evolve because, imo, they game plan a team rather than play a team with their specific scheme(s) (Seattle). How much time that takes depends on player turnover from season to season or changes during the year.

Anyways I was just having fun with the eye test angle although I think we now all like what we are seeing.

But that offense though....

 

[AvocadoIceCream]

The Pats could beat Seattle right now.

The Gronk loss is significant.. they'd need another big time performance from the D

 

[long distance]

That's a nice way of saying I was right and you were wrong.

Juuust Kidding.

Sure the defense evolves from week to week. I have no problem with those that insisted the defense needed to improve but to say the defense "sucked" when leading in ppg wasn't accurate either.

Every year it takes a BB/Patricia Defense time to evolve because, imo, they game plan a team rather than play a team with their specific scheme(s) (Seattle). How much time that takes depends on player turnover from season to season or changes during the year.

Anyways I was just having fun with the eye test angle although I think we now all like what we are seeing.

But that offense though....

I actually tried to be the middle guy .. but it never quite works here.

To me statistic is the “blind eye test“. But it has its place, no doubt.

In any case, I guess the evolvement of this years D didn't go the way BB has envisioned. No doubt he would prefer to have Collins here being a great part of the unit. He took a huge risk and it looks like its paying off on many levels. Then again for him this was probably just a thing to do. His life-long team philosophy makes this decisions much easier for him then anybody else out there. Dependability before ability. Simple, somewhat old fashioned, yet effective and true every time.

 

[Triumph]

The Gronk loss is significant.. they'd need another big time performance from the D

I suppose that I have high hopes for Floyd.

Most dont pan out, so I believe that the Pats are due.