Critical fail plays defense vs Patriots

31smackdown

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The Phil Simms commentary is really just as annoying on those 2 Gronk plays. He basically calls out the pick play and the Gronk shove then lays more praise on NE and even says the Gronk did not commit offensive pass interference when he clearly shoves Jones out of the way.

I agree that they need to do some switching or play hard through the contact instead of dodging the picks. The problem with switch and zone is that someone will eventually confuse their assignment because that's also worked into NE's design. I like the man concept, but they need to get their hands on them off the line and slow down or throw off the pick timing.
 

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The predictability is a problem for the running game. It is almost always a run on 1st down. I recall once where they passed on 1st down and it then seemed obvious that they would run on 2nd down.

We ran on first down an inordinate percentage last year, too.
 
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