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jimmygaroppolo:

Brady makes a perfect throw into triple coverage & Tyms makes a fantastic grab in the end zone for his 1st NFL TD. (x)

https://www.patspropaganda.com/jimmygaroppolo-brady-makes-a-perfect-throw-into/

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What are your thoughts on P Chung these days. I thought he has actually stepped into his box-bound role nicely while still remaining decent in coverage when offences have adjusted at the line. Eager to hear your thoughts!

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Chung is one of the more underrated stories of this season. Essentially the Patriots have had him on early downs in the box and then sub him off for Harmon to play deep on passing downs.

Chung (fka PATCHUNG!) was one of the first faves of this blog. His aggressiveness was always something this defense needed, the problem was that it often got the best of him and resulted in injuries.

His first stint with the Pats he was asked to play on the back end a lot more and as we saw, he just didn’t have the range and anticipation to be a Cover 1 Free Safety. They also asked him to play some slot corner and again, man-to-man in the slot was not his bag either.

Now he’s primarily playing the role Steve Gregory played last year, a Cover 1 Robber. He comes down into the box and brings a good level of physicality. He also has been taking strong angles and provides a strong veteran presence that I really like next to McCourty.

Chung is a great example of how a player can excel when you play to his strengths and don’t ask him to do what he’s not good at. Plus he’s stayed healthy so far – that was arguably the biggest problem early in his career.

What do you make of this “Browner can’t get the playbook” stuff?

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BB came out and denied it in his press conference today, but it never really made sense to me. Why would it come out now that he was having trouble with the playbook? Wouldn’t that have been something that was a problem this summer during training camp? 

He’s just come off of a month off essentially where there would’ve been plenty of time to study. But now he gets back and suddenly the playbook is a mystery to him? I don’t get it.

And really, “getting the playbook” on defense is more about communication than it is making on the fly adjustments. Yes, there’s an element of pattern reading that Browner is likely to be asked to do in New England that he wasn’t asked to do in Seattle, so maybe that is part of it.

But I agree with what Albert Breer said today, that Browner will be a specialty matchup piece. And if that is the case they might just have to confine him to heavy man-coverage games.