Everyone knows Miami has the great equalizer that can basically single handedly win this game if he has a great one. Thats Jason Taylor, and some help from Porter would be nice too. Possibly some more Cameron Wake sightings. Rex Ryan saw this same thing immediately and brought jailbreaks on Brady with a relentless fury. If we get sufficient pressure on Brady, we will beat the Patriots, if not, its going to be a long long afternoon.
The Great Equalizer
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We don't know how to "jailbreak" blitz like other teams. Our guys just get caught up in the O-line like fish trying to swim through a sieve.
Ted Ginn with his newfound confidence on kick returns might be big equalizer too.
Ted Ginn with his newfound confidence on kick returns might be big equalizer too.
We dont need to, it just needs to be JT and a little help from the outside. History tells us that as good as the Patriots are as a team, JT owns Tom Brady. That may or may not be true as circumstances are different, but if it is that will give us the best chance to win. If they get too much time to throw they will destroy us.
I agree on the Ginn piece though, he should be returning every single kick including punts. So the guy sucks at playing WR, so then use him for his immense talent he does have - taking kicks AND punts to the house! Him taking those 2 kickoffs back to back totally transforms our special teams now, other teams have to think twice about kicking to him.
Oh I agree with you...I was just venting my frustration at the fact our defense can never seem to execute this conceptually simple maneuver.
Hopefully JT or anyone can make some plays on Brady and get him rattled.
The Patriots solved that "jailbreak" type stuff by running quick snap counts against the Ravens "jailbreak" mentality in that game this year... I have been saying this for weeks here.
The Ravens tried copying the jets defense with all the confusion from the crazy pre-snap movements (although the Ravens do a lot of that anyway), and it was rendered useless with Brady going with quick snap counts.
Quick snap counts negates all that and keeps a defense stationary.. If you watch the game last Sunday, you will notice that our offense had a couple instances of running quick snap counts on the 4th quarter 70 yard TD drive.. Whenever we did it, the play resulted in good positive yardage against the jets defense.
The jets were trying to do their usual gimmick shifting movements and were caught in quick sand and out of position with our quick snap counts on that long 4th quarter drive.
We should have done that more earlier on in the 1st quarter, along with running more screens.. When we finally decided to run screens late in the 2nd quarter, all of a sudden we moved the ball with a 28 yard catch and run by Ricky, and Fasano catching a quick screen of a block to get into field goal range on our first FG putting 3 points on the board there.
Fasano caught it just one yard past the line after chipping on a block, the LB went after Henne and Fasano turned for the quick screen.. Then Fasano ran for about 10 yards in open space on the TE screen putting us in FG range for Carpenter.
Running quick snap counts, and running well designed screens (as we did in the first game against the jets as well), doesn't make the jets defense with all the blitzing and confusion they try to create look so hot after all...
The jets run a gimmick defense which can be nullified with what i described. And after you nullify that gimmick they run, then you pound them with the ball as it's easy to diagnose where to run to as their defense is forced to play stationary and basic.
McMichael
Seasoned Veteran
Ted Ginn is more of an equalizer than JT at this point in their careers... I think our run offense will come to life again though, the pats defense is nothing like the Jets in my opinion... though I have to agree overall Jason Taylor > tom brady badly in almost every game so somehow he will come through almost guaranteed ...
Myles Fynch
durka durka
I think we beat the Pats by using the same game plan we had against the Colts... pound them till we have 40+ minutes time of possession and keep their pro bowl QB on the bench.
Only this time we finish the job.
Only this time we finish the job.