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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.We've seen this before. Not worried because the talent is there in most area's to be successful. They will get coached up and ready before December. Plus they have Hightower coming back soon. Not time to panic yet.
It is terrible so far. I still have faith that the secondary will bounce back but wow have they been shockingly bad.we are 3 weeks in, thoughts on the defense so far?
Anyone know what the defense ranks in the NFL so far?
Yet it may have been time to panic if not for Brady's heroics. That defense must start playing better NOW. We could easily be sitting here 1-2 and the situation would be more dire. Week 3 would have been a must win.We've seen this before. Not worried because the talent is there in most area's to be successful. They will get coached up and ready before December. Plus they have Hightower coming back soon. Not time to panic yet.
Eh? They were terrible in Week 1, average in Week 2 and not good again today.How the hell did we go from #1 in PPG to #32 in PPG.
We lost Ninko, Sheard, Long........... so clearly pass rush hasn't worked.
Branch has mailed it in, and Brown is what he is, a JAG, so clearly the front line is not working.
And Butler's play has regressed so that replacing Ryan (who came on strong especially second half of last year) with Gilmore has been a net negative so far.
And Van Noy is no Bruschi/Mayo/Hightower. Reminds me of the dark days when JAG/scrub Gary Guyton used to wear the green dot and chaos and confusion reigned supreme in the ranks and Pats pass defense was ranked #30 in league in 2010 and #31 in league in 2011, and #29 in league in 2012. Yeah really, we were that bad.
Only safety play has held up.