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Breaking Down the New England Patriots Safety Play, Big Plays a Team Effort | Bleacher Report
If you’re starting to get the feeling that we’re going to be focusing on the safety play more and more you’re dead on. Great work here from Frenz, illustrating some of the problems on the back end.
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I tend to agree, on the road the Pats should pick their spots more with the no-huddle. More on this in the next couple of days but I’d bet we’ll see more normal spread offense this week.
[W]hen the Patriots take their road show to Seattle this Sunday for a date with the Seahawks, they might not be so inclined to go hurry-up. One reason why it seems unlikely that they’ll utilize the no-huddle this weekend against the Seahawks in Seattle is that they use it less on the road than at home. Since the start of the 2011 season, the Patriots’ have pronounced home/road splits when it comes to using the no-huddle: at home, they’ve used it on 32 percent of the snaps, while on the road, that number drops to 22 percent.
We’ll also get a much better feel for how good the Patriots are, especially in the running game; both the Bills and Broncos are lacking on defense. The Seahawks are not. The 70 points they have allowed through five games are tied for second-lowest in team history — and 16 weren’t given up by the defense. Seattle is good in all three levels of its defense, so this should be an excellent matchup. A look at the Seahawks, who lead the league with 44 penalties.
Seahawks defense will be a test for the Patriots – Patriots – Boston.com
As someone who loves good defense I’m pumped for the match-up this weekend. Nothing tells you more about your team than when they go into a hostile environment to face a great defense.
Three-Point Stance: Seattle Seahawks – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston
Couple interesting nuggets of note on Seahawks below. Everyone’s going to point to Russel Wilson and say he doesn’t have a chance to put up a lot of points but we said the same thing about Kevin Kolb. If the Seahawks can get pressure with their front four, which they probably should be able to do, and Wilson just doesn’t turn the ball over more than once, the Seahawks will have be in this one no matter how much their offense sputters.
The Seahawks feature a ferocious four-man pass rush that has recorded a sack once every 10.8 dropbacks, second best in the league. First-round draft pick Bruce Irvin (4.5 sacks) and veteran rusher Chris Clemons (5.5 sacks) are one of two sets of teammates with at least four sacks so far this season (Geno Atkins and Michael Johnson of the Bengals). Overall, Seahawks defensive linemen have accounted for 14.5 sacks this season, trailing only the Bears (16) among NFL defensive line groupings.
Russell Wilson, the rookie from Wisconsin, has thrown an interception once every 20.8 attempts.
While the 2007 team averaged 411.3 yards per game, through five games, the 2012 team is averaging 439.4 yards per game. This year’s team is far better at running the ball than their 2007 counterparts (115.6 yards per game to 165.4 yards per game), and while they don’t have the passing stats to match the 2007 team (295.7 yards per game five years ago vs. 274 through five games this year), they can nearly boast the same ridiculous points per game total (36.8 in 2007, 33 this year).
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