Week 5: We're on to Indy

[Keyser Söze]

Sure feels like Gronk isn’t playing. Not sure what would lead anyone to a different opinion.

Fine by me. Then he has 10 more days to rest before KC

 

[Kontradiction]

Sure feels like Gronk isn’t playing. Not sure what would lead anyone to a different opinion.

Might just be what other teams have done (Giants with Plax in ‘07 comes to mind) with players with ankle sprains that they can play through. Sit him out in practice and play him. That said, they may not need him for Indy with Edelman back, Gordon with another week under his belt, and Sony getting his legs under him. If he had to sit a game, I’d rather it be this week than the tilt against the Queefs.

 

[Gronkowski123]

gronk has to play to reach his incentives in his contract..

yes it's the colts but we had trouble moving the ball against a ****ty lions team.

 

[Gronkowski123]

This is a game the Pats should win in a landslide. The Colts are coming off a home loss, played overtime, have to travel, and have a short week.

With that said, this is the typical game the Pats screw up. I see it being really tight and could go either way.

that's why gronk should play. plus, dwayne allen sucks ( as a receiver )

 

[PP2]

Hmmm. Perhaps Thursday? Hogan has been better than his stats, Dorsett had a bad drop Sunday, Gronk is questionable, and Gordon draws coverage. Hoges could be a sleeper.

Hogan has been working out of the slot, the most, of any of our receivers and fits in there like oil with water. He's only there out of necessity but with Edelman back, will go back to running the routes he excels at.

Should start to see him have more impact as a result.

 

[PP2]

I disagree with the comparison to Patterson. Dorsett is an actual WR who can run the entire route tree. In addition if you believe former colleges from the Colts he has pretty sick hands and was making absurd catches in practice a lot.

He just never caught the long bomb from Brady cleanly. Lets not forget that he was going full speed and had to adjust to the ball a bit. It is a more difficult catch than it looks like on tv. That being said he still needs to make it every time.

I also think Dorsett still has a while to go before he's fully settled and calm. Something tells me he is overtly anxious to earn Brady's trust.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

Bold strategy.

 

[Kontradiction]

Bold strategy.

My opinion on Reich as a HC aside (I don’t think he’s much of one), I actually don’t think that’s out of the ordinary for most teams.

 

[slash83]

Bold strategy.

They’re also badly banged up.

 

[luuked]

I also think Dorsett still has a while to go before he's fully settled and calm. Something tells me he is overtly anxious to earn Brady's trust.

Maybe. What I definitely am noticing is that Brady seems to look for him more than Hogan in the last couple of games. So while it all might just be situational at the very least Brady seems to be comfortable to heave it up to Dorsett which is good news.

I mean as bad as the first 3 weeks were offensively on some level we might benefit from it in the long run because Brady was forced to find connections and work on trust with players that were farther down on the depth chart a year ago. Or maybe he just defaults back to Gronk/Edelman/White. Leaving Dorsett, Gordon, Hogan and Patterson with only designed plays.

We will see.

 

[Uptown]

 

[slash83]

That sucks.

 

[Uptown]

Sony PlayStation.

 

[Kontradiction]

Sony PlayStation.

The problem with PFF is if there is any ambiguity to how that quantify that rating (and many more that they have made up in their time online), it's useless. I didn't look into it, though. How do they quantify that?

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

Edelman missed half of 2015 too. Its crazy, really only 2014 we got to see them together for a full season.

 

[Uptown]

 

[Sicilian]

My opinion on Reich as a HC aside (I don’t think he’s much of one), I actually don’t think that’s out of the ordinary for most teams.

It would also explain their extensively long "did not participate" list. If a player has a little nick, and you didn't run a real practice, why not list as though he wouldn't have participated and keep the Patriots guessing? No way anyone can claim otherwise.

 

[Uptown]

The problem with PFF is if there is any ambiguity to how that quantify that rating (and many more that they have made up in their time online), it's useless. I didn't look into it, though. How do they quantify that?

Not exactly sure either. What I do know is that Michel has roughly 86-90 YAC within the last 2 games. I’ll take it.

 

[Uptown]

 

[luuked]

The problem with PFF is if there is any ambiguity to how that quantify that rating (and many more that they have made up in their time online), it's useless. I didn't look into it, though. How do they quantify that?

What I usually do with their ratings is to assume that at least internally they are at least somewhat consistent and just use them to see how players to relative to each other.