After thinking about it for a day, I think a multitude of the yards we gave up to Flacco were the check downs to Rice when we were covering all the receivers down field and he had no one else to throw to and didn’t want to take a sack. What do you think?

According to PFF Ray Rice had 5 catches for 49 yards. One of them came against Spikes and went for 27 yards, and the other 4 were against Mayo for 22 yards.

It really makes me remember what good job Dane Fletcher did as a spy against Rice in 2010. Mayo is really our only linebacker right now with the speed to handle runningbacks and even he was getting smoked. Not sure what the answer is right now, it looks like an area of personnel weakness and I’d expect future teams to continue to attack it until the Pats prove they can stop it.