Originally posted by mkmasn:
Originally posted by LanceQ:
Originally posted by SealTeam6:
Our coaches got lucky
Agreed! Coach Vic should have learned a lesson from this one. I don't care if we were up 65 to 3 at the half, don't let off the gas until the game is over. There is no mercy in football unless the other team just quits. The game was far from over with that big lead. The defense went straight to sleep and Brady storms back with 4 easy touchdowns in a ROW. Got lucky this time indeed.
This.
I think when we went into that prevent, it seemed like the players took a break. Dangerous game, if you ask me. I would have thought after that second one, I would have wanted after that first one, for someone to make a big hit or play or something. And then each time we got the ball back, we decided to run either straight up the gut with Gore or off tackle with James. It was predictable and ineffective.
When we were doing that, I was beside myself. I thought, "Has Fangio ever PLAYED this team before?" "Does he realize that they are going to march down the field against a soft zone and score TD's?"
You can't go into the soft zone and just let them complete easy pass after pass after pass. Brady will KILL you all day long with those completions. ESPECIALLY with the hurry up offense the Patriots run,
very little time is running off the clock, because they are lining right back up with no huddle and just completing pass after pass.
It's completely ineffective against the Patriots. Brady could have sleep-walked his way to that comeback because we made it so easy for him.
And then Roman complemented it perfectly with the runs up the middle trying to clock the game with the same thought process.
[ Edited by BrianGO on Dec 17, 2012 at 3:39 AM ]