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Patriots History Tuesday: The hit that changed the course of a franchise

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Today we bring you the infamous Mo Lewis on Drew Bledsoe hit that opened the door for Tom Brady. When people like Brady talk about this hit they make it sound like no one has ever been hit as hard as Lewis hit Bledsoe. But to be honest it really doesn’t look that bad does it. I don’t know what Stew was trying to do by not just turning his shoulder and stepping out of bounds, but yeah, this hit just about killed him. 

Makes me think I should break down the Top 5 defining plays of the Patriots dynasty… 

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Attention Steelers! Attention Steelers!

And I’m totally not trying to jinx the Jets by posting this. Totally.

https://www.patspropaganda.com/attention-steelers-attention-steelers-and-im/

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King said in the days before the Jets knocked off the Patriots, Rex Ryan went to his staff and defensive team leaders and asked them for suggestions on how to stop the Patriots offense. Explained King: “He said, ‘Listen, if you’ve got some ideas, give them to us. We’re looking to do new things to try to confuse the Patriots.’ And I think what they ended up doing was basically fairly consistently putting [Antonio] Cromartie and [Darrelle] Revis alone with whoever the Patriots put outside. It wouldn’t have mattered whether it was [Wes] Welker, it wouldn’t have mattered whether it was Deion Branch — I guess most often it was probably Deion Branch and [Brandon] Tate.

“And they said we’re not going to concentrate — I’m not saying we never will — but we’re not going to concentrate on giving them any safety help. They’ll just handle those guys, and then we’re going to cloud the middle of the field, and we’re going to make Tom Brady, when he looks over the field, we’re going to make him look at traffic everywhere he looks. I think that’s, in essence, a lot of what happened in this game.”

As for why the Patriots were not able to successfully combat the Jets’ strategy, King said: ”I’m not really sure what you can do without either sort of the blazing speed or the big, type Calvin Johnson or Randy Moss in his prime on the outside to really affect the game.

Peter King

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ProFootball Focus: Patriots Pass Protection Not Problem

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Here’s a little nugget from Pro Football Focus that I found interesting:

Frankly this appears to be getting to the point of obsession for some Pats fans. Who comes up with this stuff? “no pressure should get through on a 3 man rush”. Why? One person is always single blocked and for any line-man to hold a 1 on 1 block for more than 4 seconds is good.

Let’s look at the raw numbers: Brady was pressured on only 18% of his drop backs (9 of 50)Of the 512 games played by QBS this year how many times do you think a QB dropping back 40 or more times was under less pressure? 11; that’s right just eleven times! So this was in the bottom 3% of pressure anyone had all year.

Of the 9 plays in which he did get pressure only one in my book did come on a 3 man rush; that was the second and here the thing which caused Brady to step into Ellis (who was reasonably well blocked) was Light 1 on 1 with Taylor off the edge.For the remainder every pressure came from 4 or 5 man rushes against a single player block and even some of those (in hindsight) were harsh. The only really sub-optimal pieces of Protection were Crumpler’s block on Pace (1 on 1) which allowed the sack, the first sack where Ellis badly beat Connolly outside( 1 on 1) and a later pressure by Ellis (through Connolly 1 on 1) which led to a sack.In my view, all of the o-line, other than Connolly, did a great job in pass protection and to blame them really is clutching at straws the purpose of which I couldn’t even guess at.