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<article itemprop="articleBody">After a week off, the Redskins travel to New England to face the 7-0 Patriots. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady boast the NFL’s top scoring offense, averaging 35.6 points per game, and the league’s second-best passing attack, with an average of 344.3 yards per game through the air. Clearly, the Patriots offer a significant challenge to the Redskins’ defense, who have been unable to field a consistent secondary or sustain an effective pass rush.
New England’s offense has many strings to its bow. With versatile weapons like tight end Rob Gronkowski, wide receivers Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola, and running back Dion Lewis, the Patriots can and will move players around to work the best possible matchups.
Here against the Colts, New England lines up Amendola in the backfield, almost hiding him from the defense. Just before the snap, Amendola motions out into the slot.
This move by the Patriots gets Amendola matched up on a linebacker, which is a matchup he’ll win the vast majority of the time. He runs a quick out here.
As he cuts outside, Amendola has a couple of yards of separation from the defender, making him an easy target for Brady to throw to.
Brady hits Amendola for a quick and easy completion and allows Amendola the opportunity to pick up extra yards after the catch.
The Patriots are happy to run an efficient offense, built on a foundation of finding good matchups and picking up small chunks of yards at a time, like on that play. But they are perfectly capable of attacking deep down the field.
Here, the Patriots line up in a bunch formation, with every eligible receiver tight to the formation. Typically this would indicate a run or another short quick pass like we saw previously. But instead, New England runs three vertical routes down the field.
The Jets’ defense runs cover-three, the Redskins’ base coverage scheme, on this play. Brady uses his eyes smartly on this play. He knows there is a single deep safety in the middle of the field and wants to work back to Edelman up the seam. To create space, Brady looks to the receiver on his right, dragging the deep safety towards that side of the field. Meanwhile, on the back side of the play, the outside receiver runs an out-and-up route to draw attention of the deep outside zone corner.
That creates space for Edelman up the seam. Brady works back across and pulls the trigger.
Brady deliberately places the ball on Edelman’s outside shoulder, taking him away from the deep safety and allowing him to shield the ball from the safety.
With Brady’s experience and football intelligence, along with smart play designs, the Patriots will test the Redskins’ defense and their ability to diagnose plays and react quickly. It will be hard to get the upper hand on Brady, who will happily audible out of looks he doesn’t like. The Redskins’ defense will have to make sure they are all on the same page every play.
On this play, the Jaguars load the box against the Patriots. Brady, who starts under center, doesn’t like the look and changes the play.
Brady drops back into the shotgun, which alerts the Jaguars to a potential pass play. The linebackers begin to make signals to the rest of the defense, indicating an audible call of their own.
After both sides change their plays and get set, the Patriots send Gronkowski up the seam.
The Jaguars appeared to switch to a cover-three scheme, but one of the linebackers wasn’t on the same page with the rest of the defense. He worked to the flat instead of dropping to the middle of the field as a hook-curl defender. That mistake opens up a huge hole in the middle of the defense for Gronkowski to work with.
Brady doesn’t miss out on mistakes like that and finds Gronkowski wide open over the middle. Gronkowski picks up plenty of yards after the catch, taking this play all the way down to the Jaguars 8-yard line.
The Redskins’ defensive players will have to make sure they are all on the same page to avoid mistakes like these. The Patriots are hard enough to defend against without making mistakes and giving up big plays on busted coverages.
The Patriots will also look to test the Redskins’ fundamentals. The ability to read, react, pursue and make a tackle in space is something that a zone defense like Washington’s is built upon. But the Redskins haven’t been particularly good at making tackles. New England won’t shy away from throwing screen passes to test just how good the Redskins’ fundamentals are.
Here, the Patriots line up Lewis in the backfield, with Brady under center. But before the snap, Lewis motions outside.
With Lewis outside, Brady snaps the ball and throws a quick screen. New England’s offensive linemen all work quickly to the edge to block for Lewis.
As Lewis secures the ball and begins his run, he has nearly a full offensive line out in front of him to lead a path.
Lewis takes a simple screen pass more than 15 yards and picks up a first down in the process.
They won’t just throw screen passes to the running back either, they’ll throw them to anyone. Edelman in particular, can be dangerous on screen plays.
On this play, the Patriots use a slightly unusual formation, with three receivers to the same side of the field, two lined up outside the numbers. That leaves plenty of space for Edelman to work with in the slot.
As Edelman receives the screen pass, all he needs is the left tackle to reach a block on a linebacker to set him free into open field.
The left tackle manages to reach the block, giving Edelman all he needs to burst through the hole and into the secondary. Only the deep safety can make a tackle.
This is not a situation the Redskins want to find themselves in. Edelman has been an effective punt returner for the Patriots and can make people miss in the open field. Open-field tackling hasn’t been the Redskins’ strong suit for a number of years now. Pro Football Focus attributes 60 missed tackles in the Redskins’ seven games so far. Keenan Robinson (12) and Trenton Robinson (10) have been the worst offenders. Those two and the rest of the defense will have to show drastic improvement or players like Edelman will capitalize.
The icing on the cake for the Patriots’ offense is Rob Gronkowski. He’s an x-factor in the offense. The 6-foot-6, 265-pound tight end can line up just about anywhere and be a mismatch for the defense. He’s too quick and athletic for safeties and linebackers to cover, but too big and strong for corners. New England likes to move him around throughout the game. We’ve already seen a play where he lined up inside and ran up the seam. But they are just as happy to line him up outside.
Against the Cowboys, the Patriots split Gronkowski out wide and match him up against a cornerback. He runs a simple fade route.
Brady has complete faith in Gronkowski, and shows that trust by throwing to him before he’s even open. The corner plays Gronkowski about as well as you can ask to this point in the play. But Gronkowski has such a size advantage, Brady just throws high and to the back shoulder.
Gronkowski makes an adjustment to the ball, opening himself up and shielding the ball from the corner. He pulls in the catch and then gets to work on picking up additional yards after the catch.
After picking up the first down, Gronkowski continues working for more yards. He’s incredibly physical, using a strong stiff arm to fight off the incoming tackle attempt from the safety. Gronkowski eventually gets shoved out of bounds, but only after he picks up 33 yards.
Gronkowski takes an already strong Patriots offense and pushes it into the elite category. He’ll undoubtedly have to be the main priority for the Redskins’ defense. But if they focus too much on one receiver, then Edelman, Amendola and Lewis, among others, are perfectly capable of making Washington pay for not giving them enough attention.
Mark Bullock is The Insider’s Outsider, sharing his Redskins impressions without the benefit of access to the team. For more, click here.
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<article itemprop="articleBody">After a week off, the Redskins travel to New England to face the 7-0 Patriots. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady boast the NFL’s top scoring offense, averaging 35.6 points per game, and the league’s second-best passing attack, with an average of 344.3 yards per game through the air. Clearly, the Patriots offer a significant challenge to the Redskins’ defense, who have been unable to field a consistent secondary or sustain an effective pass rush.
New England’s offense has many strings to its bow. With versatile weapons like tight end Rob Gronkowski, wide receivers Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola, and running back Dion Lewis, the Patriots can and will move players around to work the best possible matchups.
Here against the Colts, New England lines up Amendola in the backfield, almost hiding him from the defense. Just before the snap, Amendola motions out into the slot.
This move by the Patriots gets Amendola matched up on a linebacker, which is a matchup he’ll win the vast majority of the time. He runs a quick out here.
As he cuts outside, Amendola has a couple of yards of separation from the defender, making him an easy target for Brady to throw to.
Brady hits Amendola for a quick and easy completion and allows Amendola the opportunity to pick up extra yards after the catch.
The Patriots are happy to run an efficient offense, built on a foundation of finding good matchups and picking up small chunks of yards at a time, like on that play. But they are perfectly capable of attacking deep down the field.
Here, the Patriots line up in a bunch formation, with every eligible receiver tight to the formation. Typically this would indicate a run or another short quick pass like we saw previously. But instead, New England runs three vertical routes down the field.
The Jets’ defense runs cover-three, the Redskins’ base coverage scheme, on this play. Brady uses his eyes smartly on this play. He knows there is a single deep safety in the middle of the field and wants to work back to Edelman up the seam. To create space, Brady looks to the receiver on his right, dragging the deep safety towards that side of the field. Meanwhile, on the back side of the play, the outside receiver runs an out-and-up route to draw attention of the deep outside zone corner.
That creates space for Edelman up the seam. Brady works back across and pulls the trigger.
Brady deliberately places the ball on Edelman’s outside shoulder, taking him away from the deep safety and allowing him to shield the ball from the safety.
With Brady’s experience and football intelligence, along with smart play designs, the Patriots will test the Redskins’ defense and their ability to diagnose plays and react quickly. It will be hard to get the upper hand on Brady, who will happily audible out of looks he doesn’t like. The Redskins’ defense will have to make sure they are all on the same page every play.
On this play, the Jaguars load the box against the Patriots. Brady, who starts under center, doesn’t like the look and changes the play.
Brady drops back into the shotgun, which alerts the Jaguars to a potential pass play. The linebackers begin to make signals to the rest of the defense, indicating an audible call of their own.
After both sides change their plays and get set, the Patriots send Gronkowski up the seam.
The Jaguars appeared to switch to a cover-three scheme, but one of the linebackers wasn’t on the same page with the rest of the defense. He worked to the flat instead of dropping to the middle of the field as a hook-curl defender. That mistake opens up a huge hole in the middle of the defense for Gronkowski to work with.
Brady doesn’t miss out on mistakes like that and finds Gronkowski wide open over the middle. Gronkowski picks up plenty of yards after the catch, taking this play all the way down to the Jaguars 8-yard line.
The Redskins’ defensive players will have to make sure they are all on the same page to avoid mistakes like these. The Patriots are hard enough to defend against without making mistakes and giving up big plays on busted coverages.
The Patriots will also look to test the Redskins’ fundamentals. The ability to read, react, pursue and make a tackle in space is something that a zone defense like Washington’s is built upon. But the Redskins haven’t been particularly good at making tackles. New England won’t shy away from throwing screen passes to test just how good the Redskins’ fundamentals are.
Here, the Patriots line up Lewis in the backfield, with Brady under center. But before the snap, Lewis motions outside.
With Lewis outside, Brady snaps the ball and throws a quick screen. New England’s offensive linemen all work quickly to the edge to block for Lewis.
As Lewis secures the ball and begins his run, he has nearly a full offensive line out in front of him to lead a path.
Lewis takes a simple screen pass more than 15 yards and picks up a first down in the process.
They won’t just throw screen passes to the running back either, they’ll throw them to anyone. Edelman in particular, can be dangerous on screen plays.
On this play, the Patriots use a slightly unusual formation, with three receivers to the same side of the field, two lined up outside the numbers. That leaves plenty of space for Edelman to work with in the slot.
As Edelman receives the screen pass, all he needs is the left tackle to reach a block on a linebacker to set him free into open field.
The left tackle manages to reach the block, giving Edelman all he needs to burst through the hole and into the secondary. Only the deep safety can make a tackle.
This is not a situation the Redskins want to find themselves in. Edelman has been an effective punt returner for the Patriots and can make people miss in the open field. Open-field tackling hasn’t been the Redskins’ strong suit for a number of years now. Pro Football Focus attributes 60 missed tackles in the Redskins’ seven games so far. Keenan Robinson (12) and Trenton Robinson (10) have been the worst offenders. Those two and the rest of the defense will have to show drastic improvement or players like Edelman will capitalize.
The icing on the cake for the Patriots’ offense is Rob Gronkowski. He’s an x-factor in the offense. The 6-foot-6, 265-pound tight end can line up just about anywhere and be a mismatch for the defense. He’s too quick and athletic for safeties and linebackers to cover, but too big and strong for corners. New England likes to move him around throughout the game. We’ve already seen a play where he lined up inside and ran up the seam. But they are just as happy to line him up outside.
Against the Cowboys, the Patriots split Gronkowski out wide and match him up against a cornerback. He runs a simple fade route.
Brady has complete faith in Gronkowski, and shows that trust by throwing to him before he’s even open. The corner plays Gronkowski about as well as you can ask to this point in the play. But Gronkowski has such a size advantage, Brady just throws high and to the back shoulder.
Gronkowski makes an adjustment to the ball, opening himself up and shielding the ball from the corner. He pulls in the catch and then gets to work on picking up additional yards after the catch.
After picking up the first down, Gronkowski continues working for more yards. He’s incredibly physical, using a strong stiff arm to fight off the incoming tackle attempt from the safety. Gronkowski eventually gets shoved out of bounds, but only after he picks up 33 yards.
Gronkowski takes an already strong Patriots offense and pushes it into the elite category. He’ll undoubtedly have to be the main priority for the Redskins’ defense. But if they focus too much on one receiver, then Edelman, Amendola and Lewis, among others, are perfectly capable of making Washington pay for not giving them enough attention.
Mark Bullock is The Insider’s Outsider, sharing his Redskins impressions without the benefit of access to the team. For more, click here.
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UT, I 'm just impressed with the time you took to do the above post. Pretty awesome shugs.
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UT, I 'm just impressed with the time you took to do the above post. Pretty awesome shugs.
On no, all of my time was in the copy and paste. I don't take credit for any of it.
Shally from the Deadskins forum states:
Brady has no running game
Terrible O line
Receivers are "meh"
Brady has no running game
Terrible O line
Receivers are "meh"
O.Z.O.
Jiminy Fucking Christmas...
I was on a Redskins FB forum. One of them did the CHEATERZEZ!!! thing and got jumped on by about a half dozen other ones. What you see in this thread is a very accurate depiction of their fanbase.
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UT, I 'm just impressed with the time you took to do the above post. Pretty awesome shugs.
But talk about yer bandwidth. ROFL
Hightower, Flowers, Bolden and Kline were removed from the Patriots' injury report after getting the weekend off.
BUT
Wednesday’s New England Patriots injury report revealed two additions.
Wide receiver Julian Edelman, who caught seven passes for 81 yards and two touchdowns last week against the Miami Dolphins, was limited in practice on Wednesday due to a knee ailment. And guard Ryan Wendell, who stepped on in the fourth quarter on Thursday, was also limited with a knee issue.
Edelman and Wendell were among five players who did not practice fully on Wednesday, joining running back Dion Lewis, wideout Keshawn Martin and guard Shaq Mason.
Lewis returned from his abdomen injury versus Miami and picked up 112 yards from scrimmage to go with a touchdown. Martin and Mason, meanwhile, were inactive for the Patriots’ 36-7 win due to hamstring and knee injuries, respectively.
Offensive tackle Marcus Cannon and defensive end Jabaal Sheard were as well, as the two have been sidelined with toe and ankle ailments since Oct. 18. Neither participated in Wednesday’s session, and rookie guard Tre' Jackson also remained out after suffering a knee injury in the last game.
BUT
Wednesday’s New England Patriots injury report revealed two additions.
Wide receiver Julian Edelman, who caught seven passes for 81 yards and two touchdowns last week against the Miami Dolphins, was limited in practice on Wednesday due to a knee ailment. And guard Ryan Wendell, who stepped on in the fourth quarter on Thursday, was also limited with a knee issue.
Edelman and Wendell were among five players who did not practice fully on Wednesday, joining running back Dion Lewis, wideout Keshawn Martin and guard Shaq Mason.
Lewis returned from his abdomen injury versus Miami and picked up 112 yards from scrimmage to go with a touchdown. Martin and Mason, meanwhile, were inactive for the Patriots’ 36-7 win due to hamstring and knee injuries, respectively.
Offensive tackle Marcus Cannon and defensive end Jabaal Sheard were as well, as the two have been sidelined with toe and ankle ailments since Oct. 18. Neither participated in Wednesday’s session, and rookie guard Tre' Jackson also remained out after suffering a knee injury in the last game.
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There is a lot of focus on the stats NE/Brady has after a bye week or a TNF game. But isn't Brady 8 or 9-0 in TNF? (I would think those games give the team less time to prepare).
Some Patriots trivia from Elias
1. The Patriots have run the ball 154 times this season, 3rd-fewest in the league. But the Pats have been successful when they have gone to the ground, converting on 60.0 percent of their 3rd down rushing attempts, tied for the 3rd-highest rate in the league. Also, 27.3 percent of their rushing attempts have resulted in a 1st down, the 2nd-highest rate in the league.
2. Danny Amendola has caught 26 of his 31 targets (83.9%) this season, the highest rate of any WR in the NFL and he hasn't dropped a single pass.
3. Tom Brady is getting rid of the ball quicker than any quarterback in the NFL this season, with an average time of 2.13 seconds between the snap and the pass.
4. In order to keep up his record pace for receiving yards, Gronkowski needs just 18 Rec yards in Week 9.
5. Tom Brady has compiled a 20-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio through 7 games this season. If Brady doesn't throw an interception in Week 8, he'll have more passing touchdowns through 8 games than any player in NFL history with 1 or fewer interceptions to this point. The current record is held by Roman Gabriel, who threw 17 touchdowns to just 1 interception through 8 games for the Los Angeles Rams in 1969.
1. The Patriots have run the ball 154 times this season, 3rd-fewest in the league. But the Pats have been successful when they have gone to the ground, converting on 60.0 percent of their 3rd down rushing attempts, tied for the 3rd-highest rate in the league. Also, 27.3 percent of their rushing attempts have resulted in a 1st down, the 2nd-highest rate in the league.
2. Danny Amendola has caught 26 of his 31 targets (83.9%) this season, the highest rate of any WR in the NFL and he hasn't dropped a single pass.
3. Tom Brady is getting rid of the ball quicker than any quarterback in the NFL this season, with an average time of 2.13 seconds between the snap and the pass.
4. In order to keep up his record pace for receiving yards, Gronkowski needs just 18 Rec yards in Week 9.
5. Tom Brady has compiled a 20-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio through 7 games this season. If Brady doesn't throw an interception in Week 8, he'll have more passing touchdowns through 8 games than any player in NFL history with 1 or fewer interceptions to this point. The current record is held by Roman Gabriel, who threw 17 touchdowns to just 1 interception through 8 games for the Los Angeles Rams in 1969.
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Take your pick. Whether it is TNF, MNF, SNF or a 1:00 game, Brady has a blistering W/L record. They guy is always ready to go no matter the situation or timeframe.
The Razor's Edge predicts Pats 37-17
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O.Z.O.
Jiminy Fucking Christmas...
I see a 40 going up this week. The Redskins secondary makes the Ravens secondary look competent without DeAngelo Hall. Don't know if or how many snaps Kerrigan is going to play this week, but their pass rush suffers without him.
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anyone dumping a ticket to this game? let me know I have a kid I know looking to go.