Maine-iac

This. In the era I started watching football as a kid Marty and Okoye and Word would grind you into the dirt. Marty won a lot of games but never got to the big dance.

That article is all completely true but the interesting thing is how it states but brushes off the fact that the miss to Knox is a TD play that wins the game, Allen's a hero and the offense started slow but won the game. I don't know that Daboll tore the Pats apart but a) it's the Pats and b) again the execution kept points off the board. I've said it before I don't know that Daboll is next level like Roman or Kyle Shanahan but he's pretty good, especially given this units time together and thrown together OL.

It seemed like the Pats WR's were much more involved in this game than they have been all year. It also seemed like we were playing much more man than I've seen all year. I didn't see the situational blitzing I've seen from this defense before and the couple I did see appeared to be almost more of a run blitz. The Pats are steady and consistant and don't make mistakes per se but our previous successes have involved creating enough negative plays to create 2nd and 3rd and longs. We played safe and did the bend but don't break thing but the lack of negative plays I feel is what kept them on the field enough to do more damage. As for where Tre needed to be I can't argue with Harry. I really think his athleticism and size dictates the attention. Edleman is always going to get catches the best way to take him out of the game is just double him which most teams do. I didn't see the RB's catching as many passes I wonder if they were used much more to sure up blocking for Brady. I wish I had it DVR'd to watch again. ps went and looked and the box score says I'm crazy Burkhead was their best reciever.?

I asked myself before this game, do you show all your cards? I really would love to have seen some situational blitzing. That said I do hope we have a bunch of things up our sleeves because we will be playing in January this year.

Crazy looking but I'll take it. Hey Beasley caught one!

Just take the short throws and move the chains.

WTF

JuJu's not playing correct? I still like our DB's even with White hurt vs these receivers but we're always better with White on the field.

White better be alright.

damn it!!!!

or make the plays Plays were there last week and we didn't make them and they are there again and we're dropping balls already.

OK ............. second time I watched that video and I still don't see Daboll being the problem pointed out by it. He clearly says that Brown didn't win vs Peters. He spends a ton of time on Knox dropping a 3rd down on a mesh concept. He explains we've done very well on "money" plays all season and not so well on them vs Baltimore. I counted 1 play where he said it could have been the playcall and that was assuming Allen was supposed to take a 1step drop on a play that was slower developing than what a one step drop would seem to be. Really most of the analysis would lead you to believe our OL needs to stop tripping over each other, Knox needs to get more consistant, and our WR's picked a bad week to have their worst games. Peters is a pretty good cb and it was clear Brown was going to have a tough time early on. That's what makes Knox, Beasley, and Singletary dropping passes even more critical. All that said I don't think Daboll is in the upper echelon of OC's but he's done a pretty good job and I still don't think he called a horrible game vs Baltimore. There's plays there we've made before that we didn't make in that game.

I just hope we don't get Willie Parker'd again. We should have won that game and I hope we go out and get it done tonight.

Just looking at the other box scores ............... boy Zay has blossomed for the Raiders.

Brown does well for his size but he's not Hopkins or Julio Jones and even if he was Peters is one of the best physical corners. They were pressing Brown with Peters because Peters had the size advantage and is best in press coverage. I'm not trying to say Brown ran a good route. I'm saying I still don't think he's lazy he just didn't get it done on that play.

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Jackson was more accurate and more consistent on Sunday. I'm not sure why that bothers everyone so much. I'd be more upset if we had no answers for anything but it's really pretty simple. Allen starts hitting even half of the throws when we get behind the defense and we start scoring more points. I think he can do it and I can't think of a better time than the next couple of weeks when we are making a playoff push. No doubt in my mind that defenses will be giving him opportunities.

Singletary has been pretty good in every game he's played but Gore seems like he has a much harder time coming in rotational. Gore had some pretty good games as the starter but doesn't seem to find his rythm off the bench.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say the first two drives could have ended in long TD's. Singletary outside on a LB very well could have been a TD. There were plays called that should have worked.

It worked on the final drive when Singletary picked up 13 ............... and then we were called for an holding on the play and it came back ?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record I blame a bit of it on missing the deep throws. Not trying to be down on Allen but several games we come out looking to back them off the LOS and after missing deep the whole first half we change it up and start moving the ball. The NE and Raven's games in particular we came out throwing down the field and after missing on several big throws had to rethink things because we couldn't make them pay. Dallas and Denver we hit big throws and made them pay although even then it wasn't out of the gate.

It doesn't matter if we had a "big playmaker" if Allen isn't hitting them. We already have guys running open behind the secondary and Allen isn't hitting them. I believe he'll come around but like people are saying he's going to get blitzed until he makes them pay.

I'm pretty sure the Singletary drop in the flat and then the Dawson drop were back to back which is a drive killer.

I don't know that Roman becoming a head coach will or would say anything about his offense. Wade Phillips is one of the best DC in the game but he's never been a good HC.

Playing well is different than lighting up the fantasy board. He was playing a great defense and he managed. We held him in check and that is a win. He didn't look like an MVP and that is a win. All that said we've made many QB's look far worse and it's a compliment to say given how good our defense is the fact that I'm saying Lamar played well with his non eye popping numbers is a good thing. It's also a compliment to Lamar when I say he made the plays he had to make to win. Allen was pretty close and that's a compliment to him also.