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NFL Week 15 key moments: Patriots-Dolphins, Saints-Rams, Falcons-Redskins | The MMQB with Peter King

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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

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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

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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/

Who you think New Englands gonna extend first Aqib Talib or Julian Edelman? i think the obvious is edleman but talib is so clutch idrk

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Yeah, this will be the big debate as soon as the season ends until free agency starts. I expect both of them to test the market, but I’d think teams might be a little spooked by Edelman being raised by New England, not many of those players have gone on to duplicate their success elsewhere.

Teams that would be interested in Talib might want to make sure they have a good locker room in place. In a football-first environment like the Patriots, he’s done well. Somewhere else, where there are a lot of sideshows might make for a different Talib.

But if you have to choose one, I think the answer is pretty easy. How hard is it to find a slot receiver, especially when the Pats are already paying Danny Amendola a pretty good chunk of change?

And then, how hard is it to find a #1 corner?

I’d love to keep both but I think Talib has to be the priority if push comes to shove.