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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.Pats were terrible stopping the run too. Just awful game plan/execution all around on defense
Focus on stopping the run, you are daring them to throw. Having them throw - you need the best players in position. Time after time the Pats DBs were either out matched or just in the plain old wrong position.
It was a poor game plan for a woefully overmatched secondary.
Most detailed speculation I've seen, although that doesn't mean the writer is closer to the truth than others. Even if this was the game plan, shouldn't it have been scrapped by halftime? Or by the end of the 3rd quarter?
You still have 5 others you did nothing to get. No, you don’t because all you do is cheer for a team and then think you own their success.B.B. stole a title from me
People keep bringing up the secondary but they were not the problem from what I have seen. The coverage was usually tight and passes needed to be pretty precise. I also disagree that they were often in the wrong position. At least not on the majority of third downs.
The weakest link was the front 7 in general and he LBs more specifically..
You still have 5 others you did nothing to get. No, you don’t because all you do is cheer for a team and then think you own their success.
People keep bringing up the secondary but they were not the problem from what I have seen. The coverage was usually tight and passes needed to be pretty precise. I also disagree that they were often in the wrong position. At least not on the majority of third downs.
The weakest link was the front 7 in general and he LBs more specifically..
Focus on stopping the run, you are daring them to throw. Having them throw - you need the best players in position. Time after time the Pats DBs were either out matched or just in the plain old wrong position.
It was a poor game plan for a woefully overmatched secondary.
Butler not playing AT ALL wasnt due to scheme.
People are getting things all twisted around here.
The relevance of scheme is when people say their was a domino effect. If butler was truly in the mix, based upon the scheme the game plan was built on he would have played maybe 15-20 snaps. So scheme says it was Rowe or butler not a domino effect.
My opinion, based upon EVERYTHING we saw or heard was that butler struggled badly in practice and wasn’t getting the gane plan. That led to the decision to go into the gane with him at cb3. That happened a few days before the game.
It’s very possible he could have split time with rowe or that we used more regular nickel I’d he was available than we did with Bademosi.
But at some point something else happened. I’m sure not practicing with the 1s all week created a reaction in butler hence the rumors of attitude and fighting with coaches.
There are also rumors of weed or curfew which on top of demotion and a negative attitude toward it mean even more.
Then there was what we saw on tv. A guy who looked liked he was melting down.
For all those reasons as an example we can’t put this guy in the field if there is any way to avoid it comes into play.
Finally if you decided it was bad for the team to play him why would you later just throw him in there? I don’t get that logic.
I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the start of the game
Gilmore on Smith
Rowe on Jefferey
Chung on Agholor
WTF
Rowe on Jefferey
Yes?Aluminum seats
Agholor was the MVP in the second half. It was one of the weirdest brain farts by BB.
That's effectively what BB did. How does this help anyone's argument who is advocating that BB was justified for what he did to the Patriot's defense in the Super Bowl?