Using the Lions to Bait the Dolphins

[satz]

R u saying

-- Vollmer let his guy run around him and hit brady.
-- Solder followed vollmer lead
-- Gronk missed the inline block and let william hit brady
-- Dan faked a injury and his backup let free hits on brady.


it does not matter how you game plan if your tackles and gaurds cannot handle there blocking you will loose.

 

[Garbanza]

Rappaport reports that Brady hardly, if ever, audibled out of any of the blitzes by the Lions, and if he had, the ball would have been out much sooner.

Anyone else think that BB was using the Lions game to 'bait' the Dolphins into attempting a similar blitz strategy against the Patriots?

No.

First, these conspiracy theories and Bill Belichick are so out of control and a completelty wrong most of the time.

Second, would you risk injuring your best player (Brady)? C'mon.

 

[WhiZa]

I thought it was pretty simple. The Pats were playing vanilla and were worrying about getting home in a hurricane. Detroit was looking for national credibility on network television and pulled out all the tricks. I'm not worried about it. We went 2-2 in the 2007 preseason for reference.

 

[Keyser Söze]

at the risk of Brady getting clobbered..yeah that seems likely

 

[dhamz]

I hadn't seen one of these "BB is a mad scientist pulling the strings of everyone in the NFL" threads in awhile.

They are always entertaining.

 

[Haley]

Who plans an elaborate ruse for the benefit of the Dolphins? What are we Buffalo now?

 

[Ochmed Jones]

Didn't BB do this last year as well?

While I do not think the O line breakdowns were part of the game plan, I do think BB stripped out a ton of what the offense and defense do.

Whatever Miami sees on this tape, will be nothing like what they see in week #1.

 

[Patstopia]

I thought Rappaport's article was very interesting. It pointed out a lot about the game that I hadn't noticed. For those that didn't read it, you should take a look!

 

[Kid~Brady]

I thought Rappaport's article was very interesting. It pointed out a lot about the game that I hadn't noticed. For those that didn't read it, you should take a look!

where's the link ?

 

[QB12]

Didn't BB do this last year as well?

While I do not think the O line breakdowns were part of the game plan, I do think BB stripped out a ton of what the offense and defense do.

Whatever Miami sees on this tape, will be nothing like what they see in week #1.

Agreed, and that's the point I've been trying to make, albeit inartfully.

 

[ALP]

Is Rappaport kissing up to the Pats to make up for his tweeting huring Mrs. Kraft's funeral services? Whatever. This sounds like the Manny Ramirez worshippers who think he passed on pitches the first time around so he could punish a pitcher for when it really counted. Wow.
If this is true then, here are some other tasty gems:

1. The Pollard hit was set up by BB to get a 2nd round pick for Matt Cassel
2. We blew away the 2006 AFCCG so the Colts and Manning could win a SB and lose their hunger.
3. We went 18-1 so that it would be even more awesome to go undefeated after the 18 game season.

lmao

awesome response

 

[Patstopia]

where's the link ?

I said for you to read it, not have me look for it for you.

Loss may be what Belichick hoped to learn from - BostonHerald.com

 

[Kid~Brady]

I said for you to read it, not have me look for it for you.

Loss may be what Belichick hoped to learn from - BostonHerald.com

Well don't propose we read something thats good and not post a link.. duh. jerk LOL

 

[Patstopia]

Well don't propose we read something thats good and not post a link.. duh. jerk LOL

<enter insult here>:bricks:

 

[serifyn]

its hard to call audibles when you got 80,000 screaming fans in your ear, do i think it was the patriots plan for Tom Brady to get his ass handed to him? no.

face it, the O-line got lit up, theres no excuse for that.

 

[serifyn]

Watching the Patriots over the years, there are 3 things which cause the Patriots offense to have bad games.

- Dominant opposing D-line on the other team

- Brady taking hits early and then subsequently playing much worse afterwards.

- Loud Stadiums where it is difficult to make audibles.

The Patriots can deal with 1 or 2 of these things, but when all 3 happen you get games like the Superbowl and this most recent lions game, its been the biggest reason the patriots haven't been able to advance for the last couple of years now.

 

[Ring 6]

Do you think BB and his former assistant, Jim Schwartz, talked about how the game would be played, before gametime? Blitzing by Lions, no cheap shots on Brady, no audibles by Pats, no blitzing by Pats, zone coverage on the back end, test the slot corner and test McCourty. Given the relationship between the 2 of them, this does not require a huge leap of logic.

Reportedly, the reason why New Orleans blitzed the heck out of San Francisco the first preseason game was b/c Sean Payton was upset that Jim Harbaugh didn't call Payton before the game to discuss how it would be played.

I find that crazy, but maybe thats just me............
I don't understand why every time the Patriots play poorly, even in a practice game, people feel the need to turn it into ingenious strategy that they wanted to play poorly.

 

[Ring 6]

I think Belichick went into the game with a certain agenda to try things on both sides of the ball which may or may not have been condusive to winning, but I don't think Belichick had some master scheme to play possum to trick the Dolphins to think the Pats were seriously flawed.

The Pats came into the game with a vanilla nickel base defense with no substitutions and an offensive gameplan to work the deep part of the field with little or non adjustments as the game went on. But I think he did that because he wanted to evaluate players and certain things.

The Lions clearly treated it like a statement game and a dress rehersal. I don't know if the Patriots did. That said, Belichick wouldn't risk seriously injuring Brady to make the Dolphins and the rest of the league think the Pats offense is seriously flawed in some way.

Whatever Belichick was trying to evaluate, the team failed miserably at it. Probably why Sanders was one of the first cuts.

What BB did was exactly the same as what he did in the other preseason games. Focus on certain areas, and put the team in a position to be evaluated. In the first 2 games our guys played better than their guys. In this one their guys played better than ours.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

lol :bricks:

 

[Tom + Bill]

Dolphins aren't in our league they are classless.