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Boston Globe/Bedard: Patriots bye week stat re-group

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Boston Globe/Bedard: Patriots bye week stat re-group

Yes, I changed the title to more appropriately reflect what this article is and not just use negative headlines to get clicks. But there is a lot of interesting stats in this article that make it worth the read.

Look, there’s no question this Patriots team is without areas of poor play over the first six games of the season. But there’s also no question that they’ve been downright dominant in other areas. As always the question is can the put together 3-4 great games in January/February.

Super Bowl champions always have flaws, it’s just a question of masking them or overcoming them when everything is on the line. Hopefully the Patriots continue to progress towards that.

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Patriots vs. Steelers 2007: Brady to Moss to Brady to Gaffney

This is possibly the single greatest offensive play of the historic 2007 season and I’m proud to say I was there to see it, in the very last row of Gillette Stadium. The Steelers are so aggressive on defense they leave themselves open to stuff like this with over pursuit. That’s why we’ll see a ton of screens and trickeration from the Pats this Sunday.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://www.patspropaganda.com/patriots-steelers-2/

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Steelers defense needs some new tweaks to stop Patriots

We’ll probably be hitting on this point a lot this week but the Steelers really need to throw some new wrinkles this week on defense. The problem is their run defense has been atrocious this year and once teams can establish the ground game it opens everything else up.

Aggressive defenses like the Steelers are often burned by misdirection, reverses and play action and when you can’t stop the run the problems of stopping those are even more compounded.

And you can’t get too cute with your pass defense and pressure packages when you can’t stop the run. So the pressure is on the Pittsburgh defense this week, because it’s been a long, long time since they stopped Tom Brady.

I know Dick Lebeau’s zone blitz was revolutionary back in the day but it has not given Tom Brady problems since 2004, and even then it was partially due to a rash of injuries and a sloppy 2-int/1 fumble game from TFB. What would really worry me is if we suddenly see all the Steelers defenders up walking around pre snap like we see from the Ryan defenses.

That would be a sure sign that the Steelers mean business and aren’t too stubborn to stick to their basic defensive plan that works against just about every offense out there.

https://www.patspropaganda.com/steelers-defense-needs-some-new-tweaks-to-stop/