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It Is What It Is » Bill Belichick breaks down game-winning drive vs. Saints

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It Is What It Is » Bill Belichick breaks down game-winning drive vs. Saints

Q: Chris Jones played every snap defensively yesterday. How would you assess his performance?

BB: “Chris, as you mentioned, he got a lot of playing time yesterday. I think he was in there for every play, that’s right. Chris is a smart kid. He came in and picked things up pretty quickly. His play time has increased a little bit each week. I think he’s athletic, he runs well, he has good playing strength, he has a little bit of quickness in the pass rush and overall, he’s got I think decent skills in there. Look, it’s not perfect, there are certainly a lot of things that he can improve on. But I thought he and Joe [Vellano] both have given us, given their amount of experience and all the things they’ve had to deal with, in terms of the types of offenses that we’ve played and so forth, some of the payers in there, like Jahri Evans, pretty good player there and [Ben] Grubbs, that they’ve done a good job of hanging in there and being relatively productive.

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The Patriots value physicality and strong play against the run from cornerbacks, which is one reason why a prospect like 5-foot-11, 195-pound Logan Ryan (third round, Rutgers) appealed to them. On the Saints’ first offensive play, Ryan’s run force was textbook (and fearless) as he took on offensive lineman Bryce Harris (6-6, 300) and forced running back Darren Sproles back toward the pursuit of the defense (he was stopped for a 1-yard gain). We thought this was a good example of how a cornerback’s ability and willingness to play the run is critical in the Patriots’ scheme, and also how Ryan rose up to help the Patriots in an expanded role Sunday.

Picked-up pieces from 1st quarter review of Patriots vs. Saints – ESPN Boston

If Talib is out for any length of time, Logan Ryan is about to be an even more integral part of the defense.

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Defensive snaps: DB depth shows up – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

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Defensive snaps: DB depth shows up – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

This performance highlighted the depth and improvement in the secondary in 2013, as the Patriots went seven players deep, spending most of the game in either their nickel (5 defensive backs) or dime package (6 defensive backs) as they essentially viewed Saints tight ends Jimmy Graham and Benjamin Watson as receivers. Third-round draft choices Logan Ryan and Duron Harmon played critical snaps and held their ground. Harmon’s playing time came after CB Aqib Talib left with injury in the third quarter, with the Patriots moving Devin McCourty into Talib’s role against Graham.

What we learned: With Tom Brady, Patriots ‘always have a chance’ – WEEI | Christopher Price

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What we learned: With Tom Brady, Patriots ‘always have a chance’ – WEEI | Christopher Price

The Patriots were in no huddle for 44 of their 83 plays on the season (53 percent), far and away the highest percentage for a team that was running no-huddle on just five percent of their offensive snaps through the first five games of the year. Two things to keep in mind: One, New England wasn’t playing uptempo, but once the play was done, they’d get to the line of scrimmage fairly quickly. It wasn’t necessarily fast football, but would prevent substitutions on defense for New Orleans, and so quite frequently, the Saints weren’t able to make the necessary personnel changes. And two, this was a formula the Patriots used to beat the Cowboys in 2011 – that year, Rob Ryan and the Dallas defense were able to keep Brady off balance early, but New England went no huddle for much of the second, third and fourth quarter, eventually running it on 52 percent of their snaps, a season-high.

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NO HUDDLE!!!!!!!!! Finally

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Yeah, although I’d call this more of a “Slow Huddle”. Clearly they have to take more time pre-snap to get it all figured out. I noticed quite a few spots where it seemed like Brady was taking an extra second to make sure all the rest of the Pats offense was seeing what he saw. 

It wasn’t the get to the line and snap it immediately and everyone just knows what to do like we saw last year. Still, nice to see they’re picking up the pace a bit, just hated to see them go so cold in the second half, essentially until the last drive of the game.