Patriots Take 2: Dolphins defense made life tough for Patriots – Going Deep – Boston.com
And here’s Frenz’s great review with pretty GIFs and diagrams.
Grading the Patriots vs. Dolphins: New England offense looks good outside of the red zone | masslive.com
Wednesday morning means the film reviews are starting to pour in. Let’s start it off with one of my favorite ones from Nick Underhill.
NFL Week 15 key moments: Patriots-Dolphins, Saints-Rams, Falcons-Redskins | The MMQB with Peter King
NFL Week 15 key moments: Patriots-Dolphins, Saints-Rams, Falcons-Redskins | The MMQB with Peter King
Here’s the breakdown of the 4th-and-5 play, had to know this one was coming. The crazy thing is if Ninkovich gets a hand on it, or Logan Ryan makes the tackle, the game is over and the Pats are getting all the love this week.
But the Dolphins made the play and it changes this week’s storylines to all the down and depressed stuff you’re hearing now. One play is the difference. Welcome to the craziness of being a football fan and analyst.
FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Week 15 DVOA Ratings
FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Week 15 DVOA Ratings
Here are the latest DVOA rankings as the Patriots defense continues their decline to an average-at-best squad. But hey, the offense still looks pretty good.
Perhaps the most-telling offensive stat though for this Patriots team is their VARIANCE, which measures how consistent they are from drive to drive. They’re 27th.
The defense is more consistent, they’re 13th in Variance. So consistently slightly-below-average.
Overall: 6th
Offense: 5th
- Pass 8th
- Run 9th
Defense: 21st
- Pass 16th
- Run 21st
- vs #1 WR: 13th
- vs. #2 WR: 30th
- vs. Other WR: 21st
- vs. TE: 16th
- vs. RB: 17th
Special Teams: 3rd
Who needs Patriots tickets???
A lot of times we have multiple options in the huddle, and sometimes you end up with the perfect blend and perfect balance when you do that, and sometimes the defense, when you’re trying to get certain things against a specific look, sometimes you can get a little skewed,” he said. “We certainly don’t want to take the freedom away from our quarterback to get us into a good play and we don’t want to become just a call-it-on-the-sideline team when we have a quarterback that’s capable of doing a lot of good things with our offense at the line of scrimmage.
New England Patriots’ Josh McDaniels talks red zone, run game – ESPN Boston
As I’ve said before I really don’t get into criticizing the “play-calling” because we just don’t have enough information. Did Brady change the play at the line? Did someone run the wrong route? It’s just not as simple as ‘wow, McDaniels is calling bad plays’.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/a-lot-of-times-we-have-multiple-options-in-the/
5 Biggest Questions the Patriots Must Answer Before the 2014 NFL Playoffs | Bleacher Report
5 Biggest Questions the Patriots Must Answer Before the 2014 NFL Playoffs | Bleacher Report
Nice job summing up the issues by James Christensen here. Maybe the Pats will get luck and their first playoff opponent will play sloppy. That always means a Pats win.
