Pre Game Thread - Pats @ Packers

[ashley]

 

[Thelonious]

Once-Upon-A-Time Bill.

In a time long ago....

 

[Pats1971]

Here is the translation to that. I somehow think the packers are idiots and will somehow believe that they will think Mac could start so they will have to slightly adjust their gameplan of one QB to another....in other words, he is blowing smoke and nobody on earth is buying it.

 

[ashley]

Here is the translation to that. I somehow think the packers are idiots and will somehow believe that they will think Mac could start so they will have to slightly adjust their gameplan of one QB to another....in other words, he is blowing smoke and nobody on earth is buying it.

I just love it!!!!!!

 

[Sicilian]

Here is the translation to that. I somehow think the packers are idiots and will somehow believe that they will think Mac could start so they will have to slightly adjust their gameplan of one QB to another....in other words, he is blowing smoke and nobody on earth is buying it.

If you have a philosophy of not giving away information without there being a specific reason for it, it makes no sense to pick and choose when you apply that philosophy. I doubt he thinks the Packers are expecting to see Jones this week. But why would he go out of his way to say that when that's never been how he's operated? In other words, it's not about an advantage to being vague, but about there being no advantage to the deliberate choice to change now.

 

[Pats1971]

If you have a philosophy of not giving away information without there being a specific reason for it, it makes no sense to pick and choose when you apply that philosophy. I doubt he thinks the Packers are expecting to see Jones this week. But why would he go out of his way to say that when that's never been how he's operated? In other words, it's not about an advantage to being vague, but about there being no advantage to the deliberate choice to change now.

He isnt giving information away, I am sure GB has a tv.

 

[Sicilian]

He isnt giving information away, I am sure GB has a tv.

Again, that's not the point. Belichick operates in manner A. You seem to be asking him to operate in manner B. The issue isn't that he'd be giving up an advantage by not doing A anymore, but that what is the advantage of suddenly doing B? It's just different for different's sake.

 

[ashley]

 

[Pats1971]

Again, that's not the point. Belichick operates in manner A. You seem to be asking him to operate in manner B. The issue isn't that he'd be giving up an advantage by not doing A anymore, but that what is the advantage of suddenly doing B? It's just different for different's sake.

No I get the point, but its not like we did not all see him get injured. Its not some thing that happened in practice with the cameras off. Do you really think GB is sitting there saying, oh man Mac might start, we have to prepare

 

[ashley]

 

[Pats1971]

My God Dont let GB see this!!! They think something different!

 

[Sicilian]

No I get the point, but its not like we did not all see him get injured. Its not some thing that happened in practice with the cameras off. Do you really think GB is sitting there saying, oh man Mac might start, we have to prepare

Let me try again. The point is not about the information itself. The point is about the philosophy of, "We don't openly talk about injuries." Why would he pick and choose which situations to apply that philosophy to? It does not matter one bit whether the information is obvious. What Green Bay sees is 100% irrelevant.

 

[Thelonious]

So now we're comparing him to Hitler? That's where we are now?

Not what he said. Grow up.

 

[Sicilian]

Not what he said. Grow up.

Easy there, tiger. Sorry for clarifying the intent of comparing a Belichick press conference to a scene in which Hitler loses his ****. It's all done now. You can stand down.

 

[Pats1971]

Let me try again. The point is not about the information itself. The point is about the philosophy of, "We don't openly talk about injuries." Why would he pick and choose which situations to apply that philosophy to? It does not matter one bit whether the information is obvious. What Green Bay sees is 100% irrelevant.

I understand what you are saying, but I also understand that its not a good look. To me anyway.

 

[Sicilian]

I understand what you are saying, but I also understand that its not a good look. To me anyway.

Fair enough.

 

[Pats1971]

Fair enough.

I mean Im not saying you have to have xrays with you and go over if he has herpes or not, but I dont get the reason of lying just to lie when everyone knows it unless you are just trying to be a jerk. I am all for a reason to do things, but I see no reason.

 

[Bourne Patriot]

No I get the point, but its not like we did not all see him get injured. Its not some thing that happened in practice with the cameras off. Do you really think GB is sitting there saying, oh man Mac might start, we have to prepare

Yeah, I mean if his strategy is not to talk about injuries, then why would he tell us Macs getting better? Surely if anything thats the one thing he shouldn't be telling people

Further, everyone knows 1. Macs not gotten better and 2. He has a high ankle sprain

So if anything he refused to confirm what we already know, and then overshared something we didn't but is probably false.

 

[Hyped]

Great strategy against a team with an ok run game, shotty pass protection an inexperienced OC, communication issues and a back up QB...not.

Our run game is pretty damn good. We are 13th in the NFL for total yards and averaging 4.3 YPC. I would argue that we don't run it enough...(12th in the league in attempts with 81 through 3 games).

And the pass protection...while it could be better...has us ranked #9 for sacks allowed (with only 5 through 3 games). Now I think Hoyer doesn't have as quick of a release as Jones does and will probably be looking to hand it off or we will set him up for quick short passes.

 

[venecol]

1. One possible justification for his non-answers is if the swelling of the ankle hasn't gone down enough to make a proper determination on the extent of the injury. Not sure that matters w/ an MRI but I'm not an orthopedic surgeon.

2. Other possibility, injury isn't as bad as originally reported.

3. This is exactly why you get all of the media speculation. They have no choice but to get their own sources (a cousin of a friend of the cafeteria worker at Gillete). So complaining about what the media puts out there is useless. It's a monster 100% created by Belichick's non-ansers to perfectly reasonable questions. 96.875% of the other coaches would answer these simple questions.