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BostonHerald.com – Blogs: Rap Sheet» Blog Archive » Subject to Review: Why the Patriots may go back to the 3-4 defense… and links!

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BostonHerald.com – Blogs: Rap Sheet» Blog Archive » Subject to Review: Why the Patriots may go back to the 3-4 defense… and links!

Good stuff here from the Rapsheet, but if you want some real in depth analysis check out this post from Jay Shields over at PatsFans.com. We’ve had Jay on the podcast before and he really knows his stuff. Here’s tidbit:

On the fourth drive, this adjustment was clear. They went to a balanced 34, ignored the pre-snap motion, and shut down the Denver gameplan through basic, fundamental NE 34 principals with a safety in the box. The linebackers engaged squarely, the d-linemen squeezed the gaps, the outside backers kept their outside shoulders free, and the run game was shut down. What did this boil down to? Gap integrity. Denver’s fundamental concept was to win with simple math and create large holes. By ignoring the shifting, the Patriots negated this concept, and by keeping good gap integrity, the Denver misdirection couldn’t hurt them. The Kyle Love play is an excellent example of this. They kept gap integrity throughout the line. When the playside was shut down through excellent 2-gapping, Ball tried to cut it back and was met with an emphatic thud as the backside folded under well executed 2-gap principals.

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Patriots move Andre Carter to IR

Thanks for 13 plus great games and a lot of big sacks that we’ve been waiting far too long for. Might take a lot of factors to get him back on the Patriots next year but I’m sure every Patriot fan will be rooting for him to come back.

https://www.patspropaganda.com/patriots-move-andre-carter-to-ir-thanks-for-13/

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I’m not sure we learned anything that we didn’t already know,” Belichick told hosts Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley of the Big Show, who were alongside Steve DeOssie. “I think the situation was similar to what we saw at Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was a game that we didn’t do much of anything right in the first quarter, we were down 10-0, and they had the ball and moved it. We hung in there and fought right until the last play, and had a chance with an onside kick, even after the safety. It was still a chance. Certainly the odds were against us at that point, but we had a chance in a one-score game. We hung in there in a tough environment. "So I’m not surprised that our players can hang in there on the road in a tough environment. The same thing happened in Philly. We went down on them early and hung in there and were able to win convincingly. I think the toughness of the team has come through at different points during the season. "I’d say the Pittsburgh game, that’s really the one where I saw it clearly.

One of the underrated things about this defense, as bad as they are, is how they never have given up once this year. Some people might even call them “scrappy”. It’s not always pretty, in fact it’s usually pretty ugly, but they have a fight in them that I know will take them down to the final second of their season whenever that might be.

https://www.patspropaganda.com/im-not-sure-we-learned-anything-that-we-didnt/

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