greenbeans wrote:BBJ!!! whats happening?!?! dont jinx us now
I ended up heading to New York a few days earlier than expected.
Nothing in this game really surprised me. The Patriots were going to have their way on offense as long as they didn't shoot the moon and try forcing the deep ball. The offensive line looked a little bit better than it actually was thanks to Brady's quick-release passing plays but they were picking up the overloads on blitzes quite admirably.
A lot of people are making a big deal of the Pats supposed "mediocre" defense but, if you look back at the Patriots defenses under Belichick, they've had a history of playing the bend-don't-break style you saw on Saturday. The Jaguars have a good passing game and their receivers' size caused all kinds of match-up problems for the smallish Pats DBs. For the most part they did keep the receivers in front of them all game. And, more importantly, neither Fred Taylor nor MJD ran all over the defense. Remember how
that was supposed to be the match-up problem?