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He’s made quite a few strange excuses this season. That’s just the most recent. He sort of tossed his scouting department under the bus earlier in the season when asked about the bad drafts in recent years, too.
It has been the excuse tour for Bill. For a guy that has won so much he has come across as unbelievably insecure this year. I have no idea why. Would have been fine to just say we need to do a better job drafting and we are still figuring out the QB post Brady. I mean everyone in NE is just begging to give him a pass anyways.
He basically did to us what the Steelers did in 2011. We came in expecting their usual three deep shell zone coverage, especially with Polamalu out. They played Cover-1, Cover-2 man under with the corners in press taking inside shade. By the time we adjusted, it was too late to catch up.
There's no way of knowing how Brady would have done here this year.
It's hard to get "creative" inside the 5 when your OL is playing poorly and your QB isn't much of a passer and you don't have a red zone threat (I know we haven't seen it this year but there's this good red zone position called "tight end"). They ran that QB dive play in the Seattle game and Cam didn't score. Why? Johnson didn't finish his block, Mason missed his block and Onwenu was thrown down like a rag doll.
disagree. he came in with a game plan, and circumstances allowed it to work vs LAC and he didnt have to adjust. thats being result oriented. the D and ST came up big there. we clearly needed adjustments in the game vs LAR and none were made, at least none that were successful, in last nights game. thats indicate he's falling short IMO. we've seen the many times in past too.
With Bill this year its NOT just been bad roster decisions and lack of talent, he seems like a different guy. Coaching has been bad for most of the year, even given the subpar talent. Also to me it seems BB has changed, he seems very at ease with accepting losses and failure. Also throwing his colleagues under the buses and making excuses are the antithesis of what we have known as the Patriot Way.
Judging by that and the way #41 moved inside prior to the snap but quickly went outside to the spot the ball was thrown, tells me that they either recognized the play right away or Cam was staring at Harris. The way the DL are putting up their arms and knocking down passes with their elbows has me thinking it's probably Cam.
The only thing that makes any sense to me is that the roster sucks, Bill knows the roster sucks, and Cam knows the roster sucks, but isn't *****ing about it. There's no other reason I can think of than to stick with Cam. Bill talks about Cam's accomplishments. The last guy was pretty accomplished as well. I think there's a level of respect that Bill has for Cam that has nothing to do with what we are seeing on game day. There's something behind the scenes that is making Bill stay locked in to Cam. Perhaps Stid is a clock puncher, and isn't doing the level of work that needs to be done, in Bill's eyes, to warrant a change. Perhaps Stid isn't grasping the offense. I dunno. I cannot figure out why Bill is staying with Cam, other than it's something we cannot see.
I addressed this (well... my thoughts on it) in my last post before this one. Should be on the previous page.
They didn't fight for everything last night.
No it doesn't, but Josh did suck last night.
They don't trust Cam to throw at all down there. I think that is smart. The run plays could be more creative I suppose but things are tight down there. I wish McD would study both KC and the Bills and the stuff they run in the RZ. Their play designs and creativity are impressive.
