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“This is really cool. The Associated Press just released a photo from the AFC Championship game, and it’s of Patriots QB Tom Brady’s arm. (H/T Jay Tate!) If you read closely, you can see Brady’s keys. All that respect for Ravens S Ed Reed? Not fake. He reminds himself, “Find 20 ON EVERY PLAY.” He also wrote, “Knees flexed — DOWN, DOWN!” and “NO TURNOVERS.” Still harping on fundamentals after all these years…”
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Cosell Talks: A Look Back at Week 9 Giants/Pats : NFL Films Blog
Greg Cosell on Patriots alert! Interesting stuff as always. There are definitely some personnel changes for both teams this time around. And while the Giants are getting more impact from guys returning from injury, I think the Pats are getting more impact from finally having some continuity in their line-up.
The Giants winning touchdown drive was fascinating. The most important play was a 28 yard seam completion to Ballard on third and 10. It was Manning at his best: a stick throw into a small window in a critical situation, the kind of throw that separates quarterbacks in the NFL. The coverage defender was Tracy White. What was interesting was White had not played in the nickel sub-package all game until the final drive.
Neither had safety Sergio Brown. It was his pass interference penalty against Cruz that put the ball on the Patriots 1 yard line with 30 seconds remaining. Watching the tape that week, I was curious as to why White and Brown were in the game at that point, after not playing the first 58½ minutes.
Our analysis reveals that when Evans’ second foot makes contact with the ground, evidenced by the changing shape of his shoe, the ball has already been knocked loose. So in fact, it was not a catch. The officials got it right.
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Toucher and Rich’s Gronk Remix
The media and bloggers like me need to thank our lucky hoodies that Gronk is ours. He’s the gift that keeps on giving on the field and off.
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NFL.com Blogs » Blog Archive Playbook: Giants, Patriots win with scheme «
One of the best parts of making it to the Super Bowl? Two full hours of NFL Network’s playbook dedicated entirely to the match-up.
While the Patriots were able to keep an elite defense on its heels with personnel groupings and an efficient running attack, we were surprised how little Baltimore game-planned to attack Julian Edelman as a defender. On the 18 plays that Edelman was in on defense, the Ravens only attacked Edelman three times. The first occasion didn’t come until the fourth quarter with 1:44 remaining. In the end, the Ravens were 2-of-3 on targets toward Edelman for 22 yards. For a majority of the game, Edelman was matched on Anquan Boldin, but Baltimore didn’t scheme to exploit that advantage. And in the run game, the Ravens were not efficient, either. Ray Rice gained only 67 yards on 21 carries. The Patriots offense, on the other hand, was impressive in how it scored. All five of their scoring drives reached double figures in play-count and accumulated 23 minutes and 17 seconds combined (58 plays). Even if Tom Brady didn’t have his best game, the Patriots game-planned well enough to earn a Super Bowl bid.
