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Dwayne Allen has yet to show me anything. What did we give up for him? Gronk got blanketed last night and Allen was nowhere to be found. He blocks well, but we need him to catch a few passes keep the linebackers and safeties honest.
Addressing point by point:Too bad geneo grissom turned out to be an abomination of a pick..we could have really used a hit on a DE there.
Listen I thought we would be a better D because
- much better secondary with Gilmore instead of Ryan
- flowers, brown making a year three jump
- adding Harris to our LB corps
- adding Ealy as starting DE
Long was a role player
Sheard got benched last year
Nink was slowing down physically
I figured they would be replaced easily
Again if they give up 30 next week then hit the panic button. Last night was an aberration.
He has to give us something offensively or I rather see what Jacob Hollister has to offer.
I agree, but I don't think it's anything resembling panic to state pretty emphatically that the defensive personnel are not as good as last year. We took too much of a hit at DE for that to be a reasonable claim. Once you factor in Hightower going out, it's just objectively a much worst defense than what the Pats fielded last season. That's not to say they're terrible or they won't get better or anything like that. I don't think they're as bad as they looked last night and I think they'll improve as the season goes along. But anyone projecting that this defense would be better than last year's was not coming from a place of reason: simply put, we lost more than we added.
This will allow them to use Richards as a hybrid if they choose. Also, bumping Butler and Wises' snap counts to 40-50 percent is critical. When they played, things happened.
"Off" to you (and others) is throwing for what equates to the 5th highest average yards per game of all-time, and more than his career average?
Tough audience.
Dwayne Allen has yet to show me anything. What did we give up for him? Gronk got blanketed last night and Allen was nowhere to be found. He blocks well, but we need him to catch a few passes keep the linebackers and safeties honest.
He was absolutely wide open on one play and Brady missed him horribly.
mah gawd
Solder should've had Mitchell blocked earlier during that run.
If Mitchell is blocked, then he doesn't make the tackle; if he doesn't make the tackle, then White makes a 1st down; if he makes a 1st down, then Gillislee doesn't get stuffed on 4th down; if he doesn't get stuffed, then the Pats have as many as 4 more chances to score a TD; if they score a TD, then it's a differently-coached ballgame.
Id guess BB would play this in film-room as well . but I doubt he'd share the excitement of fans. I guess instead he'd ask White why he didn't go for 1st down there? Id bet he'd make a 1st down in this situation in SB. Why not week 1? Instead he playfully jogs out of bounds and the game turns ugly..
I'm not concerned with Brady's accuracy at all. He made plenty of nice throws in some tight windows last night. The completion to Gronk was really a sweet pass. Over the "robber" LB and in between two DB's. Many more like that as well.
He threw a few away.
Anyways still working through the game.
Best thing to do is go on a media blackout (like patfanken does) and hang out here. Tv, radio, and other fan sites take pleasure on seeing the Patriots lose so why waste your time. At least there is some intelligent discussion on this site. If I had to depend on the local radio stations for that, I'd go nuts.Well the haters are out in full force after last night including that idiot rob Parker. Brady will be killed all week
The "throwing away" thing is why Thursday night actually reminded me a bit more of the 2014 opener in Miami than the Week-4 debacle in Kansas City. The Miami game was when the "Brady cliff" drumbeat officially began that season, but it was a similar situation - with pass-catchers not getting a lot of separation and Brady erring on the side of caution with his throws instead of forcing them.
Bill & Skippy called plays that accentuated their weakness instead of their strength, which is zone-style blocking on the move, in space. Just because the down/distance is 3rd/4th and < 1 yard doesn't mean that the play call has to be a vanilla run straight up the middle, especially when the Entire defense is expecting it....On the two 4th down runs, the online was awful. On one they were not only beat off the snap, which is inexcusable, but were stood up almost across the line. That means the back has nowhere to go. That should never, ever happen...
The "throwing away" thing is why Thursday night actually reminded me a bit more of the 2014 opener in Miami than the Week-4 debacle in Kansas City. The Miami game was when the "Brady cliff" drumbeat officially began that season, but it was a similar situation - with pass-catchers not getting a lot of separation and Brady erring on the side of caution with his throws instead of forcing them.