Lots of great stuff here in Doug Kyed’s film review as well…
Grading the Patriots vs. Browns: New England survives without Rob Gronkowski | masslive.com
Grading the Patriots vs. Browns: New England survives without Rob Gronkowski | masslive.com
Nick Underhill’s film review has elevated to one of the must-reads of this season. His thorough analysis has been welcome replacement for Greg A. Bedard’s fabulous work of the last couple seasons.
Too much interesting stuff in here to pick out just one nugget, so read it all!
All 22 Film Study, Big Plays Abound in Patriots – Browns Game :Pats Pub
All 22 Film Study, Big Plays Abound in Patriots – Browns Game :Pats Pub
Nice Browns breakdown from Steve. Big plays everywhere!
NFL Week 14 featured New England Patriots’ onside kick against Browns | The MMQB with Peter King
Pats defensive adjustment vs. Browns
Love when Matt Chatham busts out the diagrams.
#Patriot D change v CLE: 4-3 Over instead of 3-4. Simplify rules/techniques (no 2 gap), play 2 strengths of new guys pic.twitter.com/8Az10l5v1C
— Matt Chatham (@chatham58) December 10, 2013
Our team has shown consistently that they’ll keep fighting, no matter what the situation is, that they’ll just keep playing hard. Once we understand what it is that we need to do, whether that’s score, stop them, block a kick, make a kick, whatever that happens to be, we’ll try to do it. That’s all you can ask for.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/our-team-has-shown-consistently-that-theyll-keep/
How do you honestly see this season shaping up? Even though the pats have stolen some great games this year, it seems like the same story as in other years. They have “mental toughness” in the regular season, but in the post-season at the most crucial times, this mental toughness disappears. Case in point the Super bowl 2 years ago, and the afc championship where the VETERAN players were down and out. I LOVE this team. But with the loss of Gronk and the D being inept,it’s going to take a miracle
I think that we need to look at the next two games as the climax of this season. If they can win the division in Miami, then beat the Ravens in Baltimore, this is a successful season as I see it.
You’re probably right, it might take a miracle for them to win the Super Bowl, but if we had known the injuries that were coming, we probably would’ve said it would take a miracle to win 10+ games this season as well.
There will be plenty of time to wonder what the Pats will do differently this offseason and the players they’ll lose and add, but 2013 is undeniable proof that they have the right kind of players at their core.
The excitement and anticipation for 2014, with a healthy squad, will be through the roof. For now, let’s just enjoy what we’ve seen out of this team and how impressive a season it has been.
We’ll have to judge this team’s mental toughness in the playoffs by how they perform, but if it’s anything like they’ve done in the regular season, I expect the Pats to go down swinging if/when they do.