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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.Gronk simply acting as a decoy would've done wonders today. Or even against Houston next week.
I'm not endorsing the idea that he should have played as a decoy today but his injury (from what we have heard) is not close to a broken ankle or high ankle sprain...whatever it was.Like the Super Bowl with his broken ankle? Yeah that tricked them.
Unnecessary ? Yes. But it didn't really affect the game overall I thought. Until then the defense seemed to destroy any offense the Eagles had and the offense scored twice in a row. If you gonna try something this is the time. That being said, I am not sure why we really needed to try it.
It's pretty simple. We have no one on the field that really requires double coverage consistently so other teams can now crowd the intermediate spaces and make it more difficult to get the ball to our replacement receivers. Obviously I haven't watched the all 22 film so far but I strongly assume that similarly to the Denver game they made us go deep by taking away our bread and butter.
Now if Edelman and Gronk are out there they can't get away with it so easily because those two need special consideration and open up space for everyone else.
Agree with everything. It was the second game in a row with awful situational football. They really deserved to lose this one the way ST played.
One play I want to add here that only few people are talking about is White not extending to get into the endzone on the play before the first INT. I think he could have tried to break the plane of the endzone but instead went down at the 1. If we score here, we win the game easily.
No clue. Can only assume Brady doesn't trust him or he just doesn't fit into the McOffense.
Quite honestly I assumed you were more rational than those people here that make a big deal out of the entire thing. He should take as much time as necessary to get that knee healed up. I'd rather play @CIN or @DEN with a fully functional Gronk than at home against either of those teams with him not feeling comfortable or being limited because we rushed him back for a couple of regular season games.
Yep. That was a pretty bad miss by the officials.
Here comes the really unpopular thing.. Hightower is more important to this team than Chandler Jones. Jones had a nice season but similarly to the last few years he could not maintain his momentum throughout the entire year. Hope he will be close to healthy come playoffs. Similar to Gronk I say rest him as long as necessary.. MCL sprains are no joke and we will need him in the playoffs.
Things will become dark and gloomy the next few days but overall it simply is what it is. We lost over 70% of our offensive production this year and yet it still takes the other team making huge plays, ST making huge mistakes and sometimes even the help of the refs to beat us. I can live with that because this team is mentally very tough.
They need to find a running game and STICK with it. They started to get away from it late in the 2nd quarter and then all but abandoned it from there out, despite having a ton of success early on. Brady might be the only QB in the league that can win without any running game, but it's getting him killed. They NEED to run the ball for an ENTIRE game and get some rhythm going. They need to fix that Oline somehow.
I really can't pin this loss on Brady at all. Sure, that 1st INT wasn't the best of decisions, but they happen. The 2nd INT seemed to be 100% on Lafell not running the right route or breaking it off wrong. Aside from that, Brady was nothing short of incredible dealing with the pressure and Oline failures once again. And the drops... got to stop dropping the ball.
DuhJeff Howe @jeffphowe 41s42 seconds ago
Brady: "99-yard interception return, about as bad as you can do as a quarterback."
People are comparing gronk's arm surgery and acl to this injury and think he needs to be 100%. Sure but he doesnt 4 weeks to be 100% . right now they miss the short passing game because they got no running game. We cant run the ball efficiently and tonight we threw too much vs an eagles team which is poor vs the run.I am not suggesting Gronk should play injured. Gronk seems to insist of waiting until he is completely healed. I think that is where he is wrong. Every other player comes back before they are 100%. Do you think Amendola is 100%? There is a point when an injury is healed enough where you can play even if you are only 85-90%. And Gronk has a knee strain, not an MCL sprain. It is basically a bruise.
As for the deep ball, even if no one is drawing double coverage, Brady and his receivers are not connecting on anything more than 15-20 yards other than a play here and there. The problem is with the depleted receiving corp, they cannot risk using one or two plays a drive on deep balls which are basically wasted downs. They don't have Edelman or Gronk to bail them on on third and longs (and Amendola is not Edelman in this area).
But the worst was having such a momentum swinging play and then tossing a bonehead INT right after it
And your point is? Put an injured player out there as a decoy to pull coverage? not sure that was gonna be the answer today? Actually I am sure it wasn't the answer.I'm not endorsing the idea that he should have played as a decoy today but his injury (from what we have heard) is not close to a broken ankle or high ankle sprain...whatever it was.
Because Brady doesn't have a deep bone bruise. Gronk's bread and butter is explosive movement that includes stopping and cutting. I really hate how you are trivializing his injury to be a "knee bruise". We don't really know the full extent but deep bone bruises usually involve small breaks that need to be dealt with otherwise you risk breaking the entire bone. Again we are not talking about a painful blue spot on your skin.
I am not suggesting Gronk should play injured. Gronk seems to insist of waiting until he is completely healed. I think that is where he is wrong. Every other player comes back before they are 100%. Do you think Amendola is 100%? There is a point when an injury is healed enough where you can play even if you are only 85-90%. And Gronk has a knee strain, not an MCL sprain. It is basically a bruise.
As for the deep ball, even if no one is drawing double coverage, Brady and his receivers are not connecting on anything more than 15-20 yards other than a play here and there. The problem is with the depleted receiving corp, they cannot risk using one or two plays a drive on deep balls which are basically wasted downs. They don't have Edelman or Gronk to bail them on on third and longs (and Amendola is not Edelman in this area).