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What are your thoughts on the O line? I watched the game on Game Rewind and while there were plays where Brady had plenty of time to throw, there were also many plays where he didn’t have a clean pocket. It reminded me a bit of the last two Super Bowls. Reason to be concerned or does the Bills’ D line deserve some credit?

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Very good question. Here’s how PFF graded them out:

  • Vollmer: 3.6 (1 hurry)
  • Solder: 2.8 (4 hurries)
  • Mankins: 2.8 (2 hurries)
  • Wendell: .9 (2 hits, 1 hurry)
  • Connolly: -.7 (1 sack, 1 hurry, 1 hit)
You have to give some credit to Mike Pettine and the Buffalo defense. Pettine knows how to mask his coverages to make life difficult for the o-line. Kyle Williams and Marcel Dareus are especially the kind of players who traditionally give the Pats problems. Considering all that, it wasn’t horrible.
Still, I continue to wonder if Dan Connolly is really a long-term answer at guard. We hoped to see Marcus Cannon compete with him for that job, but for now it looks like they like Cannon best as the swing tackle, who could play guard if necessary.
But outside of him I really like the offensive line and think they fit the Pats playing style extremely well. One thing I would like to see is an improvement from Wendell in pass blocking, he scored a -2.0 against the Bills and was a -4.0 there last season.

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The Patriots were in their nickel defense for every snap but two in the game, a result of the Bills playing almost the entire game out of their three-wide package. The lone snaps the Patriots were in their base defense came on the Bills’ fifth drive, which brought linebacker Jamie Collins on the field for his lone two snaps of the day (he is the top backup and was tapped with Brandon Spikes off for dehydration issues).

Defensive snaps: DL rotation in focus – New England Patriots Blog – ESPN Boston

https://www.patspropaganda.com/the-patriots-were-in-their-nickel-defense-for/

Catching Trust: Danny Amendola Answers Call on Patriots Game-Winning Drive Over Bills | NEPatriotsDraft.com – 2014 NFL Draft

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Catching Trust: Danny Amendola Answers Call on Patriots Game-Winning Drive Over Bills | NEPatriotsDraft.com – 2014 NFL Draft

Great stuff from Oliver Thomas who saved me the trouble from doing this breakdown later this week. 

Amazing day from Amendola, and I don’t want to get too much into Welker comparisons, but those clutch catches that were 10s on the difficulty scale, certainly were ones we didn’t get from WW at times the last couple seasons.

This catch below was just insane.

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I do not feel the safety was slow getting over. It appeared to me, watching the replay and the tape of the game this morning, it looked like Steve Gregory was helping on the tight end. Before the play, Gregory communicates to Hightower, who was covering the tight end. That’s why I thought Gregory was helping Hightower over the top, and I say that because the easiest throw in the red area is to the tight end in the middle of the field. The lower percentage throws are deep to the outside. You notice something else before the play, Talib is attempting to communicate with Arrington (the inside corner). The Bills are in a bunch formation, which means three receivers within a close proximity of each other. This can cause traffic problems and stresses propoer communication. As the play develops, Stevie Johnson breaks to the flat. Both Arrington and Talib sit on it (attempting to defend it). That’s where the breakdown occurred. One of them was supposed to have the 7 route to Woods, and the other was supposed to play deep to short on the flat route. You never want to have two defenders focused on a flat route when you have a receiver going deep and outside (the 7 route). Especially in the red area.

Chat: Chat with Tedy Bruschi – SportsNation – ESPN Boston

Good breakdown from Tedy on what happened on the Woods touchdown.

https://www.patspropaganda.com/i-do-not-feel-the-safety-was-slow-getting-over-it/