X's & O's Breaking down that 77 Yard TD

[borg]

Great to see an offensive player lay some serious wood. Besides the quick strike 7 points that halted Miami's momentum, knock out blows on full display can do as much damage psychologically as scoring the TD. We saw it with McCourty's big hit a few weeks ago. We also saw Gronk get pasted verses Seattle knocking the wind out of the entire Patriots offense. I'm just waiting for some O line pancake blocks to get the juices flowing this post season

 

[captain stone]

Great job, Rook. This play reminds me of the 3rd-down conversion to White during the 3rd quarter
of the Donkeys game. White was an ankle tackle away from taking that one to the house, too.

 

[The Gr8est]

Man, you might have set a forum record for the most highly rated post.

And well deserved at that. You put a lot of work into it.

RookBoston had just done an outstanding detailed analysis of BB's draft methods when I first joined Patsfans years ago, and it became a classic.

For as long as he has been posting here he has relatively few posts, but as this thread shows, he makes up for quantity with quality.

Gr8 work rook!

 

[The Gr8est]

Great to see an offensive player lay some serious wood. Besides the quick strike 7 points that halted Miami's momentum, knock out blows on full display can do as much damage psychologically as scoring the TD. We saw it with McCourty's big hit a few weeks ago. We also saw Gronk get pasted verses Seattle knocking the wind out of the entire Patriots offense. I'm just waiting for some O line pancake blocks to get the juices flowing this post season

I think as much as the block itself was spectacular, consider Floyd did that and was in sync with the play after being here only 3 weeks.

 

[brdmaverick]

Perfect examplification of what's wrong with PFF.

Ya, football isn't really a 'stat friendly' game like baseball. In baseball it's one on one, batter vs pitcher, in which it's quite easy to see each individuals success.

At least Brady gets credit for a 77 yard TD on that play. I think stats do the most disservice to defensive players. If a guy like Sherman can truly be a shutdown corner and not even have the opposing QB throw his way, that won't translate to anything stat wise.

 

[meatface]

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