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The Eagles RPO was obviously effective versus the Patriots and Vikings, among others. Can the Pats adopt it? If not, why not?

Concerned still by the hand situation. A few days ago Brady said the hand was still bothering him. I've basically never heard Brady say any injury bothers him no matter what in 17 years, except I guess for the ACL. And he's still wearing the gloves to the press conferences. What if scar tissue...

A friend of mine is claiming that the penalty differential in the AFC championship game - the Jaguars accrued far more penalties - shows the referees were biased. I have heard this fallacy repeated in the media as well. Has someone gone over the Jaguars penalties to show nearly all of them were...

One interesting observation was how a swing pass to Amendola early set up several fake swing passes to Amendola later to move the defense. Ben Volin: Patriots’ coordinators had a showcase game against Titans - The Boston Globe

This fake reverse was my favorite of the Titans game. Presnap Gronk is in motion left to right. Brady fakes handoff to Lewis, fakes another handoff to Cooks who had run backwards from the outside right on the line. Gronk pulls to the left to block from the left. Brady then passes to Lewis on the...

Can someone explain Harrison's impact in the Tennessee game? In what ways did his presence change the Titans offense? (And, after Sunday, how will he likely be used in the AFCC based on the Titans game?)

Two of the most interesting plays against the Jets week 17 were Lewis' hesitation moves, where he just hangs back, waiting for an opening, like Le'Veon Bell or the mirror image of Ed Reed. One play was on 1st and 10, Q3 5:20. The other particularly impressive move was at Q3 3:32 2nd and 5 (the...

Q4, about 4:55, Patriots on Bills 19, 2d and 2. Handoff to Lewis who runs left for about 16 yards. When I first saw this it merged in my mind with all the other Lewis runs in that game. Then I saw a tweet somewhere - I don't know where - highlighting it. It's a really interesting play because...

I'm concerned by the Rodgers/Garoppolo situation in which excellent quarterbacks weren't allowed to play, even though other teams would have been delighted to have them and even though the player would have been delighted to leave. It's obviously bad for the quality of the sport for top QBs to...

This is the most interesting Breakdown this season. The analysis of exactly why Gronkowski was open so much - one of the safeties was used to playing zone and Brady led him with his eyes - was particularly interesting, but there's a lot else. E.g., Slater's tackle, and the fake spike.

He's definitely channeling Brady: deep preparation, quick reads and reactions, on point time management, attention to detail in how his receivers run routes - even the "locked in".

This is a follow up to the thread started on June 1, 2017 here: Cian Fahey on Tom Brady . That thread noted that Cian Fahey (Pre-Snap Reads QuarterBack Catalogue 2017) had claimed that Brady threw more interceptable passes late in the 2016 season. That analysis is one reason I've been...

Sometime after the Bills game on Sunday, Dec. 3 and before the Dolphins game on Monday, Dec. 11, I made a post that argued Brady should be rested for the upcoming 12/11 Dolphins game, and that his recent interceptions were consistent with my prior analysis of Brady's late season performance in...

Baldinger has a nice all-22 excerpt and commentary on a Brendin Cooks comeback route against the Dolphins, where Brady throughs while Cooks's back is still turned: I have a question about this and similar routes. Here the receiver runs out 16 yards from the line of scrimmage, then comes back...

I just watched the all-22 of Dion Lewis's TD. What a route. What a great play. Lewis lines up to the right of Brady. Then after the snap he: Moves right Cuts in just as Brady pump fakes left Moves back out to catch the pass, leaving his defender far behind Cuts back in Cuts back out Cuts...

Jeff Howe claims that Gilmore's signing went against the Patriots' own stated procedures for signing free agents. In this podcast, Howe: Fair To Question Patriots For Gilmore Signing - Toucher & Rich - Omny.fm , Howe says that the Patriots didn't sign high-priced free agents without first...

How important was Edelman's blocking in SBLI? More precisely, if Edelman's blocks were average quality for a receiver, would we have still won? @bormio listed four key blocks in another post: Overtime touchdown by White. Edelman crackback block on Brian Poole #34, knocking him over. Without...

When I put a youtube link in a forum post, the software turns the link into a full inline video. This is not always what I want because (a) it takes a lot of space on the page, and (b) its handling of links to times within videos i.e. using the &t=... format seems buggy. How can I just post a...

Did the Pats change something to be so injury-free, except for Gronk, by playoff time in 2016, or were we just luckier? I'm asking partly to try to assess how worried about a 2015 injury repeat one should be at this stage.