TinhWoodhead
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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.Jonnu just didn't look like a fit all year. Every time he got the ball it seemed like it had to be a schemed up play designed for him and not any part of the natural flow of the offense. He ended up as a very expensive blocker most of the time he was on the field.
Brady is running the NE offense in Tampa and winning.Shameful. Maybe time for a new offense. Can't keep bringing folks in that "don't get it". The dude can play. Get him the ball.
They projected he could pick up the system quickly and he hasn't. Couple that with the fact he was never a highly productive player to begin with. It's not like the guy went from being a 60/800 guy to now.Brady is running the NE offense in Tampa and winning.
This team does some strange things. Why sign Smith to all that money and barely use him?
...It wouldn't matter as much except 5+ different crappy expensive contracts on the team will mess up keeping JC Jackson which would be disastrous
I don’t buy that the offense couldn’t get the ball to him. I don’t know .0001% of what Josh knows, but I can think of ten Patriot plays that would get him the ball in space. That’s on Josh, but it is really out of character for Josh to ignore an obvious resource. Jonnu wasn’t even used the way Art Smith used him in Tennessee.
I think it’s Jonnu’s early drops that led to his non-use, but that’s just a guess.
Flores wasn’t here in 19.Fix the Front 7, and call it more aggressive like Flores did in '19 IMHO.
Make the QB have to make quicker decisions, that way the DBS don't need to tight cover as long, this year was PAINFUL when Judon was hurt.
Other than that 1 year, Gilmore was a VG Corner, 2020 he was back to mediocre without that pressure he had the year b4(before he got hurt).
Pittsburgh's Defense this year is a decent example IMO.
As were the Giants front 4 in the SB's we lost(Sorry- it's painful).it was the front 4 that destroyed the Pats OL (Neal being hurt certainly didn't help).
There are different ways to do it, lockdown corners creating problems, or the front 7 creating rushed decisions/throws.
They let Allen sit back there worried about him running, and he's too smart(with a rocket arm-not a good option).
I still don't know why they didn't have Judon and crew putting PRESSURE, with Collins spying him... although I think Judon was hurting at the end of the season.
These are just MY thoughts from watching the games.
I don’t buy that the offense couldn’t get the ball to him. I don’t know .0001% of what Josh knows, but I can think of ten Patriot plays that would get him the ball in space. That’s on Josh, but it is really out of character for Josh to ignore an obvious resource. Jonnu wasn’t even used the way Art Smith used him in Tennessee.
I think it’s Jonnu’s early drops that led to his non-use, but that’s just a guess.
Flores wasn’t here in 19.
Something might have happened in between the 2012->2013 season off the field that had an impact on 2TE sets.That was Bill O'Brien who installed the 2TE offense. The momen O'Brien left McD quickly abandoned 2TE's. Easily verifiable when one checks the 2013-2020 season game logs. Even with Bennett here it was almost always just him (Gronk hurt) or Gronk doing things.
And the 2019 defense allowed fewer points than the 2018.Yes he left after the best Superbowl defensive points given up in history.
Something might have happened in between the 2012->2013 season off the field that had an impact on 2TE sets.
As for 2016. Brady-Gronk-Bennett basically only played 5 games together.
In those 5 games Gronk had 529 yards and Bennett had 225. Over 16 games that works out to 1693 yards for Gronk and 720 yards for Bennett. Note that Bennett actually ended up with 701 yards for the season, so he actually average MORE yards when playing with Gronk.
The Niners use Samuel just like we used AH.Yes. But even in 2012, if you remember Hernandez was being used differently from his better 2011 year, he was being put in weird spots like HBack.
Not even close.The Niners use Samuel just like we used AH.
The Niners use Samuel just like we used AH.
This was his worst year blocking. Easily his worst year run blocking and not much better in pass pro. The past 2-3 years he was actually above average.
Just had time to look. PFF isn't really good for anything nowadays but snaps by position is useful for sure. They had him graded out as his lowest year for blocking since he was a rookie fwiw.I doubt he was much worse blocking this season than he had been any other season.... Never was the reason that the Titties had him on the field either.
And the 2019 defense allowed fewer points than the 2018.
2 hours of film of specifically Hernandez + Gronk being used correctly in 2TE Offense in 2011 by Bill O'Brien: