Are we peaking to early???

[SVN]

i still have my worries about our secondary. We havent faced teams with good receivers and QB's who can consistently throw downfield.
This week in cincy might answer those questions.

 

[IcyPatriot]

We were playing this well in 2002, when we were on fire on offense.. I know our defense sucked back then, but are we showing too much too soon???

Perhaps we will need to have the guys s#ck a bit now so we can have a better chance of uns#cking in November & December. :bricks:

 

[Bostonian1962]

They can't be peaking. New receivers and Brady have much room to grow. Thomas in the middle of the LBs is new, and has much room to grow. I expect them to peak in the Super Bowl.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

i don't think we're peaking at all, if you look at a 16 week season. As BB has often said, there are several seasons within a season. we're doing pretty well in season one. season two starts after the Cincy game IMO. season three starts with the colts. season four with the final run of the steelers, jets and fins at home before finishing in the meadowlands. we need to win all four seasons and peak for each of them to get homefield and a bye in January.

 

[Patriot_in_NY]

We were playing this well in 2002, when we were on fire on offense.. I know our defense sucked back then, but are we showing too much too soon???

PEAKING? No way....... I'm with BB on this one. At times we've played pretty sloppy and so far, we've left QUITE a few point on the field. When I say "scary good", it's on the simple fact that we are destroying teams (even if mediocre ones), in 3 quarters of play (all 4th's have been clock-kill time so far). We are doing it even while still having the typical bone-head plays (Brady's fumble, ect....) and so one. This sportscar hasn't even come close to opening it wide for 4 quarters.

The difference is you have a HOF QB throwing to a HOF WR along with huge talents at TE, other WR (specially Welker), RB and all along the line. The big plays have just been there, because of talent if not so much scheming or game-planing.

As for showing to much....... I don't see that some much. I thought the game-plan for the most part was vanilla for Buffalo. We just wore and already depleted defense and then picked them apart in the 3rd, early 4th.

 

[Jacky Roberts]

I dont think they are peaking too early, but I do think they had better start running the ball better. Once the weather changes, Maroney and Morris are going to need to be able to score TD's and keep the ball on the ground.

They are doing ok now, but no one can expect this passing game to continue at its pace once it gets cold.

 

[spacecrime]

I don't believe that such a thing even exists and i've never understood what "peaking too early" means.

Over the course of a season, a team does not play exactly the same. There are periods of better playing and periods of lesser playing. Slumps, if you will.

The trick is to have your period of best playing fall at the end of the season, as we did in 2001, when the last half of the year/playoffs was definately better than the first half.

The following year, our play started off great for a couple games, slumped for four-five more, got better again, then slumped again for the last three-four games.

The fallacy of "peaking to early" is pretending that if you start slow, you will finish strong, or vice versa, or that you can control peaking too early. What do people who think we are peaking to early suggest we do? Play crappy on purpose?

Perhaps the 2002 team believed some of the hype. I don't think that will happen this year, but I do wish the media would would stop with the 16-0 stuff.

 

[ctpatsfan1]

I dont think they are peaking too early, but I do think they had better start running the ball better. Once the weather changes, Maroney and Morris are going to need to be able to score TD's and keep the ball on the ground.

They are doing ok now, but no one can expect this passing game to continue at its pace once it gets cold.

they had 177yds against the Bills and are averaging 150 ypg and ranked 4th in the league.......just curious what is your idea of better, 200+?

 

[patsox23]

We were playing this well in 2002, when we were on fire on offense.. I know our defense sucked back then, but are we showing too much too soon???

LOL! What are we "showing?" This is a post you had to know was coming. No, we are not peaking too eary and we're not showing anything - we've been fairly vanilla so far, mainly due to the fact that we've been up early and by a lot.

This team is fundamentally better than the 2002 team in almost every way. Relax. Enjoy the ride.

 

[Ispep Aloc]

I was just concerned that we are giving teams, too much to look at too soon..

With our WR core, I don't think that we've given any team too much. Once teams start shutting down Moss, they've still got to figure out how to stop Stallworth and Welker. You can't double team 3 WRs and if you do Brady will find Watson, Evans, Maroney, Faulk or he'll just run it himself for a short gain.

 

[patsox23]

I dont think they are peaking too early, but I do think they had better start running the ball better. Once the weather changes, Maroney and Morris are going to need to be able to score TD's and keep the ball on the ground.

They are doing ok now, but no one can expect this passing game to continue at its pace once it gets cold.

Quick question: WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

 

[He Ban Me]

We were playing this well in 2002, when we were on fire on offense.. I know our defense sucked back then, but are we showing too much too soon???

:bricks: yes:bricks:

 

[godef]

I duuno... seems more like we've plateau'd early. :bricks:

 

[onegameatatime]

Why do people feel the need to find clouds in a sunny sky?

Have the Pats peaked? Don't we have Seymour and Harrison get back? (Harrison, at least, but we do not know about Seymour.) Can Chad Jackson be what we think he is? Can Neal recover from injury? Can LoMo run better and keep the pads down? Stallworth becoming the threat we think he can be? Can Adalius Thomas get better as he gets more experience in the Pats system?

 

[BradyManny]

We were playing this well in 2002, when we were on fire on offense.. I know our defense sucked back then, but are we showing too much too soon???

Nah, the scariest part about this whole thing is the number of points we've left on the field (Brady's fumble, missed FGs, Brady's INT last week), and how easily we have been able to rack up points without doing anything too creative.

On top of that, when you think about the additions of Seymour and Harrison, this team is truly only getting started.

 

[Dragda]

We were playing this well in 2002, when we were on fire on offense.. I know our defense sucked back then, but are we showing too much too soon???

This isn't 2002. To your credit, you mentioned the defense, BUT: We don't have Steve "wild and crazy guy" Martin as our starting DT to start the season. Our entire team has changed. We are stocked with players who will excel in our system.

Patten and Givens, as much as we all loved them at the time, weren't good. We had a rotten OL. Antowain Smith? Please!

 

[Snake]

Who said the Patriots have peaked?

 

[RodRustsGhost]

I say this with tongue partially planted in cheek, but there's definitely some truth to this:

The Patriots are playing like crap.

They aren't peaking, we're watching them on their floor. THAT is why they're scary. They're scary because they haven't done ANYTHING yet. Read some of the other threads.. about Donte not getting touches, about Maroney not really running well yet, about the guys on the pup list.

This team might never reach its potential, but, in my mind their potential is absolutely beyond anything the league has ever seen.

19-0 is still way far off, and 99% unlikely -- but this team DOES have a better chance than any team in memory to do it.

This team is the first time I've ever looked at a non-playstation team and thought, "that team could score 100 pnts in a game"

This defense is good enough that I could actually see them putting a string of shutouts together against high-powered offenses.

Now, all that said... potential is nothing. They could miss the playoffs if they read their own press clippings.

My only point here is this... I do not, even in the tiniest way, think that the patriots are anywhere near their peak for this season.

 

[VJCPatriot]

We were playing this well in 2002, when we were on fire on offense.. I know our defense sucked back then, but are we showing too much too soon???

Hehe you made a funny.
This team has just started to gel.
They have by no means peaked.
Stallworth has yet to fully bond with the offense.

This defense is missing 2 key cogs in Seymour and Harrison.
It is not the Patriots fault that they are already so good that they are embarassing teams.
The scary thing is, how good will they be a couple of months from now?
That should be an awesome sight to behold.
49 or 50 point explosions are not out of the question imo.