Football by Football | Matt Chatham: How NOT to Defend Minnesota’s Cordarrelle Patterson
Great pregame X-and-O read from Matt Chatham. Without AP in this one it seems to me the biggest focus will be on the edges and back end of the defense.
Matt Cassel 2008 Highlights
Word to the wise, you might want to skip the first :40…
https://www.patspropaganda.com/matt-cassel-2008-highlights-word-to-the-wise/
Thanks to nrgenergy for the tickets and ball, psyched to work with them following the @Patriots all season, with something big in the works for Patriots-Broncos!
I will be having giveaways of swag like this all season long as well!
Stay tuned!
https://www.patspropaganda.com/thanks-to-nrgenergy-for-the-tickets-and-ball/
The Best of the Week in PatsPropaganda
What. A. Week. I try to keep this just to a Patriots football blog as much as possible, but it was hard to avoid the Ray Rice/Adrian Peterson of it all this week.
The best thing to do is just focus on the game and the team that I love and try to ignore the noise, but the NFL really needs to get it together, from the Commissioner and owners all the way down to all the players.
Moving on, here’s the best stuff of the week, including plenty of analysis from yours truly. And just to throw it out there, if you’re thinking of attending the Pats-Broncos game we’ve got something very special in the works so lock down your plans asap!
PatsPropaganda – Vikings Gameplan
Greg Bedard: Patriots Defense Has Problems
PatsPropaganda – All-22 Reviews: Offense. Defense.
PatsPropaganda – Three GIFs that defined the Patriots loss to Dolphins.
Outside of the local beat reporters, who do you think are the best people to follow on Twitter for Pats posts, news, information and insight?
Here is my Patriots Essential twitter list which includes what I think are the best Pats follows for strictly Patriots news. I do think we’re lacking some heavy hitters, especially in the All-22 breakdowns this year. Greg Bedard and Nick Underhill were two of my favorites before they moved on, though we do still get some Pats football stylings from Bedard from time to time.
The Seahawks have shown us that you can play GREAT defenses under the rules, is it really that hard for other teams to do it, is it the scheme that they run, is it the rules, I’m curious from your perspective why do you think the Seahawks can play great defense while under the same rules as everybody else with better results
There’s a lot of things going on with Seattle’s defense. I’ll try to be brief.
I think the key elements are their consistent pass rush up front and Earl Thomas. With those two pieces in place everything else looks even better.
They are a Cover-3 team and Thomas’ range and anticipation allow them to have Chancellor in the box destroying people. There simply aren’t many free safeties as good as Thomas, even McCourty. He makes very good players look great.
The physicality and disciplined tackling are quite impressive considering the rule changes. Credit to Pete Carroll there, it’s certainly not easy.
But it shows that when you have a versatile and athletic front seven that can rotate and cause consistent chaos, it really makes a defense.
What you have to admire about Seattle’s defense is they just do what they do and ask opponents to beat it without disguise or tricks. I think the Patriots emulated that somewhat this offseason with the concerted effort to bring more physicality to their secondary, and a more diverse range of options in their front seven.
The Patriots will never be a straightforward Cover-3 team, but hopefully with McCourty and Revis/Browner, they can replicate some of what Seattle does. The Seahawks had great success against Peyton Manning, so it’s obvious why the Pats would try to take a page from their book.
