Falcons question Steelers game plan vs. Tom Brady, Patriots

I'll say this over and over and over. The Steelers not getting a Lombardi is not because of the players, its because of the coaching staff. We have a MUCH better roster than New England

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"The Falcons' defense won't be running zone defense against the Patriots in Super Bowl LI."

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"We just have to do a good job tackling after the catch," Cockrell said, per Steelers.com. "That's what we prided ourselves on doing all year, and we didn't do that today. (We could have) knocked some of those passes down, that would have stopped some of that hurry up. But unfortunately, that's what we didn't do today as a defensive backs unit, and that was a big difference in the game."

--Ross Cockrell

I've got news for Ross, tackling after the catch was not the primary issue. It's hard to tackle after the catch and knock passes down when the receiver is 15 yards open! We did not have A SINGLE DEFENDED PASS IN THE ENTIRE GAME! There is no doubt our players got outplayed, but our coaching staff absolutely got its collective rear end handed to it on a silver platter. They had EXACTLY the wrong gameplan, especially defensively, did not make adequate adjustments, and DID NOT put our team in the best position to win the football game!

More than anything else, this was an abysmal coaching failure!!

 

I question our game plan against the Pats too! I think everyone does!

 

Falcons just need to run up the score and keep hitting brady regardless if it's dirty. Pats fans reading this, yeah im a dbag so what.

 

Yeah Falcons can win if they score on 90% of their drives. They have the offense to do it to.

 

It's no surprise that Atlanta or any other team would question that game plan.

 

Getting seriously tired of this idea that the game came down to a zone/man choice.

 

It won't matter what you say Atlanta..... The cheatriots will already have some illegal practice film on you by game day.

 

The Atlanta Falcons apparently won't employ a zone defense when they take on the Patriots this Sunday in Super Bowl LI.

On Monday night, Atlanta cornerback Jalen Collins admitted that he wasn't sure why Pittsburgh ran a zone defense against Tom Brady in the AFC Championship Game, as Brady riddled the Steelers defense for 384 yards and three touchdowns.

“I don’t know why they did that,” Collins told DKPittsburghSports.com. “I guess they had a pretty good reason to.”

THE FALCONS GET IT, BUT APPARENTLY WE DON'T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Just posting to compliment your sig line. That's a great quote from Noll.

 

Jets fan here. New to the Board. Came here out of curiosity and to tell you that you don't know how good you have it after the CG and also since there's nothing to talk about in our Forum, except bitching about Bowles and the small matter that we don't have a Quarterback. No Coach. No QB. No Problem. But, I digress.

We've had a lot of Patriots Fan Visitors to our board. The ones that aren't total douches would agree with your statement. Because that's how'd they'd play against themselves if they had to face Brady.

The way the Patriots beat Atlanta is the same way they beat the Rams 14 years ago: hit them in the mouth from the first play. Atlanta is a classic front-runner. Put them behind or knock them around and they'll fold like a cheap suit. Look at how the Falcons won their last four Regular Season games. In three of the four, they went up by 20 points before the other team was in the game. The one that was a "game" was v. Drew Brees, who kept the Saints in it. Then they crushed Seattle. Green Bay was out of steam by the time they got to Atlanta and had no fight left, but they might have been able to beat them if they hadn't had to win every game since God knows when just to get in the Playoffs and then go into Dallas and Atlanta on successive weekends. No more gas in the tank.

New England is rested, tough and well-coached (tell me about it). They have effing Tom Brady. If they get up by two scores on Sunday, they won't let the Falcons back in it and the collars will get tight on the Atlanta sideline.

If I'm Atlanta, I want to get ahead and hit Brady...even take a couple of flags.

 

Hmmmm and I thought I was the only internet Steeler's Fan that questioned that scheme. Guess not...Fail.

 

Honestly I just think Atlanta reads our board and that's why they are saying that. It's literally the only possible explanation.

 

We actually did play some man and got burned evertime

 

The most frustrating thing is that our game plan, or lack thereof, is the same way we have lost to them many times over. I have no idea what the heck Tomlin was thinking trying to play zone against the best zone QB the league has ever seen.

Just when I started to have more confidence in MT lately and now this is what I have to have hang over my head all off season.

 

The Falcons have a young fast defense, they can probably matchup in man coverage with the Patriots. The Falcons will blitz their secondary guys to get after Brady, unlike the Steelers.

 

Maybe we would have had AT LEAST one pass defended had we gone man to man. Don't get me wrong, we still would have lost the game, but I believe that was one of the worst defensive performances, particularly secondary performances, I have EVER witnessed! We LITERALLY DID NOT HAVE ONE DEFENDED PASS THE ENTIRE GAME and the lacrosse players masquerading as receivers seemed to always be college open! Shoot, they were Jerry Rice against a high school defense open! There is no way in hades that it would have been worse if we'd played man to man. When you consider the fact that Brady has ALWAYS torched our zone coverages and the only time we've ever had any semblance of success against him we've played man to man, it's easy to understand why everyone is questioning our defensive strategy.

 

Agreed we stunk in so many ways, another one was when ,we kept dropping Harrison and Dupree in pass coverage repeatedly, also on blitzing they kept running Shazier and Timmons up the middle repeatedly and the Pats were waiting for them. Again what's frustrating, we are very poor at in-game adjustments and seem to do the same things over and over even when they don't work. The same could be said of trying to go deep to Coates with broken fingers.

 

Wait...you all are saying we had a game plan against New England? This changes everything!

 

Well honestly, New England put up points against one of the better statistical defenses in Houston the week before. Our defense was supposed to be a strong offense to keep them off the field.

 

What happened was BB knew we would use zone again, so he just beat the hell out of it this time, Logan ran free down the field all night because our DBs were confused, our best chance was to practice playing man all week and staying in it for this game, the falcons know how to man up and they proved it in their last 5 wins, giving up only 19 points or less in 4 of their last 5 wins, and holding the hawks to 20 points and the packers to 21 points in the playoffs, no, belichick used our zone against us this time........