Robert Golden

Without looking at any tape, I'd say this seems about right. They wanted to send Gronk long, but Brady had less time and the coverage was good. Eventually he got some release when Golden got caught a step or two behind. You're never going to eliminate Gronk completely from a game, it's what the good players do. We kept him in check enough, though, had we put up a few more points...

 

They shutdown both tight ends in the 1st half allowing Edelman to roam free. What happened? Why would you go away from shuting down the strength of the Cheatriots offense? That's on Butler. And having Timmons out in coverage on Edelman? You can't make it up folks. Why? Why?

When Golden was injured and Dangerfield stepped in at least their was some attitude and he made some plays.

And Mike "I'm gonna hit something even if he is on the ground because that's my only strength" Mitchell should NOT get a pass. Brutal. Another coverage fail free safety

 

I am certain it was recently. A hamstring is a far lesser injury than a ACL one though.


Personally, I do not think that such an injury would have any sort or form of ramifications on Golden as the ACL would on Rob.

 

You assume that the Pats didn't make any changes at halftime that allowed Gronk to have better success in the second half. We were getting pressure on Brady in the first half. Not as much later on in the 3rd and 4th.

 

Hmmmm halftime adjustments. Wish upon a star we should. Not assuming anything and I get your point. They were getting pressure being physical then it faded. The total lack of run defense opened the flood gates and had the defense on their heals the rest of the game. They need a pep talk from Ray Seals about being a 60-Minute Men defense...

Butler looked like a deer in the headlights and had that weird smile like when a dog is going to throw up. Add Tomlin to the deer in the headlights as well. Horrible coaching job in this game.

 

This team is coached by dolts.

 

My point exactly. If you are going to do this you might want to use the fastest linebacker you have. And if he his hurt then you might want to use another scheme because Timmons, Jones, Harrison, Chick, Moats, Williams can not stay with receivers named Eldeman and Amendola. The two shiftest players in the game.

 

Yea. I was on that cheap beer last nite when I wrote that post, brain was "pickled" lol

 

It was Sean Davis

 

uh huh... they also don't hike footballs

 

I realize Gronk makes a living out of beating defenses but that attempt at coverage was a little ridiculous. It looked to me like Golden was either looking in the back field or looking around to see if he was covering the right guy. He was clearly confused and just let Gronk run right past him. It looked like it was a DT covering Antonio Brown. At first I was thinking why is D-lineman covering Gronk?

On the Gronk TD it was another case of Mitchel taking him self out of position. If I had a $ for every time Mitchell ran him self out of the play I'd be a wealthy man. That guy has to have the worst instincts in the NFL. Our LB's seem to have the same issues... we like to react before we should...thus taking our selves out of position to make any play. It makes me think the defensive calls we make are usually spot on.

 

I just figured it was a mixture of having 2 db's on him at all times and also the fact that Blount was having a big game and both him and Bennett were both blocking down the line.

 

it was Sean Davis

 

Gronk was open all over the field in the first half, too. They just didn't throw to him. The Pats know everyone is looking at their two TE sets now that Gronk is healthy so they didn't use TE much in the first half. Once Edleman and the RBs got a bunch of touches they started going to Gronk.

 

it was like they were trying to disguise the coverage or lack thereof. I thought the safety (Davis) should have read that better and stayed over the top rather than going to the boundary so hard

 

The coverage was more botched than I realized. Some sort of screwed up zone coverage.? We had 2 players covering nobody.

 

Agree on Timmons, but not sure we were shutting down Gronk early - they were just doing other things that were there, like picking on Timmons.

That's what great coaching is - taking what they give you all the time.

 

Wasting your time Mike Mitchell could have been in the locker room and this guy would still blame him. It's funny when facts get in the way of perception.