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NFLN Playbook: Patriots vs. Ravens
NFLN Playbook: Patriots vs. Ravens
One of my must watches for the week, AFC Playbook is the best. I’m saving this for the glory of HD on the real TV, but I’m guessing they’re in love with the Ravens in this one. And that’s fine. They were in love with the Dolphins too.
Baldy: Pats Scheme Outdated
Those who know me know I worship at the alter of NFL Network’s Playbook. There’s no slant (especially not “Quick Slants), just broken down film showing who’s good/bad and why. Today Brian "Baldy” Baldinger, he of the loose, dangly pinky, came on EEI and had some not so sweet things to say about the Patriots 34 defensive scheme. Here’s a sampling:
“I don’t believe the style of defense that Bill [Belichick] is playing right now can win championships,” Baldinger said. “I don’t believe that you can sit there in your zone defenses with your strict and straight 3-4 defense. There’s not a lot of disguise to what they do. It makes it a little bit easier on quarterbacks."
Look I get what Baldy is saying, but what’s he’s leaving out is that it’s a lot easier to scheme and disguise when you have a veteran defense. We saw plenty of that when Bruschi, Vrabel, Harrison et al were playing. Did Belichick suddenly decide that a straight forward style of defense was better? No.
It will take time before the young players on defense have mastered the basic techniques required to play defense at the NFL level. Even I can see they are playing simple defenses, but I would guess that as the season progresses there will be more and more disguise and complications added in.
We must be patient Patriots Nation. Championship defenses are not built from scratch in two seasons.
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The premiere episode of Deep Crossing Patterns and Go Routes with Toots Blowhard and Yelly McOutrage, the most outraged New England Patriots talk show on the internet.
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NFLN: Patriots Have Unspoken Motivation
NFLN: Patriots Have Unspoken Motivation
Thanks to Breer for pointing this out. I found it especially annoying when the cameras caught Kelley Washington talking trash to the Pats fans at the end of the game. Easy Kelley, you’re out of the NFL now, maybe you should show a little more respect to a team that gave you a chance.
CHFF: Brady-Moss Statistical Death Spiral
CHFF: Brady-Moss Statistical Death Spiral
I can’t believe I’ve actually gotten to the point where I’m excited for our offense without Randy Moss. Tedy Bruschi echoed some of the points made in this article on his podcast with Mike Reiss saying basically 2007 was an anomaly, and trying to achieve that type of offense against is pretty much impossible. It was lighting in a bottle, and while it got them within 2:31 of being the greatest team of all time it’s time to get back to the bread and butter that won Super Bowls.
Let’s not forget in 2006 we had far less talent at wide receiver than we have now and nearly got to the Super Bowl, if it wasn’t for that second half meltdown in Indy.
BSMW: Moss Media Scorecard
Great summation from one of my favorite sites on the interweb, Boston Sports Media Watch. You could pretty much predict how the Boston mediotcracy would react to the trade before you heard it, and that’s why I don’t listen to it.
