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Still No Explanation As To Why Our Defense Looked Gassed & Out of Shape????

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It wasn't the first time we've ever faced a No Huddle.

Funny thing is, Haynesworth looked rejuvinated whilst our DLine was houghing and puffing, always late in their set up.

Don't we do wind sprints at practice?


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This is the explanation: Lockout Shortened Offseason. Loss of Two-A-Days.

This was apparent throughout the league, not just in Miami. Look at the boxscores. Unprecedented offensive outputs.

This doesnt excuse the training and coaching staff for not having them prepared, but it is the major reason they were so winded. They are not in football shape yet. I don't foresee this being an issue in a week or two.
 
hope you're right. but what are we going to do if Houston tries to do the same thing: Hurry Up offense?
 
Shortened preseason.

A lot of teams were having the same problem along with cramping, bad hammies and other issues. Belichick and Brady are smart and they exploited it.

hope you're right. but what are we going to do if Houston tries to do the same thing: Hurry Up offense?
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Schaub and the Texans are not Brady and the Patriots. The Jets were doing the same thing to Dallas with limited success. The Texans may try but I doubt they do it as well.
 
miamirw said:
hope you're right. but what are we going to do if Houston tries to do the same thing: Hurry Up offense?
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Honestly, this game will likely end up being a shootout as well. Lets just hope our offense outscores theirs.

Although, we may benefit slightly from a day game. The Texans will be wearing dark blue, which might make them hotter and more tired in the 2nd half...

Although, in Stephen Ross' infinite wisdom, we have a 4PM kickoff in Miami, so that advantage may be nullified in the 2nd half. :|
 
Belichick and Brady are smart and they exploited it.
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That's no lie.

But if I'm Houston, I'm trying the same thing.

Heck, why don't WE try doing the same thing to Houston? Maybe New England is on to something... At least for the first few games...
 
It won't matter if the Texans are wearing pink polka dot uniforms. We won't beat them. Our defense sucks big time and Matt Schaub will look like a Hall of Famer against us when he exploits our pathetic lack of a pass rush and poor coverage on receivers.

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With no pass rush, no tackling and no coverage we have NO chance
 
It won't matter if the Texans are wearing pink polka dot uniforms. We won't beat them. Our defense sucks big time and Matt Schaub will look like a Hall of Famer against us when he exploits our pathetic lack of a pass rush and poor coverage on receivers.
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Optimism?
 
I agree with most of the statements in this thread, but NE wasn't just in a no-huddle, Brady was getting the snap 2 seconds in to the play clock. The Manning-Colts no-huddled, but the clock usually ran down to 10 seconds or so. This was a specific game plan by Bill B. to completely gas the Fins defense and it worked. I contend it would have gassed them in 50 degree temps with no humidity. Just watch - they'll do it all year long and probably score 40+ points at least 5 times. I believe we witnessed an all new meaning of no-huddle. They were playing the entire game as if they were down by 7 with 30 seconds left and had to go 80 yards; the only exception is they didn't have to spike to stop the clock.
 
miamirw said:
It wasn't the first time we've ever faced a No Huddle.
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But it was the first time we ever faced a no-huddle in the first game of the season after a training camp that was shortened by two months by a lockout, which probably hurt our conditioning.

On top of that, the no-huddle was engineered by perhaps the brightest coach and quarterback tandem in the game, and it produced extended drives that wore down the defense. These weren't three-and-out no-huddles.
 
I actually have an explanation for this, IDK if anybody else heard but sparano was really soft on the players this year in camp because of the lockout, he didn't push the players as hard as usual because he did not want to risk injury, this was reported by the miamiherald and sunsentinel a few weeks back, so my guess is that with the combination of the lockout and having a soft camp it came back to bight us in the ***, the defense looked unconditioned, slow, tired, they were missing tackles, had hands on hips, breathing heavy, and the secondary was getting smoked all night long, that is just my guess but it seems to make sense, plus brady did this to the bucs in preseason, they were getting up to the line of scrimmage very fast and snapping the ball and mccoy from the bucs said the defense didn't even have time to get set and they were completely out of gas after the first few drives, so it's a combination of things.
 
Dolphindrew said:
I agree with most of the statements in this thread, but NE wasn't just in a no-huddle, Brady was getting the snap 2 seconds in to the play clock. The Manning-Colts no-huddled, but the clock usually ran down to 10 seconds or so. This was a specific game plan by Bill B. to completely gas the Fins defense and it worked. I contend it would have gassed them in 50 degree temps with no humidity. Just watch - they'll do it all year long and probably score 40+ points at least 5 times. I believe we witnessed an all new meaning of no-huddle. They were playing the entire game as if they were down by 7 with 30 seconds left and had to go 80 yards; the only exception is they didn't have to spike to stop the clock.
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Precisely. And this is another move by Bill Belichick to find any advantage he can over the rest of the league.

You'd need a quarterback like Brady to pull it off, and he has him.
 
Heck, why don't WE try doing the same thing to Houston?
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New offense. I doubt those guys even know half the playbook much less are ready to run a fast paced no-huddle offense. Sparano has openly said that they are learning and expanding the playbook each week. The Patriots have the advantage of consistency with both players and scheme.

Honestly, this game will likely end up being a shootout as well
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If it does come down to a shoot-out at least this years team is designed to compete. Daboll apparently wants to throw first and throw a lot. Last year it would have been We're down 14 and it's 3rd and 14, what do you wanna do? Run the wildcat!
 
The no huddle offense has been around since the Bills Jim Kelly used it in the 80's and 90's. The Houston Oilers with Warren Moon used it too. It is and has always been tough to stop.
 
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