Great Pats bye strategy . explained by TB

[long distance]

Great way to use a playoff bye.
Instead of speculating going forward . or taking a week off -
focus on understanding and improving yourself (on film and field)
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TB:

“There’s a lot of things that we worked on over the course of the bye week that did show up over 16 weeks that we could improve on,” Brady said. “Some of them are generic, but some of them are pretty specific to players on our team and those are the things that we worked on all week.”

Added Brady: “We put a lot of work in over the last 16 weeks and we’re in a good place. We had a good week of practice, but it all wasn’t a week for us to rest and it was really a week for us to reflect on how the season played out, what made it successful and the things we need to clean up going into next week’s game.”

 

[PatsDeb]

Go Pats! Can't wait to see you coming out & firing on all cylinders on Saturday!!

 

[Brick27]

Excellent insight from Brady as always, and makes a lot of sense. A playoff bye week is a game vs. one's self, and the result of that "game" and how one approaches it can of course have a huge impact going forward.

 

[long distance]

Well . it seems BB was on the boat as well..




Not the same though..

 

[convertedpatsfan]

The team also does this during regular season bye weeks as well. Below is an article from 2009 on the subject.

Self-scouting a key to bye week preps; Thu notes