Originally posted by 5280High:Originally posted by tjd808185:Originally posted by MaliCali:
the Pats defense is NOT that good anymore...an aging defensive line. young, albeit up and coming linebackers, but still young and not quite there yet. and no one special in the secondary at all...meh..
sam looked alright, but the pats always got a lot of defensive credit for an unusually high amount of shoot outs they were involved in..
It's a shell of it's former self but it's not a bad defense at all. They ranked 11th last season. They just can't get to the QB anymore, and you a keep a talented QB like Bradford upright all day and he's going to torch you.
The Pat's defense really isn't that good. They are decent against the run but their pass defense was exposed last year. They were 12th in the league because last year no one in their conference could throw the ball with the possible exception of Henne (Sanchez, Henne, Edwards) and were primarily running teams. Did you see the Saints game? Wide open receivers all night long, Drew Brees didn't have to make spectacular plays, he just had to look at which ever WR was uncovered and wide open running down the field. It looked like an NFL Offense going against a 3rd string defense.
Let Sam repeat this against a real top 10 defense before they crown him savior of the rams. The pats offense is still amazing but their defense is living off the reputation of those superbowl teams.
It dont matter how good or bad the Pats defense is. The point is that this dude looks like he can play, and thats bad news for us because its a division team. If he turns out good he's gonna be killing us for the next ten years while we still wait for Alex Smith to develop.