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Mario & Hughes were sidelined? Resting? I heard some discussion about this on radio. Marrone apparently pushed the blame on Schwartz saying that it was just their time to rotate out and that they thought Pats would just run it to kill clock. Either way, our Superstar Defensive Ends should be playing every snap of that drive. Marrone should know better than to let that happen. Who knows, that lack of pass rush could've been the factor that lost us the game.

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Agreed. We had them on their 6 yardline. Needed a stop early to get good field position. Those guys are in shape and need to be on the field for what could have been their last series of the day.

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Didn't catch that... Without looking back at the details of the situation, it's another interesting choice

 

Its in the Jerry Sullivan thread. If you click on his column there is details about it.

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They NEVER ran to Mario side- not ONE play- Hughes was used all day thrown inside over and over

 

 

He had 3 tackles, 2 on runs. He had one sack. Otherwise, Brady was not bothered much by Mario.

 

Hughes had 5 tackles and a sack.

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They NEVER ran to Mario side- not ONE play- Hughes was used all day thrown inside over and over

On TV one of the announcers commented that Hughes was beating the Pats* OL with his quickness and that the best way to negate that kind of quickness advantage was to run right at him.

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On TV one of the announcers commented that Hughes was beating the Pats* OL with his quickness and that the best way to negate that kind of quickness advantage was to run right at him.

 

The pats had 66 total rushing yards...

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On TV one of the announcers commented that Hughes was beating the Pats* OL with his quickness and that the best way to negate that kind of quickness advantage was to run right at him.

 

You have to love in-game adjustments. We've rarely seen that in the past 15 seasons.

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Mario & Hughes were sidelined? Resting? I heard some discussion about this on radio. Marrone apparently pushed the blame on Schwartz saying that it was just their time to rotate out and that they thought Pats would just run it to kill clock. Either way, our Superstar Defensive Ends should be playing every snap of that drive. Marrone should know better than to let that happen. Who knows, that lack of pass rush could've been the factor that lost us the game.

Run out the clock? That's a big fat zero on that hunch. Good teams have a different mentality, they go for the knockout. As for resting, they get six days to rest after the game is over and I'm not taking two of my best defensive players off the field unless they are physically or mentally unable to perform. That wasn't the case here.

 

When you hear things like this in losing efforts like this is a series of blunders, some small, some bigger, that by themselves aren't enough to lose the game but combined and put together doom you to losing. I liked the Marrone hire but am starting to reconsider my view and wonder if he's got a grip on the job.

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