Video: Rex Ryan – Patriots fan?
Embedding is disabled on this one but it’s worth the click over to YouTube to see Rex Ryan acting in this horrible Adam Sandler movie as a Patriots fan.
I really do love Rexy. Fire Tannenbaum. Keep Rexy.
Few more thoughts upon the Patriots-Bills re-watch
It’s always amazing to me how much more you can pick up after watching the game already knowing the outcome. I guess it’s obvious that your brain works better when you’re not all stressed out.
Few more things I wanted to share based on last night’s re-watch:
– When you really boil it down the Pats offense should’ve scored even more than they did. Take away the two missed field goals and two fumbles and this one could’ve been ugly.
– The defense didn’t handle the quick change after Gronk’s fumble well enough. They should’ve seen a quick shot down the field coming. Chung had decent position but was just short enough that he couldn’t make the play.
– The Pats struggled against the Bills screen game more than I thought they would.
– Both of Spikes’ forced fumbles were him scraping down the line of scrimmage, lower his shoulder and exploding into the ball carrier. This is a switch from how we usually see him coming down hill at attacking. Future opposing ball carriers will have to be aware of where Spikes is at all times.
– The Fred Jackson catch over Jerod Mayo reminded me of the Manningham one in the Super Bowl. Just an absolute perfect throw and catch. Hard to be too miffed at Mayo for that one.
– Wow, did Mario Williams look lost out there. I didn’t even notice him once on Sunday and after focusing on him a bit more closely I can see why.
– Brady and Lloyd weren’t connecting early but it’s a great sign of the trust Brady is developing with him that he kept going back to him. As we saw with Joey Galloway and Ochocinco, Brady will give some guys a chance early but if they don’t make the play they might not see another one.
– Still hard to take too much away from this one as far as our defense goes. Forcing multiple turnovers is a great sign, but the ones at the end were more Fitzpatrick just chucking it up there. The secondary is going to need their best game of the season against Peyton.
“I think it was kind of directed at, towards me and Deion [Branch] a little bit,“ Welker said today on WEEI’s Mut and Merloni show. "We were giving him a hard time that his knee was down and we didn’t know what he was doing on the bench over there. He better get his butt up and get back out on the field because his knee was down and so he’s like, ‘what are you talking about, I was in.’ So I think they caught him at a perfect moment where we were just kind of just jawing back and forth and things like that.”
Notes on PFF’s Patriots grades: Week 4 Bills
I love when PFF’s grades come out early! Here are some notables on their scores.
Best Offensive Grade: Daniel Fells (4.5)
Best Defensive Grade: Brandon Spikes (5.1 – highest defensive grade of the year)
Worst Offensive Grade: Deion Branch (-1.3)
Worst Defensive Grade: Steve Gregory/Kyle Love (-1.2)
Spikes’ season has been as extremely up and down as one could get. He was the worst rated defender in week one, 2nd best in week two, worst in week three, and now best in week four.
McCourty was the second best rated defender and he’s starting to look like a pro bowl cornerback again. He was targeted 6 times and only gave up two catches, as well as picking off two.
Kyle Love had a tough game as we expected him to. He’s not at his best trying to get upfield, and he was helpless against the Bills quick passing attack.
Vince Wilfork’s numbers show you how you can’t read too much into these numbers. He played a monster game but scored just a -0.7.
Solid 1.3 for Jermaine Cunningham, we knew his interior rush would be hugely important. He wasn’t dominant but he made some noise with a QB hit, a hurry and a stop.
Steve Gregory has been unspectacular, not that any of us expected him to be spectacular, but his performance against the Bills has us starting to wonder if Tavon Wilson will get more of a shot in the base defense now.
Ninkovich was the third ranked defender and was a 1.4 in run defense which given his spot is huge. He had 5 stops too.
Fells is a surprise to take the best score honor, but he was dominant in run blocking scoring a 4.1. Gronk scored a 4.6 in run blocking.
Sebastian Vollmer is putting together quite a nice season so far, he’s had high scores for the last three games. He’s their best offensive lineman so far. Now if he can just stay healthy.
Donald Thomas and Ryan Wendell both had -1.5 in pass protection. Along with Branch’s overall these were the only red grades for the offense.
The running game recorded a staggering 9.2 score running off tackle left. That’s where Fells and Gronk did most of their blocking damage. The ran well between the LG and C as well.
As expected Buffalo did most of their passing damage in the middle of the field, especially short.
Don’t look now, Tom Brady was 2-3 for 66 yards and a TD down the right side plus 20-yards.
See all our PFF Notes here.
After losing two straight games, Belichick donned his trademark gray hoodie (this one designed by new NFL outfitter Nike) with cut sleeves in Sunday’s game. Belichick wouldn’t confirm if that was a game-time decision, but after being on the inactive list for losses against the Cardinals and Ravens, the hoodie was back.
New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston
What do you guys think of the new hoodie. This might surprise some people but I’m just kinda “meh” about it. Though I’m sure the more BB wears it the more I’ll like it. Always works that way.
Chandler Jones blows up a 3rd and 2. What a great play by the rookie, especially to help get the Pats off to a good start.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/chandler-jones-blows-up-a-3rd-and-2-what-a-great/