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Ross Tucker: Why the no huddle

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Ross Tucker: Why the no huddle

I had been thinking about writing an article about the no huddle when I saw this one pop up today. The no huddle makes perfect sense for the Patriots. You have Brady. You have receivers that he trusts to make the right reads and get on the same page with him quickly. And they have they have the kind of versatile personnel that can run any kind of play.

Remember in 2009 when Rex Ryan had just taken over the Jets and the Patriots came out in week two running a no huddle with trainers and backups holding huge cards with play codes on them to try and get everyone on the same page? That’s what you have to do if you want to run the no huddle and you have Joey Galloway and rookie Julian Edelman instead of Deion Branch and Wes Welker.

As Eric Mangini said on WEEI last week the only way (repeat ONLY WAY) to get Brady off his game is confuse him. Because if he knows what you’re doing, you’re dead. The no huddle doesn’t give defenses time to confuse Brady. It doesn’t allow teams like the Jets to all be up walking around, disguising their intentions. They have enough to deal with just trying to get lined up and catch their breath.

I don’t know how much of the no huddle we’ll see in the coming games against the Bills and Raiders, but I know for sure we’ll see it a lot against the Jets.

“I equate it to the offense’s version of ‘blitzing’ the defense,” Saints coach Sean Payton said on Sirius XM NFL Radio on Monday morning, adding, “It allows the offense to change and dictate tempo, be unpredictable and thereby make the defense uncomfortable.”

Offensive coordinators are tired of trying to react to all of the different blitz variations that defensive coordinators concoct every week. They want to turn the tables and make the defenses adjust to what they are doing.

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As I’ve started scouting the Bills I have to say I’m concerned about this one. In no particular order:

  • Pats have beaten them 15 straight times, one of these times it has to go the Bills way, right?
  • Bills are 2-0, playing confident, and offensively clicking on all cylinders.
  • Bills have an excellent assortment of weapons, including two tough running backs, a big receiver, and a Wildcat/gimmick guy (Brad Smith) who is familiar with the Pats.
  • The Bills have nothing to lose and should play accordingly.
  • Winning two of your three away division games in the first three weeks of the season is a major accomplishment and would put the Pats in the driver seat for the AFC East early.
  • The Bills seem to excel at what has killed the Patriots most over the past few seasons: passes to the running backs, a quarterback who can scramble when necessary, and an assortment of gadget plays.
  • The Bills have new uniforms that I really like. Don’t underestimate a team that looks good, because you know the saying… “Look good, play good”.
  • Winning this game would mean more to the Bills than it would to the Patriots. I never like being in that position.
  • Pats are banged up, though so are the Bills.

We’ll get more specific with the game plan as the week goes on. Pats offense needs to score early to put pressure on Fitzpatrick and the Bills offense right out of the gate. If they’re allowed to stick around, they have big play capability to seize momentum.

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Thanks to @FanofFights for all the great Wilfork photoshop fun!

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Tape Never Lies: Difficulties defending Patriots’ Gronk & Hernando

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Tape Never Lies: Difficulties defending Patriots’ Gronk & Hernando

Another great article from Alen Dumonjic about just how effective Gronk and Hernando are. The truth is that while it hurts to lose Hernando for however long, losing Gronk would have a far greater effect on the offense. He’s really the hub of what they do, and while Hernando is a great weapon whoever takes his snaps will benefit just as much from Gronk.

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“I think we all see, the way the game is now, there are different breaks in the game at all points in time. You can have the momentum, and positive things going in your favor, and we stop and review a play, review a score, or a play gets challenged, or a player gets injured, a beach ball rolls on to the field. It could be a dog runs out there. It could be anything. Streakers, you could have that.”

“Things happen,” Belichick said. “That’s part of being focused and playing through the situation, whatever it is that comes up. … You have to be able to deal with it, both sides of the ball, for and against it, on the road and home. It’s just part of the game. I think if you want to address that whole issue, that’s something that needs to go to the people who make the rules.”

BB on the fake injury technique to stop the Patriots no huddle.

We can file this one under “stop crying and worrying about the things you can’t control, stay focused on what you’re doing and keep ramming it down their throat” chapter of The Tao of BB book.

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