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After watching the game last night I just have one question... Can our defense defend all of NE's quick hitters in the passing game and the pick/rub plays that gets their wr's and TE's wide open? On one hand I realize that our defense isn't as bad as pittsburghs, but I also can see anyone not named Grimes getting roasted against this type of scheme. One thing is for sure though... we can score on them, and can do it often. The games against NE should be very fun to watch... If we win that is lol
 
outlawd2u said:
After watching the game last night I just have one question... Can our defense defend all of NE's quick hitters in the passing game and the pick/rub plays that gets their wr's and TE's wide open? On one hand I realize that our defense isn't as bad as pittsburghs, but I also can see anyone not named Grimes getting roasted against this type of scheme. One thing is for sure though... we can score on them, and can do it often. The games against NE should be very fun to watch... If we win that is lol
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If you can't pressure Brady consistently, you can't beat New England. We should be able to pressure Brady.
 
Ruckus45 said:
This! How can you not get pressure on a line featuring 3 rookies? That defense last night was bad.
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Easy, they knew the defensive play calls. Everything is easier when you cheat and the Patriots are the absolute best cheaters.

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To what we saw last night? Short quick passes to Edelman, Gronk and Lewis will alleviate our pass rush and I don't think we can cover these guys. Granted I'd like to think we'll at least have someone lined up over Gronk even is they can't cover him. I can't believe how much trouble Pittsburgh had getting lined up last night. Also, for the football gurus how do you defend a pick play? Can you light up the guy setting the pick? I think I would try it even if it's a penalty because NE springs guys open with them all the time. You whack Edelman a couple times they may think twice as he's too valuable for that.

On a positive (for us) NE's pass rush looks nonexistent. I was shocked how ineffective it was, Ben had all day back there. I just want to knock them off the mountain but it doesn;t look like it's going to be easy.
 
as stated above you don't beat the patriots by trying to defend every one of their quick routes. that would be playing into their hand, and they'd tear you apart. there is no way to cover em when they spread you wide and then send gronk up the seam.

you pass rush the **** out of them, disrupt their timing, and knock brady on his ass.

it's not a coincidence that the AFCE is home to 3 of the top 5 defensive lines in the NFL.....take a second and think about that.
 
I worry about our secondary outside of Jones and Grimes
 
A lot of it is limiting YAC, short passes allowed coupled with sure tackling will increase the plays in a drive, providing more opportunities for a sack/impact play. We will certainly have our hands full with the pats O, but stuffing the run would be one lesson to learn from the game last night. Steelers were getting gashed


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I think the bigger damning development was allowing the deep gashing plays that simply broke the game wide open and, bear with me, "deflated" the defense.

Those don't happen against us. Hands in the passing lanes and Brady eating OL all day long as we push them into him will change the reality of what you saw last night. A bronze statue could have thrown behind that line last night.

Constant pressure and keep the ball in front of our defenders for short gains will change everything. Their anemic run game was the result of the passing game. All of that goes away against us.

Shorten the field and eliminate the rush and the game changes immensely. You can't stop Gronk, but if you can turn him into a blocker then you've stopped their offense.

Knee jerking to a bad defense making Brady-to-Gronk look all-world makes for a great show on opening night. Wait until the Bills, Jets and Dolphins DLs get a crack at it. Those rookie OL will look like... rookies.

Remember, they have 2 rookies on the interior. We have Suh and Mitchell lining up against them... who do you think will earn their paycheck on that matchup?

Remain calm, this is an elite DL. People don't want to play us. Trust me. It's going to be an educational class on how to destroy an OL from the inside out.
 
You won't see anything like what you saw last night. Pitt didn't field a D last night and only managed to get their hands on Brady like ONCE. It was comical how bad that D is. That Oline will not be able to do that against us, plain and simple. I'm not saying it's a cake walk, just that it won't be anything like that. Brady could close his eyes, count to 10 and just throw it anywhere and there was someone open.

Not to mention Pitt's tackling was just dismal. I remember thinking that it was SO horrid that they looked like they were doing it on purpose.
 
The good news is D.Williams ran very well against them and Lamar Miller should do the same. They also struggled against fast receivers. Heath Miller isn't the same weapon and Cameron. It should be a good game. I wish we had Dion Jordan covering Gronk hahah.
 
I have confidence we'll somehow manage to do a better job defending the Pats than the Steelers did last night.

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