The Pats defense against the run should be much more of an issue this year

[Deus Irae]

Um..yeah. Andy's comment:



is absolutely accurate. This has been documented before and is fairly obvious when seeing Law's interceptions. He started out with a man look but let his man release and dropped back into a zone. His picks happened because Manning didn't account for him drifting into areas he thought would be uncovered.

You can argue about the zone/man split for the Pats in general, but that game in particular was a zone scheme designed to mess with Manning's head. Thing of beauty.

Read my post which Andy responded to. He was wrong about my post, because I wasn't talking about particular games, although I (correctly) pointed to the Colts as an example:

The Patriots played more man defense when Law was here, Rodney was faster and Wilson was healthy. Manning and Harrison still have the nightmares to prove it.

His response included this inaccuracy, which I was referring to:

We have always used man or some version of man under in sub packages, but we have always been primarily a zone team.