{"id":42886,"date":"2022-09-20T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=42886"},"modified":"2022-09-20T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T13:59:37","slug":"morese-honest-observations-from-patriots-week-2-victory-over-pittsburgh-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2022\/09\/20\/morese-honest-observations-from-patriots-week-2-victory-over-pittsburgh-steelers\/","title":{"rendered":"MORSE: Honest Observations from Patriots&#8217; Week 2 Victory over the Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriots didn\u2019t exactly jump into the win column but played well enough to win.\u00a0 They for the most part avoided the crucial mistakes that prevented them from winning the week before.\u00a0 The execution was much better, especially along the offensive line.\u00a0 The same can\u2019t be said for Mac Jones who played perhaps his worst game in a Patriots uniform.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Offensive line played great. They gave up no sacks to a team that had 7 the week before.\u00a0 Granted, TJ Watt was out and his absence could have been the difference in the game, he is that good.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait for the Pro Football Focus grades to come out this week.\u00a0 They should be outstanding led by Cole Strange.\u00a0 How many times did you hear Craig Heyward\u2019s name mentioned about making a play?\u00a0 He ended up with 5 Tackles of which 3 were solo as he moved all over the line.\u00a0 I loved how they ran the ball to close out the game.\u00a0 What was especially satisfying was that three of those close-out runs were zone blocking, stretch plays. \u00a0Trent Brown had a strong game.\u00a0 He got away with a false start whereas Isaiah Wynn didn\u2019t.\u00a0 David Andrews got called for a hold that wasn\u2019t, more on this later.<\/li>\n<li>Mac Jones had a very poor game. He had a clean pocket all day, yet he felt the pressure.\u00a0 His throws off his back foot were very noticeable as those sailed. \u00a0His decision-making was very questionable.\u00a0 He missed several wide-open receivers, Jakobi Meyers three times, Lil\u2019Jordan Humphrey and Hunter Henry another time.\u00a0 Why did he throw deep to Davante Parker?\u00a0 That was a throw that was begging to be picked off.\u00a0 He nearly threw an Interception to Cameron Sutton, who should have made the catch.<\/li>\n<li>Jakobi Meyers was clutch this week going over the middle. Pittsburgh stuck to their two high safety look.\u00a0 The TEs took the seams and forced the safeties to respect the deep ball and Meyers worked underneath, often taking big hits.\u00a0 He was 9 rec on 13 targets for 95 yards.\u00a0 Remember he was overthrown three times.\u00a0 He had one drop he should have caught.<\/li>\n<li>Running backs Damien Harris 15\/95 1TD, 4.7 ypc (6<sup>th<\/sup> in the league before Sunday Night) and Rhamondre Stevenson 9\/47, 5.2 ypc were both tremendous as the team ran for 127 yards.<\/li>\n<li>Kendrick Bourne was credited with 2 catches on 3 targets. He actually had another catch for 10 yards called back on the absolute bogus holding call on David Andrews.<\/li>\n<li>Andrews had pancaked the D-lineman and was lying on top of him. The D-lineman tried to go low on Andrews and he just pancaked him \u2026 terrible call on what was a pretty good job by this officiating crew.<\/li>\n<li>Congrats to Josh Uche for playing to the whistle on his scoop and score. He was smart and since he didn\u2019t hear a whistle, continued with the ball into the end zone.\u00a0 I appreciated the fact the official let the play run out and then went back to the review.\u00a0 All turnovers are automatically reviewed and they reversed the call, which was the correct call.<\/li>\n<li>Brenden Schooler\u2019s recovery of the muffed punt by Gunner Olszewski was the turning point of the game and may have won it for the Patriots. Olszewski let the ball hit him in the face mask for the turnover.<\/li>\n<li>Mack Wilson gets kudos for tipping a Trubisky pass that was intercepted by Jalen Mills. I had questioned why JuWhuan Bentley was in the Miami game on 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 7 just before the half.\u00a0 He can\u2019t cover.\u00a0 Waddle zoomed past Bentley and split the safeties for the backbreaking 42-yard TD pass.\u00a0 If Mack had been in, that play wouldn\u2019t have happened.<\/li>\n<li>Myles Bryant was lucky on the booming 69-yard punt by Pressley Harvin that took him into the endzone. He muffed the punt and it rolled into the endzone.\u00a0 He recovered it and I thought it would have been a safety.\u00a0 However the official immediately indicated it was a touchback.\u00a0 The ruling was explained to Mike Tomlin and he was satisfied.\u00a0 Anytime a punt travels inside the 10-yard line you have to let it go.\u00a0 Pierre Strong made an ill-advised return of a kickoff 5 yards deep in the endzone and only got out to the 17.<\/li>\n<li>What a weapon Pittsburgh punter Pressley Harvin was. He was 4\/207 yards 50+ avg.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Boswell is a great kicker, especially in Acrisure Stadium. It is not an easy place to kick as the wind is always swirling.\u00a0 \u00a0Nick Folk didn\u2019t play the wind well enough and his 52-yard kick sailed wide right.\u00a0 If you noticed the flags at the top of the goalposts, they were swinging wildly to the right.<\/li>\n<li>I loved Ian Eagles&#8217; throw-away line after Charles Davis made a Seinfeld reference after Nelson Agholor\u2019s TD snatch. Eagle said, \u201cthey\u2019re real and they\u2019re spectacular\u201d.\u00a0 Perhaps that was an inappropriate reference but it was fun anyways.\u00a0 It really had nothing to do with the play but it was a Seinfeld reference.<\/li>\n<li>Where were the TEs? No catches for either TE.\u00a0 Jones missed Henry on one play and forced it to Smith on an ill-advised pass.\u00a0 Smith was targeted 3 times and Henry once.<\/li>\n<li>Why is Davante Parker on this team? He was targeted twice on 53 snaps.\u00a0 He needs to go!\u00a0 He has given up 2 INTs on his few targets.\u00a0 I would rather have 33 yo, Cole Beasley, as a true slot receiver.\u00a0 Parker was being covered by Linebacker Robert Spillane and Mac Jones didn\u2019t see the two high safeties, who baited him into throwing the pass.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps the Patriots&#8217; Defense is better than we thought. Look at what Miami did in Baltimore today in their comeback win.\u00a0 Tua Tagoviola threw for 469 yards on 36\/50 and 6 TD passes.\u00a0 They put up 547 yards of total offense.\u00a0 The Patriots&#8217; Defense only gave up one play of over 20 yards and that was a 23-yard pass to George Pickens.<\/li>\n<li>Why didn\u2019t the Patriots challenge a 3-17 completion to Diontae Johnson? It was clearly not the first down.\u00a0 Steelers Radio broadcast claimed that Belichick was distracted talking to offensive players<\/li>\n<li>The Patriots&#8217; streak of not starting the season 0-2 dates back to 2000.<\/li>\n<li>They forced Pitt into a long drive of 16 plays and they settle for a 48-yard FG. The next score was another FG (25 yards) off the missed 52-yard FG which gave Pitt excellent field position.\u00a0 The big drive was a 75-yard, 9-play drive that resulted in a TD and 2-point conversion.<\/li>\n<li>The patriots\u2019 defense has allowed 13 and 14 points in two road games.<\/li>\n<li>TJ Watt was the difference in this game. When I made my pre-season prediction and had this as a Patriots loss, a healthy Defensive Player of the Year was a key factor for Pitt.\u00a0 Without him, I actually bet the Patriots to win (-2.5) and won.<\/li>\n<li>Why didn\u2019t Pittsburgh exploit the Chase Claypool \/Myles Bryant mismatch? Claypool had 4 catches in 6 targets for 26 yards.\u00a0 Bryant led the Patriots with 8 tackles, 5 solo, and a Pass Breakup.<\/li>\n<li>The Patriots did their job on defense to end the game as they held Pitts burgh to 2 Three and Outs in their last two possessions. Then the Patriots&#8217; offense took over with 6:33 left in the game and Pittsburgh never got the ball back.\u00a0 They ran the ball when they needed to run the ball and they used zone blocking, and stretch play to do it.\u00a0 That 13-play drive was 9 runs, one pass (to Lil\u2019Jordan Humphrey for 11 yards), and 3 kneel-downs.\u00a0 Only one pass was over 20 yards (23 to George Pickens).<\/li>\n<li>A disturbing report came out after the game that the Patriots didn\u2019t challenge a 3-17 pass to Dionte Johnson, which was obviously short of the line to gain. The football never crossed that line.\u00a0 The Pittsburgh radio broadcast was reported saying that Belichick was distracted coaching the offense and didn\u2019t make the challenge.\u00a0 Pittsburgh hurried to the line and ran a play.<\/li>\n<li>Too many delays of game penalties or wasted timeouts. At one point Mac Jones was seen yelling at the sideline.\u00a0 Makes me think the coach calling the plays (Matt Patricia) was getting the plays in late.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriots didn\u2019t exactly jump into the win column but played well enough to win.\u00a0 They for the most part avoided the crucial mistakes that prevented them from winning the week before.\u00a0 The execution was much better, especially along the offensive line.\u00a0 The same can\u2019t be said for Mac Jones who played perhaps his worst game in a Patriots uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":42845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MORSE: Honest Observations from Patriots&#039; 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