I guess my memory wasn't working back then huh?
For the record, I was talking about on this forum. But your comment in itself says enough.
My comment is directed at the mentality that actually believes it can decipher what goes on in an NFL game because they watch them on Sunday.
He did for a half. Before that, he looked exactly like what he did today. I haven't made excuses for the OL. I don't think they played a good game at all and have said so. But there were times in that game where Brady didn't have anyone in his face and only had pressure coming at him from the sides and STILL didn't step into his throws. They were way off. It's not like Brady has never been hit before. He has. And he used to step into his throws fully before when the pressure was in his face. That wasn't the case and the preseason and it hasn't been the case in two regular season games outside of 15 minutes in the first game. He still has a mental hurdle for the injury that needs to be cleared. That's obvious. If you can't see that then I don't know what to tell you. That said, that 15 minutes in the Bills game tells me that he WILL clear that hurdle... it's just a matter of when.
Last week he was raising off his back foot and not stepping into his throws therefore not following through and that drove his timing off. This week he was throwing off his back foot alot which most QB's will do when under intense pressure. It's a means to an end, getting a throw off at all and avoiding a sack or worse...
I watched the game. Maroney was practically a ghost after the first quarter and Taylor had 8 carries the entire game. With those 8 carries, he managed to rip off 46 yards. The Jets couldn't stop him between the tackles and it showed at the end of the first half. They all but abandoned that in the second half which is why Brady attempted 47 passes. Sorry, but you simply cannot win against a defense like the one the Jets have with your QB attempting 47 passes.
Apparently you saw each make a long carry or two. What you then disremembered was they as well as Faulk and Morris were increasingly shut down. One of the third and 1's we could not convert was a Taylor carry. On two other drives we went backwards to the point there was no shot to move the chains other than passing since our longest run of the day was for 12-13 yards. I wish they would run more. Might be justification for carrying 5 RB including BJGE whose lone contribution today was a ST penalty. And it would certainly lighten the load on Brady. But the sad fact is we can't run the ball with any consistency and we telegraph our efforts when we resort to our Wham scheme and goaline sets. We didn't add Taylor to change that. We added him to replace Jordan. If we wanted to change the focus we'd add a fullback. It's not the coordinator's call or the QB's call, that's a personnel and philosophy issue and it's Belichick's call. He apparently believes we can do whatever it takes if existing players execute. I just haven't seen them do that consistently since 2005.
I meant to say that they blitzed over 20 times in my original post. They did suck. However, Brady has bailed his O-Line out before time and time again. He couldn't do it today because of what I have previously mentioned. Brady has been under more pressure in the past than he has today. The only difference is that today Brady's mechanics were off. The fact that they still called 47 pass plays shows me that the play calling was also terrible. As BB said, it was a loss at all levels today.
His mechanics weren't off. He was under as much pressure as he's ever seen and he had two new receivers and a new TE at his disposal to deal with it. Edleman exceeded realistic expectations but he still made mistakes. Galloway is tentative and he and Brady have almost no chemistry to date. Randy was either double covered or seeing double depending on whose story you buy. That didn't leave him much to work with compared to the players he was working with say late in the 2007 season when the pressure first racheted up to this level consistently. But it's easier to blame it all on Brady and say, as only fans here can after what he engineered almost single handedly last week, that he sucks and he should hear it but he'll be OK soon... Brady has had a couple of stinkers in his time here, and the tell is usually multiple picks, but he's never remotely sucked.
Brady has had many defenders in his face before. Why is today all of the sudden different? Again, his mechanics are off. You can see it when he throws. On two instances, if his mechanics and timing were good we would have had TDs. The first was the throw to Edelman which was way outside. Edelman had NO SHOT at that one. The second was the deep pass to Galloway. Galloway had burned Sheppard at first and if Brady's timing was down, that would have been a TD. Instead, Brady didn't throw the ball when he should have and Lito Sheppard caught up. The deep pass to Moss was bad in that it was thrown into double coverage, however, I do agree that Moss could have done more to try to catch that one.
Today was no different than February 2008. It may seem all of a sudden but that's just because he missed an entire year in the interim...and any difficulties the offense encountered were blamed on Cassel. What makes you think Edleman didn't break too late since he was struggling to line up in the right position? Again, Brady is throwing to a spot and at a time. Unless you know what those were you can't begin to know who was late or early. When in doubt, my money is on the QB being right and the receivers being off. Sometimes his reaction will tell you. He generally owns his mistakes and corrects his receivers. I saw none of either yesterday, probably because he was too focused on running the no huddle, silent count, armband brigade offense and staying alive. And if you think Moss was doubled on that throw you're seeing double too. What he was was beat by a CB in single coverage and he can't admit it. That's an ego issue. It's easier to say we were going backwards (provided of course you own that at least in one instance that was on you...).
Sanchez attempted a whole five passes in the first half and the Jets were a one dimensional offense. If the Jets coaching staff puts the ball in the hands of Sanchez in the first half as much as they did in the second half, that offense would have easily put up more than 16 points.
