Fewell733

I'm ok with it if he's too much like our best defensive lineman

Maybe for the first one. I'm not sure Ellison could have had better coverage on that 2nd touchdown. That was just an amazing play by Watson and Brady.

Disagree on a bunch: Whitner made a lot of brilliant open field tackles. The defense did not go to pieces in the 3 quarters Poz wasn't in there. Defensive holding on DE's on passing plays isn't that uncommon. You hold them up so they don't release. Not often called though. Also not sure how that's Fewell or Jauron's fault. Way too harsh on Bell. only 2 sacks total prior to the last desperate drive - one of which was a coverage sack. McKelvin made a huge blunder on the return, but he made a lot of great plays on defense. Drafting a starting caliber corner is not a mistake. Agree on Levitre - he looked awesome. As did Wood and Hangartner. Whole line looked good minus the Bell penalties. Agree on Trent - couldn't have played much better. Evans needs to work on his ball skills or upper body strength, if he gets hit he tends to drop them, and he coughs up the ball too much as well. Other thoughts: Schouman played well. Nelson did too. Where's the love for Hangartner stuffing Wilfork all day?

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that injury was a big time break 2 years ago, last year he acknowledged that there was no way he was going to be able to be ready to come back by the end of that year, even though he wanted to at the time. from the sounds of it this doesn't sound like nearly that kind of injury. Having a broken bone in your arm somewhere is a lot different than having a shattered arm. So if they put him on IR for just a month injury that would be upsetting. I don't think they will.

pure speculation then really on a time frame for both. Here's mine then, Poz - 5 weeks at minimum. Kelsay, if MCL - 3-6 weeks, ACL - year.

I saw the refs calling those a bunch this weekend. Must be some new point of emphasis. Gotta not make those mistakes again though. Seeing Levitre, Wood, and Hangartner making blocks way down the field was such a refreshing sight. We can finally run an offense that uses basic NFL plays!

so what if Welker and Moss had big numbers. They had no touchdowns and they had no business winning the game. Our offense moved the ball effectively and scored enough points to win. Football isn't fantasy football.

yeah I wouldn't say split them evenly. But when Jackson is tired, bring in Lynch. And if Lynch has the hot hand, and is playing well, then let him keep going with it until he gets tired. It's a benefit to share carries as long as it's not done in a rigid, artificial way.

The interior O-line has me smiling this morning. It seemed like every other play you saw one or two of those guys way down the field making blocks. We can finally run an NFL offense with these guys - screens, pitches, draws - the bread and butter of good offenses. I'm excited. Wood and Levitre looked like vets and Hangartner looked light years better than the two bums last year. Never saw Wilfork crash through the line yesterday. When's the last time we have seen that happen?

Jackson is so good at running outside, pitches, and screens. To me, he's as good as anyone in the league at finding the seams in the defense and getting the most out of every play. He's also much better in pass protection (Lynch's failure to pick up blitzes has caused a lot of sacks over the past two years). I think Jackson should be the starter, with Lynch being rotated in heavily. Similar to the Cowboys a couple years ago with a then good Julius Jones starting and Marion Barber coming in a lot.

he did. But once he knew he was caught he should have gone down in a heap protecting the ball. I'm proud too. This was a tough, brutal, heartbreaking loss, but it was all those things because we looked well prepared, played tough and should have won but for a player's mistake. It's football. Good teams lose tough close games all the time. In fact usually when good teams lose they lose in tough, close games.

yeah, the one two years ago they used the inflatable cast and carted him off the field. Hopefully this is just a minor one and we'll see him in a few weeks.

Bell performed well for his first start. He looks like he can play the spot. Bad penalties for the formation stuff but he won't be likely to make those again. The offensive line's performance and the playcalling was VERY encouraging. Too bad Leodis sh&! all over himself on that kick return or this board would be ecstatic.

I'm with you. It's also worth pointing out that the Pats win like this all the time over the league's better teams. I'm upset but not as upset as the Dallas game. There's no point in killing yourself over the first regular season game when you had SO many questions going into it. Most of those questions were answered positively. Bell had dumb penalties, but I bet he won't make those same mistakes next week. We had 3 o-lineman who never played an NFL snap and a O-Cordinator who never called a play and yet the offense moved the ball and scored points against the defensive genius Belichick.

so you'd rather get blown out cause then it wouldn't hurt so bad? Good teams lose close games all the time, they don't get blown out. Great teams though find a way to win the close games more often than they lose them. We look like we can compete.

i didn't mind him bringing it out so long as in doing so his number one objective was holding onto the ball. No reason he didn't just go down when he got wrapped up. Dumb Dumb play by Leodis, especially after fumbling earlier in the game. I guess cornerbacks do have short memories. This one hurts, but I gotta say the Dallas game hurt a lot worse (first game of the year, on the road, I'm more used to having victory snatched away by fluky events, the Pats do this to a lot of teams). I'm encouraged about this team overall.

well said now lets go shock the world tonight

I hope he has a pocket to be present in Nice post by the way, I am looking for all the same. Very curious what kind of difference a new playcaller will have. I just hope the protection is good enough to be able to tell.

so sorry to hear. Those kind of losses are no joke as so many of us know.

ESPN's bread and butter tonight seems to be to bash the Bills and T.O. in particular. Berman is basically the lone voice that says anything positive about the Bills. I don't have a problem with these guys like Keyshawn, Carter, and Ditka thinking that things haven't looked good in the pre-season, or predicting an easy Pats win, but what's pretty annoying is just how little they seem to know what happened. It's like they just pontificate on the general banter without doing any research themselves or talking to really anyone other than other sports broadcasters. It honestly seemed like Keyshawn thought we had just instituted the no-huddle after firing Schonert.

Kawika Mitchel, TO, Maybin, Whitner, Evans, Florence are the main ones - Evans and Florence don't update much

debating between Lynch throwback or normal Evans. Like the Lynch one way more, but he's not exactly playing...

who asked you for your opinion?

Lofton was good. The whole Falcons defense was impressive. Really hard hitting - getting pressure, not getting beat in the passing game, leaving Chadwick with little 5 yard passes to receivers.