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When it comes to defending the receivers, a lot of it depends on the health of New England’s defensive backs, but if the Patriots have the full collection of starters on the field, look for lots of physicality, lots of rerouting and lots of man coverage when it comes to slowing down their pass catchers. While it will no means be exclusive throughout the evening, the Aqib Talib-Demaryius Thomas should be a good one.

patriots – One Scout’s Breakdown of Patriots-Broncos: Have to get physical with Denver – WEEI | Christopher Price

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No team has more sacks in the past five games than the Patriots, both in raw tally (18) and ratio (one sack every 9.39 pass plays, well above the league average of one every 14.86 pass plays). It must be noted that their four opponents in that span – the Jets, Dolphins, Steelers and Panthers – are all among the league’s most sack-prone teams; they are four of the seven clubs to allow a sack more often than once every 12 pass plays. But Broncos Offensive Coordinator Adam Gase sees the Patriots’ recent pass-rushing form as a testament to their strengths, rather than their foes’ weaknesses.
“It’s probably more what they’re doing defensively. Their edge rushers don’t get the (publicity) a lot that these other guys get but they do a great job,“ said Gase.

Breaking Down the Patriots Defense

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Were you surprised by the game plan the Pats implemented on Monday? There wasn’t much hurry up and a lot more runnin early on than I thought there would be

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I thought they picked their spots with the hurry up, they did catch the Panthers with 12 men once. But overall I was more impressed that they stayed so balanced. I thought they would spread them out more, but they must’ve felt like they could move it on the ground. Ideally you want to be balanced so I think that’s a positive and I think we’ll see a fairly balanced attack this weekend as well.

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“Usually, when he sees what it is, he gets to the play he wants to get to and I would say they’ve hit a lot of big plays on plays like that. He sees a blitz, calls a tear screen to Demaryius Thomas and it goes 75 yards for a touchdown. You can be in whatever you want to be in but if they have a play to beat it and it’s well-executed, which it frequently is with Denver, you’re just playing right into their hands. “They’ve waiting all day to run the play against that situation. You tell them, ‘Here we are, we’re going to be in Cover-2 zone, go ahead run your best play.’ Well, they will. We’re going to be in “man-free” or we’re going to be in blitz or we’re going to be in “man-under 2-deep,” what are you going to do about it? Well, they can usually do something about it. I don’t really think anybody has had a lot of success playing that way.

It Is What It Is » Bill Belichick on Peyton Manning: ‘If you tell them what you’re in, you’re probably not going to like the way it’s going to end up’

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